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Subject: Author Lists: Samuel Delany
From: JWenn.ESAE@XEROX.COM
Date: 13 Feb 89 08:59:22 GMT




Samuel Delany writes in the literary realm of SF.  His earlier stories (up
until "Nova") are well written, have vivid images, and reasonably
tradtional plot structures.  Then he spent several years writing some
amazing short stories ("Time Considered as a Sequence of Semi-Precious
Stones" & "Aye, and Gomorrah").  Then he produced "Dhalgren".  "Dhalgren"
produces few ambivalent readers, people either love it or hate it.  (I
didn't particularly like it when I read it 5 years ago, but I'll have to
give it another shot to see if my tastes have changed).  Since then he's
done several academic works on SF, written on the "Sword & Socery" series
of Neveryon & produced "Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand" [the sequel
of which still isn't out].

[C] == Short Story Collection.
[NSF] == Not SF
[O] == Omnibus.  Includes other books.
[S] == Scholarly
aka == Also known by this other title.

/John

arpa: JWenn.ESAE@Xerox.com

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Delany, Samuel R[ay] [,Jr.] [U.S.A., 01/04/1942- ]
    The Fall of the Towers [1970] [O] [rev. of the following three]
        Out of the Dead City [1963, 1968] [aka "Captives of the Flame"]
        The Towers of Toron [1964]
        City of a Thousand Suns [1965]
    Neveryon Series
        Tales of Neveryon [1979] [C]
        Neveryona [1983] [C]
        Flight from Neveryon [1985] [C]
	The Bridge of Lost Desire [1987] [C]
    In Series:
        Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand [1984]
        The Splendour and Miseries of Bodies, of Cities [projected]
    The Ballad of Beta-2 / Empire Star [1977] [O]
        The Ballad of Beta-2 [1965]
        Empire Star [1966]
    The Complete Nebula Award-Winning Fiction [1986] [C] [plus 2 stories]
        Babel-17 [1966, 1969]
        The Einstein Intersection [1967] [aka "A Fabulous, Formless
Darkness"]
    The Jewels of Aptor [1962, 1968, 1971]
    Nova [1968]
    Driftglass [1971] [C]
    The Tides of Lust [1973] [NSF]
    Dhalgren [1975, 1977]
    Triton [1976]
    The Jewel-Hinged Jaw: Notes on the Language of Science Fiction [1976]
[S]
    The American Shore [1977] [S]
    Empire: A Visual Novel [1978]
    Distant Stars [1981]
    Starboard Wine [1984] [S]
    The Motion of Light in Water [1988] [Non-Fiction] [Autobiography]
Delany, Samuel & Varley, John
    The Star Pit / Tango Charlie and Foxtrot Romeo [1989] [Tor Double]

From archive (archive)
Subject: Re: Author Lists: Samuel Delany
From: djo@pbhyc.PacBell.COM (Dan'l DanehyOakes)
Organization: Pacific * Bell, San Ramon, CA
Date: 13 Feb 89 17:07:52 GMT




Add two n/f works:  "The Straits of Messina," and "Artaud/Wagner."