Stars In My Pocket Like Grains Of Sand
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"Sentence by sentence, phrase by phrase, Delany invites the reader to collaborate in the process of creation. The reader who accepts this invitation has an extraordinarily satisfying experience in store." -- Gerald Jonas, The New York Times Book Review
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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!
Stars In My Pocket Like Grains Of Sand
Stars In My Pocket Like Grains Of Sand,Samuel R. Delany,Carl Freedman,Wesleyan University Press,0819567140,Fiction,Fiction - Science Fiction,Science Fiction,Science Fiction - General
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