Research Catalog

Title

Stars in my pocket like grains of sand / Samuel R. Delany ; foreword by Carl Freedman.

Author

Delany, Samuel R.

Publication

Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press, [2004]

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Details

Additional Authors

Freedman, Carl

Description

xiv, 356 p.; 22 cm.

Summary

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!

Subject

• Delany, Samuel R
• Erotic stories
• Science fiction
• Life on other planets > Fiction
• Technology > Fiction

Genre/Form

Science fiction

Note

• First published: Bantam Books, 1984.
• "20th Anniversary Edition." -- Cover.

Contents

Prologue: A World Apart -- Monologues: Visible and Invisible Persons Distributed in Space -- One: From Nepiy to Free-Kantor -- Two: The Flower and the Web -- Three: Visitors on Velm -- Four: Rescue on Rhynon -- Five: Rescue Continued -- Six: Rescue Concluded -- Seven: Home and a Stranger -- Eight: Strangers and Visitors -- Nine: From Breakfast to Morning -- Ten: A Dragon Hunt -- Eleven: A Tale of Two Suppers -- Twelve: Return to Dyethshome -- Thirteen: Formalities

ISBN

0819567140 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2004013614

OCLC

• 55657547
• SCSB-11822898

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library