The Stars My Destination

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I have two thoughts on "The Stars My Destination" by Alfred Bester. One is that it really reads modern for a book written in 1956. The other is that it has some really antiquated ideas about the future. From Nobody to Nightmare: Gully goes from the most insignificant cog in the machine to one of the few who truly lives outside its control. Took a Level in Badass: Goes from a living object to relentless killing machine to effectively transcendent through the course of the novel, all because some passersby decided not to rescue him. Eventually, Gulliver repairs his ship and manufactures his own escape, only to be captured by a clan of cargo ships in the Asteroid Belt. The clan tattoos tiger stripes on his face to mark him as a prisoner, but he manages to escape and is returned to his home planet Terra. After his return, Gulliver attempts to blow up the Vorga as revenge for their betrayal. His attempt fails, and he is captured by Presteign, who throw him in prison. Gulliver then discovers that his original ship, the Nomad, was carrying a precious material called PyrE, which Presteign wants to use to win the war.

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The Stars My Destination

I figured I'd post a couple of tips as my priority was completing the Main Story, then hitting this so that I can fully explore the rest of the game with an aesthetically-pleasing, shiny white galaxy of found Star Systems:

This was a golden age, a time of high adventure, rich living and hard dying ... but nobody thought so. This was a future of fortune and theft, pillage and rapine, culture and vice ... but nobody admitted it. This was an age of extremes, a fascinating century of freaks ... but nobody loved it. In the mobile game Tokyo Afterschool Summoners, the lore of the character Nomad is based on the contents of the book, as well as the poem " The Tyger". Gulliver ("Gully") Foyle: Last remaining survivor of the merchant spaceship Nomad. Captured by the "Scientific People" on an asteroid, only his face is tattooed according to their customs. The tattoos are later painfully removed, but the scarred patterns left under his skin become visible whenever his emotions flare out of control. I just learned there *might* be a movie in development. Oh, my lord, I can't believe how excited I am about this. There are elements of the 1950s all through this work, from the simmering cold war between the Inner Planets and the Outer Satellites, to the imminent apocalyptic destructive potential of the PyrE substance that much of the plot revolves around, to the rise of corporate conformity culture that we see with the Mr Prestos of the Presteign company. There's also a sign of the Campbellian SF times with a large part of the plot concerning mental powers of teleportation (Jaunting) and telepathy.Nicholls, Peter. “Alfred Bester: New York, 2175 A.D.” The Washington Post. May 25, 1980. https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/entertainment/books/1980/05/25/alfred-bester-new-york-2175-ad/47b2bcc3-6679-45b5-93bc-59982349834f. Accessed October 26, 2020. He was Gulliver Foyle, Mechanic's Mate 3rd Class, thirty years old, big boned and rough.. . and one hundred and seventy days adrift in space. He was Gully Foyle, the oiler, wiper, bunkerman; too easy for trouble, too slow for fun, too empty for friendship, too lazy for love. What psi powers would do to people & society. The main power is that most can teleport, but telepathy was also used to great advantage.

Bester once wrote that he used playful narration at one point to grab the reader's attention. [ citation needed] Publication and reception [ edit ]

Again, it is quite amusing to me that Bester soon will leave SF writing to work in television and magazine editing, which will reduce his fictional output to very little for decades. Corporate business, all about the profit – what is Alfred trying to tell us? Miller, P. Schuyler. Review of The Stars My Destination. Astounding Science Fiction 60.3 (November 1957): 148. Destination: Development Hell: How Alfred Bester's 'The Stars My Destination' Took a Jaunt to Hollywood" in David Hughes, The Greatest Sci-Fi Movies Never Made. Chicago IL: A Capella Books, 2001, pp. 8-17 First published in book form in the UK in June 1956 as Tiger! Tiger!, The Stars My Destination was subsequently serialized in Galaxy, where The Demolished Man had also appeared. It ran in four parts (October 1956 through January 1957), then was published in the US later in 1957. It gets my heart pumping precisely eight times more than when I learned that Rama was in development.