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	glbtq >> literature >> Delany, Samuel R.
		Delany's picaresque memoir, The Motion of Light in Water (1988), the story of "a black man, a gay man, a writer," chronicles his years of school and marriage, which is presented as a time of intellectual discovery, punctuated by meetings with notables such as W.H. Auden.
		Delany's observations on the sexual currents emanating from the bars, baths, and other cruising grounds in the years preceding Stonewall are illuminating.
		Delany often interweaves her poetry into his novels.
	www.glbtq.com /literature/delany_sr.html (852 words)

	Samuel R. Delany
		Samuel R. Delany was born in Harlem, New York on April 1, 1942.
		One of the most discussed and influential authors of science fiction, Samuel R. Delany is also considered to be the first major black author of American science fiction, and the first to be openly gay.
		Delany’s literary honors include Nebula Awards for his novels Babel-17 (1966) and The Einstein Intersection (1967) and for the short story "Aye, and Gomorrah".
	www.nndb.com /people/741/000023672 (931 words)

	LA Weekly
		Samuel R. Delany is an author so multifaceted in his identity that he navigates, with equal grace, the disparate worlds of academic conferences and comic-book conventions.
		Samuel R. Delany will appear in conversation with Steve Erickson, as part of the “Words in the World” series, on Sunday, May 18, 2 p.m., at the Los Angeles Public Library, 630 W. Fifth St., downtown; (213) 228-7000.
		Behind this calm, sagelike visage, Delany is a pioneer in gay literature and a science-fiction icon who has sustained, as well as subverted, the genre.
	www.laweekly.com /ink/03/25/books-miller.php (1371 words)

	Samuel R. Delany and Me
		Samuel R. Delany and Me This isn't so much a story as a series of vignettes.
		Delany's prose style was elliptic enough that I wasn't sure exactly what was happening mechanically, but I knew what was happening in general: two men were having sex, and that scared me. I returned the book to the store, and didn't tell them why.
		Delany had been adjunct faculty for a time at the university I attended, and in April 1991 he returned for a one-night reading and Q and A session.
	www.rdrop.com /~half/Personal/Stories/SamuelRDelany.html (758 words)

	Dhalgren by Samuel R. Delany
		Delany has remained an interesting writer because he consumes culture and theory, including the continental philosophy of Derrida, Foucault and Lacan, and allows his work to resonate with the freshness of their ideas.
		Delany was recently interviewed by J B Sclisizzi for a Canadian literary magazine, Matrix.
		Delany has completed a work of comparative literature involving Wagner and Antonin Artaud.
	www.paraethos.com /library/dhalgren.htm (438 words)

	Samuel R Delany - sffworld.com
		Delany uses flashbacks in chapter 2 to give away information of what happened to von Ray and Prince (who were friends to begin with) at their childhood and how they became enemies.
		Delany takes you into the the same room as his characters so you can se, hear and smell them as if you actually were present.
		Delany is one of the most intriguing, intelligent and enigmatic authors of speculative fiction.
	www.sffworld.com /forums/showthread.php?t=3514 (1828 words)

	City Newspaper: Arts: Literature: Sex and science fiction
		Samuel R. Delany will speak on Monday, March 1, in the Welles-Brown Room of the Rush Rhees Library, on the University of Rochester River Campus, at 8 p.m.
		Tucker, who is responsible for bringing Delany to Rochester, sees his work as "a very important example of the significance of the intersection of race and sexuality." Tucker uses Delany's works in classes focused not just on the SF field, but the wide spectrum of black American experience.
		But Delany began his career as a science fiction writer, and to this day is part of that world.
	www.rochester-citynews.com /gbase/Gyrosite/Content?oid=oid:2406 (686 words)

	A Silent Interview with Samuel R. Delany - R A I N T A X I o n l i n e
		SAMUEL R. DELANY'S many books offer not only the beauty of well-turned phrases and the spark of provocative ideas, but an illumination won from the exacting exploration of self and society.
		SAMUEL R. Because I like to read poetry--and like to read about poetry--I'm tempted to start with the most pragmatic answer: As a prose writer, I work with language; and those who work with language turn to poetry for renewal.
		SRD: One of the ideas that underlies much of what I'm speaking of here is what might be called "the fundamental complexity of the recognizable." That is another way of saying that anything stable and enduring--or, indeed, iteratable--enough to be recognized is bound to be complex.
	www.raintaxi.com /online/2000winter/delany.shtml (5113 words)

	David N. Samuelson- "Talking" Samuel R. Delany
		Delany connects cyberpunk to the mysterious lunar artifact of Algis Budrys' Rogue Moon and early evocations of outer space, all of which use inflated rhetoric to differentiate "paraspace" from mundane dimensions.
		Discussing their hardback sf comic book, Empire, for which Delany designed the story and wrote "half" of the prose, his lament is that a publisher with ghettoized ideas of audience expectation, fancied himself a creator and made sure that what was published was aesthetic hash.
		As in much of his non-fiction, he seeks to disarm criticism of his positions by suggesting that he has already considered and dismissed it, that his "counter-intuitive" ideas fall outside the critic's angle of vision, or that he has read and internalized theorists with whom the critic is less familiar.
	www.depauw.edu /sfs/review_essays/samuel66.htm (3524 words)

	Science Fiction Weekly Interview
		Delany: One of the things that was very clear is that many of the readers were just general college-age readers, some of whom had read some science fiction, some of whom had not read a lot, but were responding to it.
		Delany: I think there are lots of similarities between the Kidd and me. He has the same response to typographical errors that I do.
		was already calling Delany "the best science-fiction writer in the world," which, based on the evidence at the time, did not seem to be that controversial a call.
	www.scifi.com /sfw/issue217/interview.html (5544 words)

	Bookreporter.com - DHALGREN by Samuel R. Delany
		Sam Delany at that point in time was one of the genre's young lions.
		I never read another of Delany's books again, after having been a major fan of his for years.
		The science fiction genre was flush with energy for a number of reasons, and Bantam hired Frederik Pohl (who even then was a grand master in the field) to find new and original science fiction novels and publish them under its imprint with the legend "A Frederik Pohl Book," or something like that.
	www.bookreporter.com /reviews/0375706682.asp (585 words)

	The SF Site: A Conversation With Samuel R. Delany
		Samuel R. Delany was born in 1942 in Harlem, New York.
		Samuel R. "Chip" Delany published his first novel, The Jewels of Aptor, in 1962 at the age of 20.
		Running a search for "Samuel R. Delany" through several online booksellers turns up as many -- if not more -- books about you and your writings as by you.
	www.sfsite.com /06b/srd106.htm (3739 words)

	Dalkey Archive Press: Interview with Samuel R. Delany
		SRD: Take the fundamental notion governing most of my SF criticism for the last fifteen years: that science fiction is--as are all practices of writing, as are all genres, literary and paraliterary--a way of reading.
		SRD: It's certainly a fascinating topic--if only because it's the first where you've asked me directly about what we've been wrestling with indirectly till now: the problem of fiction.
		SRD: I don't believe that the first two exist in any hypostatized form that allows them to come apart from the text.
	www.centerforbookculture.org /interviews/interview_delany.html (1699 words)

	Atlantis/Delany Bio
		Delany is a true polymath, a stunning critic, an outrageous social commentator, a wizard of allegory, a pornographer of extreme transgression, a balladeer of autobiography, a man with no shame, a thoroughly human soul possessing unlimited grace and love, a writer of the very first rank.
		He published the first novel about AIDS (The Tale of Plagues and Carnivals) in the United States in 1984, and is also one of that very select group of recipients of The William Whitehead Memorial Award for a Lifetime’s Contribution to Lesbian and Gay Literature.
		He has won nearly every major award in the world of Science Fiction, where as a genuine prodigy, he first rose to prominence in the early 1960’s.
	dmznyc.com /html/atlantiss.03.html (160 words)

	Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Essay: Samuel R. Delany
		My only criticism of Delany is his adoption of the obscurantist ideology of deconstructionism, which has not spoiled his fiction but which could someday put a brake on his development.
		Many of Delany's 1960s works concentrated on problems of identity, the limits of human nature, and the impact on these by advanced technological society, often with surprising plot twists challenging stereotyped racial and sexual roles.
		Delany may be the most philosophically profound novelist alive today.
	www.autodidactproject.org /my/delaney1.html (439 words)

	The Pinocchio Theory » Blog Archive » Samuel R. Delany
		Delany, like Bataille, is concerned with expressing, articulating, and enacting a range of desires and deeds that escape the “economy” of capitalist exchange; but Delany’s vision of expenditure beyond exchange-value does not have any of the Bataillean connotations of sin, unnaturalness, “perversion,” and guilt.
		Perhaps use and exchange value in the social economy of Delany’s Dhalgren could be a fruitful concept for postmodern analysis.
		I’ve read quite a bit of Delany’s work (most recently the first two books of Neveryon) and find it pretty exciting.
	www.shaviro.com /Blog/?p=487 (1613 words)

	Samuel R. Delany The A.V. Club
		Vintage Books recently republished Delany's 1974 masterwork Dhalgren, a massive, episodic book that explores urban decay in a near-future setting, as the first in a series of Delany reprints scheduled over the next two years.
		SRD: Probably a few more folks are willing to give my work a try, though I think the critical works function like all those odd jobs they used to stick under the author's photo on the back cover of the book.
		SRD: Well, I know Horace said that the purpose of art was to delight and instruct, somewhere back in the second or first century B.C. But I've never seen it as either one.
	www.avclub.com /content/node/24908/1/2 (1995 words)

	Samuel R. Delany - sffworld.com
		The issue I have with Delany is that whilst he regularly explores sophisticated and intellectually challenging concepts, he does so in the most plodding, brain numbing fashion imaginable.
		In Babel-17, Delany cleverly turns this idea on its head by making language a means of killing in itself.
		Just as the august appeal of a Roman Emperor would be dulled if he were delivered to his throne on the back of a donkey, so the appeal of an author's message, no matter how intelligent, is dulled on the back of a unappealing story.
	www.sffworld.com /forums/showthread.php?t=369 (1588 words)

	Delany, Samuel R.
		Samuel Delany is not a hard SF writer.
		This is early Delany, before he got self-indulgent, and I quite enjoyed it on that level.
		So after that, me and Delany were over - both books went down the second-hand bookshop, and I didn't even consider reading any of his stuff for the best part of 20 years.
	www.moss53.freeserve.co.uk /delany.htm (641 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Babel Seventeen (S.F.Masterworks S.): Books
		In 1967, Samuel R. Delany was young, gay, black and possibly the hippest person on the planet.
		This novel by Samuel Delany is probably the best SF novel I have ever read - at least it rates in my top three.
		Delany has developed this theme of language as the controlling factor in a person's world map in several books, but this is the only one that I can think of by him or any other author where language is not only a weapon but the main driving force behind the plot.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/1857988051 (1275 words)

	two fish » Dhalgren by Samuel R. Delany
		Samuel R. Delany wrote Dhalgren (1974), a most intriguing and brilliant science fiction novel.
		Delany’s skills as a wordsmith cannot be denied.
		The characters wander through its mad landscape with no particular effect, with nothing in particular to propel them along, other than the overriding drive to continue existence.
	www.iyume.com /blog/index.php/archives/2004/06/30/dhalgren-by-samuel-r-delany (638 words)

	Temple English: Samuel R. Delany
		Samuel R. Delany is a critic and novelist, with essays and interviews so far collected in seven volumes, the most recent three of which are Silent Interviews (1994), Longer Views (1996) and Shorter Views (1999).
		Delany is a multiple winner of both Hugo and Nebula Awards for science fiction.
		Delany began as a professor of English and creative writing at Temple University in January 2001.
	www.temple.edu /english/People/DelanyS.asp (285 words)

	Racial Realities and Amazing Alternatives: Studying the Works of Samuel R. Delany by Jeffrey Allen Tucker, Ph.D.
		His dissertation, "A Sense of Wonder: The Postmodern Projects of Samuel R. Delany," was finished during a New England Board of Higher Education Dissertation Fellowship at the University of New Hampshire.
		Delany's father ran a funeral home in Harlem, and his mother was a librarian who fostered a love of reading and writing in her son.
		It was at summer camp and in high school that Delany discovered SF in the form of pulp magazines and the novels of Theodore Sturgeon, Robert A. Heinlein, and Robert E. Howard, among others.
	wiredforbooks.org /scifi/delany.htm (1229 words)

	Samuel R. Delany by K. Leslie Steiner
		Samuel Delany, right now, as of this book, Nova, not as of some future book or some accumulated body of work, is the best science fiction writer in the world, at a time when competition for that status is intense.
		Delany was gay, and while this was not a central node of tension between him and his wife, certainly it contributed to what tensions there were.
		Delany Senior’s own father — young Delany’s grandfather, Henry Beard Delany — had been born in slavery in Georgia in 1857 and was seven in 1865 at the time of emancipation.
	www.pseudopodium.org /repress/KLeslieSteiner-SamuelRDelany.html (6646 words)

	Illustrated SF Encyclopedia Entry: Samuel R. Delany
		Delany's most important work in recent decades may well be pedagogical.
		Delany might be called a tearaway, back in 1962.
		It is the circular story of a typical Delany hero - a lone artist named Kidd - who comes to a mysterious city, has complex adventures there, writes a book which is almost certainly called "Dhalgren," and who leaves the way he came (as in James Joyce's
	www.starshards.org /illus-sf-encyc-srd.html (653 words)

	Bio for Samuel R. Delany
		SAMUEL R. Samuel Delany, born in New York, attended the City College in New York, 1960, and 1962-63.
		Samuel Delany is also a noted author of scripts, a director, and an editor for two short films.
		Samuel Delany has also earned the notation as the innovative and imaginative science fiction writer of today.
	www.femspec.org /bios/samueldelany.htm (124 words)

	Samuel R. Delany -- All Books
		An award-winning science fiction writer, esteemed professor of comparative literature at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, and celebrated essayist and memoirist, Samuel Delany is one of America's keenest observers.
		Over the course of a stellar 30-year career, Delany has built a reputation as one of the preeminent literary stylists of science fiction largely on the basis of his penchant for groundbreaking experimentalism.
		The latest novel from Hugo- and Nebula-winning science fiction writer and critic Delany, an insightful dichotomy between his protagonist's two worlds: the one of cerebral philosophy and dry academia, the other of heedless, impersonal obsessive sexual extremism.
	www.non.com /books/Delany_Samuel_R_cc.html (1576 words)

	Samuel R. Delany
		A Samuel Delany Bibliography from the Society for Human Sexuality.
		Delany was their Guest of Honor at BaltiCon's 2 and 16.
		Sound Photosynthesis, an audio and video supplier, has two tapes of Delany talking at the 1987 SERCON (a science fiction convention) in the science fiction section of their catalog.
	www.pcc.com /~jay/delany (4316 words)

	The Infinite Matrix L. Timmel Duchamp A Delany Love Fest
		For one thing, it is hard to imagine praise of his work going to Delany's head; for another, Delany has always straddled the line between embodying the outlaw transgressor and the authority who knows and respects literary and intellectual tradition.
		For many of us the most startling and moving moment of the conference came during the panel discussion on the first day, when Delany said that although he was gratified by the evidence of so much careful, devoted attention to his work, he worried about the dangers posed by its being so motivated by love.
		And so I could not help wondering beforehand which (partial) versions of Delany would be represented at the conference and whether they would make enough sense, taken together, for the conference to amount to more than just several distinct groups of scholars talking past one another.
	www.infinitematrix.net /faq/essays/duchamp.html (1055 words)

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