of Cities. Book One is brilliant, uneven, insufferable, an important piece of SF." Reviews Review by Faren Miller (1984) in Locus, #284 September 1984 Review by Larry McCaffery (1984) in Fantasy Review, December 1984 Review by W. Paul Ganley (1984) in Fantasy Mongers, #12 Autumn 1984 Review [French] by Élisabeth Vonarburg? (1985) in Solaris, #59 Review by Don D'Ammassa (1985) in Science Fiction Chronicle, #64 January 1985 Review by Richard E. Geis (1985) in Science Fiction Review, Spring 1985 Review by Darrell Schweitzer (1985) in Science Fiction Review, Spring 1985 Review by Baird Searles (1985) in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, April 1985 Review by Thomas A. Easton [as by Tom Easton] (1985) in Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, April 1985 Review by Robert Coulson (1985) in Amazing Stories, May 1985 Review by Andy Sawyer (1986) in Paperback Inferno, #58 Review by Jim England (1986) in Vector 134 Review by M. H. Zool (1989) in Bloomsbury Good Reading Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy Review by Douglas Barbour [as by Doug Barbour] (1991) in SF Commentary, #69/70 Review by Jo Walton (2009) in What Makes This Book So Great, (2014) Review by Ciro Faienza (2009) in Reflection's Edge, August 2009 Popular culture The British musical group Opus III's first album, Mind Fruit, included the song "Stars in my Pocket", with lyrics referencing the novel. Referenced by Cam O'bi in the Noname song "Diddy Bop", from her Telefone mixtape. Hip-hop group Clipping's second album is a science fiction concept album titled Splendor & Misery, and the lyrics include the continuation, "of bodies, of cities". Editions Bantam, 1984, 368 pp., hardcover. Bantam Spectra, 1985, 368 pp., paperback. QPB/Bantam, 1985, 368 pp., paperback. no ISBN Grafton/Panther, 1986, 464 pp., paperback, Bantam Spectra, 1990, 385 pp., paperback, , adds a 10-page afterword on postmodernism Wesleyan University Press, 2004, 356 pp., paperback. , adds a foreword by Carl Freedman References 1984 American novels 1980s LGBT novels American science fiction novels Faster-than-light travel in fiction Psychosurgery in fiction Novels by Samuel Delany Novels with gay themes LGBT speculative fiction novels