![]() ![]() Gulliver is on a merchant ship owned by Presteign, a powerful industrial clan, when his ship is attacked. The book begins with Gulliver's abandonment in a damaged spaceship, in a world where teleportation has caused the inner and outer planets to go to war with each other. The book is adapted from Alexander Dumas' The Count of Monte Cristo, and the original title Tiger! Tiger! is based on the poem “The Tyger” by William Blake, which also serves as the epigraph for the book. It tells the story of an unambitious and directionless man named Gulliver Foyle who is abandoned in a damaged spaceship and, through his own rage and a series of mishaps, remakes himself as an aristocrat in a society wrecked by the invention of teleportation to stalk the people who did him wrong. ![]() The Stars My Destination is a science fiction novel by Alfred Bester, which was published in 1957. ![]()
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