Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand
Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand
Author: Samuel R. Delany
Desc: 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!