It's possible that humanity doesn't end up using the PyrE to destroy themselves and instead ascend. A future version of Robin Wednesbury (now Robin Yeovil) seems to telepathically contact Foyle in a bizarre, psychedelic mindscape. Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence: One possible interpretation of the whole 'Burning Man'' episode.Aristocrats Are Evil: The Presteigns, one of the new breed of corporate nobility, are quite fond of saying that they love blood and money.He verges on being a Villain Protagonist for most of the book. The Alcatraz: Foyle spends a long time in a deep underground prison which he spends mostly in solitary confinement, with no sources of stimulation.The book's gritty Anti-Hero and experimental typography made it a much-imitated prototype for the New Wave Science Fiction movement that sprung up a few years later. Now, he's headed back to Terra, and he will have his revenge, no matter who stands in his way. Now Gully Foyle has a pressing reason to do more than simply survive, as he had done on Nomad and all his life before hand. All he has left is a powerful will to survive, and he has, somehow, for six months when the spaceship Vorga encounters the wreck of the Nomad, sees the distress signals- and passes by, leaving him to rot. No education, no skills, no ambition, just a Mechanic's Mate Third Class on the freighter Nomad, which lies crippled in the void between the planets. None of this matters to Gully Foyle-the quintessential everyman, if you are convinced Humans Are Morons. An age when conflict between the Inner Planets and the Outer Satellites is about to end the age of the Global Wars by means of the outbreak of the first Solar War. An age where humanity has spread across the solar system- a golden age that no one knows they are living in. An age when humanity can jaunte across the world, where telepaths are, if not common, then not unheard of.

The Stars My Destination, aka Tiger! Tiger! note there is some debate as to which is the original title is a science fiction novel by Alfred Bester.

Bester the stars my destination