Samuel R. Delany (nee April 1,1942) was born and raised in Harlem, New
York. He is a highly prolific and widely respected author who has been writing
in the science fiction genre for over thirty years. His first novel, The Jewels of Aptor (1962) was published when he
was just 19 years of age. Since then he has achieved sustained notoriety
for the numerous Hugo and Nebula awards he has won over the past 30 years.
His first major award (the Nebula) was won for Babel-17,
a novel reflecting his interest in semiotics. Delany is considered to be
a 'high brow' science fiction author, perhaps one of the few true intellectuals
in the field. In fact, Delany is a professor of English, having served in
that position at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, the University
of Minnesota, and most recently at the University of Buffalo. He has written
his memoirs in The Motion of Light in Water: Sex and
Science Fiction Writing in t he East Village, which won the Hugo
Award for non-fiction in 1989. His latest book is 1984,
a non-fictional portrait of Delany as expressed through letters and documents
written by Delany and addressed to friends, relatives, and colleagues.
Bibliography
Novels
The Jewels of Aptor (1962)
The Fall of the Towers (1970):
Out of the Dead City/Captives of the Flame (1963)
The Towers of Toron (1964)
City of a Thousand Suns (1965)
The Ballad of Beta-2 (1965)
Babel -17 (1966)
Empire Star (1966)
A Fabulous, Formless Darkness/The Einstein Intersection (1967)
Nova (1968)
Driftglass (1971, collection of short stories)
Equinox/The Tides of Lust (1973, 1994)
Dhalgren (1975)
Triton/Trouble on Triton (1976, 1996)
Distant Stars (collection of short stories) (1981)
Stars in My Pocket like Grains of Sand (1984)
Return to Neveryon:
Tales of Neveryon (1979)
Neveryona/The Tale of Signs and Cities (1983)
Flight from Neveryon (1985)
Return to Neveryon/The Bridge of Lost Desire (1987)
They Fly at Ciron (1993)
Driftglass/Starshards (1971, 1993, collection of short stories)
The Mad Man (1994)
Hogg (1995)
Atlantis: Three Tales (1995)
Bread and Wine an Erotic Tale of New York (1999)
Non-Fiction
The Jewel-Hinged Jaw (1977)
The American Shore: Meditations on a Tale of Science Fiction (1978)
Heavenly Breakfast, an Essay on the Winter of Love (1978, memoir)
Starboard Wine (1982)
The Motion of Light in Water: Sex and Science Fiction Writing in the
East Village (1988)
Wagner / Artaud
The Straits of Messina
Silent Interviews: On Language, Race, Sex, Science Fiction and Some
Comics (1994)
Longer Views: Extended Essays
Shorter Views: Queer Thoughts and the Politics of the Paraliterary
