false <![CDATA[Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand]]> 85861 5 <i>Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand</i> 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! 945568 1984 Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand total:301|5:115|4:106|3:54|2:23|1:3| 301 1210 491 35 85861 0819567140 9780819567147 283 32 Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand 4.02 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171062756m/85861.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/85861.Stars_in_My_Pocket_Like_Grains_of_Sand 3 2 false Sun Feb 10 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Sep 27 13:27:13 -0700 2007 Mon Feb 11 09:25:32 -0800 2008 more...]]> 85861 0819567140 9780819567147 283 32 Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand 4.02 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171062756m/85861.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/85861.Stars_in_My_Pocket_Like_Grains_of_Sand 5 0 false Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Sun Dec 07 01:11:04 -0800 2008 Sun Dec 07 01:16:17 -0800 2008
Instead I'm just putting up some quotes from it, although I wound up buying it because I loved it so much, so maybe it's time to make time for a reread.

Another voice, begun even further back in childhood, had, in the interstice...more...]]> 85861 0819567140 9780819567147 283 32 Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand 4.02 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171062756m/85861.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/85861.Stars_in_My_Pocket_Like_Grains_of_Sand 4 0 false Sun May 04 10:33:46 -0700 2008 Sun Apr 27 09:45:09 -0700 2008 Sun May 04 10:33:46 -0700 2008
As far as I can tell: there is a guy who has this procedure that removes all his anxiety, but also his free will, so he becomes a slave on his planet.
Then the planet is...more...]]> 960666 999976472X 9789999764728 7 1 Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand 4.02 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1202156569m/960666.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/960666.Stars_in_My_Pocket_Like_Grains_of_Sand 5 0 false Sun Jan 18 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Feb 08 04:44:56 -0800 2008 Mon Jan 19 04:58:37 -0800 2009 more...]]> 602451 0553050532 9780553050530 8 2 Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand 4.02 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/602451.Stars_in_My_Pocket_Like_Grains_of_Sand 4 0 false Wed Mar 18 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Mar 18 07:42:51 -0700 2009 Wed Mar 18 07:50:07 -0700 2009 Review of Contemporary Fiction in 1996, but a complete book seems unlikely.) ...more...]]> 85861 0819567140 9780819567147 283 32 Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand 4.02 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171062756m/85861.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/85861.Stars_in_My_Pocket_Like_Grains_of_Sand 5 0 false Sun Apr 05 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Mar 15 21:31:30 -0700 2009 Sun May 17 10:24:36 -0700 2009
The book's universe is really interesting, and Delan...more...]]> 85861 0819567140 9780819567147 283 32 Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand 4.02 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171062756m/85861.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/85861.Stars_in_My_Pocket_Like_Grains_of_Sand 4 0 false Thu Nov 12 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 30 16:25:06 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 30 16:29:45 -0800 2009 85861 0819567140 9780819567147 283 32 Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand 4.02 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171062756m/85861.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/85861.Stars_in_My_Pocket_Like_Grains_of_Sand 5 0 false Sun Mar 02 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Fri Feb 29 05:04:02 -0800 2008 Sun Apr 06 14:15:28 -0700 2008
beyond the stellar creativity of imagining a universe with hundreds of thousands of inter-co...more...]]> 85861 0819567140 9780819567147 283 32 Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand 4.02 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171062756m/85861.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/85861.Stars_in_My_Pocket_Like_Grains_of_Sand 0 0 false Mon Mar 30 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Mar 24 23:52:32 -0700 2009 Tue Mar 31 13:39:25 -0700 2009 85861 0819567140 9780819567147 283 32 Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand 4.02 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171062756m/85861.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/85861.Stars_in_My_Pocket_Like_Grains_of_Sand 2 0 false Fri May 29 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 30 08:54:30 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 09 17:01:13 -0700 2009
As an "Industrial Diplomat," Marq would compare and contrast other cultures with h...more...]]> 85861 0819567140 9780819567147 283 32 Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand 4.02 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171062756m/85861.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/85861.Stars_in_My_Pocket_Like_Grains_of_Sand 4 0 false Thu Sep 20 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Wed Apr 08 19:04:40 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 08 19:07:33 -0700 2009 85861 0819567140 9780819567147 283 32 Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand 4.02 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171062756m/85861.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/85861.Stars_in_My_Pocket_Like_Grains_of_Sand 5 0 false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2001 Fri Jan 09 15:17:27 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 09 15:18:32 -0800 2009 85861 0819567140 9780819567147 283 32 Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand 4.02 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171062756m/85861.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/85861.Stars_in_My_Pocket_Like_Grains_of_Sand 4 0 false Sat Nov 08 04:51:25 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 08 06:40:20 -0800 2008 more...]]> 85861 0819567140 9780819567147 283 32 Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand 4.02 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171062756m/85861.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/85861.Stars_in_My_Pocket_Like_Grains_of_Sand 0 0 false Mon Mar 30 07:30:43 -0700 2009 Mon Mar 30 07:30:43 -0700 2009 85861 0819567140 9780819567147 283 32 Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand 4.02 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171062756m/85861.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/85861.Stars_in_My_Pocket_Like_Grains_of_Sand 0 0 false Sat Nov 21 14:45:27 -0800 2009 Sat Nov 21 14:46:36 -0800 2009 85861 0819567140 9780819567147 283 32 Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand 4.02 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171062756m/85861.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/85861.Stars_in_My_Pocket_Like_Grains_of_Sand 0 0 false Thu Aug 13 17:46:22 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 13 17:46:39 -0700 2009 602451 0553050532 9780553050530 8 2 Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand 4.02 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/602451.Stars_in_My_Pocket_Like_Grains_of_Sand 4 0 false Mon Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 1986 Sat May 26 14:01:28 -0700 2007 Sat May 26 14:04:07 -0700 2007 T...more...]]> 85861 0819567140 9780819567147 283 32 Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand 4.02 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171062756m/85861.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/85861.Stars_in_My_Pocket_Like_Grains_of_Sand 4 0 false Thu Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Thu Aug 02 11:39:04 -0700 2007 Thu Aug 02 11:40:59 -0700 2007 more...]]> 85861 0819567140 9780819567147 283 32 Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand 4.02 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171062756m/85861.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/85861.Stars_in_My_Pocket_Like_Grains_of_Sand 4 0 false Thu Jul 16 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 17 07:02:50 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 19 14:32:48 -0700 2009 more...]]> 85861 0819567140 9780819567147 283 32 Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand 4.02 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171062756m/85861.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/85861.Stars_in_My_Pocket_Like_Grains_of_Sand 5 0 false Sat Apr 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Mon Jan 07 23:28:52 -0800 2008 Mon Jan 07 23:31:20 -0800 2008 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=602451