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Babel-17 by Samuel R. Delany
Category: Sci-fi & Fantasy | Series: S.F. Masterworks
In the far future, after human civilization has spread through the galaxy, communications begin to arrive in an apparently alien language. They appear to threaten invasion, but in order to counter the threat, the messages must first be understood.
Bread & Wine: An Erotic Tale of New York by Delany Samuel R
Category: Graphic Novels
The runaway critical and commercial success of Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home has paved the way for the re-issue of Bread & Wine. Written by black, gay science-fiction writer, professor, and theorist Samuel R. Delany, and drawn by artist/martial arts instructor Mia Wolff, Bread & Wine is a graphic au ...Show more
Dark Reflections by Samuel R Delany
Category: Science Fiction | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
"A writer of seemingly limitless range." -- Michael Cunningham, author of The Hours. This Stonewall Book Award-winning novel traces the life and unrealized dreams of Arnold Hawley, a gay African American poet. The tale unfolds in three non-chronological parts, starting in the twenty-first century with H ...Show more
Dhalgren by Samuel R. Delany
Category: Sci-Fi & Fantasy Fiction
Foreward by William Gibson In Bellona, dead centre of the US, something has happened. The population has fled; madmen and criminals wander the streets. Strange portents appear in the cloud-covered sky. Into this disaster zone comes a young poet, lover and adventurer, known only as the Kid. Tackling ques ...Show more
Dhalgren by Samuel R. Delany
Category: Sci-fi & Fantasy | Series: S.F. Masterworks
A young man arrives in the anarchic city of Bellona, in a near future USA. This world has two moons but could otherwise be our own. The man, known only as 'the Kid', begins to write a novel called Dhalgren that begins where it ends. Dhalgren is about the possibilites of fiction and about the special dem ...Show more
Einstein Intersection by Samuel R. Delany; NEil Gaiman (Contribution by)
Category: Science Fiction
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, how ...Show more
Glory Road by Robert A. Heinlein; Samuel R. Delany (Afterword by)
Category: Military
E. C. "Scar" Gordon was on the French Riviera recovering from a tour of combat in Southeast Asia, but he hadn't given up his habit of scanning the Personals in the newspaper. One ad in particular leapt out at him: "ARE YOU A COWARD? This is not for you. We badly need a brave man. He must be 23 to 25 yea ...Show more
Nova by Samuel R Delany
Category: Sci-fi & Fantasy | Series: Vintage
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 imploded sun. Wise, witty, and whirlingly paced, this tale is the highest order of speculative fiction as it casts a new light on some of humanity's oldes ...Show more
Nova by Samuel R. Delany
Category: Fiction | Series: S.F. Masterworks
The balance of galactic power in the 31st century revolves around Illyrion, the most precious energy source in the universe. Captain Lorq van Ray's varied and exotic crew know their mission is dangerous, but they have no idea of Lorq's secret obsession: to gather Illyrion at source by flying through the ...Show more
Of Solids and Surds - Notes for Noël Sturgeon, Marilyn Hacker, Josh Lukin, Mia Wolff, Bill Stribling, and Bob White by Samuel R. Delany
Category: Reference Dictionaries Words | Series: Why I Write Ser.
In the fourth volume in the Why I Write series, the iconic Samuel Delany remembers fifty years of writing and shaping the world of speculative fiction "Delany's prismatic output is among the most significant, immense and innovative in American letters."--Jordy Rosenberg, New York Times "He dispenses wis ...Show more
So Long Been Dreaming - Postcolonial Science Fiction and Fantasy by Nalo Hopkinson (Editor); Uppinder Mehan; Samuel R. Delany (Introduction by)
Category: Languages and Reference
So Long Been Dreaming: Postcolonial Science Fiction & Fantasy is an anthology of original new stories by leading African, Asian, South Asian and Aboriginal authors, as well as North American and British writers of color.Stories of imagined futures abound in Western writing. Writer and editor Nalo ...Show more