Samuel R. Delany
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The American Shore
In the course of his considerations, Samuel R. Delany poses a theory of discourse and explores how the reading of various rhetorical turns, some science…
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Nova
The balance of galactic power in the 31st century revolves around Illyrion, the most precious energy source in the universe. Captain Lorq van Ray's varied…
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The Jewel-Hinged Jaw
Samuel R. Delany's The Jewel-Hinged Jaw first appeared in 1977. Its demonstration that science fiction is a special language, rather than gadgets and green-skinned aliens,…
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Triton
Triton, the outermost moon of Neptune, is a world of absolute freedom. A world where every wish can be fulfilled. But for Bron Helstrom, one…
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Starboard Wine
In Starboard Wine, Samuel Delany explores the implications of his now-famous assertion that science fiction is not about the future. Rather, it uses the future…
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Aye, and Gomorrah
A father must come to terms with his son's death in the war. In Venice, an architecture student commits a crime of passion. A white…
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Return to Neveryon
In this chronicle of a long-ago land on civilization's brink, Gorgik the Liberator's campaign to end slavery has been successful. But in the novel and…
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City of a Thousand Suns
The war was over. The great computer which had arranged and directed the complex military operations of that future nation was to be dismantled. But…
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The Towers of Toron
"We have received warning. The Lord of the Flames is loose on Earth once more." Once before the Lord of the Flames had been driven…
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Out of the Dead City
The Empire of Toromon had finally declared war. The attacks on its planes had been nothing compared to the final insult - the kidnapping of…
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Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand
The only survivor plucked from a world where life has been burned out from horizon to horizon, Rat Korga is a very unusual human. On…
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The Jewels Of Aptor
When Argo, the White Goddess, orders it Geo, the itinerant poet, and his three disparate companions journey to the island of Aptor to seize a…
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Empire Star
The dying alien from the ship that crashed onto Rhys gave Comet Jo a jewel, and begged him to take it to the heart of…
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The Ballad of Beta-2
The Star Folk were an anachronism. Living in their cluster of giant ships far out in space, cut off from contact with their fellow humans,…
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They Fly at Ciron
SURRENDER TO THE FORCES OF MYERTA! A small pastoral village is invaded without warning by the armies of a distant empire sweeping across the world.…
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Tales of Neveryon
Five inter-connected stories set in a mythical past focus on the experiences of the slave Gorgik and deal with aspects of the beginning of civilization.…
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The Einstein Intersection
In an incredible far future, the known laws of Time and Space no longer apply to the world - and the seed of Man has…
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Flight from Neveryon
Silent, upon a peak in Nevèrÿon. The enchanted land of Nevèrÿon is the most fascinating fantasy empire ever mapped by a modern word-enchanter - a…
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Neveryona
Enter the magical realm of the most fascinating empire ever created. In the ancient, fabled land of Nevèrÿon, they tell of a gleaming golden city,…
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Dhalgren
A young man arrives in the anarchic city of Bellona, in a near future USA. This world has two moons but could otherwise be our…
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Babel-17
In the far future, after human civilization has spread through the galaxy, communications begin to arrive in an apparently alien language. They appear to threaten…