The Stars My Destination: Difference between revisions

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''And death's my destination'' }}

 

* [[No Transhumanism Allowed]]: Averted -- Once he's rich, Foyle uses his money to have implants and circuitry put into his body that give him super-strength and amazing reflexes.

* [[Outgrown Such Silly Superstitions]]: In fact, it's outright illegal leading to, somewhat unsurprisingly, underground religions. People who take part in such things are normally viewed as something akin to sexual deviants:

* [[Phlebotinum]]: PyrE -- {{spoiler|a ''psychically'' activated nuclear explosive}}.

* [[Rape Is Love]]: As close to love as anything in this book gets, anyway.

* [[Walking Wasteland]]: Dagenham. Mildly subverted in that he can avoid causing damage if he limits his interactions with the world outside his radiation-proof chamber.

* [[Whoopi Epiphany Speech]]: Possibly the [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|most memorable passage]] in the book, delivered to humanity as a whole by a man who began the story as a mindless, uneducated drone.

** Note that it's a ''inversion'' of this trope: while in its classical form a [[Whoopi Epiphany Speech]] is delivered by a poor uneducated character to his or her social betters, neither Gully, nor his auditory is either. Gully ''was'' a mindless drone barely eligible to be called a sapient, but has since jerked himself out of this stupor, and he tells the very people he was some time ago that ''they'' [[Took a Level In Badass|could do the same]] -- a sort of inspirational [[World of Cardboard Speech]].

* [[Unconventional Formatting]]: Gully temporarily suffers from synesthesia after a head trauma, which Bester represents with modified typeface.