Samuel R. Delany

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
• Adrift in a Vanishing City (1998)
• Times Square Red, Times Square Blue
• 1984 (May 2000, CHECK)

Interviews

An interview with Delany by Matt Baldwin .

Sites of Interest

Jay's Samuel R. Delany Page

Samuel Delany as a Semi-Precious Stone

Check out http://www.non.com/books/Delany_Samuel_R_cc.html for

a close to complete list of Delany's books.