Bøger af Samuel R. Delany

BABEL-17 is the novel which catapulted Samuel R. Delany into the front rank of SF writers.

The story of a truly galactic civilization with over 6,000 inhabited worlds.

Afrofuturismen er en relativt ny strømning indenfor fantastisk litteratur, der giver stemme til forfattere fra den afrikanske diaspora – det vil sige efterkommere af de afrikanere, der i sin tid blev bortført med vold og gjort til slaver, især i USA. Det er en litteratur der synliggør forholdene, både i historisk perspektiv og som de tager sig ud i dag. Den gør det på fantastisk vis, det vil sige ved at skrive om fremtiden, om rummet, om mystiske væsner og om ganske almindelige mennesker i specielle situationer.Denne bog er den første antologi på dansk, der præsenterer afrofuturistisk science fiction – og, da der er en vis uenighed om definitionen, også ”det der ligner”. Antologien præsenterer bl.a. en af de første forløbere for afrofuturismen i form af en post-apokalyptisk novelle fra 1920’erne; markante noveller fra forfattere som de nye afrofuturister har taget som deres forbilleder; samt historier om tid og rum, kloning, virtual reality (og sex!), tidsrejser, kunst og sameksistensen med aliens.Alle historierne er science fiction af den gode slags, der underholder under læsningen, men samtidig giver stof til eftertanke. For ud over den umiddelbare handling og de interessante personer, lægger de op til overvejelser, fx om hvordan vi tænker på andre (enkeltindivider, grupper, etniske konstellationer), på samfundet og på intet mindre end universet.Octavia Butler: BlodbarnNalo Hopkinson: Ganger (Kuglelyn)Linda D. Addison: Adskilt, sammenW. E. B. Du Bois: KometenTananarive Due: Mor og datterNisi Shawl: Maggierevie shockley: adskillelsesangstKalamu ya Salaam: TidstranceJelani Wilson: 22XX:One-ShotSamuel R. Delany: CoronaOmkring afrofuturisme. Efterord ved Lise Andreasen og Niels Dalgaard

The renowned novelist and critic's private journals, spanning from his years as a high school student in the Bronx to early adult life in San Francisco. For fifty years Samuel Delany has cultivated a special relationship with language in works of fiction, criticism, and memoir that have garnered critical praise and legions of fans. The present volumethe first in a seriesreveals a new dimension of his genius. In Search of Silence presents over a decade's worth of Delany's private journals, commencing in 1957 when he was still a student at the Bronx High School of Science, and ending in 1969 when he was living in San Francisco and on the verge of reconceiving the novel that would become Dhalgren. In these pages, Delany muses on the writing of the stories that will establish him as a science fiction wunderkind, the early years of his marriage to the poet Marilyn Hacker, performances as a singer-songwriter during the heyday of the American folk revival, travels in Europe, experiences in a New York City commune, and much moreand crosses paths with artists working in many genres, including poets such as Robert Frost, W. H. Auden, and Marie Ponsot, and science fiction writers such as Arthur C. Clarke, Michael Moorcock, Roger Zelazny, and Joanna Russ. Delany scholar Kenneth R. James presents the journal entries alongside generous samplings of story outlines, poetry, fragments of novels and essays that have never seen publication, and more; James also provides biographical synopses and an extensive set of endnotes to supply contextual information and connect journal material to Delany's published work.';This is a tremendously significant and vital addition to the oeuvre of Samuel Delany; it clarifies questions not only of the writer's process, but also his developmentto see, in his juvenilia, traces that take full form in his novelsis literally breathtaking.' Matthew Cheney, author of Blood: Stories';Traversing Delany's youth, we see a precocious mind grappling with his own talent he lives on two registers, participating in the world and also observing it, living simultaneously as a kid in NYC and, ';a writer of genius.'' Robert Minto, New Republic';Mesmerizing... a true portrait of an artist as a young Black man... already visible in these pages are the wit, sensitivity, penetration, playfulness and the incandescent intelligence that will characterize Delany and his extraordinary work.' Junot Daz, author of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

A revised and expanded edition of a classic work of criticism exploring how science fiction is not about the future but about the potential of the present. In Starboard Wine, Samuel R. Delany explores the implications of his now-famous assertion that science fiction is not about the future. Rather, it uses the future as a means of talking about the present and its potentiality. By recognizing a text's specific ';difference,' we begin to see the quality of its particulars. Through riveting analyses of works by Joanna Russ, Robert Heinlein, Theodore Sturgeon, and Thomas M. Disch, Delany reveals critical strategies for reading that move beyond overwrought theorizing and formulaic thinking. Throughout, the author performs the kinds of careful inquiry and urgent speculation that he calls others to engage in.';Samuel Delany is without doubt a fine writer and intellectual critic without equal.' S. Raeschild, Choice';After all the years since it was first published, Starboard Wine remains one of the three or four most important critical statements ever made about science fiction. No one with a serious interest in the field should be ignorant of it.' Carl Freedman, author of Critical Theory and Science Fiction';As a fiction writer, reviewer, critic, analyst, and theorist, Delany has done more than anyone to expand how people read, as well as write, science fiction and fantasy. His essays are a seminal achievement by one of the field's most innovative thinkers.' David N. Samuelson, professor emeritus, California State University, Long Beach

An indispensable work of science fiction criticism revised and expanded

A diverse collection of essays and interviews from one of literature's most iconic voices.

"Delany's books interweave science fiction with histories of race, sexuality, and control. This anthology of essays, lectures, and interviews addresses topics such as 9/11, race, the garden of Eden, the interplay of life and writing, and notes on other writers such as Theodore Sturgeon, Hart Crane, Ursula K.

Essential reading for the creative writer.

A keystone text in literary theory and science fiction

Whether he is exploring the deeply felt issues of identity, race, and sexuality, untangling the intricacies of literary theory, or the writing process itself, Delany is one of the most lucid and insightful writers of our time.

Winner of the 1989 Hugo Award for Non-fiction

A stunning, many-layered speculation on the future of humanity, on interaction between cultures, on love and sex, on religion and politics, STARS IN MY POCKETS LIKE GRAINS OF SAND is an enduring masterpiece by one of science fiction's greatest writers.

A race for the stolen phallus of a nameless god

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A novel of myth and literacy about a long-ago land on the brink of civilization.

Presumably elaborated from an ancient text of unknown geographical origin, the stories are sunk in translators' and commentators' introductions and appendices, forming a richly comic frame.

A stunning space opera from the HUGO and NEBULA AWARD-winning Grand Master, Samuel R. Delany.

A counter-culture classic and a classic of SF - a young man arrives in a near future US and writes a book that may be DHALGREN.

The stories of Atlantis: three tales are not SF, yet Locus, the trade publication of the science fiction field, notes that the title story 'has an odd, unsettling power not usually associated with mainstream fiction.

A science fiction from Samuel R Delany.