Paperback Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand Book

ISBN: 0819567140

ISBN13: 9780819567147

Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand

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Item: Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand
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By Samuel R. Delany

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The story of a truly galactic civilization with over 6,000 inhabited worlds.

Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand is a science fiction masterpiece, an essay on the inexplicability of sexual attractiveness, and an examination of interstellar politics among far-flung worlds. First published in 1984, the novel's central issues--technology, globalization, gender, sexuality, and multiculturalism--have only become more pressing with the passage of time.

The novel's topic is information itself: What are the repercussions, once it has been made public, that two individuals have been found to be each other's perfect erotic object out to "point nine-nine-nine and several nines percent more"? What will it do to the individuals involved, to the city they inhabit, to their geosector, to their entire world society, especially when one is an illiterate worker, the sole survivor of a world destroyed by "cultural fugue," and the other is--you

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0819567140

ISBN13:9780819567147

Release Date:December 2004

Publisher:Wesleyan University Press

Length:356 Pages

Weight:1.10 lbs.

Dimensions:1.1" x 5.5" x 8.4"

Age Range:18 years and up

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imaginative architecture

Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 23 years ago

This is a book which gets inside your head and changes somehow the imaginative architecture of your mind. It is fascinating also on a theoretical level, social level as well as pure, joyful aesthetics. 'Stars' is also a book which shows what immense potential there is when staid, generic codes of sf are broken. I loved it, was amazed and will return to it every few years.... So like every other lover of this novel, I regret Delany's decision (?) not to write a sequel.

A Rewarding Complexity

Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 25 years ago

This book is one of few I found complex enough and satisfying enough to really hold my attention. Like a great musical work it gathers recurrent themes and variations to a stunning crescendo at the end of the first book- which left me maddened for the end of the story. I hear recurrent rumours that there is a sequel and I have been searching desperately for it for years. Delaney is a great master of literature unacknowledged by professors of lit because of his genre, and this book is the pinnacle of his career.

I've never been so glad to have read anything

Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 26 years ago

When your everday perception becomes narrow and dim, some books have the capacity to shake you out of it. This is one of those. It's been years since I read Stars in My Pocket, so I won't go into detail, but I will say: I've never been so glad to have read anything.