The Stars My Destination The Stars My Destination The Stars My Destination is a science fiction novel by American writer Alfred Bester. The novel, set in the 24th or 25th Century (this varies between editions of the book) when humans have colonized the Solar System, tells the story of Gully Foyle, a teleporter driven by a burning desire for revenge. Originally serialized in "Galaxy" magazine in four parts beginning with the October 1956 issue, it first appeared in book form in the United Kingdom as Tiger! Tiger! – after William Blake's poem "The Tyger", the first verse of which is printed as the first
Tyger (ship) In 1916, workmen led by James A. Kelly uncovered the prow and keel of "Tyger" while excavating an extension for the New York City Subway BMT Broadway Line near the intersection of Greenwich and Dey Streets. The ship and some related artifacts were discovered by Kelly's crew at a depth of about below the streetright where it had been beached on the shoreline of Manhattan Island at the time of the ship's burning. Over a period of 150 years after the vessel had been beached, approximately of silt accumulated and, in 1763, a waterfront fill-in project added another . Although