Gully Foyle is my name
And Terra is my nation
Deep space is my dwelling place
And death's my destination.
Outline
Gully Foyle is marooned 170 days in space on the wreck of the Nomad with thought or hope other than that of day-to-day survival. None, that is, until a passing ship, the Vorga, spurns his distress signals. In his despair Gully is changed into a driven man, one that will not stop until he has his vengeance on those that left him to die.
Over the course of the story, Gully changes. Initially on the outside from the facial tattoos given him by a lost tribe deep in the asteroid belt, then on the inside as he forces himself to change to achieve his goals. And the final change? Well you will just have to read the story for that one...
(1985), features an intelligent plague which seems destructive but eventually recreates humanity in new, transcendent form-
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