Samuel R. Delany Biography

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Dhalgren: NOTE: THIS IS #26 on the TOP 100 LIST. The first 1-25 entries are found on THE TOP 25 BEST SCIENCE FICTION LIST. Dhalgren is one of the peculiarities of...
Babel-17: The Sapir-Worf (no relation to Klingons!) hypothesis basically states that the structure of language influences the way we see the world, because it defines how we structure propositional thought. It...
The Jewel-hinged Jaw: Notes On The Language Of Science Fiction: Curiously, science fiction writers aren't always the best people to write about science fiction, they're too close to have the perspective that's needed. The result is often rather pedestrian, like...
Nova: We've already included one example of what might be called new wave space opera, and in a sense this is another, but it is a very different novel. The novel...
Triton: Also published as Trouble on Triton: An Ambiguous Heterotopia, the novel was conceived as a response to Ursula K. Le Guinâ€™s Ambiguous Utopia, The Dispossessed. But at the core of...