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Stars in my pocket like grains of sand

Author: Samuel R Delany
Publisher: Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press, [2004], ©1984.
Edition/Format:   Book : Fiction : EnglishView all editions and formats
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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  Read more...
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Genre/Form: Science fiction
Material Type: Fiction, Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Samuel R Delany
ISBN: 0819567140 9780819567147
OCLC Number: 55657547
Notes: "20th anniversary edition."
Description: xiv, 356 p. 22 cm.
Responsibility: Samuel R. Delany ; foreword by Carl Freedman.
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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!

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