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Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand by Samuel R. Delany

• Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand
• Samuel R. Delany
• Page: 376
• Format: pdf, ePub, mobi, fb2
• ISBN: 9780819567147
• Publisher: Wesleyan University Press

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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 ...