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Stars In My Pocket Like Grains Of SandStars in my Pocket like Grains of Sand (1984) is a science fiction novel by Samuel R. Delany. Description Set in a dazzlingly complex far-future network of societies, this dense, descriptive novel centers around the short romance between Marq Dyeth (the narrator) and Rat Korga, a freed slave from a destroyed world. Throughout the narrative Marq Dyeth speaks to the reader as if he's a tour guide to his own thoughts and perceptions. His opinions on history, art, sex, politics and civilization are woven into nearly every paragraph. The result is a dizzying but immersive science fiction experience. The novel plays several linguistic tricks on the reader, including a change to the meaning of such basic units of language as pronouns ('he', 'she', and variants). Although the novel is part of a planned diptych, the second half of which never saw daylight, and at times over-descriptive (the last chapter is essentially a postmodern soliloquy.), Stars in my Pocket like Grains of Sand nevertheless comes closest to the emotion said by many to lie at the core of sci-fi: wonder. The novel is set in an extremely rich world, corners of which are made subtly visible to the reader. For example, a single sentence, easily missed on first reading, alludes to orthographic reform reducing the alphabet to roughly 19 letters. This fact contributes nothing to the plot, instead forming the background environment. - Delany, Samuel R., "Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand". Bantam Dell Pub Group, Sep 1985. ISBN 0553050532
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