The Stars My Destination Introduction “...The key turned in the lock of his soul and the door was opened. What emerged expunged the Common Man forever.” The Stars My Destination ~pg 22 Gully Foyle. Uneducated. No skills. No merits. No recommendations. A short description given by the author Alfred Bester of his main character as the stereotypical Common Man of humanity. A man who later motivated himself to become something more than just a ‘mere’ man. …showed first 75 words of 1531 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1531 total…that writing sci-fi would comfort him the most because his creativity had no limits in that realm and felt he could “..do anything we damn well please.”3 Bibliography 1. Bester, Alfred, “Alfred Bester,” Interview by Charles Platt in Dream Makers (New York: Berkeley Books, 1980), p.96 2. Bester, Alfred, “My Affair with Science Fiction,” Hell’s Cartographers (New York: Harper & Row, 1995), p.57 3. Rawdon, Michael, ‘Bookreviews’. Online posting. Reviewed Dec. 1996 Available: www.spies.com/~Rawdon/books/sf/bester.html