Title: The Stars My Destination
First published: March 11, 1999
Description: In this pulse-quickening novel, Alfred Bester imagines a future in which people "jaunte" a thousand miles with a single thought, where the rich barricade themselves in labyrinths and protect themselves with radioactive hitmen—and where an inarticulate outcast is the most valuable and dangerous man alive.

The Stars My Destination is a classic of technological prophecy and timeless narrative enchantment by an acknowledged master of science fiction.
Subjects: Science fiction, Literature and science, Adventure stories, Fiction, science fiction, general, Astronauts, Fiction, Redemption, Retribution, American Science fiction, Twenty-fifth century, Long Now Manual for Civilization
People: Gully Foyle, Presteign of Presteign, Saul Dagenham, Regis Sheffield, Jisbella McQueen
Time periods: 25th Century