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Also By Samuel R Delany
SF and Fantasy
The Jewels of Aptor (1962)
Captives of the Flame (1963) (revised and expanded as Out of the Dead City)
The Towers of Toron (1964)
City of a Thousand Suns (1965)
The Ballad of Beta-2 (1965)
Empire Star (1966)
Babel-17 (1966)
The Einstein Intersection (1967)
Nova (1968)
Dhalgren (1975)
Triton (1976)
Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand (1984)
They Fly at Çiron (1993)
Tales of Nevèrÿon (1979)
Neveryóna (1983)
Flight from Nevèrÿon (1985)
The Bridge of Lost Desire (1987) (revised as Return to Nevèrÿon, 1994)
Collections
Aye, and Gomorrah (1993)
Non-Fiction
The Jewel-Hinged Jaw (1977, revised 2009)
The American Shore (1978)
Starboard Wine (1984)
Dedication
For Frank Romeo
Samuel R Delany (1942 – )
Samuel Ray ‘Chip’ Delany, Jr was born in Harlem in 1942, and published his first novel at the age of just 20. As author, critic and academic, his influence on the modern genre has been profound and he remains one of science fiction’s most important and discussed writers. He has won the Hugo Award twice and the Nebula Award four times, including consecutive wins for Babel-17 and The Einstein Intersection. Since January 2001 he has been a professor of English and Creative Writing at Temple University in Philadelphia, where he is Director of the Graduate Creative Writing Program.
Copyright
A Gollancz eBook
Copyright © Samuel R Delany 1983
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ISBN 978 0 575 11924 6
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