{"product_id":"9783030969486-alfred-besters-the-stars-my-destination","title":"Alfred Bester’s The Stars My Destination","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA Critical Companion\u003cbr\u003eWilson’s  study depicts Bester as an SF insider as much as an outlier, writing in the spirit of  the genre but breaking with the fixation on hard science in favor of psychological  interiority, literary experimentation, and adult themes.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this comprehensive study of \u003ci\u003eThe Stars My Destination\u003c\/i\u003e, D. Harlan Wilson makes  a case for the continued significance of Alfred Bester’s SF masterwork, exploring  its distinctive style, influences, intertextuality, affect, and innovation as well as  its extensive metafictional properties. In \u003ci\u003eStars\u003c\/i\u003e, Bester established himself as a  son of the pulp-SF and high-modernist writers that preceded him and a forefather to the New Wave and cyberpunk movements that followed his lead. Wilson’s  study depicts Bester as an SF insider as much as an outlier, writing in the spirit of  the genre but breaking with the fixation on hard science in favor of psychological  interiority, literary experimentation, and adult themes. The book combines  close-readings of the novel with broader concerns about contemporary media,  technoculture, and the current state of SF itself. In Wilson’s view, SF is a moribund artform, and \u003ci\u003eStars \u003c\/i\u003eforesaw the inevitable science fictionalization of our  benighted world. With scholarly lucidity and precision, Wilson shows us that \u003ci\u003eStars \u003c\/i\u003epointed the way to what we have (un)become. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55664223551862,"sku":"9783030969486","price":28.26,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_29769929.jpg?v=1747820903","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9783030969486-alfred-besters-the-stars-my-destination","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}