Books by Samuel R. Delany
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Trouble on Triton
In this novel by a Nebula Award-winning author, a man looks for love in a society where you can be anyone you want, on a moon at war with Earth. In a story as exciting as any science fiction adventure written, Samuel R... See More
A, B, C: Three Short Novels: The Jewels of Aptor, The Ballad of Beta-2, They Fly at Ciron
A, B, C: Three Short Novels contains the first three novels of Samuel R. Delany's long and illustrious career. The Jewels of Aptor is a science-fantasy story about a seafaring quest that sets out to find powerful magic... See More
The Novels of Samuel R. Delany Volume One: Babel-17, Nova, and Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand
Three groundbreaking novels from the multiple Hugo and Nebula Award-winning Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Famer and SFWA Grand Master. Babel-17: Rydra Wong is the most popular poet in the five settled galaxies... See More
Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand
In this far-future classic, sexual attraction is a science, gender is a whole new construct, and information is both precious and perilous... With a burst of radiation to the brain, an angry young man is transformed into a... See More
Flight from Nevèrÿon (Return to Nevèrÿon)
Two novellas and a full-length novel set in the land at the limit of history: "The tales of Nevèrÿon are postmodern sword-and-sorcery" (The Washington Post Book World). In The Tale of Plagues and Carnivals, a disease has... See More
Tales of Nevèrÿon (Return to Nevèrÿon)
Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author Samuel R. Delany's epic fantasy -- the first in a series -- explores power, gender, and the nature of civilization. A boy of the bustling, colorful docks of port Kolhari, during a... See More
Return to Nevèrÿon: The Complete Series: Tales of Nevèrÿon, Neveryóna, Flight from Nevèrÿon, and Return to Nevèrÿon
A four-volume "postmodern sword-and-sorcery" epic from a multiple Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author (The Washington Post Book World). Tales of Nevèrÿon: After his parents are killed during a political coup, Gorgik is... See More
Return to Nevèrÿon
Slavery is outlawed, Nevèrÿon is free, and Gorgik the Liberator must revisit the mines for a final struggle where he himself was once a slave Alone in a deserted castle in the Nevèrÿon countryside, a great warrior and a... See More
The Mad Man: Or, The Mysteries of Manhattan
A philosophy student's research draws him into the sexual underground of 1980s and early nineties New York John Marr is surprised he doesn't have AIDS. He has been having near-daily sexual encounters with strange men since... See More
About Writing: 7 Essays, 4 Letters, 5 Interviews
From the four-time Nebula Award-winning novelist and literary critic, essential reading for the creative writer. Award-winning novelist Samuel R. Delany has written a book for creative writers to place alongside E. M... See More
Neveryóna: Or, The Tale of Signs and Cities (Return to Nevèrÿon)
The Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author of Tales of Nevèrÿon "continues to surprise and delight" with this thought-provoking epic fantasy (The New York Times). One of the few in Nevèrÿon who can read and write, pryn... See More
Starboard Wine: More Notes on the Language of Science Fiction
A revised and expanded edition of a classic work of criticism exploring how science fiction is not about the future but about the potential of the present. In Starboard Wine, Samuel R. Delany explores the implications of... See More
The Jewel-Hinged Jaw: Notes on the Language of Science Fiction
From the four-time Nebula Award-winning author, an indispensable work of science fiction criticism, revised and expanded. Samuel R. Delany's The Jewel-Hinged Jaw appeared originally in 1977, and is now long out of print... See More
The American Shore: Meditations on a Tale of Science Fiction by Thomas M. Disch—"Angouleme"
From the four-time Nebula Award-winning author, a keystone text in literary theory and science fiction analyzing a 1972 work of dystopian fiction. The American Shore: Meditations on a Tale of Science Fiction by Thomas M... See More
The Einstein Intersection
A dragon herder embarks on a quest to bring his beloved back from the dead in this Nebula Award-winning science fiction adventure. The surface story tells of the problems a member of an alien race, Lo Lobey, has... See More
Occasional Views, Volume 2: "The Gamble" and Other Essays
Samuel R. Delany is an acclaimed writer of literary theory, queer literature, and fiction. His works have fundamentally altered the terrain of science fiction (SF) through their formally consummate and materially grounded... See More
Occasional Views: "More About Writing and Other Essays"
Essays, lectures, and interviews from the iconic, award-winning author and critic. Samuel R. Delany is an acclaimed writer of literary theory, queer literature, and fiction. His "prismatic output is among the most... See More
Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 73 (June 2016, People of Colo(u)r Destroy Science Fiction! Special Issue)
LIGHTSPEED was founded on the core idea that all science fiction is real science fiction. The whole point of this magazine is that science fiction is vast. It is inclusive. Science fiction is about people and for people... See More
Atlantis: Three Tales
From the Hugo and Nebula-winning author, three literary tales trace the intricate interdependencies of memory, experience, and the self. Wesleyan University Press has made a significant commitment to the publication of the... See More
In Search of Silence: The Journals of Samuel R. Delany
The renowned novelist and critic's private journals, spanning from his years as a high school student in the Bronx to early adult life in San Francisco. For fifty years Samuel Delany has cultivated a special relationship... See More
Letters from Amherst: Five Narrative Letters
Entertaining and informative letters written from 1984 to 1991 by the award-winning author and critic. Five substantial letters written from 1989 to 1991 bring readers into conversation with Hugo and Nebula Award-winning... See More
Longer Views: Extended Essays
Six essays from the critic and award-winning author exploring topics such as theater, LGBTQ+ scholarship, cyborgs, metaphors, and Star Wars. "Reading is a many-layered process -- like writing," observes Samuel R. Delany, a... See More
Captives of the Flame
The Empire of Toromon had finally declared war. The attacks on its planes had been nothing compared to the final insult -- the kidnapping of the Crown Prince. The enemy must be dealt with, and when they were, Toromon would... See More
The Jewels of Aptor
QUEST AMID FUTURITY'S RUINS 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... See More