Top 25 SFX Books

24 THE STARS MY DESTINATION

Author: Alfred Bester
Published: 1956

Starring one of SF’s greatest anti-heroes, Gully Foyle, The Stars My Destination (or Tiger! Tiger! as it was originally called in the UK) is a wildly inventive revenge melodrama, inspired by Alexandre Dumas’s classic The Count of Monte Cristo. Driven by obsession, Foyle rescues himself – after a fashion – and returns, strangely dis?gured, to the rich decadence of 25th-century Earth. Society has been transformed by the widespread power to teleport or “jaunte”, and Bester gleefully explores the criminal possibilities.