Titlebook: Alfred Bester’s The Stars My Destination; A Critical Companion D. Harlan Wilson Book 2022 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s),

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-34913-8ical society. Bester’s desire to become a Renaissance Man in his youth informed his authorship and led to a deep resentment for other SF authors, who he blamed for the genre’s inability to transcend its pulp roots and boyish inclinations. Propelled by its Hugo Award-winning predecessor ., . charted

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A Repository System for Business Ruleson of the pulp-SF and high-modernist writers that preceded him and a forefather to the New Wave and cyberpunk movements that followed his lead. Bester enacts wordplay and carefully devised the names of characters and places. These tactics situate . within a literary tradition that deepens the signif

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Suzanne M. Embury,Peter M. D. Graynt point of reference. The text of . is a palimpsest beneath which lurks an underworld of other texts, and many of these undertexts are palimpsests themselves, most of all .. Both novels tell the stories of charismatic monsters and meta-referentially point to the inherent mad scientism of Shelley an

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The Context Interchange Network Prototype bear in the persona of Gully Foyle. Throughout the novel, he slowly transcends these proverbial constructs of culture, which comment on the ethics of the SF genre as well as Bester himself, who is a product of his own patriarchal culture and SF’s endorsement of it. Bester’s fascination with Freudia

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Database Applications Semantics-Christ to the “blind faith” required to jaunt, the mysticism of the Scientific People, and the sensory deprived Skoptsys who live like zombified monks in the caves of Mars. Subtly or indiscreetly, Bester has something to say about religion in every chapter. In particular, Gully’s lower-class gutter

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D. Harlan WilsonMakes a case for this iconic novel’s distinction.Suggests different approaches to Stars, especially in terms of its dominant tropes.Examines the turn from Golden Age science fiction to postmodern scie

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A Repository System for Business RulesSet in a pyrotechnic twenty-fifth century, Alfred Bester’s . is the story of Gully Foyle, a “stereotype Comman Man” who becomes a technologized Overman.

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-34913-8Just as Bester critiqued SF, so did SF critics critique Bester. Nonetheless, he remains a singular, vital author, and . is a beacon of innovation and inspiration in the SF megatext. The novel signaled the beginning of a new trend. Now it stands as a tombstone looming over the genre’s resting place in the graveyard of the twentieth century.