SF Masterworks: The Stars My Destination

"Science fiction has only produced a few works of actual genius, and this is one of them." - Joe Haldeman

In this pulse-quickening classic, Alfred Bester imagines a future where humanity has mastered "jaunting"—teleporting thousands of miles with a single thought. This new power has shattered societies and economies, leading to a brutal war between the Inner and Outer Planets.

Gully Foyle is the last survivor of a wrecked spaceship, an uneducated, unskilled, and unambitious man. When a passing ship, the Vorga, ignores his distress signals and leaves him for dead, Foyle is transformed by a "gargantuan" rage.

Consumed by a relentless thirst for revenge, he embarks on a quest that will forge him from a brute into a force of nature, lead him to a universe-changing secret, and set him on a path to become the most valuable and dangerous man alive. The Stars My Destination is a timeless masterpiece of science fiction and a precursor to the cyberpunk genre.