The Stars My Destination (Magill’s Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature)
At a glance:
- Author: Alfred Bester
- First Published: 1956
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Science fiction—superbeing
- Time of Work: The twenty-fifth century
- Setting: Earth and various locations in space
- Genres: Long fiction, Science fiction
- Subjects: Future, Other worlds, Revenge, Earth, Superman or superbeings
- Locales: Space, Earth
The Plot
The backdrop of The Stars My Destination is a war between the Inner Planets (I.P.) and the Outer System (O.S.) in the twenty-fifth century. Humans have learned how to teleport themselves, or “jaunt.” In this age of robber barons and conspicuous consumption, mechanic’s mate Gulliver “Gully” Foyle, the “stereotype common man,” as Alfred Bester’s narrator calls him, is left adrift in space. He is the only survivor of the wreck of the Nomad. Unknown to Foyle, the Nomad carried a fortune in bullion and twenty pounds of PyrE, an explosive...
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