The story of a really galactic civilization with over 6,000 inhabited worlds.

Stars in My Pocket like Grains of Fine sand is a technology fiction masterpiece, an essay on the inexplicability of sexual appeal, and an examination of interstellar politics among far-flung worlds. First released in 1984, the novel’s central issues-technology, globalization, gender, sexuality, and multiculturalism-have just become more pressing with the duration of time.

The novel’s topic is information itself: What are the repercussions, once it has been produced public, that two individuals have been found to become each other’s perfect erotic object out to ‘point nine-nine-nine and many nines percent more?’ Exactly what will it perform to the people involved, to the city they inhabit, to their geosector, to their entire world culture, particularly when one is an illiterate worker, the only real survivor of a world destroyed by ‘social fugue,’ and the other is-you!