How Long to Read Alfred Bester’s The Stars My Destination

How Long Does it Take to Read Alfred Bester’s The Stars My Destination?

It takes the average reader 2 hours and 14 minutes to read Alfred Bester’s The Stars My Destination by D. Harlan Wilson

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

In this comprehensive study of The Stars My Destination, D. Harlan Wilson makes a case for the continued significance of Alfred Bester’s SF masterwork, exploring its distinctive style, influences, intertextuality, affect, and innovation as well as its extensive metafictional properties. In Stars, Bester established himself as a son of the pulp-SF and high-modernist writers that preceded him and a forefather to the New Wave and cyberpunk movements that followed his lead. Wilson’s study depicts Bester as an SF insider as much as an outlier, writing in the spirit of the genre but breaking with the fixation on hard science in favor of psychological interiority, literary experimentation, and adult themes. The book combines close-readings of the novel with broader concerns about contemporary media, technoculture, and the current state of SF itself. In Wilson’s view, SF is a moribund artform, and Stars foresaw the inevitable science fictionalization of our benighted world. With scholarly lucidity and precision, Wilson shows us that Stars pointed the way to what we have (un)become.

How long is Alfred Bester’s The Stars My Destination?

Alfred Bester’s The Stars My Destination by D. Harlan Wilson is 133 pages long, and a total of 33,649 words.

This makes it 45% the length of the average book. It also has 41% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Alfred Bester’s The Stars My Destination Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 3 hours and 3 minutes to read Alfred Bester’s The Stars My Destination aloud.

What Reading Level is Alfred Bester’s The Stars My Destination?

Alfred Bester’s The Stars My Destination is suitable for students ages 10 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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