Vintage, 2003. — 383 p. — ISBN10: 0375706712; ISBN13: 978-0375706714. 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...
Bantam Books, 1974. — 879 p. 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...
Bantam, 1975. — 216 p.
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...
2nd edition. — Ace Books, 1969. — 124 p. — ISBN10: 044104722X; ISBN13: 978-0441047222. This is second edition (the First was part of an Ace Double). Centuries ago, the Star Folk had left Earth on twelve spaceships on a generations-long mission to colonize the distant stars. Ten of the ships had reached their destinations. Two had failed-and nobody, in the hundreds of years...
Revised ed. — Wesleyan, 1998. — ISBN10: 0819563366; ISBN13: 978-0819563361/ 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,...
Reprint edition. — Vintage, 2004. — ISBN10: 140003132X; ISBN13: 978-1400031320. 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,...
Bantam, 1968. — 224 p.
What was the strange impetus that drove a group of four widely different humans to embark on a fear-filled journey across a forbidden sea to a legendary land?
This was Earth still, but the Earth of a future terribly changed after a planet-searing disaster, a planet of weird cults, mutated beasts, and people who were not always entirely human. As for...
Bantam Book, 1976. — 312 p. — ISBN10: 0553135341; ISBN13: 978-0553135343. In a story as exciting as any science fiction adventure written, Samuel R. Delany's 1976 SF novel, originally published as Triton, takes us on a tour of a utopian society at war with...our own Earth! High wit in this future comedy of manners allows Delany to question gender roles and sexual expectations...
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