Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand

from gefox

I had long wanted to read this famous book - a space fantasy far from my usual choices of fiction reading; it's good to break routine once in a while, as industrial diplomat and star traveler Marq Hyeth (the narrator of most of this book) might say. And it was not at all what I expected. Which is...

from JenneB

I'm not going to say that I totally understood this book, but once I stopped trying to, I really enjoyed it a lot.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 totally destro...

from raizel

Very clever: default term for people is 'women' and the related pronouns are feminine, subscripts for certain terms like 'job', creatures with multiple tongues say multiple things at the same time; but some ideas are too clever for me to understand, and I just wanted to get to the end of the book...

from ocgreg34

In the very distant future, the government of the planet Rhyonon is gently persuading the uneducated and slow-witted Korga to undergo Radical Anxiety Treatment (RAT) in order to purge him of his tendencies toward lawlessness and, subtly, homosexuality. The procedure is over in the blink of an eye...

from anderlawlor

This is one of my favorite of Samuel R. Delany's mighty ouevre, but it's not for everyone. You have to like science fiction and dirty queer sex, and you have to want to read in extreme detail about the social organization of other worlds.