Samuel R. DeLaney, Author, Samuel R. Delany, Author Wesleyan University Press $50 (476p) ISBN 978-0-8195-6368-2
Living up to essayist and science fiction author Delany's reputation for pushing literary and cultural boundaries, these 25 essays, interviews and reviews, all of which appeared between 1987 and 1998 in a variety of literary magazines and...
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Samuel R. Delany, Author . Carroll & Graf $15.95 (295p) ISBN 978-0-78671-947-1
The title of the captivating latest by the Hugo-winning author of Dhalgren
is also the title of a book of poems written by the novel's poet protagonist, Arnold Hawley. That might strike one as a more straightforward setup than that of Pale...
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Samuel R. Delany, Author Wesleyan University Press $16.95 (264p) ISBN 978-0-8195-6270-8
The first two volumes in Delaney's Neveryon series explore sexuality, race and subjectivity in an ancient, barbaric civilization. (Nov.)
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Samuel R. Delany, Author Wesleyan University Press $27.95 (476p) ISBN 978-0-8195-6369-9
Living up to essayist and science fiction author Delany's reputation for pushing literary and cultural boundaries, these 25 essays, interviews and reviews, all of which appeared between 1987 and 1998 in a variety of literary magazines and...
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Samuel R. Delany, Author Vintage Books USA $17.95 (400p) ISBN 978-0-375-70671-4
Aye, and Gomorrah, by Samuel R. Delaney, collects all the significant short SF and fantasy fiction this SF Hall of Famer published between 1965 and 1988, except for tales in his Return to Neveryon series. An expanded edition of Driftglass (1971),
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Samuel R. Delany, Author Incunabula $29.75 (171p) ISBN 978-0-9633637-0-1
Nebula and Hugo winner Delany's latest novel expands on a short story he wrote in 1962, which his friend James Sallis ``reworked'' in 1969. In a prefatory note, Delany acknowledges Sallis's critical assistance but explains that none of Sallis's...
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Samuel R. Delany, Author Richard Kasak Book $23.95 (501p) ISBN 978-1-56333-193-0
The latest novel from Hugo- and Nebula-winning science-fiction writer and critic Delany ( They Fly at Ciron ) reads like a pornographic reflection of Peter Ackroyd's Chatterton or A.S. Byatt's Possession. Precocious philosophy graduate student John...
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Samuel R. Delany, Author Voyant Publishing $17.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-9665998-1-7
Many of Delany's novels (The Madman; Dhalgren) are colloquial, even conversational in tone and plot, packed tight with observations, alternate soliloquies and riffs. It's what makes them unique, as well as great literature. With the same grand sweep
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Samuel R. Delany, Author Arbor House Publishing $18.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-87795-947-2
After Delanyblack, gay and from Harlemplunged into a hasty marriage with young white poet Marilyn Hacker, he continued his sexually open lifestyle and had many partners, threesomes included. This self-indulgent, portentously titled hodgepodge of...
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Samuel R. Delany, Author Black Ice Books $24.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-932511-88-1
Hugo-and Nebula Award-winner Delany--whose early books were fascinating but whose recent efforts have grown increasingly obtuse--has been trying to get this pornographic novel published since 1973. The main narrator here is an 11-year-old boy who...
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Samuel R. Delany, Author Tor Books $19.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-312-85775-2
Baker (Webs) attempts a fresh spin on the vampire tale in this involved novel, but his effort bogs down in an overstuffed plot and clumsy dialogue. David Bathory, 29, leads an uneventful life as a dealer of snakes and drugs. But after his wife is...
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Samuel R. Delany, Author New York University Press $65 (208p) ISBN 978-0-8147-1919-0
In a provocative and persuasively argued cri de coeur against New York City's gentrification and the redevelopment of Times Square in the name of ""family values and safety,"" acclaimed science fiction writer Delany (Dhalgren, etc.) proves himself a
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Samuel R. Delany, Author Wesleyan University Press $35 (224p) ISBN 978-0-8195-5283-9
Delany, who's best known for his science fiction (Nova, Dhalgren) takes a variety of literary turns in these three novellas that chronicle the experience of the African American writer in the 20th century. The longest story, ``Atlantis: Model 1924,''
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Samuel R. Delany, Author, Mia Wolff, Illustrator, Alan Moore, Introduction by Juno Books $14.99 (80p) ISBN 978-1-890451-02-8
Unusually touching, this comics memoir presents the beginnings of an unlikely but loving relationship between Delany (Times Square Red, Forecasts, May 31), a distinguished African-American novelist, essayist and professor, and Dennis, a white...
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