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The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester

By John Folk-Williams

The Stars My Destination

Alfred Bester wrote two important science fiction novels in the 1950s – The Demolished Man and The Stars My Destination. While I have some reservations about the first, I have to agree with a couple of generations of great writers that the second is one of the best scifi novels of the 20th century. The […]

Filed Under: SciFi Mystery-Thriller, Vintage Science Fiction Tagged With: Alfred Bester, corporate dystopia, identity, purpose, spacetime, teleportation, time travel, transformation

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Something is struggling to be born in this damaged and inspiring world, and I believe science fiction and its speculative cousins are helping us figure out what it is. It’s pushing the imaginations of fiction writers to bend and twist familiar forms to try to capture the forces that are hurling us into a barely conceivable future. This blog is my small way of exploring the half-perceived … Read More about About

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