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Stars in my pocket like grains of sand, Samuel R. Delany

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Stars in my pocket like grains of sand

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Samuel R. Delany

In a universe where information flows freely, lack of knowledge can be cataclysmic 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. This is the book in which, a decade before the fact in 1984, Delany predicted the Internet. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Samuel R. Delany including rare images from his early career

Cover; Praise for the Writing of Samuel R. Delany; Title Page; Dedication; Contents; Writer''s Note; Prologue: A World Apart; Monologues: Visible and Invisible Persons Distributed in Space; One: From Nepiy to Free-Kantor; 1; 2; 3; Two: The Flower and the Web; 1; 2; 3; 4; 5; Three: Visitors on Velm; 1; 2; 3; 4; 5; 6; 7; Four: Rescue on Rhyonon; 1; 2; 3; Five: Rescue Continued; 1; 2; Six: Rescue Concluded; 1; 2; 3; Seven: Home and a Stranger; 1; 2; 3; 4; 5; Eight: Strangers and Visitors; 1; 2; 3; 4; 5; 6; Nine: From Breakfast to Morning; 1; 2; 3; 4; 5; Ten: A Dragon Hunt; 1; 2; 3Eleven: A Tale of Two Suppers1; 2; 3; 4; Twelve: Return to Dyethshome; 1; 2; 3; 4; 5; 6; Thirteen: Formalities; 1; 2; 3; Epilogue: Morning; A Biography of Samuel R. Delany; Copyright