Samuel R. Delany Books

This collection showcases the diverse writings of Samuel R. Delany, an acclaimed author known for his insightful explorations of writing and science fiction. Delany delves into themes of race, sexuality, and literature, offering a rich perspective on literary theory and the craft of storytelling. His thought-provoking essays and critiques illuminate the intersections of these topics, making it a valuable resource for readers interested in the complexities of literature and its societal implications.

A diverse collection of essays and interviews from one of literature's most iconic voices.

Winner of the 1989 Hugo Award for Non-fiction

Take an apartment house, add in a drag queen, a lesbian couple, some talking animals, a talking severed head, a confused heroine and the deadly Cuckoo. Stir vigorously with a hurricane and Morpheus himself and you get this fifth installment of The Sandman series. This story stars Barbie, who now finds herself a princess in a vivid dreamworld

Along with commentary on his own work and the work of other writers, he ponders the state of America, discusses friends who are facing AIDS and other ailments, and comments on the politics of working in academia.

In his four-volume series Return to Nevèrÿon, Hugo and Nebula award-winner Samuel R. Delany appropriated the conceits of sword-and-sorcery fantasy to explore his characteristic themes of language, power, gender, and the nature of civilization. Wesleyan University Press has reissued the long-unavailable Nevèrÿon volumes in trade paperback. The eleven stories, novellas, and novels in Return to Nevèrÿon's four volumes chronicle a long-ago land on civilization's brink, perhaps in Asia or Africa, or even on the Mediterranean. Taken slave in childhood, Gorgik gains his freedom, leads a slave revolt, and becomes a minister of state, finally abolishing slavery. Ironically, however, he is sexually aroused by the iron slave collars of servitude. Does this contaminate his mission - or intensify it? Presumably elaborated from an ancient text of unknown geographical origin, the stories are sunk in translators' and commentators' introductions and appendices, forming a richly comic frame.

The green of beetles' wings ... the red of polished carbuncle ... a web of silver fire. Lightning tore his eyes apart, struck deep inside his body; and he felt his bones split. Before it became pain, it was gone. And he was falling through blue smoke. The smoke was inside him, cool as blown ice. It was getting darker. He had heard something before, a ... voice: the Lord of the Flames.... Captives of the Flame is the first novel in the Fall of the Towers trilogy.

In his four-volume series Return to Nevèrÿon, Hugo and Nebula award-winner Samuel R. Delany appropriated the conceits of sword-and-sorcery fantasy to explore his characteristic themes of language, power, gender, and the nature of civilization. Wesleyan University Press has reissued the long-unavailable Nevèrÿon volumes in trade paperback. The eleven stories, novellas, and novels in Return to Nevèrÿon's four volumes chronicle a long-ago land on civilization's brink, perhaps in Asia or Africa, or even on the Mediterranean. Taken slave in childhood, Gorgik gains his freedom, leads a slave revolt, and becomes a minister of state, finally abolishing slavery. Ironically, however, he is sexually aroused by the iron slave collars of servitude. Does this contaminate his mission - or intensify it? Presumably elaborated from an ancient text of unknown geographical origin, the stories are sunk in translators' and commentators' introductions and appendices, forming a richly comic frame.

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

Elizabeth Waters, an archeologist who abandoned her husband and daughter years ago to pursue her career, can see the shadows of the past. It's a gift she keeps secret from her colleagues and students, one that often leads her to incredible archeological discoveries and the realization that she might be going mad. Then on a dig in the Yucatan, the shadow of a Mayan priestess speaks to her. Suddenly Elizabeth's daughter Diane arrives, hoping to reconnect with her mother. As mother, daughter and priestess fall into the mysterious world of Mayan magic, it is clear one will be asked to make the ultimate sacrifice. The book won the 1988 Nebula Award.

In the ancient, fabled land of Nevèrÿon, they tell of a gleaming golden city, driven deep beneath the waves of history - the city whose whispered name is Neveryóna. For Pryn, a young girl fleeing her village on the back of a dragon, Neveryóna is the shining symbol of all that is out of reach. It leads her to the exotic port city of Kolhari, where she talks with the wealthy merchant Madame Keyne, walks with Gorgik the Liberator as he schemes against the Court of Eagles - and crosses the Bridge of Lost Desire in search of her destiny...

In his four-volume series Return to Nevèrÿon, Hugo and Nebula award-winner Samuel R. Delany appropriated the conceits of sword-and-sorcery fantasy to explore his characteristic themes of language, power, gender, and the nature of civilization. Wesleyan University Press has reissued the long-unavailable Nevèrÿon volumes in trade paperback. The eleven stories, novellas, and novels in Return to Nevèrÿon's four volumes chronicle a long-ago land on civilization's brink, perhaps in Asia or Africa, or even on the Mediterranean. Taken slave in childhood, Gorgik gains his freedom, leads a slave revolt, and becomes a minister of state, finally abolishing slavery. Ironically, however, he is sexually aroused by the iron slave collars of servitude. Does this contaminate his mission - or intensify it? Presumably elaborated from an ancient text of unknown geographical origin, the stories are sunk in translators' and commentators' introductions and appendices, forming a richly comic frame.

Alternate cover edition can be found here.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.

A counter-culture classic and a classic of SF - a young man arrives in a near future US and writes a book that may be DHALGREN.

The collection features the inaugural works of Samuel R. Delany, showcasing his early storytelling prowess. Each short novel reflects his unique style and innovative approach to science fiction, setting the stage for his future contributions to the genre. Readers can explore themes of identity, society, and the complexities of human relationships through Delany's imaginative narratives. This compilation serves as a significant introduction to one of science fiction's most influential authors.

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. First published in 1984, the novel's central issues--technology, globalization, gender, sexuality and multiculturalism--have only become more pressing with the passage of time. The novel's topic is information itself: What are the repercussions, once it has been made public, that two individuals have been found to be each other's perfect erotic object out to "point nine-nine-nine and several nines percent more"? What will it do to the individuals involved, to the city they inhabit, to their geosector, to their entire world society, especially when one is an illiterate worker, the sole survivor of a world destroyed by "cultural fugue," and the other is--you!

These are [at least some of] the ways you can read NOVA: as a fast-action farflung interstellar adventure; as archetypal mystical/mythical allegory (in which the Tarot and the Grail both figure prominently); as modern myth told in the S-F idiom... the reader observes, recollects, or participates in a range of personal experience including violent pain and disfigurement, sensory deprivation and overload, man-machine communion, the drug experience, the creative experience - and inter-personal relationships which include incest and assassination, father-son, leader-follower, human-pet, and lots more!The balance of galactic power in the 31st century revolves around Illyrion, the most precious energy source in the universe. The varied and exotic crew who sign up with Captain Lorq van Ray know their mission is dangerous, and they soon learn that they are involved in a deadly race with the charismatic but vicious leader of an opposing space federation. But they have no idea of Lorq's secret obsession: to gather Illyrion at the source by flying through the very heart of an imploding star.

In 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, bestselling author of Fortress of Solitude ).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. Into this disaster zone comes a young man—poet, lover, and adventurer—known only as the Kid.Tackling questions of race, gender, and sexuality, Dhalgren is a literary marvel and groundbreaking work of American magical realism.

Samuel R. Delany is widely considered to be one of the greatest science fiction writers of the twentieth century, and a pioneer of Black and Queer genre fiction. Driftglass, the definitive collection of Delany's science fiction stories, displays the extraordinary depth of his writing: strange men and women labouring beneath the seas, the struggle of those attempting to break free from their galaxies, the intrigue of violent underworlds, as well as children with psychic powers and an ice cream parlour on a moon of Neptune. Radical, inventive, and brilliantly original, Driftglass contains the Hugo and Nebula award-winning stories 'Aye, and Gomorrah. . .' and 'Time Considered as a Helix of Semi-precious Stones'.

Triton, the outermost moon of Neptune, was a world of absolute freedom, where every wish could be fulfilled. But for Bron Helstrom, one of Triton's elite, life had lost its meaning. There, in a world of endless possibilities, Bron began a searing odyssey to find the object of his desires.

Lo Lobey, an alien struggling to understand Earth's mythology, embarks on a mythic quest to find his lost love, Friza. The narrative delves into the challenges faced by those who are "different" in navigating a dominant cultural ideology. Through vivid and surreal language, it examines the potential for new myths to arise from the remnants of humanity, highlighting the resilience and creativity of those seeking to reclaim their place in history.

One of the most universally acclaimed 1st novels in science fiction - by the man who become one of the most stellar writers in the genre's history. On the orders of Argo, the White Goddess, an itinerant poet and his three companions journey to the island of Aptor. Their mission is to seize a jewel from the dark god Hama and bring it back home. With this precious stone Argo may defeat the malign forces gathered against her and the land of Leptor. But, as the group presses deep into the enigmatic heart of Aptor, easy distinctions between good and evil blur, and somehow the task seems less straightforward. For Argo already owns two of the jewels and possession of the third would give her unqualified power. As the four friends already know, power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

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.

A distant world that is similar to prehistoric Earth is home to the Winged Ones of Hi-Vator, a fun-loving race that experiences the ultimate sexual pleasure while in the air. Reprint.

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.

The collection features in-depth interviews with renowned science fiction and fantasy authors, revealing their creative processes and thoughts on narrative evolution and the future of speculative fiction. Conducted by Darrell Schweitzer over decades, it includes insights from notable figures like Samuel R. Delany, C.J. Cherryh, and George R.R. Martin. These conversations provide engaging anecdotes and timeless reflections, highlighting the human side of imaginative storytelling and the minds behind some of the genre's greatest works.

Kapitän Lorq von Ray sucht leidenschaftlich nach einer Supernova, die die Machtverhältnisse in der Galaxis verändern könnte. An Bord der Roc steht ihm eine bunte Crew zur Seite, während sie gegen den mächtigen Prince Red und seine Schwester Ruby antreten. Ein visionärer Abenteuerroman und dritter Band der Werkausgabe des Autors.

Enthält folgende Stories: Richard Wilson: Such mich doch! Samuel R. Delany: Treibglas Colin Kapp: Ein Gesandter für Verdammt R. A. Lafferty: Der Mann, den es nie gab Isaac Asimov: Die Billardkugel

In einer weit entfernten Zukunft gelten die Gesetze von Raum und Zeit nicht mehr, und auf der Erde haben sich Geschöpfe angesiedelt, die uns Menschen nur auf den ersten Blick ähnlich sehen. Lobey ist einer von ihnen: Selbst ein begnadeter Musiker, kann er die Musik im Geist der anderen hören. Als er die eigenwillige, anscheinend taubstumme Friza kennenlernt, glaubt er eine Seelenverwandte gefunden zu haben. Doch dann wird Friza getötet, und Lobey zieht aus, um sie zu rächen – und vielleicht gar aus dem Reich der Toten zurückzuholen. Der zweite Band der Werkausgabe dieses außergewöhnlichen Autors; ein Roman von überwältigender Ideenvielfalt und großer sprachlicher Kraft.

In diesem Klassiker von 1970 beschreibt Samuel R. Delany das Schicksal einer Gruppe Reisender auf der Suche nach dem großen Kick. Mit erotischen Schilderungen und poetischer Sprache zeigt der Autor seine Bedeutung als Stilist der modernen Phantastik.

Der Roman erzählt von Francis Harkus, genannt Hogg, einem moralisch verkommenen Individuum, das im Auftrag mächtiger Geschäftsleute brutal gegen Widerstand lehrt. Samuel Delany zeichnet ein düsteres Bild einer Welt ohne moralische Werte, in der Triebhaftigkeit herrscht und gesellschaftliche Kontrolle versagt.

Die Serie NIMMÈRŸA ist ein farbenfrohes Fantasyabenteuer und ein komplexer Ideenroman, der Themen wie Macht und Sexualität behandelt. Denis Scheck hebt hervor, dass Samuel R. Delany mit seinen Geschichten eine einzigartige Erzählweise geschaffen hat, die die Zukunft des 21. Jahrhunderts prägen könnte.