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ISBN-10: 0819567140
ISBN-13: 9780819567147
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Publish Date: 12/15/2004
Dimensions: 8.40" L, 5.50" W, 1.10" H

Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand (Twenthieth Anniversary)

Other: Carl Freedman

Paperback

Price: $26.95

Overview

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!

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Reviews

"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

"A densely textured, intricately worked out novelistic structure which delights and astonishes even as it forces a confrontation with a wide range of thought-provoking issues. Stars in My Pocket like Grains of Sand . . . confirms that [Delany] is American SF's most consistently brilliant and inventive writer."–Steve McCaffery, Fantasy Review

"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

"Stars in My Pocket has been one of my favorite books and, in particular, the book that, more decisively than any other, has defined for me just what science fiction is capable of and why it is worth bothering about."–Carl Freedman, The Foreword

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ISBN-10: 0819567140
ISBN-13: 9780819567147
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Publish Date: 12/15/2004
Dimensions: 8.40" L, 5.50" W, 1.10" H
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