Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand
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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
About this listen
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!
©2019 Samuel R. Delany (P)2019 Skyboat Media, Inc.Listeners also enjoyed...
One detail that confuses me is that Delany adds a numeric suffix to words like “work” and “job” to hint at distinctions like those between career, hobby, and civic duty. The otherwise excellent narrator just leaves them out, so we end up with confusing sentences like “I like my work as well as my work”. It’s not a big deal, but I wonder why this choice was made.
Pop Rocks for the Gender Binary
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I'm sure Delany is proud of this because by God does he make sure you know it.
Meandering doesn't describe this, even the most wayward river eventually goes somewhere.
As the title points out, I think he got a bit too carried away sniffing his own gaseous excretions and slipped. The desparate manner in which he scrabbles upwards through his own vast caverns does make one pity him, I only hope he reaches the sunlight again soon.
Pretty good voice actor though
Push a little harder and Delany might see daylight
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