Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand
10 best books like Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand (Samuel R. Delany): Ambiguity Machines and Other Stories, The Gone-Away World, China Mountain Zhang, The Female Man, Her Smoke Rose Up Forever, Air, Waiting on a Bright Moon, Tender, Tuva or Bust!: Richard Feynman's Last Journey, Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice
Ambiguity Machines and Other Stories
| Author | Vandana Singh |
| ISBN | 1618731432 |
I recently had something of a revelation about myself that's going to sound silly, but which has reframed the way I think about books and other media I consume: I don't actually care that much about plot.
I care about ideas. I care about characters. I care about theme and atmosphere. I care about...
| Author | Nick Harkaway |
| ISBN | 0434018422 |
DAG. Nick Harkaway is well into his third pint and his eleventh story when he looks around and realizes he's got half the bar hanging on his every word, and THAT's when he leans back a little, stretches his legs, and gives you a three-page backstory on a minor idiot whose chief role in the book is getting punched...
| Author | Maureen F. McHugh |
| ISBN | 0312860986 |
With this groundbreaking novel, Maureen F. McHugh established herself as one of the decade's best science fiction writers. In its pages, we enter a post-revolution America, moving from the hyper-urbanized eastern seaboard to the Arctic bleakness of Baffin Island; from the new Imperial City to an...
| Author | Joanna Russ |
| ISBN | 0807063134 |
I've seen people argue, both here and elsewhere, that this book is outdated and no longer topical.
I'm really confused what rose-colored glasses they're wearing, because as far as I can tell, the majority of this book is still far too true. I've been in these places far, far too often to write...
| Author | James Tiptree Jr. |
| ISBN | 1892391201 |
These 18 darkly complex short stories and novellas touch upon human nature and perception, metaphysics and epistemology, and gender and sexuality, foreshadowing a world in which biological tendencies bring about the downfall of humankind. Revisions from the author's notes are included, allowing...
| Author | Geoff Ryman |
| ISBN | 0312261217 |
Chung Mae is the only connection her small farming village has to culture of a wider world beyond the fields and simple houses of her village. A new communications technology is sweeping the world and promises to connect everyone, everywhere without power lines, computers, or machines. This technology...
Xin is an ansible, using her song magic to connect the originworld of the Imperial Authority and its far-flung colonies— a role that is forced upon magically-gifted women “of a certain closeness”. When a dead body comes through her portal at a time of growing rebellion, Xin is drawn deep into a...
| Author | Sofia Samatar |
| ISBN | 1618731262 |
This is a beautiful, original, often surprising, and yes, tender, short story collection by a fantastic author. Samatar’s novels are lovely, but I think she may excel even more in the short story format, which combines her exquisite writing with compressed plots that necessarily move briskly....
Tuva or Bust!: Richard Feynman's Last Journey
| Author | Ralph Leighton |
| ISBN | 0393320693 |
In 1977, Feynman and his sidekick— fellow drummer and geography enthusiast Ralph Leighton—set out to make arrangements to visit Tuva, doing noble and hilarious battle with Soviet red tape, befriending quite a few Tuvans, and discovering the wonders of Tuvan throat-singing. Their Byzantine...
Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice
| Author | Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha |
| ISBN | 1551527383 |
In this collection of essays, Lambda Literary Award-winning writer and longtime activist and performance artist Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha explores the politics and realities of disability justice, a movement that centers the lives and leadership of sick and disabled queer, trans, Black,...
| Author | Chen Qiufan |
| ISBN | 0765389312 |
Mimi is a 'waste girl', a member of the lowest caste on Silicon Isle.
Located off China's southeastern coast, Silicon Isle is the global capital for electronic waste recycling, where thousands like Mimi toil day and night, hoping one day they too will enjoy the wealth they’ve created for...
