![]() The novel opens with a prologue set on the planet Rhyonon. In an attempt to find a stable defense against the phenomenon known as Cultural Fugue (a process where "socioeconomic pressures a point of technological recomplication and perturbation where the population completely destroys all life across the planetary surface"), many human worlds have aligned themselves with one of two broad factions: the Sygn, which promotes and celebrates social diversity, and the Family, which promotes adherence to an idealized norm of human relations modeled on the nuclear family. Many of these worlds are shared with intelligent nonhumans, although only one alien species (the mysterious Xlv) also possesses faster-than-light travel. The novel takes place in a distant future in which diverse human societies have developed on some 6,000 planets. It is part of what would have been a " diptych", in Delany's description, of which the second half, The Splendor and Misery of Bodies, of Cities, remains unfinished. Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand (1984) is a science fiction novel by Samuel R. The Splendor and Misery of Bodies, of Cities (unfinished) ![]()
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