The Stars My Destination - in Popular Culture

In Popular Culture

  • Stephen King refers to The Stars My Destination in several works. In Lisey's Story (2006), the title character recalls it as her deceased husband's favorite novel. The short story "The Jaunt" (1981) takes its title from the book, and explicitly names and references it at several points.
  • Gully Foyle makes a cameo appearance as an agent for the Jurisfiction organisation in the BookWorld of author Jasper Fforde's Thursday Next series. Another novel in the series, The Well of Lost Plots, uses Stars My Destination as the title of a tabloid newspaper in the fictional universe of Emperor Zhark.
  • The novel inspired the song "Tiger! Tiger!" by the heavy metal band Slough Feg which appeared on their 2007 album Hardworlder, the cover of which depicts Gully Foyle.
  • "The Stars Our Destination" is the name of a song on the 1994 Stereolab album Mars Audiac Quintet.
  • The British TV Series The Tomorrow People uses Jaunting to refer to teleportation.
  • In the 2000 video game Deus Ex, Gully Foyle is listed as a current resident of the 'Ton Hotel.
  • In the TV series Babylon 5, one of the most influential telepathic characters is named "Alfred Bester".
  • The character "Enzo Paulo Gugino" in John Scalzi's novel Zoe's Tale wrote a poem entitled "The Stars My Destination" based on "the title from an obscure fantasy adventure book that he'd never read but whose title stayed with him."

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