Comment on Classic Review: The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester by Joe Haldeman

Just watched the TV version of The Count of Monte Cristo (May 2026), and had forgotten about its connection to The Stars My Destination -- which wiped me out when I read it as a teenager in the 1950s. I had totally forgotten about the simmering sexuality just under the surface of Bester's novel, which of course becomes up-front on television's version of The Count. (Would be wonderful to have the…