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In Dhalgren,"" perhaps one of the most profound and bestselling science fiction novels of all time, Samuel R. Delany has produced a novel " to stand w...
Interviews with the author of Dhalgren; Babel-17; Stars in My Pocket like Grains of Sand; the Nevéryon cycle; and Times Square Red, Times Square Blue...
Come and enter Samuel Delany's tomorow, in this trilogy of high adventure, with acrobats and urchins, criminals and courtiers, fishermen and factory-w...
Science fiction master Delany's novel is the story of Lorq von Ray, an intrepid spaceship captain determined to travel through the core of a recently ...
The Journals of Samuel R. Delany
The renowned novelist and critic’s private journals, spanning from his years as a high school student in the Bronx to early adult life in San Franci...
In the far future, after human civilization has spread through the galaxy, communications begin to arrive in an apparently alien language. They appear...
First foray into pornography by a writer of science fiction. A philosophy students becomes interested in a dead philosopher who was a pervert. In time...
"Acclaimed science fiction novelist Samuel Delany wrote Hogg over twenty years ago. Since then it has been one of America's most famous "unpublishable...
Queer Thoughts & the Politics of the Paraliterary
In Shorter Views, Hugo and Nebula award-winning author Samuel R. Delany brings his remarkable intellectual powers to bear on a wide range of topics. W...
As issues of history and memory collide in our society and in the classroom, the time is ripe to rethink the place of history in our schools. Knowing,...
The Star Folk were an anachronism. Living in their cluster of giant ships far out in space, cut off from contact with their fellow humans, they were s...
An Ambiguous Heterotopia
Interplanetary war, capture and escape, diplomatic intrigues that topple worlds....
On Language, Race, Sex, Science Fiction, and Some Comics
Collected interviews featuring the Nebula Award–winning author and his thoughts on topics like literary criticism, comic books, race, and sexuality....
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7 Essays, 4 Letters, 5 Interviews
From the four-time Nebula Award–winning novelist and literary critic, essential reading for the creative writer. Award-winning novelist Samuel R. De...
Sex and Science Fiction Writing in the East Village, 1960-1965
This Stonewall Book Award-winning novel traces the life and unrealized dreams of a gay African American poet. A meditation on isolation and sexual rep...
Sex and Science Fiction Writing in the East Village
A Visual Novel
"A powerful device has been hidden in separate pieces. Qrelon, whose planet was destroyed by the empire, leads a small group of rebels that risks ever...
In this chronicle of a long-ago land on civilization's brink, Gorgik the Liberator's campaign to end slavery has been successful. But in the novel and...
Ten Tales of Speculative Fiction
Triton, the outermost moon of Neptune, is a world of absolute freedom. A world where every wish can be fulfilled. But for Bron Helstrom, one of societ...
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In ferner Zukunft hat sich die menschliche Zivilisation in der ganzen Galaxis ausgebreitet. Dabei kommt es zum Kontakt mit AuĂźerirdischen, die fremda...
Twentieth anniversary edition of a landmark book that cataloged a vibrant but disappearing neighborhood in New York City In the two decades that prece...
Five Narrative Letters
Entertaining and informative letters written from 1984 to 1991 by the award-winning author and critic. Five substantial letters written from 1989 to 1...
Samuel R. Delany's The Jewel-Hinged Jaw first appeared in 1977. Its demonstration that science fiction is a special language, rather than gadgets and ...
Five inter-connected stories set in a mythical past focus on the experiences of the slave Gorgik and deal with aspects of the beginning of civilizatio...
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Extended Essays
Six essays from the critic and award-winning author exploring topics such as theater, LGBTQ+ scholarship, cyborgs, metaphors, and Star Wars. “Readin...
And Other Stories
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 lo...
Three Tales
New fiction from a master explores problems of memory, history, & transgression....
In an incredible far future, the known laws of Time and Space no longer apply to the world - and the seed of Man has mutated. Lobey is a mutant, diffe...
It is a post-atomic future and civilization has regressed to a Middle Age like world. Geo a young student and poet, takes a job on a boat with a stran...
A novel of myth and literacy, Nevèrÿona tells how young Pryn, who can write in this largely pre-literate land, flees her mountain village on a drago...
A stunning, many-layered speculation on the future of humanity, on interaction between cultures, on love and sex, on religion and politics, STARS IN M...
Enhanced and Revised Edition
Phallos is a 2004 novel by the acclaimed novelist and critic Samuel R. Delany. Taking the form of a gay pornographic novella, with the explicit sex om...
The Jewels of Aptor, The Ballad of Beta-2, They Fly at Ciron
A, B, C: Three Short Novels contains the first three novels of Samuel R. Delany’s long and illustrious career. The Jewels of Aptor is a science-fant...
A theorist and cultural critic on race, sexuality, science fiction, and the art of writing....
Notes on the Language of Science Fiction