Samuel R. Delany

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Essays

• About Five Thousand Seven Hundred Fifty Words - About Five Thousand Seven Hundred Fifty Words

Bibliography

• http://www.starshards.org/bibliography/

Selected bibliography from Wikipedia

Fiction

Novels

• The Jewels of Aptor (1962)
• The Fall of the Towers, originally published as three separate novels:
  • Captives of the Flame (1963) - also published as the substantially different, more definitive Out of the Dead City
  • The Towers of Toron (1964)
  • City of a Thousand Suns (1965)
• The Ballad of Beta-2 (1965)
• Empire Star (novella) (1966)
• Babel-17 (1966, Nebula Award)
• The Einstein Intersection (1967, Nebula Award)
• Nova (1968), ISBN 0-553-10031-9
• The Tides of Lust (1973), later reprinted under Delany's preferred title Equinox (1994), ISBN 1-56333-157-8
• Dhalgren (1975), ISBN 0-553-14861-3
• Triton (1976), ISBN 0-553-12680-6, also published as Trouble on Triton
• Empire with Howard Chaykin (1978) a "visual novel" published by Byron Preiss.
• Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand (1984), ISBN 0-553-05053-2
• They Fly at Çiron (1993)
• The Mad Man (1994), ISBN 1-56333-193-4
• Hogg (1995), ISBN 0-932511-91-0
• Phallos (novella) (2004), ISBN 0-917453-41-7
• Dark Reflections (2007), ISBN 0-786719-47-8
• Through the Valley of the Nest of Spiders, (Forthcoming, Fall 2008)

Return to Nevèrÿon series

• Main article: Return to Nevèrÿon (series)
• Tales of Nevèrÿon (short stories) (1979), ISBN 0-553-12333-5
• Neveryóna (novel) (1983), ISBN 0-553-01434-X
• Flight from Nevèrÿon (novellas) (1985), ISBN 0-553-24856-1
• The Bridge of Lost Desire (novellas) (1987), ISBN 0-87795-931-5, revised as Return to Nevèrÿon (1994), ISBN 0-8195-6278-5

Short story collections

• Driftglass (1971)
• Distant Stars (1981, illustrated), ISBN 0-553-01336-X
• The Complete Nebula Award-Winning Fiction (1983), ISBN 0-553-25610-6
• Driftglass/Starshards (1993), ISBN 0-586-21422-4
• Atlantis: Three Tales (1995), ISBN 0-8195-5283-6
• Aye, and Gomorrah, and other stories (2003), ISBN 0-375-70671-2

(The current definitive short story collections for Samuel Delany are Atlantis: Three Tales and Aye, and Gomorrah, and other stories, which, combined, contain all of the short stories from the other collections listed, as well as some additional material.)

Anthologies

• (edited with Marilyn Hacker) Quark/1 (1970, science fiction)
• (edited with Marilyn Hacker) Quark/2 (1971, science fiction)
• (edited with Marilyn Hacker) Quark/3 (1971, science fiction)
• (edited with Marilyn Hacker) Quark/4 (1971, science fiction)
• Nebula Winners 13 (1980, science fiction)

Nonfiction

Critical works

• The Jewel-hinged Jaw: Notes on the Language of Science Fiction (Dragon Press, 1977)
• The American Shore: Meditations on a Tale of Science Fiction (Dragon Press, 1978)
• Starboard Wine: More Notes on the Language of Science Fiction (Dragon Press, 1984)
• Wagner/Artaud: A Play of 19th and 20th Century Critical Fictions (Ansatz Press, 1988)
• The Straits of Messina (1989), ISBN 0-934933-04-9
• Silent Interviews (1995), ISBN 0-8195-6280-7
• Longer Views (1996, with an introduction by Kenneth R. James), ISBN 0-8195-6293-9
• Shorter Views (1999), ISBN 0-8195-6369-2
• About Writing (2005), ISBN 0-8195-6716-7

Memoirs and letters

• Heavenly Breakfast (1979, a memoir of a New York City commune during the so-called Summer of Love), ISBN 0-553-12796-9
• The Motion of Light in Water (1988, a memoir of his experiences as a young gay science fiction writer; winner of the Hugo Award), ISBN 0-87795-947-1
• Times Square Red, Times Square Blue (1999, a discussion of changes in social and sexual interaction in New York's Times Square), ISBN 0-8147-1919-8
• Bread & Wine: An Erotic Tale of New York (1999, an autobiographical comic drawn by Mia Wolff with an introduction by Alan Moore), ISBN 1-890451-02-9
• 1984: Selected Letters (2000, with an introduction by Kenneth R. James), ISBN 0-9665998-1-0

Introductions

• The Adventures of Alyx, by Joanna Russ
• Black Gay Man by Robert Reid-Pharr
• Burning Sky, Selected Stories, by Rachel Polack
• The Cosmic Rape, by Theodore Sturgeon
• Microcosmic God, by Theodore Sturgeon
• Glory Road, by Robert Heinlein
• Masters of the Pit, by Michael Moorcock
• Nebula Winners 13, edited by Samuel R. Delany
• The Sandman: A Game of You, by Neil Gaiman
• Shade: An Anthology of Fiction by Gay Men of African Descent, edited by Charles Rowell and Bruce Morrow
• Three Short Novels, by Geoff RymanThe truth.

From ISFDB

Fiction Series

   * Neveryon
         o 1 Tales of Nevèrÿon (1979) [C]
         o 2 Neveryona (1983)
               + Variant Title: Neveryóna (1983) 
         o 3 Flight from Nevèrÿon (1985) [C]
         o 4 The Bridge of Lost Desire (1987) [C]
               + Variant Title: Return to Nevèrÿon (1987) 

   * The Fall of the Towers
         o The Fall of the Towers (1970) [O/1-3]
         o 1 Captives of the Flame (1963)
               + Variant Title: Out of the Dead City (1966) 
         o 2 The Towers of Toron (1964)
         o 3 City of a Thousand Suns (1965) 

Novels

   * The Jewels of Aptor (1962)
   * The Ballad of Beta-2 (1965)
   * Babel-17 (1966)
   * Empire Star (1966)
   * The Einstein Intersection (1967)
   * Nova (1968)
   * Dhalgren (1975)
   * Triton (1976)
         o Variant Title: Trouble on Triton (1996) (1976) 
   * Empire (1978) with Howard V. Chaykin
   * Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand (1984)
   * They Fly at Çiron (1993)
   * Bread and Wine (1999) with Mia Wolff
   * The Splendor and Misery of Bodies, of Cities (unpublished) 

Collections

   * Driftglass (1971)
   * Distant Stars (1981)
   * Driftglass/Starshards (1993)
   * They Fly at Çiron (1993)
   * Atlantis: Three Tales (1995)
   * Aye, and Gomorrah: And Other Stories (2003) 

Omnibus

   * The Jewels of Aptor / Second Ending (1962) [O/2N] with James White
   * Captives of the Flame / The Psionic Menace (1963) [O/2N] with John Brunner [as by Keith Woodcott and Samuel R. Delany ]
   * The Towers of Toron / The Lunar Eye (1964) [O/2N] with Robert Moore Williams
   * Alpha Yes, Terra No! / The Ballad of Beta-2 (1965) [O/2N] with Emil Petaja
   * The Tree Lord of Imeten / Empire Star (1966) [O/2N] with Tom Purdom
   * The Ballad of Beta-2 / Empire Star (1973) [O/2N]
   * The Complete Nebula Award-Winning Fiction (1986) [O]
   * Tango Charlie and Foxtrot Romeo / The Star Pit (1989) [O] with John Varley
   * Babel-17 / Empire Star (2001) [O/2N] 

Anthology Series

   * Nebula Awards
         o 13 Nebula Winners 13 (1979) 

   * Quark
         o 1 Quark/1 (1970) with Marilyn Hacker
         o 2 Quark/2 (1971) with Marilyn Hacker
         o 3 Quark/3 (1971) with Marilyn Hacker
         o 4 Quark/4 (1971) with Marilyn Hacker 

Anthologies

   * Home Is the Hangman / We, in Some Strange Power's Employ, Move on a Rigorous Line (1990) with Roger Zelazny 

Nonfiction

   * The Jewel-Hinged Jaw (1977)
   * The American Shore (1978)
   * Heavenly Breakfast (1979)
   * Starboard Wine (1984)
   * The Motion of Light in Water (1988)
         o Variant Title: The Motion of Light in Water: Sex and Science Fiction Writing in the East Village, 1957-1965 (1988)
         o Variant Title: The Motion of Light in Water: Sex and Science Fiction Writing in the East Village: 1960-1965 (1993)
         o Variant Title: The Motion of Light in Water: East Village Sex and Science Fiction Writing: 1960-1965 (1990) 
   * Wagner/Artaud: A Play of 19th and 20th Century Critical Fictions (1988)
   * The Straits of Messina (1989)
   * Silent Interviews: On Language, Race, Sex, Science Fiction, and Some Comics (1994)
   * Comics (1994)
   * Longer Views (1996)
   * Shorter Views: Queer Thoughts & the Politics of the Paraliterary (1999)
   * 1984: Selected Letters (2000)
   * About Writing: Seven Essays, Four Letters, & Five Interviews (2005) 

Nongenre

   * The Tides of Lust (1973)
         o Variant Title: Equinox (1994) 
   * The Mad Man (1994)
   * Hogg (1995) 

Shortfiction

   * Aye, and Gomorrah. . . (1967)
         o Variant Title: Aye, and Gomorrah (1967) 
   * The Star Pit (1967)
         o Variant Title: The Star-Pit (1967) 
   * Driftglass (1967)
   * Corona (1967)
   * The Power of the Nail (1968) with Harlan Ellison
         o Variant Title: Power of the Nail (1968) 
   * Ruins (1968)
   * Lines of Power (1968)
         o Variant Title: "We, in Some Strange Power's Employ, Move on a Rigorous Line" (1968)
   * "We, in Some Strange Power's Employ, Move on a Rigorous Line" (1968)
   * Cage of Brass (1968)
   * House A-Fire (1968)
   * High Weir (1968)
   * Time Considered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Stones (1968)
   * Night and the Loves of Joe Dicostanzo (1970)
   * The Dying Castles (1970) with James Sallis and Michael Moorcock
   * Dog in a Fisherman's Net (1971)
   * They Fly at Ciron (1971) with James Sallis
   * Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand (Excerpt) (1973)
   * Excerpt from Dhalgren (1974)
   * Prismatica (1977)
   * The Tale of Gorgik (1979)
   * The Tale of Dragons and Dreamers (1979)
   * The Tale of Potters and Dragons (1979)
   * The Tale of Small Sarg (1979)
   * The Tale of Old Venn (1979)
   * Stars in My Pockets Like Grains of Sand (excerpt) (1980)
   * Omegahelm (1981)
   * Neveryóna (abridgement) (1982)
   * From Neveryóna: 1. Of Dragons, Mountains, Transhumance, Sequence, abd Sunken Cities, or: The Violence of the Letter (Excerpt) (1983)
   * Appendix A (1985)
   * Appendix B: Closures and Openings (1985)
   * Appendix A: The Tale of Plagues and Carnivals, or, Some Informal Remarks toward the Modular Calculus, Part Five (1985)
   * The Mummer's Tale (1985)
   * The Tale of Fog and Granite (1985)
   * The Tale of Rumor and Desire (1987)
   * The Game of Time and Pain (1987)
   * Among the Blobs (1988)
   * Postscripts (1988)
   * The Desert of Time (1992)
   * Return to Çiron (1993)
   * Atlantis: Model 1924 (1995)
   * Eric, Gwen, and D. H. Lawrence's Esthetic of Unrectified Feeling (1995)
   * Citre et Trans (1995)
   * From The Splendor and Misery of Bodies, of Cities (1996)
   * Tapestry (2003) 

Essay Series

   * Films (F&SF)
         o Films: Charly (1969)
         o Films: Barbarella (1969)
         o Films: The Illustrated Man (1969) 

   * Books (F&SF)
         o Books (F&SF, January 1968) (1968) with Joanna Russ and Terry Carr 

Essays

   * The Scorpion Garden (unknown)
   * "The Scorpion Garden" Revisited (unknown) [as by K. Leslie Steiner ]
   * Of Sex, Objects, Sign, Systems, Sales, SF, and Other Things (unknown) [as by K. Leslie Steiner ]
   * Some Remarks toward a Reading of Dhalgren (unknown) [as by K. Leslie Steiner ]
   * Trouble on Triton (unknown) [as by K. Leslie Steiner ]
   * Ruins/Foundations or, The Fall of the Towers Twenty Years After (unknown)
   * The Early Delany (unknown)
   * Tales of Nevèrÿon (unknown) [as by K. Leslie Steiner ]
   * Return... (unknown) [as by K. Leslie Steiner ]
   * Epilogue (The Fall of the Towers) (1964)
   * Afterword (The Fall of the Towers) (1964)
   * A Fictional Architecture that Manages only with Great Difficulty Not Once to Mention Harlan Ellison (1967)
   * Editorial: Sketch for Two Part Invention (1967)
   * Faust and Archimedes (1968)
   * 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
   * Introduction (Star Well) (1968)
   * The Future in Books (Amazing Stories, November 1968) (1968) with James Blish [as by William Atheling, Jr. and Samuel R. Delany ]
   * Characters (1969)
   * Notes on Revision (The Fall of the Towers) (1970)
   * On Pure Story-Telling (1970)
   * About Five Thousand One Hundred and Seventy Five Words (1970)
   * Critical Methods: Speculative Fiction (1970)
   * Editorial (Quark/1) (1970) with Marilyn Hacker
   * Quarks (1971)
   * About Five Thousand Seven Hundred and Fifty Words (1971)
         o Variant Title: About 5,750 Words (1971) 
   * Introduction (Quark/2) (1971) with Marilyn Hacker
   * Foreword (Quark/3) (1971) with Marilyn Hacker
   * Reading Between the Words (1971)
   * On Speculative Fiction (1971) with Marilyn Hacker
   * Introduction (Green Lantern & Green Arrow #1) (1972)
   * Letter to a Critic: Popular Culture, High Art, and the S-F Landscape (1973)
   * Thickening the Plot (1973)
   * Letter (The Alien Critic #9) (1974)
   * Shadows (1975)
   * Introduction (Alyx) (1976)
         o Variant Title: Alyx (1976) 
   * Appendix: Shadows (1977)
   * Critical Methods/Speculative Fiction (1977)
   * Teaching S-f Writing (1977)
   * Prisoners' Sleep (1977)
   * To Read The Dispossessed (1977)
   * Preface (The Jewel-Hinged Jaw) (1977)
   * Introduction (The Cosmic Rape) (1977)
         o Variant Title: Sturgeon (1984) 
   * Star Wars (1977)
   * Appendix: Some Informal Remarks Toward the Modular Calculus, Part Three (1979)
   * Science Fiction and "Literature" - or, The Conscience of the King (1979)
   * Introduction (Glory Road) (1979)
         o Variant Title: Heinlein (1984) 
   * Foreword (A Reader's Guide to Science Fiction) (1979)
   * Introduction (Nebula Winners 13) (1980)
   * Introduction (Fundamental Disch) (1980)
   * Of Doubts and Dreams (1981)
   * Prologue (The Fall of the Towers) (1982)
   * Starboard Wine, an Introduction (1984)
   * The Necessity of Tomorrows (1984)
   * Some Presumptuous Approaches to Science Fiction (1984)
   * Russ (1984)
   * An Experimental Talk (1984)
   * Disch (1984)
   * Dichtung und Science Fiction (1984)
   * Three Letters to Science Fiction Studies: i) A Letter from New York (1984)
   * Three Letters to Science Fiction Studies: ii) Another Letter from New York (1984)
   * Three Letters to Science Fiction Studies: iii) A Letter from Rome (1984)
   * Reflections on Historical Models (1984)
   * Closures and Openings (1985)
   * An Appreciation: Theodore Sturgeon (1985)
   * Afterword: A Fictional Architecture that Manages Only with Great Difficulty Not Once to Mention Harlan Ellison (1986)
   * Forward to an Afterword (1986)
   * "Return..." A Preface (1987)
         o Variant Title: "Return..." A Preface (1987) [as by K. Leslie Steiner ]
         o Variant Title: Appendix: "Return..." A Preface (1987) [as by K. Leslie Steiner ] 
   * Buffon's Needle (1987) with Robert Wentworth
   * Film (Review of Aliens) (1987)
   * Film (Review of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre II) (1987)
   * Flow My Tears ...: Theater and Science Fiction (1988)
   * Cyberpunk Forum/Symposium: Is Cyberpunk a Good Thing or a Bad Thing? (1988)
   * How Not to Teach Science Fiction (1989)
   * Neither the Beginning Nor the End of Structuralism, Post-Structuralism, Semiotics, or Deconstruction for Science Fiction Readers: An Introduction (Part 1 of 3) (1989)
   * Neither the Beginning Nor the End of Structuralism, Post-Structuralism, Semiotics, or Deconstruction for Science Fiction Readers: An Introduction (Part 2 of 3) (1989)
   * Neither the Beginning Nor the End of Structuralism, Post-Structuralism, Semiotics, or Deconstruction for Science Fiction Readers: An Introduction (Part 3 of 3) (1989)
   * Response to "The New Generation Gap" (1989)
   * Preface (The Straits of Messina) (1989)
   * Letter (Science Fiction #5) (1989)
         o Variant Title: Letter (Science Fiction Eye #5) (1989) [as by K. Leslie Steiner ] 
   * On Reading (1990)
   * The Life of/and Writing (1990)
   * Modernism, Postmodernism, Science Fiction (1990)
   * Science and Literature (1990)
   * An Antiphon (1991)
   * A Review of "Possession: A Romance" by A. S. Byatt (1991)
   * The Future of the Body - and Science Fiction and Technology (1992)
   * Zelazny/Varley/Gibson - and Quality (Part 1 of 2) (1992)
   * Zelazny/Varley/Gibson - and Quality (Part 2 of 2) (1992)
   * Introduction (A Game of You) (1993)
   * Afterword (Argyll) (1993)
   * Introduction: Reading and the Written Interview (1994)
   * The Semiology of Silence: The Science Fuction Studies Interview (1994)
   * Toto, We're Back! The Cottonwood Review Interview (1994)
   * Refractions of *Empire*: The Comics Journal Interview (1994)
   * Sword & Sorcery, S/M, and the Economics of Inadequation: The Camera Obscura Interview (1994)
   * Some *Real* Mothers...: The SF Eye Interview (1994)
   * Science Fiction and Criticism: The Diacritics Interview (1994)
   * Sex,Race, and Science Fiction: The Callaloo Interview (1994)
   * The Kenneth James Interview (1994)
   * The Susan Grossman Interview (1994)
   * The K. Leslie Steiner Interview (1994)
   * Anthony Davis - A Conversation (1994)
   * Introduction (Unconquered Countries: Four Novellas) (1994)
   * Foreword (Microcosmic God / Volume II: The Complete Stories of Theodore Sturgeon) (1995)
   * Aversion/Perversion/Diversion (1995)
   * The Politics of Paraliterary Criticism (Part 1 of 3) (1996)
   * The Politics of Paraliterary Criticism (Part 2 of 3) (1996)
   * The Politics of Paraliterary Criticism (Part 3 of 3) (1996)
   * Reading at Work, and Other Activities Frowned on by Authority: A Reading of Donna Haraway's "Manifesto for Cyborgs: Science, Technology, and Socialist Feminism in the 1980s" (1996)
   * Shadow and Ash (1996)
   * Atlantis Rose...: Some Notes on Hart Crane (1996)
   * A Tribute to Judith Merril (1997)
   * Racism and Science Fiction (1998)
   * An Exhortation to SF Scholars (2000)
   * Introduction (We Who Are About To...) (2005) 

Reviews

   * I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream (1968) by Harlan Ellison
   * Black Easter (1968) by James Blish
   * Possession: A Romance (1991) by A. S. Byatt
   * To Write Like A Woman: Essays in Feminism and Science Fiction (1995) by Joanna Russ 

Interviews

   * An Interview with Samuel R. Delany (1996)
         o Variant Title: An Interview with Samuel R. Delany (1996) [as by K. Leslie Steiner ]
         o Variant Title: An Interview with Samuel R. Delany (1996) [as by K. Leslie Steiner ] 
   * Para•doxa Interview with James Morrow: Blinded by the Enlightenment (1999) with James Morrow