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- Dhalgren (2001)
- The Motion Of Light In Water: Sex And Science Fiction Writing In The East Village (2004)
- Times Square Red, Times Square Blue (1999)
- Babel-17 / Empire Star (2002)
- About Writing: Seven Essays, Four Letters, & Five Interviews (2006)
- Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand (2004)
- Hogg: A Novel (2004)
- Aye, and Gomorrah: And Other Stories (2003)
- Nova (2002)
- The Einstein Intersection (1998)
- Through the Valley of the Nest of Spiders: An Improbable Community (Volume II) (2019)
- Through the Valley of the Nest of Spiders: An Improbable Community (Volume I) (2019)
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Dhalgren (2001)
In , perhaps one of the most profound and bestselling science fiction novels of all time, Samuel R. Delany has produced a novel "to stand with the best American fiction of the 1970s" (Jonathan Lethem).Bellona is a city at the dead center of the United States. Something has happened there…. The population has fled. Madmen and criminals wander the streets. Strange portents appear in the cloud-covered sky.
The Motion Of Light In Water: Sex And Science Fiction Writing In The East Village (2004)
“A very moving, intensely fascinating literary biography from an extraordinary writer. Thoroughly admirable candor and luminous stylistic precision; the artist as a young man and a memorable picture of an age.” -William Gibson”Absolutely central to any consideration of black manhood. . . .
Times Square Red, Times Square Blue (1999)
If one street in America can claim to be the most infamous, it is surely 42nd Street. Between Seventh and Eighth Avenues, 42nd Street was once known for its peep shows, street corner hustlers and movie houses. Over the last two decades the notion of safety-from safe sex and safe neighborhoods, to safe cities and safe relationships-has overcome 42nd Street, giving rise to a Disney store, a children’s theater, and large, neon-lit cafes.
Babel-17 / Empire Star (2002)
Author of the bestselling and winner of four Nebulas and one Hugo, Samuel R. Delany is one of the most acclaimed writers of speculative fiction. , 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.
About Writing: Seven Essays, Four Letters, & Five Interviews (2006)
Award-winning novelist Samuel R. Delany has written a book for creative writers to place alongside E. M. Forster’s Aspects of the Novel and Lajos Egri’s Art of Dramatic Writing. Taking up specifics (When do flashbacks work, and when should you avoid them? How do you make characters both vivid and sympathetic?) and generalities (How are novels structured?
Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand (2004)
Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand is a science fiction masterpiece, an essay on the inexplicability of sexual attractiveness, and an examination of interstellar politics among far-flung worlds.
Hogg: A Novel (2004)
Acclaimed winner of the William Whitehead Memorial Award for a lifetime’s contribution to gay and lesbian literature, Samuel R. Delany wrote Hogg three decades ago. Since then it has been one of America’s most famous ‘unpublishable’ novels. The subject matter of Hogg is our culture of sexual violence and degeneration. Delany explores his disturbing protagonist Hogg on his own turf–rape, pederasty, sexual excess–exposing an area of violence and sexual abuse from the inside.
Aye, and Gomorrah: And Other Stories (2003)
A father must come to terms with his son’s death in the war. In Venice an architecture student commits a crime of passion. A white southern airport loader tries to do a favor for a black northern child. The ordinary stuff of ordinary fiction–but with a difference! These tales take place twenty-five, fifty, a hundred-fifty years from now, when men and women have been given gills to labor under the sea.
Nova (2002)
Given that the suns of Draco stretch almost sixteen light years from end to end, it stands to reason that the cost of transportation is the most important factor of the 32nd century. And since Illyrion is the element most needed for space travel, Lorq von Ray is plenty willing to fly through the core of a recently imploded sun in order to obtain seven tons of it.
The Einstein Intersection (1998)
The Einstein Intersection won the Nebula Award for best science fiction novel of 1967. 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.
Through the Valley of the Nest of Spiders: An Improbable Community (Volume II) (2019)
“Samuel R. Delany is not only one of the most profound and courageous writers at work today; he is a writer of seemingly limitless range.”––Michael Cunningham, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of THE HOURS”A deeply affecting chronicle of a lifelong partnership, Through the Valley of the Nest of Spiders is by turns generous, unsparing and bursting with life (and sex) in all its difficult, rousing, prismatic splendor.
Through the Valley of the Nest of Spiders: An Improbable Community (Volume I) (2019)
“Samuel R. Delany is not only one of the most profound and courageous writers at work today; he is a writer of seemingly limitless range.”––Michael Cunningham, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of THE HOURS”A deeply affecting chronicle of a lifelong partnership, Through the Valley of the Nest of Spiders is by turns generous, unsparing and bursting with life (and sex) in all its difficult, rousing, prismatic splendor.
Best Samuel Delany Books to Read
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Of Solids and Surds: Notes for Noël Sturgeon, Marilyn Hacker, Josh Lukin, Mia Wolff, Bill Stribling, and Bob White
Author(s): Samuel R Delany
ID: 3549899, Publisher: Yale University Press, Year: 2021, Size: 861 Kb, Format: epub
Times Square Red, Times Square Blue 20th Anniversary Edition
Author(s): Robert F. Reid-Pharr; Samuel R. Delany
ID: 2974168, Publisher: NYU Press, Year: 2019, Size: 2 Mb, Format: pdf
Letters from Amherst: Five Narrative Letters
Author(s): Samuel R. Delany
ID: 3382693, Publisher: Wesleyan University Press, Year: 2015, Size: 4 Mb, Format: epub
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