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Delany">Samuel R. Delany</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Cover artist</th><td class="infobox-data">Royo</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Language</th><td class="infobox-data">English</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Genre</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Science_fiction" title="Science fiction">Science fiction</a> novel</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Publisher</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Bantam_Books" title="Bantam Books">Bantam Books</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Publication date</div></th><td class="infobox-data">1984</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Publication place</th><td class="infobox-data">United States</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Media type</th><td class="infobox-data">Print (hardback & paperback)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Pages</th><td class="infobox-data">368 pp</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-553-05053-0" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-553-05053-0">978-0-553-05053-0</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/OCLC_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="OCLC (identifier)"><abbr title="Online Computer Library Center number">OCLC</abbr></a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/11685942">11685942</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;"><a href="/wiki/Dewey_Decimal_Classification" title="Dewey Decimal Classification">Dewey Decimal</a></div></th><td class="infobox-data">813/.54 19</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/LCC_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="LCC (identifier)"><abbr title="Library of Congress Classification">LC Class</abbr></a></th><td class="infobox-data">PS3554.E437 S7 1984</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Followed by</th><td class="infobox-data"><i>The Splendor and Misery of Bodies, of Cities (unfinished) </i></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><i><b>Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand</b></i> (1984) is a <a href="/wiki/Science_fiction" title="Science fiction">science fiction</a> novel by <a href="/wiki/Samuel_R._Delany" title="Samuel R. Delany">Samuel R. Delany</a>. It is part of what would have been a "<a href="/wiki/Diptych" title="Diptych">diptych</a>", in Delany's description,<sup id="cite_ref-:1_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> of which the second half, <i>The Splendor and Misery of Bodies, of Cities</i>, remains unfinished. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Plot_summary">Plot summary</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Stars_in_My_Pocket_Like_Grains_of_Sand&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Plot summary"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Setting">Setting</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Stars_in_My_Pocket_Like_Grains_of_Sand&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Setting"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The novel takes place in a distant future in which diverse human societies have developed on some 6,000 planets. Many of these worlds are shared with intelligent nonhumans, although only one alien species (the mysterious Xlv) also possesses <a href="/wiki/Faster-than-light" title="Faster-than-light">faster-than-light</a> travel. In an attempt to find a stable defense against the phenomenon known as Cultural Fugue (a process where "socioeconomic pressures [reach] a point of technological recomplication and perturbation where the population completely destroys all life across the planetary surface"), many human worlds have aligned themselves with one of two broad factions: the Sygn, which promotes and celebrates social diversity, and the Family, which promotes adherence to an idealized norm of human relations modeled on the nuclear family. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Prologue:_A_World_Apart">Prologue: A World Apart</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Stars_in_My_Pocket_Like_Grains_of_Sand&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Prologue: A World Apart"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The novel opens with a prologue set on the planet Rhyonon. Korga, a tall, "ugly", misfit youth, undergoes the Radical Anxiety Termination, or RAT, procedure, a form of <a href="/wiki/Psychosurgery" title="Psychosurgery">psychosurgery</a>, after which he "will be a slave" "but [he] will be happy".<sup id="cite_ref-:1_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> From then on he will be known as Rat Korga. After he has lived under a number of masters, all life on the surface of Rat Korga's world is destroyed by a conflagration. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Monologues:_Visible_and_Invisible_Persons_Distributed_in_Space">Monologues: Visible and Invisible Persons Distributed in Space</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Stars_in_My_Pocket_Like_Grains_of_Sand&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Monologues: Visible and Invisible Persons Distributed in Space"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>It is left up to debate whether Rat's world was destroyed by "Cultural Fugue" or by the mysterious Xlv spacecraft who were present in the Rhyonon system when the disaster occurred. At the time of the disaster, Rat Korga was deep underground inside a refrigerated room, allowing him to survive (though badly injured), and making him the only known being to survive his world's destruction, and possibly Cultural Fugue. According to Reid-Pharr, Rat Korga represents the remnants of disaster.<sup id="cite_ref-:2_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:2-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Thus, he serves as a reminder of the possibility of Cultural Fugue and the destruction of a planet, which is part of what makes him so appealing to the inhabitants of Velm. </p><p>The action then moves to Velm, a Sygn-aligned world that humanity shares with its native three-sexed intelligent species, the evelm, and where sexual relationships take many forms — monogamous, promiscuous, anonymous, and interspecies. Resident Marq Dyeth, an "industrial diplomat" who helps manage the transfer of technology between different societies, is informed that Rat Korga is her perfect sexual match by an associate in the powerful and mysterious Web, an organization that manages information flows between worlds. Equipping him with a prosthesis (the rings of Vondramach Okk, a tyrant who once ruled ten planets and employed of one of Marq's ancestors) that restores the initiative he lost due to the RAT procedure, the Web sends Rat Korga to Velm under the pretext that he is a student, and he and Marq begin a romantic and sexual affair. </p><p>During their time together, Korga and Marq go dragon hunting, a process which initially Korga mistakes to involve catching and killing dragons. However, when he hits a dragon with his bow, Korga can see through the dragon's eyes and experience what the dragon is experiencing, prompting Rat to announce "I was a dragon!",<sup id="cite_ref-:1_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and the realisation that no dragons are going to be killed. As they return to the city of Morgre, in which Dyethsome, Marq's ancestral home presides, they notice a large gathering of people. They seek shelter from the crowd, who appear to be gathering to see Rat Korga, with acquaintances of Marq's friend Santine. One of the people they are with called JoBonnot informs them that Marq's sister Black Lars' planned "informal supper"<sup id="cite_ref-:1_1-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> has been cancelled. However, later Marq discovers that the gathering was not cancelled but changed to a "formal supper".<sup id="cite_ref-:1_1-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>They return to Dyethshome where they attend the dinner party which involves everyone participating in hand-feeding one another. The dinner is held in the honour of the Thants, a family from the ice planet Zetzor. The Thants are considering moving to Nepiy in order to become a "Focus Unit", through which they will act as representatives of the values held by The Family. The dinner soon becomes chaotic due to the disruptive presence of the Thants and the ever-growing group gathering outside to show their interest in Rat Korga. Marq overhears the Thants making derogatory comments toward the evelmi, and calling the people of the South of Velm "lizard-loving perverts".<sup id="cite_ref-:1_1-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Soon after, Rat Korga is forced to leave Velm and be permanently separated from Marq. According to Avilez, Rat represents the hidden secret of what happened to Rhyanon, a fact which has caused an upheaval of society and poses a threat to the Web.<sup id="cite_ref-:3_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:3-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Epilogue:_Morning">Epilogue: Morning</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Stars_in_My_Pocket_Like_Grains_of_Sand&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Epilogue: Morning"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Marq contemplates his loss of Rat Korga. She learns from Japril, a friend of hers in the Web who set up her initial meeting with Korga, that their "experiment didn't work" and that it was "too dangerous" to leave Korga on Velm, due to the threat of Cultural Fugue. The reader learns more about the nuances of Marq's sexual attraction and her desire for Korga. According to Avilez, Marq's desire for Korga disrupts the power held by the Web.<sup id="cite_ref-:3_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:3-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Major_themes">Major themes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Stars_in_My_Pocket_Like_Grains_of_Sand&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Major themes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Fractured_subjectivity">Fractured subjectivity</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Stars_in_My_Pocket_Like_Grains_of_Sand&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Fractured subjectivity"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Thomas Foster argues that <i>Stars in My Pocket</i> treats "fractured subjectivity" as a natural condition by representing "nonnormative racial, sexual, and familiar formations and practices" as normal within Marq's world.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Quoting directly from the novel, Foster claims that "[t]he utopian project of this novel resides in its attempt to imagine a future setting in which 'the 'fragmented subject' is at its healthiest, happiest, and most creative because society and economics contrive... to make questions of unity and centerness irrelevant'" <sup id="cite_ref-:0_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This theme of fractured identity is part of Delany's own postmodern critique of identity that treats social categories like race, sexuality, gender, and class as absolute and static. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Cleansing">Cleansing</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Stars_in_My_Pocket_Like_Grains_of_Sand&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Cleansing"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In his essay <i>Clean</i>, Robert F. Reid-Pharr argues that what Delany achieves in <i>Stars</i> "is a thematization of the complex ways the spectacle of gay male identity is established through a set of essentially ritualistic practices wherein the gay man is figured clean or more precisely cleansing."<sup id="cite_ref-:2_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:2-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The character of Korga, and his movement through RAT procedures into liberation and then to corporate slavery exemplifies this process in <i>Stars</i>, and Reid-Pharr also suggests a connection in this method of identity construction between the gay male subject and the subject position of the African-American slave. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Gender_and_Sexuality">Gender and Sexuality</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Stars_in_My_Pocket_Like_Grains_of_Sand&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Gender and Sexuality"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Dr. <a href="/w/index.php?title=Paivi_V%C3%A4%C3%A4t%C3%A4nen&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Paivi Väätänen (page does not exist)">Paivi Väätänen</a> argues that Delany changes the logic of gender, sexuality, and language, confusing the reader, but perpetuating a liberal rejection of heteronormativity.<sup id="cite_ref-:4_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:4-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Sexual identity is extremely liberal in Morgre due to the South of Velm's political alignment with the Sygn. Although, homosexuality is not overly prevalent, it is accepted, normalised, and spoken about freely amongst the people there. Marq discusses how in the city in Morgre there are “more varied kinds of sex”<sup id="cite_ref-:1_1-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> than on the outskirts. In Morgre, every person, including evelmi, is labelled a woman and the use of the pronouns ‘she/her’ are most common. For those of whom one finds to be sexually desirable, one uses the pronouns ‘he/him’. When Korga remarks that on Rhyanon, people spoke of both women and men, Marq replies, 'I know the word "man"...It's an archaic term. Sometimes you'll read over it in some old piece or other.'<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, humans are referred to as male or female, depending on their sex organs, even though most of the time, the reader is left without an explanation of whether a human is male or female. The reader is told that evelmi can be male, female or neuter (all of which can become pregnant)<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> but particular evelmi are never identified as such. This sexual and gender ambiguity and fluidity deconstructs binary structures of identity.<sup id="cite_ref-:4_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:4-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On Rhyanon, not only were sexual relationships between two men illegal until age twenty seven, but it was illegal at all times for a short person (like Marq) and a tall person (like Korga) to have sexual contact with one another. Slavery and radical regulations of sexual proclivity are two examples of the extremely conservative nature of Rhyanon. According to Väätänen, because these laws are largely left unexplained, the reader is forced to think about real laws which regulate sexuality, in our society.<sup id="cite_ref-:4_6-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:4-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Genre_of_science_fiction">Genre of science fiction</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Stars_in_My_Pocket_Like_Grains_of_Sand&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Genre of science fiction"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><i>Stars in My Pocket like Grains of Sand</i> is about the distant future but the ideas that Delany writes about are reflections of the contemporary world. Delany himself has said, "Science fiction is not ‘about the future.’ Science fiction <i>is in dialogue with the present</i>…[the science fiction writer] indulge[s] in a significant distortion of the present that sets up a rich and complex dialogue with the reader’s here and now."<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> While <i>Stars in My Pocket like Grains of Sand</i> provides an alternative and unconventional relationship between humanity and the natural world, Delany reminds the reader to be critical about the extent in which the social distortions in the novel are actually “distant” from the current social order. As a result, <i>Stars in My Pocket like Grains of Sand</i> critiques and disrupts contemporary understandings of the world. These ruptures occur in from Delany’s use of third-person gender pronouns, to the redefinition of family and kinship, to the concept of technicity (technologically driven modes of social differentiation and belonging).<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> By forcing the reader to constantly go through these breaks and fissures in their social understandings, Delany reveals "the arbitrariness of these signifiers, their contingency and openness to recontextualization…as they move across worlds, literally and figuratively."<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Connections_to_Delany's_other_work"><span id="Connections_to_Delany.27s_other_work"></span>Connections to Delany's other work</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Stars_in_My_Pocket_Like_Grains_of_Sand&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Connections to Delany's other work"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1251242444"><table class="box-Original_research plainlinks metadata ambox ambox-content ambox-Original_research" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><div class="mbox-image-div"><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/b4/Ambox_important.svg/40px-Ambox_important.svg.png" decoding="async" width="40" height="40" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/b4/Ambox_important.svg/60px-Ambox_important.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/b4/Ambox_important.svg/80px-Ambox_important.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="40" data-file-height="40" /></span></span></div></td><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">This section <b>possibly contains <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:No_original_research" title="Wikipedia:No original research">original research</a></b>.<span class="hide-when-compact"> Please <a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Stars_in_My_Pocket_Like_Grains_of_Sand&action=edit">improve it</a> by <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">verifying</a> the claims made and adding <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources#Inline_citations" title="Wikipedia:Citing sources">inline citations</a>. Statements consisting only of original research should be removed.</span> <span class="date-container"><i>(<span class="date">September 2009</span>)</i></span><span class="hide-when-compact"><i> (<small><a href="/wiki/Help:Maintenance_template_removal" title="Help:Maintenance template removal">Learn how and when to remove this message</a></small>)</i></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><i>Stars</i> has a number of plot elements that are similar to certain elements in <i><a href="/wiki/Triton_(novel)" title="Triton (novel)">Triton</a></i>. Most notable is the presence in both novels of the <i>General Information</i> service, although it is more sophisticated in <i>Stars</i> (one need merely think a question for GI to place the knowledge in one's mind, as opposed to <i>Triton's</i> GI which takes questions on machines similar to modern computers). Both novels also feature aboveground and institutionalized versions of gay male <a href="/wiki/Cruising_for_sex" title="Cruising for sex">cruising</a> spaces, although open to all genders and sexual preferences; in <i>Triton</i> the protagonist visits such a space in the form of an indoor club, while in <i>Stars</i> the protagonists visit one of their city's many parklike <i>runs</i> set aside for that purpose. Finally, the Family/Sygn conflict in <i>Stars</i> is similar to the conflict between the social systems of Earth and the Outer Satellites in <i>Triton</i>; a "Sygn" is present in Triton, but is a minor religious cult mentioned very briefly. </p><p>Delany's short story "Omegahelm" (found in <i><a href="/wiki/Aye,_and_Gomorrah,_and_other_stories" class="mw-redirect" title="Aye, and Gomorrah, and other stories">Aye, and Gomorrah, and other stories</a></i>) is set in the same universe as <i>Stars</i>; it concerns Vondramach Okk (see above) and her one attempt to have a child.<sup id="cite_ref-:5_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:5-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Times_Square_Red,_Times_Square_Blue" title="Times Square Red, Times Square Blue">Times Square Red, Times Square Blue</a>, two nonfiction essays written by Delany, also include descriptions of cross-class, cross-ethnic, non-monogamous sexual encounters similar to those explored by Marq and Korga in the <i>Stars.</i> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="The_Splendor_and_Misery_of_Bodies,_of_Cities"><span id="The_Splendor_and_Misery_of_Bodies.2C_of_Cities"></span><i>The Splendor and Misery of Bodies, of Cities</i></h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Stars_in_My_Pocket_Like_Grains_of_Sand&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: The Splendor and Misery of Bodies, of Cities"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>All editions of <i>Stars</i> contain an author's note stating that it is the first half of a diptych, the second half of which is the novel <i>The Splendor and Misery of Bodies, of Cities.</i> Delany took this title from the translator's foreword to Richard Howard's translation of <a href="/wiki/Charles_Baudelaire" title="Charles Baudelaire">Baudelaire's</a> <i><a href="/wiki/Les_Fleurs_du_Mal" class="mw-redirect" title="Les Fleurs du Mal">Les Fleurs du Mal</a>.</i> An excerpt from <i>Splendor</i> was printed in the <i>Review of Contemporary Fiction</i> in September, 1996.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In a 2001 interview,<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Delany gave this brief summary: </p> <blockquote><p>"The book was conceived of as a city novel. For the bulk of it, the main characters, Rat and Marq, try to make their home in a city on the other side of the planet Velm from the one Marq was born and raised in. Then they have to journey back to Dyethshome, in an educational trip across Marq's world. In the course of it, a number of things that once looked pretty fair in volume one turn out not to be so pleasant in volume two."</p></blockquote> <p><i>Splendor</i> is unfinished, and is unlikely to ever be finished. Delany has stated two reasons for this in various writings and public appearances. First, much of the creative impetus for <i>Stars</i> came from his relationship with his then-partner, Frank Romeo (to whom the novel is dedicated); this relationship ended soon after the novel was published, removing much of Delany's creative energy related to the project. Second, the novel was published just as <a href="/wiki/AIDS" class="mw-redirect" title="AIDS">AIDS</a> was becoming an epidemic in the gay culture Delany was immersed in, changing it in a way that shifted Delany's writing priorities.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In fact, <i>Stars</i> was the last of Delany's major science fiction projects until 2012's <i><a href="/wiki/Through_the_Valley_of_the_Nest_of_Spiders" title="Through the Valley of the Nest of Spiders">Through the Valley of the Nest of Spiders</a></i>. As seen in <i>1984: Selected Letters,</i> at the time <i>Stars</i> was published his relationship with his publisher, Bantam, underwent a major rupture, with Bantam declining to print the final volume of the <a href="/wiki/Return_to_Nev%C3%A8r%C3%BFon_(series)" title="Return to Nevèrÿon (series)">Return to Nevèrÿon</a> series, <i><a href="/wiki/Return_to_Nev%C3%A8r%C3%BFon" title="Return to Nevèrÿon">Return to Nevèrÿon</a></i> (eventually published by Arbor House as <i>The Bridge of Lost Desire</i>). Delany's works largely went out of print in the immediately following years, and he turned to academia for his living, taking up the first of his professorial posts in 1988, at the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Massachusetts_Amherst" title="University of Massachusetts Amherst">University of Massachusetts Amherst</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Reception">Reception</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Stars_in_My_Pocket_Like_Grains_of_Sand&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Reception"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/David_Langford" title="David Langford">Dave Langford</a> reviewed <i>Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand</i> for <i><a href="/wiki/White_Dwarf_(magazine)" title="White Dwarf (magazine)">White Dwarf</a></i> #81, and stated that "Neither mystery nor romance is resolved, all that being kept for Book Two – fearfully titled <i>The Splendour and Misery of Bodies, of Cities</i>. Book One is brilliant, uneven, insufferable, an important piece of SF."<sup id="cite_ref-WD81_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WD81-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Carl Freedman referred to it as being "one of the most assured masterworks of modern American fiction."<sup id="cite_ref-:5_12-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:5-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Reviews">Reviews</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Stars_in_My_Pocket_Like_Grains_of_Sand&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Reviews"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Review by Faren Miller (1984) in <i><a href="/wiki/Locus_(magazine)" title="Locus (magazine)">Locus</a></i>, #284 September 1984<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Review by Larry McCaffery (1984) in <i><a href="/wiki/Fantasy_Review" class="mw-redirect" title="Fantasy Review">Fantasy Review</a></i>, December 1984</li> <li>Review by W. Paul Ganley (1984) in <i>Fantasy Mongers</i>, #12 Autumn 1984</li> <li>Review [French] by Élisabeth Vonarburg? (1985) in <i><a href="/wiki/Solaris_(magazine)" title="Solaris (magazine)">Solaris</a></i>, #59</li> <li>Review by Don D'Ammassa (1985) in <i><a href="/wiki/Science_Fiction_Chronicle" class="mw-redirect" title="Science Fiction Chronicle">Science Fiction Chronicle</a></i>, #64 January 1985</li> <li>Review by Richard E. Geis (1985) in <i><a href="/wiki/Science_Fiction_Review" class="mw-redirect" title="Science Fiction Review">Science Fiction Review</a></i>, Spring 1985</li> <li>Review by Darrell Schweitzer (1985) in <i><a href="/wiki/Science_Fiction_Review" class="mw-redirect" title="Science Fiction Review">Science Fiction Review</a></i>, Spring 1985</li> <li>Review by Baird Searles (1985) in <i><a href="/wiki/Isaac_Asimov%27s_Science_Fiction_Magazine" class="mw-redirect" title="Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine">Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine</a></i>, April 1985</li> <li>Review by Thomas A. Easton [as by Tom Easton] (1985) in <i><a href="/wiki/Analog_Science_Fiction/Science_Fact" class="mw-redirect" title="Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact">Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact</a></i>, April 1985</li> <li>Review by Robert Coulson (1985) in <i><a href="/wiki/Amazing_Stories" title="Amazing Stories">Amazing Stories</a></i>, May 1985</li> <li>Review by Andy Sawyer (1986) in <i>Paperback Inferno</i>, #58</li> <li>Review by Jim England (1986) in <i><a href="/wiki/Vector_(magazine)" class="mw-redirect" title="Vector (magazine)">Vector</a></i> 134</li> <li>Review by M. H. Zool (1989) in <i>Bloomsbury Good Reading Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy</i></li> <li>Review by Douglas Barbour [as by Doug Barbour] (1991) in <i>SF Commentary</i>, #69/70</li> <li>Review by Jo Walton (2009) in <i>What Makes This Book So Great</i>, (2014)</li> <li>Review by Ciro Faienza (2009) in <i>Reflection's Edge</i>, August 2009</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Popular_culture">Popular culture</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Stars_in_My_Pocket_Like_Grains_of_Sand&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Popular culture"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>The British musical group <a href="/wiki/Opus_III_(band)" title="Opus III (band)">Opus III</a>'s first album, <i><a href="/wiki/Mind_Fruit" title="Mind Fruit">Mind Fruit</a></i>, included the song "Stars in my Pocket", with lyrics referencing the novel.</li> <li>Referenced by Cam O'bi in the <a href="/wiki/Noname_(rapper)" title="Noname (rapper)">Noname</a> song "Diddy Bop", from her <i><a href="/wiki/Telefone_(mixtape)" title="Telefone (mixtape)">Telefone</a></i> mixtape.</li> <li>Hip-hop group <a href="/wiki/Clipping_(band)" title="Clipping (band)">Clipping</a>'s second album is a science fiction <a href="/wiki/Concept_album" title="Concept album">concept album</a> titled <i><a href="/wiki/Splendor_%26_Misery" title="Splendor & Misery">Splendor & Misery</a></i>, and the lyrics include the continuation, "of bodies, of cities".</li></ul> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Delany_SIMPLGOS.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/16/Delany_SIMPLGOS.jpg/220px-Delany_SIMPLGOS.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="340" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/16/Delany_SIMPLGOS.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="254" data-file-height="392" /></a><figcaption>cover of the Wesleyan University Press paperback reprint edition</figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Editions">Editions</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Stars_in_My_Pocket_Like_Grains_of_Sand&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Editions"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Bantam, 1984, 368 pp., hardcover. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-553-05053-0" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-553-05053-0">978-0-553-05053-0</a></li> <li>Bantam Spectra, 1985, 368 pp., paperback. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-553-25149-4" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-553-25149-4">978-0-553-25149-4</a></li> <li>QPB/Bantam, 1985, 368 pp., paperback. no ISBN</li> <li>Grafton/Panther, 1986, 464 pp., paperback, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-586-06749-9" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-586-06749-9">978-0-586-06749-9</a></li> <li>Bantam Spectra, 1990, 385 pp., paperback, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-553-25149-4" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-553-25149-4">978-0-553-25149-4</a>, adds a 10-page afterword on postmodernism</li> <li>Wesleyan University Press, 2004, 356 pp., paperback. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-8195-6714-7" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-8195-6714-7">978-0-8195-6714-7</a>, adds a foreword by <a href="/wiki/Carl_Freedman_(writer)" title="Carl Freedman (writer)">Carl Freedman</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Stars_in_My_Pocket_Like_Grains_of_Sand&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist 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London. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-00-835211-0" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-00-835211-0"><bdi>978-0-00-835211-0</bdi></a>. <a href="/wiki/OCLC_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="OCLC (identifier)">OCLC</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.worldcat.org/oclc/1085966012">1085966012</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Stars+in+my+pocket+like+grains+of+sand&rft.place=London&rft.date=2019&rft_id=info%3Aoclcnum%2F1085966012&rft.isbn=978-0-00-835211-0&rft.aulast=Delany&rft.aufirst=Samuel+R.&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.worldcat.org%2Foclc%2F1085966012&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AStars+in+My+Pocket+Like+Grains+of+Sand" class="Z3988"></span><span class="cs1-maint citation-comment"><code class="cs1-code">{{<a href="/wiki/Template:Cite_book" title="Template:Cite book">cite book</a>}}</code>: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (<a href="/wiki/Category:CS1_maint:_location_missing_publisher" title="Category:CS1 maint: location missing publisher">link</a>)</span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-:2-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-:2_2-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-:2_2-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Reid-Pharr, Robert F. "Clean: Death and Desire in Samuel R. Delany's Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand", <i>American Literature</i>, Volume 83, Number 2, June 2011. Duke University Press.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-:3-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-:3_3-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-:3_3-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFAvilez2011" class="citation journal cs1">Avilez, GerShun (2011). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://muse.jhu.edu/content/crossref/journals/callaloo/v034/34.1.avilez.html">"Cartographies of Desire: Mapping Queer Space in the Fiction of Samuel Delany and Darieck Scott"</a>. <i>Callaloo</i>. <b>34</b> (1): 126–142. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1353%2Fcal.2011.0017">10.1353/cal.2011.0017</a>. <a href="/wiki/ISSN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISSN (identifier)">ISSN</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.worldcat.org/issn/1080-6512">1080-6512</a>. <a href="/wiki/S2CID_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="S2CID (identifier)">S2CID</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:145260788">145260788</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Callaloo&rft.atitle=Cartographies+of+Desire%3A+Mapping+Queer+Space+in+the+Fiction+of+Samuel+Delany+and+Darieck+Scott&rft.volume=34&rft.issue=1&rft.pages=126-142&rft.date=2011&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.semanticscholar.org%2FCorpusID%3A145260788%23id-name%3DS2CID&rft.issn=1080-6512&rft_id=info%3Adoi%2F10.1353%2Fcal.2011.0017&rft.aulast=Avilez&rft.aufirst=GerShun&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fmuse.jhu.edu%2Fcontent%2Fcrossref%2Fjournals%2Fcallaloo%2Fv034%2F34.1.avilez.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AStars+in+My+Pocket+Like+Grains+of+Sand" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-:0-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-:0_4-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-:0_4-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFFoster2015" class="citation journal cs1">Foster, Thomas (2015-10-07). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/594978">"<span class="cs1-kern-left"></span>"Innocent by Contamination": Ethnicity and Technicity in Delany's Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand"</a>. <i>African American Review</i>. <b>48</b> (3): 239–256. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1353%2Fafa.2015.0033">10.1353/afa.2015.0033</a>. <a href="/wiki/ISSN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISSN (identifier)">ISSN</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.worldcat.org/issn/1945-6182">1945-6182</a>. <a href="/wiki/S2CID_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="S2CID (identifier)">S2CID</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:146563067">146563067</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=African+American+Review&rft.atitle=%22Innocent+by+Contamination%22%3A+Ethnicity+and+Technicity+in+Delany%27s+Stars+in+My+Pocket+Like+Grains+of+Sand&rft.volume=48&rft.issue=3&rft.pages=239-256&rft.date=2015-10-07&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.semanticscholar.org%2FCorpusID%3A146563067%23id-name%3DS2CID&rft.issn=1945-6182&rft_id=info%3Adoi%2F10.1353%2Fafa.2015.0033&rft.aulast=Foster&rft.aufirst=Thomas&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fmuse.jhu.edu%2Farticle%2F594978&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AStars+in+My+Pocket+Like+Grains+of+Sand" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-5">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFDelanyFreedman2004" class="citation book cs1">Delany, Samuel R.; <a href="/wiki/Carl_Freedman_(writer)" title="Carl Freedman (writer)">Freedman, Carl</a> (2004-12-15). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/starsinmypocketl00dela_0"><i>Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand</i></a> (20th ed.). Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780819567147" title="Special:BookSources/9780819567147"><bdi>9780819567147</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Stars+in+My+Pocket+Like+Grains+of+Sand&rft.place=Middletown%2C+Conn.&rft.edition=20th&rft.pub=Wesleyan&rft.date=2004-12-15&rft.isbn=9780819567147&rft.aulast=Delany&rft.aufirst=Samuel+R.&rft.au=Freedman%2C+Carl&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fstarsinmypocketl00dela_0&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AStars+in+My+Pocket+Like+Grains+of+Sand" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-:4-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-:4_6-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-:4_6-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-:4_6-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFVaatanen2014" class="citation journal cs1">Vaatanen, Paivi (2014). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://journal.finfar.org/articles/opposing-forces-and-ethical-judgments-in-samuel-delanys-stars-in-my-pocket-like-grains-of-sand/">"Opposing Forces and Ethical Judgements in Samuel Delaney's "Stars in my Pocket Like Grains of Sand"</a>. <i>Fafnir</i>: 7–18.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Fafnir&rft.atitle=Opposing+Forces+and+Ethical+Judgements+in+Samuel+Delaney%27s+%22Stars+in+my+Pocket+Like+Grains+of+Sand&rft.pages=7-18&rft.date=2014&rft.aulast=Vaatanen&rft.aufirst=Paivi&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fjournal.finfar.org%2Farticles%2Fopposing-forces-and-ethical-judgments-in-samuel-delanys-stars-in-my-pocket-like-grains-of-sand%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AStars+in+My+Pocket+Like+Grains+of+Sand" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-7">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFDelany1984" class="citation book cs1">Delany, Samuel R. 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Delany</i>, ed. <a href="/wiki/Carl_Freedman_(writer)" title="Carl Freedman (writer)">Carl Freedman</a>, University Press of Mississippi, 2009.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-15"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-15">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://io9.com/5295779/samuel-delany-answers-your-science-fiction-questions">"Samuel Delany Answers Your Science Fiction Questions!"</a>, question by Djehuty.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-WD81-16"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-WD81_16-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFLangford1986" class="citation magazine cs1"><a href="/wiki/David_Langford" title="David Langford">Langford, Dave</a> (September 1986). "Critical Mass". <i><a href="/wiki/White_Dwarf_(magazine)" title="White Dwarf (magazine)">White Dwarf</a></i>. 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(1968)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Equinox_(novel)" title="Equinox (novel)">Equinox</a></i> (1973)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Dhalgren" title="Dhalgren">Dhalgren</a></i> (1975)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Triton_(novel)" title="Triton (novel)">Trouble on Triton</a></i> (1976)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand</a></i> (1984)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/They_Fly_at_%C3%87iron" title="They Fly at Çiron">They Fly at Çiron</a></i> (1993)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/The_Mad_Man" title="The Mad Man">The Mad Man</a></i> (1994)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Hogg_(novel)" title="Hogg (novel)">Hogg</a></i> (1995)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Phallos_(novella)" title="Phallos (novella)">Phallos</a></i> (2004)</span></li> <li><span 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