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Set in a pyrotechnic twenty-fifth century, Alfred Bester’s The Star's My Destination is the story of Gully Foyle, a “stereotype Comman Man” who becomes a technologized Overman.
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Wilson, D.H. (2022). Synopsis. In: Alfred Bester’s The Stars My Destination. Palgrave Science Fiction and Fantasy: A New Canon. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-96946-2_2
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