![]() A wonderful, sophisticated read, highly recommended. I picked up a used copy of the text and found it added greatly to my sense of the book. 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. Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand by Delany, Samuel R. Driving, I had to continually adjust the volume or repeat passages. One, the reading is excellent but bassy, such that it works better in a room than a car. 'Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand is a science fiction masterpiece about the inexplicability of sexual attractiveness, and a story that foresaw the World Wide Web. As prescient as William Gibson's cyberpunk (both the Web and a kind of universal Wikipedia are present) and as ethnographically subtle as Ursula Le Guin's Hainish books, with sophisticated flavors from queer theory and Sapir-Whorf throughout, "Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand" is both ingenious sci-fi narrative and an experiment in literary cultural criticism. ![]() This, my introduction to Delaney, is a mind-expanding, category-shattering novel rich in characters both familar and unfathomably Other. ![]()
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