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Title | : | Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand |
Author | : | Samuel R. Delany |
Book Format | : | Paperback |
Book Edition | : | 20th Anniversary Edition |
Pages | : | Pages: 356 pages |
Published | : | December 15th 2004 by Wesleyan University Press (first published 1984) |
Categories | : | Science Fiction. Fiction. GLBT. Queer |

Samuel R. Delany
Paperback | Pages: 356 pages Rating: 3.88 | 2405 Users | 238 Reviews
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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!Identify Books During Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand
Original Title: | Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand |
ISBN: | 0819567140 (ISBN13: 9780819567147) |
Edition Language: | English URL http://www.pseudopodium.org/repress/KLeslieSteiner-SamuelRDelany.html |
Literary Awards: | Arthur C. Clarke Award Nominee for Best Novel (1987), James Tiptree Jr. Award Nominee for Special Mention - 20th Anniversary Republication (2004) |
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Ratings: 3.88 From 2405 Users | 238 ReviewsWrite Up Appertaining To Books Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand
The prologue of this book is a third person telling of Rat Korga's life. Beginning at age 19 when he arrives as an illiterate delinquent for "Radical Anxiety Treatment", basically a sort of lobotomy that turns him into a docile zombie, with full mental capacity, but only able to do exactly as he's told. Perfect for slave labour. Korga has a temporary escape from servitude when a woman buys him as a sex slave, but gives him technology enabling him to read books. He returns to slavery however andSo amazing. The only slight problem I had with the text, and this is just my preference, is that the ending is indefinite. I see why he does it, though, and it makes sense. The idea that there could be such a thing as someone's "perfect erotic object" calculated mathmatically...that's a powerful reworking of Disney's "prince charming" myth, and I love how he Delany uses the embodied Queerness to examine it.
It is a tragedy trees have been cut down for the sake of this absurdly overrated, plotless, pretentious garbage.

100th book for 2019.A wonderful mediation on gender, family and desire. 4-stars.
Once upon a time (around 1986 or 1987?), I had an opportunity to meet Samuel R. Delany at an ALA or ABA [now BookExpo]. Taking advantage of my position as a buyer for a large book distributor, I monopolized some of his time in the Bantam booth while he waited to do a signingsomething that is surely tedious for many authors, some of whom will seek diversion with anyone willing to talk with him or her. In our brief discussion, I remember him most for being surprised at his students reluctance to
This is the first Delany I've read, and I haven't been this excited about a novel for a good while. Looking forward to reading more Delany.
WTH?! I spent two months of lunchtimes on this?!I have not slogged through a more difficult read since Gene Wolfe's lictor/new sun saga, and I didn't get the payoff from this that I did from them.If this is the "masterpiece" that the cover blurb claims, I'm afraid it is one that passed right over the top of my li'l pumpkin head. As a character novel, it failed me: I never connected with narrator Marq Dyeth and was never supposed to grasp he cipher Rat Korga. As a plot novel, it failed me: it
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