Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand

ISBN-13: 9780819567147 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 356 str.

Samuel R. Delany; Carl Freedman

Opis

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

O autorze

Samuel R. Delany ist Autor und Literaturwissenschaftler. 2010 war er Mitglied der fünfköpfigen Jury des National Book Award, des wichtigsten amerikanischen Buchpreises. Er schrieb zahlreiche Kurzgeschichten, Comics, Essays und Pornos aber keine Gedichte. Delany hat eine Professur an der Temple University in Philadelphia inne, wo er das Graduate Creative Writing Program leitet.