Samuel R. Delany est un auteur qui explore les frontières complexes de l'expérience humaine à travers sa prose magistrale. Son œuvre, qui transcende souvent les conventions de genre traditionnelles, aborde avec une perspicacité pénétrante des thèmes tels que l'identité, la race et la structure sociale. Le style de Delany se caractérise par une riche superposition de langage et une profonde profondeur qui met au défi les lecteurs de contempler le monde qui les entoure. À travers ses récits innovants, il offre une perspective unique sur la psyché humaine et la société.
This collection showcases the diverse writings of Samuel R. Delany, an acclaimed author known for his insightful explorations of writing and science fiction. Delany delves into themes of race, sexuality, and literature, offering a rich perspective on literary theory and the craft of storytelling. His thought-provoking essays and critiques illuminate the intersections of these topics, making it a valuable resource for readers interested in the complexities of literature and its societal implications.
When Barbie's fantasy world starts affecting real life, she enters deeper into her dream world, and her friends follow her into that world in order to stop the sinister, mysterious Cuckoo, which wants her dead.
Along with commentary on his own work and the work of other writers, he
ponders the state of America, discusses friends who are facing AIDS and other
ailments, and comments on the politics of working in academia.
The green of beetles' wings ... the red of polished carbuncle ... a web of silver fire. Lightning tore his eyes apart, struck deep inside his body; and he felt his bones split. Before it became pain, it was gone. And he was falling through blue smoke. The smoke was inside him, cool as blown ice. It was getting darker. He had heard something before, a ... voice: the Lord of the Flames.... Captives of the Flame is the first novel in the Fall of the Towers trilogy.
In his four-volume series Return to Nevèrÿon, Hugo and Nebula award-winner Samuel R. Delany appropriated the conceits of sword-and-sorcery fantasy to explore his characteristic themes of language, power, gender, and the nature of civilization. Wesleyan University Press has reissued the long-unavailable Nevèrÿon volumes in trade paperback. The eleven stories, novellas, and novels in Return to Nevèrÿon's four volumes chronicle a long-ago land on civilization's brink, perhaps in Asia or Africa, or even on the Mediterranean. Taken slave in childhood, Gorgik gains his freedom, leads a slave revolt, and becomes a minister of state, finally abolishing slavery. Ironically, however, he is sexually aroused by the iron slave collars of servitude. Does this contaminate his mission - or intensify it? Presumably elaborated from an ancient text of unknown geographical origin, the stories are sunk in translators' and commentators' introductions and appendices, forming a richly comic frame.
Alternate cover edition can be found here.Author of the bestselling Dhalgren and winner of four Nebulas and one Hugo, Samuel R. Delany is one of the most acclaimed writers of speculative fiction. Babel-17, winner of the Nebula Award for best novel of the year, is a fascinating tale of a famous poet bent on deciphering a secret language that is the key to the enemy’s deadly force, a task that requires she travel with a splendidly improbable crew to the site of the next attack. For the first time, Babel-17 is published as the author intended with the short novel Empire Star, the tale of Comet Jo, a simple-minded teen thrust into a complex galaxy when he’s entrusted to carry a vital message to a distant world. Spellbinding and smart, both novels are testimony to Delany’s vast and singular talent.
A stunning, many-layered speculation on the future of humanity, on interaction
between cultures, on love and sex, on religion and politics, STARS IN MY
POCKETS LIKE GRAINS OF SAND is an enduring masterpiece by one of science
fiction's greatest writers.
