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The Stars My Destination

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The Stars My Destination	comment	The Stars My Destination, aka Tiger! Tiger! note there is some debate as to which is the original title is a science fiction novel by Alfred Bester.It is the twenty fifth century. An age when humanity can jaunte across the world, where telepaths are, if not common, then not unheard of. An age where humanity has spread across the solar system— a golden age that no one knows they are living in. An age when conflict between the Inner Planets and the Outer Satellites is about to end the age of the Global Wars by means of the outbreak of the first Solar War.None of this matters to Gully Foyle—the quintessential everyman, if you are convinced Humans Are Morons. No education, no skills, no ambition, just a Mechanic's Mate Third Class on the freighter Nomad, which lies crippled in the void between the planets. All he has left is a powerful will to survive, and he has, somehow, for six months when the spaceship Vorga encounters the wreck of the Nomad, sees the distress signals— and passes by, leaving him to rot.Now Gully Foyle has a pressing reason to do more than simply survive, as he had done on Nomad and all his life before hand. Now, he's headed back to Terra, and he will have his revenge, no matter who stands in his way...The book's gritty Anti-Hero and experimental typography made it a much-imitated prototype for the New Wave Science Fiction movement that sprung up a few years later.
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The Stars My Destination / int_112890b3	comment	Secret Identity: Foyle pretends to be an Upper-Class Twit in his Fourmyle identity, roving around with his "Four-Mile Circus".
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The Stars My Destination / int_137ed72e	type	Phlebotinum
The Stars My Destination / int_137ed72e	comment	Phlebotinum: PyrE— a psychically activated explosive that's even more powerful, gram for gram, than plutonium.
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The Stars My Destination / int_15184afb	type	This Loser Is You
The Stars My Destination / int_15184afb	comment	This Loser Is You: As noted above, the book's idea of an "average man" is a pathetic piece of work. (You can hardly call Gully "average" after the Vorga incident.)
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The Stars My Destination / int_15f76026	type	Inexplicably Identical Individuals
The Stars My Destination / int_15f76026	comment	Inexplicably Identical Individuals: Mr. Presto. Not inexplicably, though, as the narration mentions they're all given extensive cosmetic surgery to look identical.
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The Stars My Destination / int_16a21271	type	Walking Wasteland
The Stars My Destination / int_16a21271	comment	Walking Wasteland: Dagenham. Mildly subverted in that he can avoid causing damage if he limits his interactions with the world outside his radiation-proof chamber. Because of Alan Moore's love for this book, he became the basis of Dr. Manhattan.
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The Stars My Destination / int_1fd2efc9	type	Byronic Hero
The Stars My Destination / int_1fd2efc9	comment	Byronic Hero: Foyle
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The Stars My Destination / int_269c2c35	type	TechMarchesOn
The Stars My Destination / int_269c2c35	comment	Tech Marches On: Modern tattoo removal techniques are far more sophisticated and effective than what's presented in the book. The book implies that tattooing is something of a lost art on Earth, which may explain why Foyle couldn't just get laser surgery. (Not to mention that the book was published in 1957, three years before the first laser was even built!)
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The Stars My Destination / int_27690f66	type	Literary Allusion Title
The Stars My Destination / int_27690f66	comment	Literary Allusion Title: The novel's alternate title, Tiger! Tiger!, from the William Blake poem.
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The Stars My Destination / int_2bdae2ae	type	Awesome, but Impractical
The Stars My Destination / int_2bdae2ae	comment	Awesome, but Impractical: The reason We Will Use Manual Labor in the Future — this is how the super rich demonstrate their status. While anyone can jaunte, status is shown by taking mundane transportation, on the logic that you're rich enough to spend money on things you don't need and important enough to make people wait for you. Everyone who's anyone has servants who won't jaunte, specifically because they can afford to pay for a butler instead of jaunting over to the pantry to grab what they want and jaunting back. Presteign actually has a servant who does nothing but operate an antique telephone switchboard in his study. One huge gala has a cavalcade of bigwigs arriving in increasingly old fashioned ways, starting with helicopters and cars, and ending with Fourmyle's grand entrance in a steam-powered train — while his employees lay down the tracks in front of him.
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The Stars My Destination / int_310bb947	type	Whoopi Epiphany Speech
The Stars My Destination / int_310bb947	comment	Whoopi Epiphany Speech: A version of this at the end. Gully was once a poor, uneducated sap, but now he's become enlightened and tells the unwashed masses that they too can Dare to Be Badass:
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The Stars My Destination / int_314c56b9	type	Time Stands Still
The Stars My Destination / int_314c56b9	comment	Time Stands Still: While using the Commando boosts, normal events appear to happen in slow motion.
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The Stars My Destination / int_374c339d	type	I'll Kill You!
The Stars My Destination / int_374c339d	comment	I'll Kill You!: "You pass me by. You leave me rot like a dog. You leave me die, Vorga ... Vorga-T:1339. No. I get out of here, me. I follow you, Vorga. I find you, Vorga. I pay you back, me. I rot you. I kill you, Vorga. I kill you filthy."
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The Stars My Destination / int_37fce466	type	Teleport Interdiction
The Stars My Destination / int_37fce466	comment	Teleport Interdiction: Anti-teleport security measures include turning headquarters and homes into elaborate manipulable mazes. You literally can't teleport unless you know where you are and where the destination is. Attempting to teleport if you don't will just fail to work or lead to disappearance or death.
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The Stars My Destination / int_393ec3f9	comment	Zeerust: surprisingly averted, probably because the book is actually pretty light on actual descriptions of futuristic technology; what is shown is still pretty far off, even today.
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The Stars My Destination / int_3b113b7	type	Character Development
The Stars My Destination / int_3b113b7	comment	Character Development: Gully Foyle goes through several stages of this throughout the novel, going from a blank cypher with no ambitions, desires or reasons to exist whatsoever; to a traumatised survivor; to a vicious animal filled with nothing but hate and the desire for vengeance lashing out at whoever gets in his way; to a cool-headed and sophisticated schemer and manipulator carefully targeting his enemies; to a guilt-filled atoner seeking a way to somehow atone for all the monstrous things he's done; until he finally becomes the next Messiah.
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The Stars My Destination / int_3c3f28a5	type	Blessed with Suck
The Stars My Destination / int_3c3f28a5	comment	Blessed with Suck: Robin is a "Telesend", meaning she can't read people's minds, but can broadcast her thoughts, which often has embarrassing results. The only positive side is that she is capable of controlling the ability enough that she can select who hears the thoughts, allowing a degree of telepathic communication which she finds useful in her job as a teacher.
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The Stars My Destination / int_3dcc914f	type	Took a Level in Kindness
The Stars My Destination / int_3dcc914f	comment	Took a Level in Kindness: Near the very end of the book, Gully essentially gains enlightenment after the "Burning Man" episode and when he returns he is a completely changed man whose rage has been extinguished. He gives a sermon to a crowd about how everyone is better than they think they are, before realizing he isn't getting through to them. Last we see of him, he is in contemplation, trying to figure out how to convey his revelations to the masses.
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The Stars My Destination / int_424c9a9b	comment	Cold-Blooded Torture: Foyle inflicts this on the people connected to the Vorga, and it's especially grisly when he realizes that they are implanted with an Involuntary Suicide Mechanism... which Foyle gets around by cutting a man's heart out and keeping him on full life support (and in agony) while he interrogates him.
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The Stars My Destination / int_465780af	type	Facial Markings
The Stars My Destination / int_465780af	comment	Facial Markings: The Scientific People cover their faces in tattoos, which are described as hideous and similar to those of the Maori. They tattoo Gully Foyle's face while he's unconscious, which he loathes and makes him an outcast once he returns to society. The swirling designs are frequently compared to tiger markings. Once Gully gets them removed, they still flare up with blood when he becomes emotional, forcing him to become cold and calculating to avoid blowing his cover.
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The Stars My Destination / int_466e561	comment	Marked Change: Gully Foyle's facial tattoos turn into this after he has them removed. Scar tissue has more capillaries than un-scarred skin, so when his heart rate rises, they fill with blood and cause the tattoo shapes to reemerge, this time in red.
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The Stars My Destination / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line: "She says Olivia. Olivia Presteign. Olivia Presteign. Olivia Presteign."
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The Stars My Destination / int_5009999d	comment	Painting the Medium: Foyle's spacetime jaunte, while he's suffering from synesthesia, is done with text illustrated in strange styles.
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The Stars My Destination / int_52fbbe7	type	Yellow Peril
The Stars My Destination / int_52fbbe7	comment	Yellow Peril: In the future, all intelligence work will be handled by the Chinese, 'cause they're so good at it, don't you know. However, jaunting has created a virtually post-race society. The main Chinese intelligence agent is said to have almost no physical indication of his Chinese ancestry.
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The Stars My Destination / int_5541da8c	type	Lotus-Eater Machine
The Stars My Destination / int_5541da8c	comment	Lotus-Eater Machine: As a means of interrogating Gully Foyle, they put him on a set where actors tell him he is a corporate noble suffering amnesia.
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The Stars My Destination / int_5768d31	type	Super-Speed
The Stars My Destination / int_5768d31	comment	Super-Speed: Foyle eventually has his body upgraded with various functions, including being able to think and move five times faster than normal humans. Notably, it doesn't give him Super-Toughness, so he has to avoid accidentally bumping into anything while super speed is engaged—especially other people who also possess this ability. (His one brief skirmish with some Martian commandos resembles a sped-up game of touch football, in which an actual collision would be messily fatal to both parties.)
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The Stars My Destination / int_59103508	comment	Deadly Environment Prison: Everyone can teleport unless lobotomized or drugged, so criminals are usually kept in a location they don't know. You are welcome to Tele-Frag yourself whenever you want.
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The Stars My Destination / int_5a59b3a1	comment	Hulk Speak: Foyle, and in fact most of the lower class, speak in a dialect that's a lot like this.
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The Stars My Destination / int_67b65531	comment	"Double, Double" Title: This book was also published under the title Tiger, Tiger!.
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The Stars My Destination / int_68a5e1c3	comment	Humans Are Psychic in the Future: in the setting, "jaunting" is a learned skill and random people simply developed telepathy out of nowhere.
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The Stars My Destination / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: 'Gully' is short for Gulliver...and both characters follow similar development arcs right down to becoming reclusive misanthropes at the end of their respective stories.
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The Stars My Destination / int_7a08e8d1	type	They Call Me MISTER Tibbs!
The Stars My Destination / int_7a08e8d1	comment	They Call Me MISTER Tibbs!: Inverted. Apparently naming conventions in the corporate aristocracy follow those of the Scottish clans. Presteign constantly reminds people to call him "Presteign" and not "Mr. Presteign," because he is the head of his family.
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The Stars My Destination / int_7aad41fa	type	Psychic Teleportation
The Stars My Destination / int_7aad41fa	comment	Psychic Teleportation: Pretty much everybody. Those who cannot jaunte usually become part of the dregs of society. As said in its prologue, as a description of "jaunting": Special classes are held for those who have lost their ability due to trauma but still have the potential. People are rated by the distance they can jaunte, creating an informal caste system. Jaunting is a personal thing; you can teleport with as much as you can carry, but no more. "Sorry, not even the ladies will arrive naked." A person's ability can be temporarily negated by concussion or drugs. Since both the current location and destination must be known, it is possible to imprison people in elaborate mazes. They are kept in the dark to keep them from memorizing the layout and isolated to keep them from cooperating. Despairing prisoners may chance a "Blue Jaunte", a blind teleport that rarely ends well. Contrariwise, one can make a location safe (from jaunte attacks, at least) by enclosing it in a maze. In extreme cases, a criminal's ability may be surgically removed. This has the effect of removing them from society, as one who cannot jaunte is essentially casteless.
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The Stars My Destination / int_7d10c8a5	comment	Skip the Anesthetic: After Gully and Jisbella escape from prison, they go to a Back-Alley Doctor to have his Embarrassing Tattoo bleached from his face so that he's less recognizable by the authorities. Since the two have just had a nasty argument, she puts up money for the procedure but not the anesthetic. Eventually though, she can't stand his pain and gives in and pays the extra money.
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The Stars My Destination / int_7d97ab06	comment	Space Is an Ocean: Foyle is an astronaut but is described as a sailor— this is probably at least in part because of the Recycled In Space aspect.
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The Stars My Destination / int_8151ec48	comment	Driving Question: Why did the Vorga to abandon Foyle to die? They were illegally transporting refugees. Not only that, the "cargo" were Thrown Out the Airlock to keep from getting caught by Immigration on the other end. So even if they'd picked Foyle up, they'd have had to kill him anyway once he found out. Who specifically ordered the crew of the Vorga to abandon Foyle to die? That's a doozy. Olivia Presteign. And she gave Foyle the Driving Questions because she admired his determination and hoped the quest would prove them no different - determined to punish a Crapsack World for failing to care for their fates; his to be abandoned in space, hers to be a blind trophy wife.
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The Stars My Destination / int_8a0cfe56	comment	Merchant Prince: Businessmen like Presteign of Presteign have so much power that they essentially are the government, and their family names are treated as titles.
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The Stars My Destination / int_8af25294	comment	Bullet Time: Foyle's cybernetic enhancements let him beat up some "Jack-Jaunters" at such speed that, from his perspective, they were falling in slow motion as he struck them down and light seemed to redshift.
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The Stars My Destination / int_8f746311	comment	Cargo Cult: The Scientific People, who are a Cargo Cult IN SPACE!
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The Stars My Destination / int_905438eb	comment	Recycled In Space: The Count of Monte Cristo
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The Stars My Destination / int_96144372	comment	Aristocrats Are Evil: The Presteigns, one of the new breed of corporate nobility, are quite fond of saying that they love blood and money.
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The Stars My Destination / int_99a12edd	comment	Cyborg: Foyle spends a whole lot of money to get augmented into "... an extraordinary fighting machine" with transistors and transformers buried in muscle and bone. At one point he goes against a bunch of Martian commandos who have similar augments AND military training on top of it. He barely escapes with his life.
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The Stars My Destination / int_9bcd82c0	comment	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.
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The Stars My Destination / int_aaece264	comment	Rousing Speech: Foyle's final tirade to the mob — though he has no idea if they will ever get the point.
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The Stars My Destination / int_b0740635	comment	Master of Your Domain: Foyle learns biofeedback and yoga from an "old fakir" to master, among other things, his body's blush response. Very important, as his enemies are aware of his tattoos, and even after having them removed, the scars flush when he's stressed.
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The Stars My Destination / int_b34ae206	comment	Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex: After Jisbella reveals to Foyle that she's in a relationship with Dagenham, he tries to ask how that could be possible, given that Dagenham is a Walking Wasteland. Soon afterward, the reader sees how things work. Dagenham and Jisbella can have sex during his "safe" periods, and after that, they go to separate beds that are separated by a 3-inch layer of lead-impregnated glass allowing them to see each other but preventing Jisbella from being exposed to Dagenham's radioactivity.
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The Stars My Destination / int_b4fddee	comment	McGuffin: PyrE is one of the reasons that everyone with a bit of interest in what happens to the Inner Planets is chasing Gully Foyle across every corner of their territory.
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The Stars My Destination / int_b4fe9d97	comment	Space Isolation Horror: This happens briefly to Gully Foyle at the beginning. The trauma of the experience is so pivotal to his character development and his main motivation for the rest of the book.
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The Stars My Destination / int_b905c10c	comment	The Alcatraz: Foyle spends a long time in a deep underground prison which he spends mostly in solitary confinement, with no sources of stimulation.
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The Stars My Destination / int_bb40e7e0	comment	Failed Future Forecast: Russia is still the USSR. In at least one part of the book, Stalingrad gets mentioned.
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The Stars My Destination / int_bd2812b5	comment	Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence: One possible interpretation of the whole "Burning Man'' episode. A future version of Robin Wednesbury (now Robin Yeovil) seems to telepathically contact Foyle in a bizarre, psychedelic mindscape. It's possible that humanity doesn't end up using the PyrE to destroy themselves and instead ascend.
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The Stars My Destination / int_beb9a361	comment	Anti-Hero: Oh, is Foyle ever one. He verges on being a Villain Protagonist for most of the book.
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The Stars My Destination / int_bf1f379a	comment	Sense Freak: Inverted with the Skoptsy. Played straight with the Synth-Disease sufferers, who get infected with non lethal but debilitating illnesses for the experience of both being sick (almost all serious diseases have been cured by this point) and being doted on by beautiful nurses (male and female)
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The Stars My Destination / int_d2e98fd5	comment	Die or Fly: How the first jaunter discovered his ability. Also how Gully Foyle escapes the wreck of the Nomad.
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The Stars My Destination / int_d7b35e7d	comment	Virtual-Reality Interrogation: There is an attempt to get information from the protagonist by simulating for him a reality where he is rich and happy, and his adventures are All Just a Dream. He spots A Glitch in the Matrix (his own reflection) right before talking. (His false identity in the simulation eventually becomes the basis for the one he assumes to carry out his revenge.)
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The Stars My Destination / int_e1acc872	comment	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.
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The Stars My Destination / int_eba911fd	comment	Dark Messiah: Foyle is one of these at the end. He spreads the MacGuffin all over the world, which is Made of Explodium and can be really easily set off. He gives people the chance not to mess up, but if Humans Are Bastards, the world will go kaboom.
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The Stars My Destination / int_faf36236	comment	Cyberpunk: Although published in 1956, some three decades before Cyberpunk emerged, the book has many examples of the tropes common in cyberpunk—the antihero, the mysterious female thief, the intrigue of the multinational companies, the scientific McGuffin and cybernetically boosted reflexes most obvious amongst them. This is not entirely a coincidence: cyberpunk pioneer William Gibson has called The Stars My Destination his favourite novel.
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The Stars My Destination / int_fd7267dd	comment	Master of Disguise: One of the secret police characters pursuing Foyle. It helps that they have technology in the future that allows him to artificially add about 40 pounds to his weight.
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