Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand

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Publication Year:
2014

ISBN-13: 9781480461710

<DIV><B>In this far-future classic, sexual attraction is a science, gender is a whole new construct, and information is both precious and perilous .&#160;.&#160;.</B><BR /><BR /> With a burst of radiation to the brain, an angry young man is transformed into a dim-witted slave&mdash;suitable only for the most brutal work. But the tragedy of Rat Korga is the prologue to the story of Marq Dyeth, an &ldquo;industrial diplomat,&rdquo; who travels from world to world in this exciting, sprawling future, solving problems that come with the spread of &ldquo;General Information.&rdquo; The greatest fear in this future is Cultural Fugue, a critical mass of shared knowledge that can destroy life over the surface of an entire world in hours. In this dizzyingly original novel, information is perilous, but without it a human is only a rat in a cage.<BR /> &#160;<BR /> Campbell Award winner Jo Walton described this science fiction landmark as being &ldquo;like pop rocks for the brain. .&#160;.&#160;. Things sparkle and explode all over, and it&rsquo;s not entirely comfortable but it is quite wonderful.&rdquo; This classic read predicted the Internet and is packed with themes that still resonate today.<BR /> &#160;<BR /> This ebook features an illustrated biography of Samuel R. Delany including rare images from his early career.<DIV>&#160;</DIV></DIV>