Author: Samuel R. Delany
Publisher: Vintage
Keywords: star, empire, babel
Number of Pages: 311
Published: 2002-01-08
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0375706690
ISBN-13: 9780375706691

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 com

Author: Samuel R. Delany
Publisher: Vintage
Keywords: stories, gomorrah, aye
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 2003-04-08
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 0375706712
ISBN-13: 9780375706714

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 loader tries to do a favor for a black northern child. The ordinary stuff of ordinary fiction--but with a difference! These tales take place twenty-five, fifty, a hundred-fifty years from now, when men and women have been given gills to labor under the sea. Huge repair stations patrol the cables carrying power to the ends of the earth. Telepathic and precocious children so passionately yearn to visit distant galaxies that they’ll kill t

Author: Samuel R. Delany
Publisher: Running Press
Keywords: reflections
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2007-04-13
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 0786719478
ISBN-13: 9780786719471

Arnold Hawley, a gay, African–American poet, has lived in NYC for most of his life. Dark Reflections traces Hawley’s life in three sections — in reverse order. Part one: Hawley, at 50 years old, wins the an award for his sixth book of poems. Part two explores Hawley’s unhappy marriage, while the final section recalls his college days. Dark Reflections, moving back and forth in time, creates an extraordinary meditation on social attitudes, loneliness, and life’s triumphs.

Author: Samuel R. Delany
Publisher: Wesleyan
Keywords: neveryon, flight
Number of Pages: 378
Published: 1994-02-15
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 0819562777
ISBN-13: 9780819562777

A novel of myth and literacy about a long-ago land on the brink of civilization. Vol 3

Authors:Samuel Delany, Samuel R. Delany,
Publisher: NYU Press
Keywords: times, square, blue, red
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2001-11
List price: $20.00
ISBN-10: 0814719201
ISBN-13: 9780814719206

"Measured but emotional, illuminating but challenging." -The San Francisco Chronicle "Remarkable." -Salon "Essential." -The Nation "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 proves himself a dazzlingly eloquent and original social commentator. . . . This bracing and well-calibrated blend of journalism, personal history and cultural criticism will challenge readers of every persuasion." -Publish

Author: Samuel R. Delany
Publisher: Vintage
Keywords: nova
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2002-06-11
List price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 0375706704
ISBN-13: 9780375706707

Given that the suns of Draco stretch almost sixteen light years from end to end, it stands to reason that the cost of transportation is the most important factor of the 32nd century. And since Illyrion is the element most needed for space travel, Lorq von Ray is plenty willing to fly through the core of a recently imploded sun in order to obtain seven tons of it. The potential for profit is so great that Lorq has little difficulty cobbling together an alluring crew that includes a gypsy musician and a moon-obsessed scholar interested in the ancient art of writing a novel. What the crew doesnâ€

Author: Samuel R. Delany
Publisher: Vintage
Keywords: dhalgren
Number of Pages: 816
Published: 2001-05-15
List price: $18.95
ISBN-10: 0375706682
ISBN-13: 9780375706684

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 with the best American fiction of the 1970s" (Jonathan Lethem).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. And 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 a