Samuel R. Delany

Essays and occasional writings from one of literature's iconic voices. Samuel R. Delany is an acclaimed writer of literary theory, queer literature, and fiction. His "prismatic output is among the most significant, immense and innovative in American letters," wrote the New York Times in 2019; "Delany's books interweave science fiction with histories of race, sexuality, and control. In so doing, he gives readers fiction that reflects and explores the social truths of our world." This anthology of essays, lectures, and interviews addresses topics such as 9/11, race, the garden of Eden, the interplay of life and writing, and notes on other writers such as Theodore Sturgeon, Hart Crane, Ursula K. Le Guin, Holderlin, and a note on—and a conversation with—Octavia Butler. The first of two volumes, this book gathers more than twenty-five pieces on films, poetry, and science fiction. These sharp, focused writings by a bestselling Black, gay author are filled with keen insights and observations on culture, language, and life.

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'Delany's works have become essential to the history of science fiction' New YorkerSamuel Delany is one of the most radical and influential science fiction writers of our age, who reinvented the genre with his fearless explorations of race, class and gender. Driftglass is the definitive volume of his stories, featuring neutered space travellers, telepathy, Hells Angels and genetically modified amphibious workers.'Delany's books interweave science fiction with histories of race, sexuality and control. In so doing, he gives readers fiction that reflects and explores the social truths of our world' The New York Times

Five substantial letters written from 1989 to 1991 bring readers into conversation with Hugo and Nebula Award winning-author Samuel Delany. With engaging prose, Delany shares details about his work, his relationships, and the thoughts he had while living in Amherst and teaching as a professor at the UMASS campus just outside of town, in contrast to the more chaotic life of New York City. 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. Two of the letters, which tell the story of his meeting his life partner Dennis, became the basis of his 1995 graphic novel, Bread & Wine. Another letter describes the funeral of his uncle Hubert T. Delany, former judge and well-known civil rights activist, and leads to reflections on his family's life in 1950s Harlem. Another details a visit from science fiction writer and critic Judith Merril, and in another he gives a portrait of his one-time student Octavia E. Butler, who by then has become his colleague. In addition, an appendix shares ten letters Delany sent to his daughter while she attended summer camp between 1984 and 1988. These letters describe Delany's daily life, including visitors to his upper-west-side apartment, his travels for work and pleasure, lectures attended, movies viewed, and exhibits seen.

Twentieth anniversary edition of a landmark book that cataloged a vibrant but disappearing neighborhood in New York City In the two decades that preceded the original publication of Times Square Red, Times Square Blue, Forty-second Street, then the most infamous street in America, was being remade into a sanitized tourist haven. In the forced disappearance of porn theaters, peep shows, and street hustlers to make room for a Disney store, a children's theater, and large, neon-lit cafes, Samuel R. Delany saw a disappearance, not only of the old Times Square, but of the complex social relationships that developed there. Samuel R. Delany bore witness to the dismantling of the institutions that promoted points of contact between people of different classes and races in a public space, and in this hybrid text, argues for the necessity of public restrooms and tree-filled parks to a city's physical and psychological landscape. This twentieth anniversary edition includes a new foreword by Robert Reid-Pharr that traces the importance and continued resonances of Samuel R. Delany's groundbreaking Times Square Red, Times Square Blue.

Twentieth anniversary edition of a landmark book that cataloged a vibrant but disappearing neighborhood in New York City In the two decades that preceded the original publication of Times Square Red, Times Square Blue, Forty-second Street, then the most infamous street in America, was being remade into a sanitized tourist haven. In the forced disappearance of porn theaters, peep shows, and street hustlers to make room for a Disney store, a children's theater, and large, neon-lit cafes, Samuel R. Delany saw a disappearance, not only of the old Times Square, but of the complex social relationships that developed there. Samuel R. Delany bore witness to the dismantling of the institutions that promoted points of contact between people of different classes and races in a public space, and in this hybrid text, argues for the necessity of public restrooms and tree-filled parks to a city's physical and psychological landscape. This twentieth anniversary edition includes a new foreword by Robert Reid-Pharr that traces the importance and continued resonances of Samuel R. Delany's groundbreaking Times Square Red, Times Square Blue.

A stunning, many-layered speculation on the future of humanity, on interaction between cultures, on love and sex, on religion and politics, STARS IN MY POCKETS LIKE GRAINS OF SAND is an enduring masterpiece by one of science fictionâ??s greatest writers.

A stunning space opera from the HUGO and NEBULA AWARD-winning Grand Master, Samuel R. Delany.

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-fantasy story about a seafaring quest that sets out to find powerful magic jewels on a mystical, forbidden island where unimaginable danger lies. The Ballad of Beta-2 is about a future academic searching for the true story behind an interstellar voyage, a journey over multiple generations that ended in tragedy. They Fly at iron is a fantasy about the clash between a marauding army and a peaceful village at the foot of a mountain from which a race of winged people oversees both sides. Presenting these three novels in this omnibus volume for the first time, along with a new foreword and afterword by the author, A, B, C showcases Delany's masterful storytelling ability and deep devotion to his craft.

The American Shore: Meditations on a Tale of Science Fiction by Thomas M. Disch—"Angouleme" was first published in 1978 to the intense interest of science fiction readers and the growing community of SF scholars. Recalling Nabokov's commentary on Pushkin's Eugene Onegin, Roland Barthes' commentary on Balzac's Sarazine, and Grabinier's reading of The Heart of Hamlet, this book-length essay helped prove the genre worthy of serious investigation. The American Shore is the third in a series of influential critical works by Samuel R. Delany, beginning with The Jewel-Hinged Jaw and Starboard Wine, first published in the late seventies and reissued over the last five years by Wesleyan University Press, which helped win Delany a Pilgrim Award for Science Fiction Scholarship from the Science Fiction Research Association of America. This edition includes the author's corrected text as well as a new introduction by Delany scholar Matthew Cheney.

Sanna kärlekssagor är osannolika, annars vore de inga sagor, utan banala vardagshistorier. Men Chips och Dennis kärlekssaga är mer osannolik än de flesta. Chip, litteraturprofessor och hyllad författare, möter Dennis, en skitig uteliggare, och ljuv musik uppstår. Aningen oväntat, kanske, men inte helt osannolikt. Men om professorn redan är en bra bit upp i den sansade medelåldern och svart, och uteliggaren är tolv år yngre och vit? Då blir det genast fler gränser att forcera och fler tabun att bryta. Men det som gör hela detta queera gränsöverskridande möte till en sann och ytterst osannolik kärlekssaga som kan få vilken förhärdad cyniker som helst på fall är att ur detta engångsligg mellan prinsen och tiggaren blommar Den Stora Kärleken – en kärlek som har hållit i över 20 år nu. "Kärleken övervinner allt, så låt oss besegras av kärleken", skrev den romerske poeten Vergilius. Och kanske är det så – kärleken övervinner allt. Om den är äkta. Och då blir det en saga. Samuel Ray Delany jr., även kallad ”Chip”, är en amerikansk författare, invald i Science Fiction Hall of Fame (2002). Under loppet av sin karriär har han vunnit flera av de främsta amerikanska priserna för science fiction-böcker, Nebula-priset fyra gånger och Hugo-priset två gånger. Han är professor i engelska och ”creative writing” vid Temple University i Philadelphia. Mia Wolff tillbragte sin uppväxt med att rita och klättra i träd. Hon tog examen i målning vid Pratt Institute 1987, varefter hon blev mottagande parten i en trapetsartistduo. Efter det har hon ägnat sig åt att måla och emellanåt framställa böcker. Hon bor i New York. Du kan se mer av henne på Miawolff.com.

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 omitted, Phallos is set during the reign of the second-century Roman emperor Hadrian, and circles around the historical account of the murder of the emperor's favorite, Antinous. The story moves from Syracuse to Egypt, from the Pillars of Hercules to Rome, from Athens to Byzantium, and back. Young Neoptolomus searches after the stolen phallus of the nameless god of Hermopolis, crafted of gold and encrusted with jewels, within which are reputedly the ancient secrets of science and society that will lead to power, knowledge, and wealth. Vivid and clever, the original novella has been expanded by nearly a third. Appended to the text are an afterword by Robert F. Reid-Pharr and three astute speculative essays by Steven Shaviro, Kenneth R. James, and Darieck Scott.

In Starboard Wine, Samuel R. Delany explores the implications of his now-famous assertion that science fiction is not about the future. Rather, it uses the future as a means of talking about the present and its potentiality. By recognizing a text's specific "difference," we begin to see the quality of its particulars. Through riveting analyses of works by Joanna Russ, Robert Heinlein, Theodore Sturgeon, and Thomas M. Disch, Delany reveals critical strategies for reading that move beyond overwrought theorizing and formulaic thinking. Throughout, the author performs the kinds of careful inquiry and urgent speculation that he calls others to engage in.

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.

BABEL-17 is the novel which catapulted Samuel R. Delany into the front rank of SF writers.

Hogg är en av världslitteraturens mest bisarra kärleks­historier. Berättelsen om den elvaårige Kuksugaren och den brutale lastbilschaffisen Franklin "Hogg" Hargus är lika oförglömlig som oförlåtlig. Samuel R. Delany skrev färdigt Hogg bara några dagar före de berömda Stonewall-kravallerna den 28 juni 1969: det historiska ögonblick då homosexuella för första gången organiserade sig och krävde mänsk­liga rättigheter. Det dröjde närmare trettio år innan Hogg kunde publiceras. Under tiden blev romanen den mest berömda av USA:s "opubli­cerbara" böcker, hyllad och fruktad för sitt osmältbara innehåll: obscent, homofobiskt, miso­gynt, rasistiskt och besynnerligt ömsint. Hogg bjuder in läsaren till en en värld där smärta och äckel inte står i motsättning till poesi och njutning, där orenheten och våldet är det mest mänsk­liga och intima. Markis de Sades, Georges Batailles och Jean Genets röster ekar i bakgrunden. Detta är den första svenska översättningen av Hogg. Samuel R. Delany (f. 1942) växte upp på övervåningen till faderns begravningsbyrå i Harlem, New York. Svart, homosexuell och dyslektisk har han skrivit en rad bästsäljande science fiction-romaner, bland annat Dhalgren och Nova, och är verksam som professor i litteratur och kreativt skrivande.

Samuel R. Delany's The Jewel-Hinged Jaw appeared originally in 1977, and is now long out of print and hard to find. The impact of its demonstration that science fiction was a special language, rather than just gadgets and green-skinned aliens, began reverberations still felt in science fiction criticism. This edition includes two new essays, one written at the time and one written about those times, as well as an introduction by writer and teacher Matthew Cheney, placing Delany's work in historical context. Close textual analyses of Thomas M. Disch, Ursula K. Le Guin, Roger Zelazny, and Joanna Russ read as brilliantly today as when they first appeared. Essays such as "About 5,750 Words" and "To Read The Dispossessed" first made the book a classic; they assure it will remain one.