@booklet {3499, title = {Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand}, year = {1984}, note = {

Rpt. New York: Bantam Books, 1990 with an \“Afterword\” by the author (376-85);\ Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2004\ with the \“Afterword\” (349-56) and a \“Foreword\” by Carl Freedman (xi-xiv). An extract\ was originally published under the same title in\ Beyond This Horizon: An Anthology of Science Fact and Science Fiction. Ed. Christopher Carrell (Sunderland, Eng.: Ceolfrith Arts, 1973), 71-75; and a more substantial part was published as \“from\ Stars in my pockets like grains of sand.\”\ TriQuarterly, no. 49 (Fall 1980): 131-61.\ 

}, month = {1984}, publisher = {Bantam Books}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Complex far future novel depicting various societies including eutopias and dystopias. The novel begins with a description of a dystopia from the point-of-view of a slave who remains a character throughout the novel. This was expected to be the first of two volumes, to be followed by\ The Splendor and Misery of Bodies, of Cities, which remains unpublished.\ An excerpt was published as \“From The Splendor and Misery of Bodies, of Cities.\” Review of Contemporary Fiction 16.3 (Fall 1996): 103-15; rpt. without the From in Out of the Ruins. Ed. Preston Grassman (London: Titan Books, 2021), 117-36. One of the characters, Vondramach Okk, appears in his \“Omegahelm.\” Distant Stars (New York: Bantam Books, 1981). Rpt. illus. John Coffey\ (New York: ibooks, 2004), 263-78; rpt. in his Driftglass/Starshards (London: Grafton, 1993), 312-26; and in his Aye and Gomorrah. Stories (New York: Vintage Books, 2003), 260-72

}, keywords = {African American author, Male author}, author = {Samuel R[ay] Delany (b. 1942)} } @booklet {9505, title = {{\textquotedblleft}The Star-Pit{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {Worlds of Tomorrow}, volume = {4.3 (22) }, year = {1967}, note = {

Rpt. in his Driftglass. Ten Tales of Speculative Fiction\ (New York: New American Library, 1971), 13-71. Book rpt. without the subtitle. New York: Gregg Press, 1977.\ Book Club edition (Garden City, NY: Nelson Doubleday, 1971), 1-61; in his Driftglass/Starshards (London: Grafton, 1993), 17-93; and in his Aye and Gomorrah. Stories (New York: Vintage Books, 2003), 91-101.

}, month = {February 1967}, pages = {7-57}, abstract = {

A very complex dystopia. Set in a future where, as the human race expanded into space, it came up against a psychological barrier that caused insanity in those who went further, except for a few who found to have psychological abnormalities that allow them to pass through. The story focuses of a man who feels excluded because he cannot pass through the barrier and deeply resents that fact. The story makes an explicit connection between white supremacy and those who can pass through the barrier, but at the end, such people are being created by manipulating them so as to develop the needed abnormality for the benefit of those in power. For a radio play first broadcast on WBAI (New York) in November 1967 and re-broadcast regularly for years, see Delany\’s \“Notes on The Star Pit.\” https://www.pseudopodium.org/repress/TheStarPit/SamuelRDelany-NotesOnTheStarPit.html

}, keywords = {African American author, Male author}, author = {Samuel R[ay] Delany (b. 1942)} }