The stars, my destination Alfred Bester
This story was an amazing rags to, I don’t want to say riches but this character has started from being confined to a room in space to being in complete control, almost god like. It’s a familiar tail everyone likes to hear but put into the sci-fi context. The future world described here did not seem that complex or unrealistic either, a thing I dislike about a few science fiction novels but have been recently starting to enjoy. The only thing this book really asked you to believe in was jaunting, or moving from one place to another with only the use of your mind for teleportation. I have come to enjoy reading science fiction with unrealistic future depictions. Sometimes the purpose of the genre is not to show us what is going to happen, but instead the genre is given a separate reality in which to explore social criticisms without the confines of our present or our realistic future reality. This allows authors to make their criticisms in extreme manors. Like the part in this book where the main character hands PyrE over to crowds of people telling them that he is giving everyone the power of death… all it takes is one person to think about ruining existence on Earth, Its almost (forgive the crude example) Saw. The story has almost mirrored itself at this point, jaunting was discovered and at first could only be accomplished with the threat of death, now he learns he can jaunt through space using faith.
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