In Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand by Samuel R. Delaney, Marq Dyeth is an industrial diplomat or trade facilitator. His profession involves the handling of interstellar and interspecies trading agreements. His home, planet Velm, is the planet home to six-legged creatures known as evelm, and also home to humans. The evelm and humans experience different reactions with each other in both the north and south areas of Velm. When Rat is sent to Velm, he is discovered by Marq. It soon becomes clear that these characters are the perfect erotic partners for eachother. Marq and Rat go on to have many sexual encounters. These encounters are shown through “sexual runs.” In the novel, there are various combinations of sexuality including hetero and homo sexual experiences.
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