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Now Gully Foyle has a pressing reason to do more than simply survive as he had done while surviving on the ''Nomad'', as he had done all his life before hand. Now, he's headed back to Terra, and he will have his revenge, no matter who stands in his way...
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* [[The Alcatraz]]
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* [[Cyberpunk]]: Although published in 1956, some three decades before Cyberpunk emerged, the book has many examples of the tropes common in cyberpunk—the antihero, the mysterious female thief, the intrigue of the [[Mega Corp|multinational companies]], the scientific [[McGuffin]] and cybernetically boosted reflexes most obvious amongst them. This is not entirely a coincidence: cyberpunk pioneer [[William Gibson]] has called ''The Stars My Destination'' his favourite novel.
* [[Dark Messiah]]: Foyle is one of these at the end {{spoiler|he spreads all over the world the [[MacGuffin]], which is [[Made of Explodium]] and can be really easily set off. He gives people the chance not to mess up, but if [[Humans Are the Real Monsters]], the world will go kaboom}}
* [[Determinator]]: Nothing will stop Gully Foyle from having his revenge. Nothing.
* [[Die or Fly]]: How the first jaunter discovered his ability. Also how Gully Foyle escapes the wreck of the ''Nomad''.
* [[Evil Albino]]: Olivia Presteign.
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* [[Rich Idiot With No Day Job]]: Foyle pretends to be an [[Upper Class Twit]] in his Fourmyle identity
* [[Secret Police]]: Central Intelligence is quite obviously this. They even have a secret language that is called...the Secret Speech.
* [[Sense Freak]]: Inverted—and ''how!''—with the Skoptsy.
* [[Sliding Scale of Anti-Heroes]]: Foyle dances between type IV and V with alarming frequency.
* [[Space Is an Ocean]]: Foyle is an astronaut but is described as a sailor; this is probably at least in part because of the [[Recycled in Space]] aspect.
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* [[This Loser Is You]]: As noted above, the book's idea of an "average man" is a real nasty piece of work.
* [[Time Stands Still]]
* [[Took a Level
* [[Unfortunate Names]]: The aforementioned woman thief is named Jisbella, but is more often just referred to as "Jiz".
* [[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.
{{quote|''"You got the most in you, and you use the least. You hear me, you? Got a million in you and spend pennies. Got a genius in you and think crazies. Got a heart in you and feel empties. All a you. Every you... Take a war to make you spend. Take a jam to make you think. Take a challenge to make you great. Rest of the time you sit around lazy, you."''}}
** 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
* [[Unconventional Formatting]]: Gully temporarily suffers from synesthesia after a head trauma, which Bester represents with modified typeface.
* [[Yellow Peril]]: In the future, all intelligence work will be handled by the Chinese, 'cause they're so good at it, don't you know.
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