Samuel R Delany's picture
36 followers

Samuel R Delany


USA flag (b.1942)

Samuel Ray 'Chip' Delany, Jr was born in Harlem in 1942, and published his first novel at the age of just 20. As author, critic and academic, his influence on the modern genre has been profound and he remains one of science fiction's most important and discussed writers. He has won the HUGO AWARD twice and the NEBULA AWARD four times, including consecutive wins for BABEL-17 and THE EINSTEIN INTERSECTION. Since January 2001 he has been a professor of English and Creative Writing at Temple University in Philadelphia, where he is Director of the Graduate Creative Writing Program.
 

Genres: Science Fiction, Fantasy, Literary Fiction,
 
Series
Fall of the Towers
   1. Captives of the Flame (1963)

     aka Out of the Dead City

   2. The Towers of Toron (1964)
   3. The City of a Thousand Suns (1965)
thumbthumbthumb
 
Neveryon
   1. Tales of Neveryon (1975)
   2. Neveryona (1983)
   3. Flight from Neveryon (1978)
   4. Return to Neveryon (1987)
     aka The Bridge of Lost Desire
thumbthumbthumbthumb
 
Novels
   The Ballad of Beta-2 (1965)
   Babel-17 (1966)
   The Einstein Intersection (1967)
   Nova (1968)
   The Tides of Lust (1973)
     aka Equinox
   Dhalgren (1974)
   Triton (1976)
     aka Trouble on Triton
   Empire (1978)
   Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand (1985)
   They Fly at Ciron (1993)
   The Mad Man (1994)
   Hogg (1995)
   Dark Reflections (2007)
   Through the Valley of the Nest of Spiders (2011)
   Voyage, Orestes! (2019)
thumbthumbthumbthumb
thumbthumbthumbthumb
thumbthumbthumbthumb
thumbthumbthumb
 
Collections
   Aye, and Gomorrah (1967)
   Driftglass (1971)
   Distant Stars (1981)
   The Complete Nebula Award-Winning Fiction (1986)
   Driftglass / Starshards (1993)
   Atlantis (1995)
   Giant Science-Fiction Six-Pack (2014) (with others)
   The Mad Man: or, The Mysteries of Manhattan (2015)
   A, B, C (2015)
thumbthumbthumbthumb
thumbthumbthumbthumb
thumb
 
Novellas and Short Stories
thumbthumbthumbthumb
thumb
 
Anthologies edited
   Quark 1 (1970) (with Marilyn Hacker)
   Quark 3 (1971) (with Marilyn Hacker)
   Quark 2 (1971) (with Marilyn Hacker)
   Quark 4 (1971) (with Marilyn Hacker)
thumbthumbthumbthumb
 
Series contributed to
thumb
 
thumb
 
Non fiction show
 
Omnibus editions show
 
Samuel R Delany recommends
thumb
Tiny Arrows (2022)
Rhys Hughes
"If I said he was a Welsh writer who writes as though he has gone to school with the best writing from all over the world, I wonder if my compliment would just sound provincial. Hughes' style, with all that means, is among the most beautiful I've encountered in several years."
thumb
The Mere Wife (2018)
Maria Dahvana Headley
"Maria Dahvana Headley writes with crackling headlong sentences that range among old plots and news observations about a world that earlier today seemed too familiar. Master story teller, brilliant stylist, a writer with this sort of command of language is a delight to read. Here's a book to call up an old story in the newest possible way."
thumb
Alanya to Alanya (2005)
(Marq'ssan Cycle, book 1)
L Timmel Duchamp
"[Duchamp] is simply and unarguably among the best."

More recommendations 


Anthologies containing stories by Samuel R Delany
thumb
Sense of Wonder (2023)
A Century of Science Fiction
edited by
Leigh Ronald Grossman
thumb
Out of the Ruins (2021)
The Apocalyptic Anthology
edited by
Preston Grassmann
thumb
The Big Book of Modern Fantasy (2020)
edited by
Ann Vandermeer and Jeffrey S VanderMeer

More anthologies 


Awards
Nebula Awards Best Novella nominee (1966) : The Ballad of Beta-2 [short story]
Hugo Best Novel nominee (1967) : Babel-17
Nebula Awards Best Novel winner (1967) : Babel-17
Hugo Best Short Story nominee (1968) : Aye, and Gomorrah...
Hugo Best Novella nominee (1968) : The Star Pit
Nebula Awards Best Short Story winner (1968) : Aye, and Gomorrah...
Nebula Awards Best Short Story nominee (1968) : Driftglass [short story]
Nebula Awards Best Novel winner (1968) : The Einstein Intersection
Hugo Best Novella nominee (1969) : Lines of Power
Hugo Best Novel nominee (1969) : Nova
Nebula Awards Best Novella nominee (1969) : Lines of Power
Hugo Best Short Story winner (1970) : Time Considered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Stones
Nebula Awards Best Novellette winner (1970) : Time Considered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Stones
Nebula Awards Best Novel nominee (1976) : Dhalgren
Nebula Awards Best Novel nominee (1977) : Triton
Hugo Best Novellette nominee (1978) : Prismatica
Nebula Awards Best Novella nominee (1980) : The Tale of Gorkin
Arthur C. Clarke Award Best Book nominee (1987) : Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand


Visitors also looked at these authors


About Fantastic Fiction       Information for Authors