The hook of the story is that he's surviving all by himself in a derelict spaceship, and one day another ship suddenly arrives
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...And then, rather than rescue him, deliberately ignores him and leaves
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And while he'd been drifting without purpose until that point he's now gripped by the desire to destroy that ship and kill everyone on it
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An obsession which is enough to propel him to find a way to save himself and get back to civilization
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It's a sci-fi mashup of a classic lifeboat story with The Count of Monte Cristo
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Also Bester based it on a true storyhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poon_Lim
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Note this guy really was just chilling on an open raft killing sharks and drinking their blood to not die of thirst
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And a ship really did see him and just keep on going, bc they assumed he was a Japanese spy, and yet he did not dedicate his life to revenge
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Lim's story is incredible, every other sentence of the Wikipedia summary of his story is fate gratuitously backhanding him again
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This old article is better than Wikipedia's summary, although it does lapse into casual racism https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=Gp5VAAAAIBAJ&sjid=sa0DAAAAIBAJ&pg=6658%2C3854716 …
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If there is some special "Chinese secret" to keeping your mind blank and calm during long periods of boredom, I clearly don't have it
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