This is the fifth time I’ve picked my favorite books of the preceding decade, and I cannot help but wonder how many more chances I will have to do so in the future? Twice more? Three times perhaps? Scary thoughts. Before I begin, here is a brief review of my selections from past decades: The 1960s: Best Novel : Lord of Light / Roger Zelazny Best Short Fiction : The Star Pit / Samuel R. Delany...
The rain having been heavy all day but not yet heavy enough to cause panic (fretting, yes, but not panic) maegwynn and I went to NCSU Wednesday night to hear Samuel R. Delany read. 11/11/09 7:30 PM - Samuel Delany and the Fiction Contest Winners Come find out who won NC State's 2009 Fiction Contests. Winners of the statewide contests for short fiction and short-short fiction were chosen by this year's...
"He said "Have you noticed? To meet a new person here in Tethys is always like entering a new city…" He'd said that before, too, ... "At least, it's always been that way with me. A new friend, and they invariably have an appointment or another friend on some street you've never been on before. It makes the city -- come alive." - Samuel R. Delany, _Triton_ (Note: Unsurprisingly...
(Information courtesy of melindadansky .) Samuel R. Delany Reading at NCSU Who: Samuel R. Delany What: Reading When: November 11, 2009 (next Wednesday) 7:30 pm. Where: Caldwell Lounge, Caldwell Hall (one of the three brick, rectangle buildings on Hillsborough. It's across the street from Bruegger's Bagels, among other things). Caldwell Hall http://www.ncsu.edu/facilities/buildings/caldwell.html Building...
October is almost over, and it feels like it has raced by. It's been wonderful and at times disorienting to be back east for the entire month; usually I'm well immersed into the dizzying hive of the fall quarter, but so far I've had a chance to think and read and write (and yes, write letters of recommendation!) and go to conferences, with breathers in between every activity, and it feels almost unreal....
Last week I discussed Empire Star , the centerpiece of Samuel R. Delany’s collection Distant Stars . Since then I have read the rest of the book, and it holds up very well indeed nearly thirty years after its publication. Two of the short stories particularly impressed me. “Corona” starts out like typical Delany: Buddy is a mixed-up kid who works at the Kennedy space station, while...
The late 1960s were my “Golden Age” of science fiction, and I discovered most of my favorite writers during that era: Robert Silverberg, Clifford D. Simak, Roger Zelazny, Jack Vance, Ursula K Le Guin, and the subject of this review, Samuel R. Delany. Delany has published the least f&sf of anybody on this list, but because of that his average quality has probably been higher than any...
My list for the top 100 SF Books . Arranged Alphabetically: Akira by Katsuhiro Otomo The Artificial Kid by Bruce Sterling Babel 17 by Samuel R. Delany Bicentennial Man by Isaac Asimov Brave New World by Aldous Huxley ...
Samuel R. Delany, African American Science Fiction Writer and Essayist. His writing can be quite controversial . Daily Thoughts 9/16/2009 Today has been a quiet day. We did a reference meeting discussing different reference books. I also discussed our meeting with a local publisher with one of the technical services people. Hopefully, we should be getting some very interesting books. On the way to...
"The Polymath isn't about just [Delany's] sex life, but a good chunk of it is and it all relates to his writings. Take for example an early scene in which he is reading, to an audience, the opening paragraphs of his 1966 short story, 'Aye and Gomorrah' (which first appeared in fellow science fiction author Harlan Ellison's groundbreaking anthology, Dangerous Visions). The story begins in France...
Over at fade theory , they're currently reading Living to Tell the Tale (Edith Grossman's translation of Vivir para contarla ): García Márquez's memoirs. Originally, it was to be the first installment of a trilogy, but this may be it for now. Maybe I should finally crack open my own copy... °°° Matthew Cheney interviews Samuel R. Delany on the release of a new edition of The...
Matthew Cheney interviews Samuel R. Delany at Omnivoracious . The occasion: a new edition of The Jewel-Hinged Jaw: Notes on the Language of Science Fiction . (Great interview! Sentences I most like, out of many other very good ones: "I wanted a book I—that is to say, we—could read and enjoy. So I wrote it." Delany is in my opinion one of the great geniuses of our time, as a critic...
Samuel R. Delany might very well be a great science fiction writer, but I haven't read him, because I don't read science fiction. I don't know how to say something like that without having some readers think I'm bragging about...
As readers of my introduction to The Jewel-Hinged Jaw know, my fascination with Samuel R. Delany really began when I read an interview with him in Charles Platt's book Dream Makers . I've been an avid reader of Delany interviews ever since, and so when Jeff VanderMeer asked me to do a quick interview with him for the Amazon.com blog Omnivoracious, I was particularly thrilled. That interview has now...
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