SFF Author: Samuel R. Delany

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Babel-17: A dazzling new-wave SF space opera from the 1960s

Babel-17 by Samuel R. Delany Babel-17 won the 1966 Nebula award for best novel, tying with Daniel Keyes’s Flowers for Algernon. Samuel Delany’s space opera novel is dated in many ways, but still holds up. In the future, humans have colonized many star systems. Currently, the Alliance is engaged in a war with the Invaders, […]

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Nova: A New-Wave Grail Quest space opera from the 1960s

Nova by Samuel R. Delany Nova is Samuel “Chip” Delany‘s 1968 space opera with mythic/Grail Quest overtones. It is packed with different themes, subtexts, allegorical and cultural references, and literary experiments, and the young author (just 25 years old) is clearly a very talented, intelligent, and passionate writer. But I didn’t enjoy it, sadly. While […]

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The Einstein Intersection: New Wave SF with style but story lacks discipline

The Einstein Intersection by Samuel R. Delany It doesn’t get any more New Wave SF than this very slim 1968 Nebula-winning novel (157 pages), and it’s hard to imagine anything like this being written today. The Einstein Intersection is a mythical retelling of the Orpheus and Eurydice story in a far-future Earth populated by the […]

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Triton: The Trouble with Triton; its main character, for starters

Triton by Samuel R. Delany Samuel R. Delaney wrote Triton in 1974, but it was published in 1976, after his best-seller Dhalgren. Delany’s subtitle for this book was “An Amorphous Heterotopia,” and he stated at the time that the book was inspired by (or a response to) Ursula LeGuin’s “ambiguous utopia” The Dispossessed. Oh, how […]

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SHORTS: Delany, Liu, VanderMeer, Robinson

There is so much free or inexpensive short fiction available on the internet these days. Here are a few stories we read this week that we wanted you to know about. “Aye, and Gomorrah” by Samuel R. Delany (1967, free at Strange Horizons) “Aye, and Gomorrah” was first published as the final story in the ground-breaking […]

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SHORTS: 2018 Locus Award finalists

Today’s SHORTS column features all of the 2018 Locus Award finalists for short fiction. The Locus Award winners will be announced by Connie Willis during Locus Award weekend, June 22 – June 24, 2018. NOVELLAS: In Calabria by Peter S. Beagle (2017) Claudio, a middle-aged curmudgeonly farmer living in a remote area of the Italian […]

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