He is then thrown in prison, where he meets Jisabella McQueen. Gulliver is brutally questioned about the Nomad, but does not break. Gulliver then discovers that his original ship, the Nomad, was carrying a precious material called PyrE, which Presteign wants to use to win the war. His attempt fails, and he is captured by Presteign, who throw him in prison. After his return, Gulliver attempts to blow up the Vorga as revenge for their betrayal.

The clan tattoos tiger stripes on his face to mark him as a prisoner, but he manages to escape and is returned to his home planet Terra. Eventually, Gulliver repairs his ship and manufactures his own escape, only to be captured by a clan of cargo ships in the Asteroid Belt. Gulliver becomes so enraged by this betrayal that he is transformed into a monstrous, vengeful man. Gulliver waits for six months hoping for someone to rescue him, when a passing ship called Vorga, also owned by Presteign, passes right by him without stopping to come to his aid. Gulliver is on a merchant ship owned by Presteign, a powerful industrial clan, when his ship is attacked. The book begins with Gulliver's abandonment in a damaged spaceship, in a world where teleportation has caused the inner and outer planets to go to war with each other. The book is adapted from Alexander Dumas' The Count of Monte Cristo, and the original title Tiger! Tiger! is based on the poem “The Tyger” by William Blake, which also serves as the epigraph for the book. It tells the story of an unambitious and directionless man named Gulliver Foyle who is abandoned in a damaged spaceship and, through his own rage and a series of mishaps, remakes himself as an aristocrat in a society wrecked by the invention of teleportation to stalk the people who did him wrong. The Stars My Destination is a science fiction novel by Alfred Bester, which was published in 1957.

Bester the stars my destination