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Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand

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20th May 2013

Price: £4.99

Arthur C. Clarke Award, 1987

Selected:  ebook / ISBN-13: 9780575119215

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The only survivor plucked from a world where life has been burned out from horizon to horizon, Rat Korga is a very unusual human. On his own world he was subjected to Radical Anxiety Termination-a synapse-jamming technique banned on many planets.

Now the officials of the Web must find a new world for him. Their first choice is the planet Velm: a world on which humans co-exist uneasily with the trisauian evelmi – and also the world of Marq Dyeth, for whom Korga is calculated to be the perfect erotic object, to about seven decimal places . . .