{"id":688,"date":"2026-04-19T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/teknologi.news.eraenterprise.id\/?p=688"},"modified":"2026-04-19T14:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T14:00:00","slug":"the-stars-my-destination-is-classic-proto-cyberpunk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teknologi.news.eraenterprise.id\/?p=688","title":{"rendered":"The Stars My Destination is classic proto-cyberpunk"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The cover of The Stars My Destination, by Alfred Bester.\" data-caption=\"Gully Foyle is my name\u2026 | Image: Brick Tower Press\" data-portal-copyright=\"Image: Brick Tower Press\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.theverge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/04\/The-Stars-My-Destination.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;crop=0,0,100,100\" \/><figcaption>\n\tGully Foyle is my name\u2026 | Image: Brick Tower Press\t<\/figcaption><\/p><\/figure>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">This might feel like a somewhat obvious recommendation to some, but it flew under my radar until now. Alfred Bester&#8217;s <em>The Stars My Destination<\/em> (originally published as <em>Tiger! Tiger!<\/em> in the UK) is a 1956 sci-fi novel that some have cited as a <a href=\"https:\/\/sciencefiction.loa.org\/appreciation\/gibson.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">precursor to cyberpunk<\/a>. It&#8217;s a work I admit I have some conflicted feelings about, but one I think is well worth reading if you consider yourself a fan of sci-fi. It&#8217;s also well worth seeking out a physical copy, something I wish I had known before I started reading it in the objectively inferior e-book form that can&#8217;t capture the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ergodic_literature\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ergodic<\/a> elements of the climax.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">It&#8217;s hard to explain the plot of <em>The Star \u2026<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/entertainment\/914680\/the-stars-my-destination-alfred-bester-review-cyberpunk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the full story at The Verge.<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gully Foyle is my name\u2026 | Image: Brick Tower Press This might feel like a somewhat obvious recommendation to some,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":689,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teknologi.news.eraenterprise.id\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teknologi.news.eraenterprise.id\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teknologi.news.eraenterprise.id\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teknologi.news.eraenterprise.id\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teknologi.news.eraenterprise.id\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/teknologi.news.eraenterprise.id\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teknologi.news.eraenterprise.id\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teknologi.news.eraenterprise.id\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teknologi.news.eraenterprise.id\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teknologi.news.eraenterprise.id\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}