Description
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!
Author: Samuel R. Delany
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Published: 12/15/2004
Pages: 356
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.07lbs
Size: 8.52h x 5.56w x 1.05d
ISBN13: 9780819567147
ISBN10: 0819567140
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Science Fiction | General
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!
Author: Samuel R. Delany
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Published: 12/15/2004
Pages: 356
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.07lbs
Size: 8.52h x 5.56w x 1.05d
ISBN13: 9780819567147
ISBN10: 0819567140
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Science Fiction | General
About the Author
SAMUEL R. DELANY is a novelist and critic who currently teaches English and creative writing at Temple University. He has won both Hugo and Nebula awards.