Books by Samuel R. Delany
Born: 04/01/1942
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Samuel R. Delany Biography & Notes
Samuel Ray "Chip" Delany, Jr. (born April 1, 1942) is a Black American writer, academic, and literary critic.
Delany was born and raised in Harlem and attended the Bronx High School of Science. Delany and the poet Marilyn Hacker, who met in high school, were married for several years and have a daughter.
Delany spent 11 years teaching at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, a year and a half at the University at Buffalo, and moved to the English Department of Temple University in 2001.
He has written extensively in science fiction and fantasy genres. He is also the author of a number of fictional and autobiographical works that include references to extreme aspects of human sexuality. He has also published several books of literary criticism, with an emphasis on issues in science fiction and other paraliterary genres, comparative literature, and queer theory.
Delany was born and raised in Harlem and attended the Bronx High School of Science. Delany and the poet Marilyn Hacker, who met in high school, were married for several years and have a daughter.
Delany spent 11 years teaching at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, a year and a half at the University at Buffalo, and moved to the English Department of Temple University in 2001.
He has written extensively in science fiction and fantasy genres. He is also the author of a number of fictional and autobiographical works that include references to extreme aspects of human sexuality. He has also published several books of literary criticism, with an emphasis on issues in science fiction and other paraliterary genres, comparative literature, and queer theory.
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The American Shore by Samuel R. Delany ( 1978)
This 1979 Locus Award nominee is author Delany's analysis of works by fellow science fiction writer Thomas M. Disch.
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Aye, and Gomorrah Stories by Samuel R. Delany ( 2003)
An expanded edition of the classic anthology Driftglass, this collection of science fiction and fantasy tales by the master of speculative fiction includes the Nebula Award-winning title story, the Nebula and Hugo Award-winning "Time Considered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Stones," and thirteen other great works.
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Babel-17 Empire Star by Samuel R. Delany ( 2001)
Author of the bestselling Dhalgren and winner of four Nebulas and one Hugo, Samuel R. Delany is one of the most acclaimed writers of speculative fiction.
Babel-17, winner of the Nebula Award for best novel of the year, is a fascinating tale of a famous poet bent on deciphering a secret language that is the key to the enemy’s deadly force, a task that requires she travel with a splendidly improbable crew to the site of the next attack. For the first time, Babel-17 is published as the author intended with the short novel Empire Star, the tale of Comet Jo, a simple-minded teen thrust into a complex galaxy when he’s entrusted to carry a vital message to a distant world. Spellbinding and smart, both novels are testimony to Delany’s vast and singular talent. |
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The Ballad of Beta 2 by Samuel R. Delany ( 1977) |
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Black Gay Man Essays by Robert F. Reid-Pharr ( 2001) |
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Bread & Wine An Erotic Tale of New York by Samuel R. Delany, Mia Wolff ( 1999)
"Bread and Wine" is a sensitively drawn graphic novella about the beginning of a moving and lasting gay relationship, with all the complexities, fumblings, and excitement of the process of two people falling in love. Illustrations throughout.
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The Bridge of Lost Desire by Samuel R. Delany ( 1988) |
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Dark Reflections by Samuel R. Delany ( 2007)
Follows the life of a gay African-American poet from New York City's Lower East Side, in a tale told in reverse that follows his receipt of a literary prize in his fifties, his ill-fated marriage to an emotionally disturbed woman, and his first sexual experience in college. Original.
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Dhalgren by Samuel R. Delany ( 2001)
Journeying to the central United States city of Bellona, where all have fled save madmen and criminals, a poet and adventurer known only as the Kid wonders at the strange portents that appear in the city's cloud-covered sky.
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Distant Stars by Samuel R. Delany ( 1984) |
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The Einstein Intersection by Samuel R. Delany ( 1998)
The surface story tells of the problems a member of an alien race, Lo Lobey, has assimilating the mythology of earth, where his kind have settled among the leftover artifacts of humanity. The deeper tale concerns, however, the way those who are "different" must deal with the dominant cultural ideology. The tale follows Lobey's mythic quest for his lost love, Friza. In luminous and hallucinated language, it explores what new myths might emerge from the detritus of the human world as those who are "different" try to seize history and the day.
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Empire Star by Samuel R. Delany ( 1977) |
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En Ciron Vuelan by Samuel R. Delany ( 1999) |
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Equinox by Samuel R. Delany ( 1993) |
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The Fall of the Towers by Samuel R. Delany ( 2004)
Come and enter Samuel Delany’s tomorow, in this trilogy of high adventure, with acrobats and urchins, criminals and courtiers, fishermen and factory-workers, madmen and mind-readers, dwarves and ducheses, giants and geniuses, merchants and mathematicians, soldiers and scholars, pirates and poets, and a gallery of aliens who fly, crawl, burrow, or swim.
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Flight from Neveryon by Samuel R. Delany ( 1985)
This collection of tales captures the collision between the fantasy world of Neveryon and the realities of life in present-day New York City.
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Heavenly Breakfast, an Essay on the Winter of Love by Samuel R. Delany ( 1997)
A non-fiction account of author Delany's life in a commune in late-1960s New York. He details everything about this period of his life, from philosophical reasoning--justifications of communal life--to the practical necessity--how it is physically possible for 20 people to live in two rooms.
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Hogg by Samuel R. Delany ( 2004)
Narrated from the point of view of an unnamed 11-year-old boy, this novel explores the darkest recesses of the human psyche in graphically sexual and violent terms. The narrator is exposed to everything from incest and torture to racism and slavery when he falls in with a twisted Svengali (the title character) who controls a gang of young men who spend their days and nights raping and murdering. This book is not for the faint of heart.
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Home Is the Hangman/We, in Some Strange Power's Employ, Move on a Rigorous Line/2 Books in One by Samuel R. Delany, Zelazny ( 1990)
A robot space probe returns to Earth with malevolent intentions, and demons struggle for control of a small border community.
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Jewel Hinged Jaw Notes on the Language of Science Fiction by Samuel R. Delany ( 1977) |
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The Jewels of Aptor by Samuel R. Delany ( 1982)
The Priestess of Argo leads a poet, a three-legged thief, and a giant in an attempt to rescue her daughter and a group of magical jewels from barbaric island of Aptor.
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Longer Views Extended Essays by Samuel R. Delany ( 1996)
The science fiction writer gathers essays discussing such topics as linguistics, science fiction, and homosexuality.
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The Mad Man by Samuel R. Delany ( 2002)
Author Delany continues his exploration of the darkest sides of human sexuality in this extremely sexually explicit and violent work about a writer whose research begins to reveal more and more about himself, not to mention more than he ever wanted to know about his subject, a college professor.
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Masters of the Pit by Michael Moorcock ( 2008) |
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The Motion of Light in Water Sex and Science Fiction Writing in the East Village, 1957-1965 by Samuel R. Delany ( 1989)
An autobiographical work detailing Delany's life as a black, bisexual (and later gay) science fiction author in New York in the 1960s.
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The Motion of Light in Water Sex and Science Fiction Writing in the East Village 1960-1965 by Samuel R. Delany ( 1993)
An autobiographical work detailing Delany's life as a black, bisexual (and later gay) science fiction author in New York in the 1960s.
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Neveryona by Samuel R. Delany ( 1986)
The second book in author Delany's complex study of the mythology of an imaginary country on the brink of "civilization."
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Neveryona, or The Tale of Signs and Cities Some Informal Remarks Towards the Modular Calculus, Part Four by Samuel R. Delany ( 1993)
This full-length novel tells how Pryn, who can write in the largely pre-literate land, flees her mountain village to aid Gorgik's slave revolt.
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Nova by Samuel R. Delany ( 2002)
Delany's classic work of science fiction chronicles the intergalactic adventures of Mouse, an itinerant minstrel, and intrepid spaceship Captain Lorq Von Ray, as they set out to journey through the core of a recently imploded sun.
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Play of 19th and 20th Century Critical Fictions by Samuel R. Delany ( 1988) |
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Return to Neveryon by Samuel R. Delany ( 1994)
The fourth book in author Delany's complex study of the mythology of an imaginary country on the brink of "civilization." Contains five stories, two of which are reworkings of stories that appeared in previous volumes.
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Shorter Views Queer Thoughts & the Politics of the Paraliterary by Samuel R. Delany ( 2000)
This collection contains 25 works of non-fiction--primarily consisting of literary criticism originally published between 1987 and 1998--addresses topics as wide-ranging as s&m, American science fiction novels, decontructionist theory, and author Stephen Crane.
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Silent Interviews On Language, Race, Sex, Science Fiction, and Some Comics A Collection of Written Interviews by Samuel R. Delany ( 1994)
As the title suggests, this book was assembled from a series of written interviews with author Samuel R. Delany about language, race, sex, science fiction, and comics, Topics he has dealt with extensively in both his fiction and non-fiction work.
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So Long Been Dreaming Postcolonial Science Fiction & Fantasy by ( 2004) |
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Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand by Samuel R. Delany ( 1984)
Set against exotic landscapes and strange cultures, this saga concerns a great information war involving every world inhabited by humanity and two people whose relationship shakes civilization to its core.
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The Straits of Messina by Samuel R. Delany ( 1989) |
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Tales of Neveryon by Samuel R. Delany ( 1993)
This 1979 American Book Award nominee contains five interlocked stories that tell of the slave Gorgik in a long-ago land, and a masked swordswoman narrates an astonishing feminist creation myth.
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They Fly at Ciron by Samuel R. Delany ( 1995)
Young David Bathory returns to his ancestral home where he faces two choices, the first involving the immediate torments of hell, and the second, the acceptance of his birthright as the heir to the vampire throne in exchange for his immortal soul.
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Times Square Red, Times Square Blue by Samuel R. Delany ( 2001)
This book compiles two essays by science fiction author and social commentator Delany that dovetail his own past as a gay man and the history of Times Square as a "red light" district.
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The Towers of Toron by Samuel R. Delany ( 1968) |
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Triton by Samuel R. Delany ( 1983) |
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Video Spaces Eight Installations by Samuel R. Delany, Barbara London ( 1995)
Published to accompany a 1995 exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, the works presented in this provocative book are state-of-the-art video installations, each a separate and carefully delineated environment created through multimedia technologies. The eight installation described and illustrated were produced over the last three years by an accomplished international group of artists, whose subjects include space, time, love, and the human body. Author Barbara London provides a history of the explosive development of video art and its technologies and of the interaction of the new media with the traditional visual arts and with film, dance, and performance art.
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Wagner Artaud A Play of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Century by Samuel R. Delany ( 1988) |
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Wagner/Artaud A Play of 19th and 20th Century Critical Fictions by Samuel R. Delany ( 1988) |
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We Who Are About to by Joanna Russ ( 2005) |
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1984 Selected Letters by Samuel R. Delany ( 2000)
In between writing the letters collected in this volume, all but a handful from 1984, author Delany completed and published what is arguably his most important work during the 1980s, STARS IN MY POCKET LIKE GRAINS OF SAND, as well as making significant progress in his complex Neveryon series. In these letters, he explores those works, addresses numerous issues in his personal life, and witnesses the arrival of, and devastation caused by, the AIDS virus as it swept through Manhattan's gay scene.
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