
Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand
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Narrated by:
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Stefan Rudnicki
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By:
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Samuel R. Delany
The story of a truly galactic civilization with more than 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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Brilliant
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TWA
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amazing book that isn't for everyone
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Two formal comments. One, the reading is excellent but bassy, such that it works better in a room than a car. Driving, I had to continually adjust the volume or repeat passages. Two, this is a work so inventive that many of the words and some of the ideas (such as contrapuntal speech by multiple tongues) are better seen than heard. I picked up a used copy of the text and found it added greatly to my sense of the book.
A wonderful, sophisticated read, highly recommended.
Masterwork of postmodern fiction
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Wow the prose.
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I guess technically you can call it SF
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Meh
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3 hours in and still no plot.
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I love this author but not this book
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I will not be finishing this book
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