Samuel R. Delany

Samuel R. Delany è un autore americano stimato, noto principalmente per i suoi lavori di science fiction e fantasy. Nato il 1° aprile 1942 a New York City, Delany è cresciuto a Harlem come figlio di un bibliotecario del New York Public Library e il proprietario di una casa funeraria. Proviene da una famiglia nera di spicco, con le pioniere dei diritti civili Sadie e Bessie Delany che sono sue zie. La scrittura di Delany gli è valsa numerosi premi, tra cui due Hugo Award e quattro Nebula Award.

Delany ha iniziato la sua carriera di scrittore in tenera età, pubblicando il suo primo romanzo di science fiction all'età di 20 anni. Durante gli anni '60, ha pubblicato nove romanzi di science fiction ben considerati e diversi racconti brevi pluripremiati. Il suo undicesimo e più popolare romanzo, "Dhalgren", è stato pubblicato nel 1975. Oltre alla science fiction, Delany ha anche scritto fiction sperimentale, come "Atlantis: Tre racconti" e "Phallos". La sua serie di quattro volumi "Return to Nevèrÿon" è sword-and-sorcery. I suoi lavori sono stati ampiamente riconosciuti, con "Babel-17" e "The Einstein Intersection" che vincono il Nebula Award, e "Through the Valley of the Nest of Spiders" e "Dark Reflections" che vincono il Stonewall Book Award.

Delany è stato anche una figura influente nell'accademia, ricoprendo la carica di professore in varie università dal 1988. Ha pubblicato diversi libri di critica, interviste ed saggi, e ha scritto un popolare manuale di scrittura creativa, "About Writing". Nel suo libro non fiction, "Times Square Red, Times Square Blue", Delany utilizza esperienze personali per esaminare la relazione tra gli sforzi per il ri sviluppo di Times Square e le vite pubbliche di sesso degli uomini di classe lavoratrice a New York City. Nel 2007, Delany è stato oggetto di un film documentario, "The Polymath, or, The Life and Opinions of Samuel R. Delany, Gentleman."
The Fall of the Towers Books
# Titolo Anno
1 Captives of the Flame / Out of the Dead City 1963
2 The Towers of Toron 1964
3 City of a Thousand Suns 1965
Return to Nevèrÿon Books
# Titolo Anno
1 Tales of Nevèrÿon 1979
2 Neveryóna 1983
3 Flight from Nevèrÿon 1985
4 The Bridge of Lost Desire / Return to Neveryon 1987
Romanzi singoli
# Titolo Anno
1 The Ballad of Beta-2 1965
2 Babel-17 1966
3 The Einstein Intersection 1967
4 Nova 1968
5 The Tides of Lust 1973
6 Dhalgren 1975
7 Tritón / Trouble on Triton 1976
8 Empire 1978
9 Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand 1984
10 They Fly At Çiron 1993
11 Hogg 1994
12 The Mad Man 1994
13 Dark Reflections 2007
14 Through the Valley of the Nest of Spiders 2011
15 Voyage, Orestes! 2019
16 Shoat Rumblin: His Sensations and Ideas 2020
Racconti brevi/Novelle
# Titolo Anno
1 The Jewels of Aptor 1962
2 Empire Star 1966
3 Home Is the Hangman/We, in Some Strange Power's Employ, Move on a Rigorous Line 1990
4 Bread and Wine 1999
5 Phallos 2004
Collezioni
# Titolo Anno
1 Aye, and Gomorrah 1967
2 Driftglass 1971
3 Distant Stars 1981
4 The Complete Nebula Award-Winning Fiction 1986
5 Driftglass/Starshards 1993
6 Atlantis 1995
7 Sensitive Skin #9: post-beat, pre-apocalyptic art, writing and music 2012
8 Sensitive Skin #9: post-beat, pre-apocalyptic art, writing and music (With: Bernard Meisler, John Lurie) 2012
9 A, B, C 2015
10 The Novels of Samuel R. Delany Volume One 2017
11 Occasional Views, Volume 1 2021
12 Occasional Views, Volume 2 2021
13 Roots of Imagination: A Chrestomathy 2023
Libri di non-fiction
# Titolo Anno
1 The Jewel-Hinged Jaw 1977
2 The American Shore 1978
3 Heavenly Breakfast 1979
4 Starboard Wine 1984
5 The Motion of Light in Water 1988
6 Wagner Artaud 1988
7 The Straits of Messina 1989
8 Silent Interviews 1994
9 Longer Views 1996
10 Times Square Red, Times Square Blue 1999
11 1984 2000
12 Shorter Views 2000
13 Black Gay Man 2001
14 About Writing 2006
15 Conversations with Samuel R. Delany 2009
16 The Atheist in the Attic (With: Eleanor Arnason) 2018
17 The Atheist in the Attic 2018
18 Letters from Amherst 2019
19 Frederick Weston & Samuel R. Delany in Conversation (With: Frederick Weston) 2021
20 Frederick Weston & Samuel R. Delany in Conversation 2021
21 Occasional Views, Volume 1 2021
22 Of Solids and Surds 2021
23 Occasional Views, Volume 2 2021
24 The Tragedy of Ophelia: Two Essays 2021
The Hugo Winners Books (with Anne McCaffrey, with Isaac Asimov, with Robert Bloch, with Harlan Ellison, with Robert Silverberg, with Poul Anderson, with Philip Jose Farmer, with Fritz Leiber)
# Titolo Anno
1 1955 to 1961 1962
2 1973 1979
3 1976 - 1979 1985
4 1980 - 1982 1986
5 1986-1988 1990
Outspoken Authors Books
# Titolo Anno
1 The Human Front 2001
2 The Human Front (By: Ken MacLeod) 2001
3 The Left Left Behind 2009
4 The Left Left Behind (By: Terry Bisson, Eleanor Arnason) 2009
5 Lucky Strike (By: Kim Stanley Robinson) 2009
6 Lucky Strike 2009
7 The Underbelly 2010
8 The Underbelly (By: Gary Phillips, Eleanor Arnason) 2010
9 Mammoths of the Great Plains (By: Eleanor Arnason) 2010
10 Mammoths of the Great Plains 2010
11 The Wild Girls (By: Ursula K. Le Guin, Eleanor Arnason) 2011
12 The Wild Girls 2011
13 Modem Times 2.0 2011
14 Modem Times 2.0 (By: Michael Moorcock, Eleanor Arnason) 2011
15 The Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow 2011
16 The Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow (By: Cory Doctorow, Eleanor Arnason) 2011
17 Report from Planet Midnight (By: Nalo Hopkinson, Eleanor Arnason) 2012
18 Surfing the Gnarl 2012
19 The Science of Herself (By: Karen Joy Fowler, Eleanor Arnason) 2013
20 Report from Planet Midnight 2012
21 Patty Hearst & The Twinkie Murders: A Tale of Two Trials (By: Eleanor Arnason, Paul Krassner) 2013
22 The Science of Herself 2013
23 New Taboos (By: John Shirley) 2013
24 Patty Hearst & The Twinkie Murders: A Tale of Two Trials 2013
25 Raising Hell (By: Norman Spinrad, Eleanor Arnason) 2014
26 New Taboos 2013
27 My Life, My Body (By: Marge Piercy) 2015
28 Raising Hell 2014
29 Gypsy (By: Carter Scholz, Eleanor Arnason) 2015
30 My Life, My Body 2015
31 Miracles Ain't What They Used to Be (By: Joe R. Lansdale, Eleanor Arnason) 2016
32 Gypsy 2015
33 Miracles Ain't What They Used to Be 2016
34 Fire. (By: Elizabeth Hand, Eleanor Arnason) 2017
35 Fire. 2017
36 Totalitopia (By: John Crowley) 2017
37 The Atheist in the Attic (With: Eleanor Arnason) 2018
38 Totalitopia 2017
39 The Atheist in the Attic 2018
40 Thoreau's Microscope (By: Michael Blumlein, Eleanor Arnason) 2018
41 The Beatrix Gates (By: Rachel Pollack) 2019
42 Thoreau's Microscope 2018
43 A City Made of Words (By: Paul Park) 2019
44 The Beatrix Gates 2019
45 Not What I Intended (By: Nancy Kress) 2025
46 A City Made of Words 2019
PM's Outspoken Authors Books
# Titolo Anno
1 The Presidential Papers (By: John H. Kessel) 1984
2 The Human Front (By: Ken MacLeod) 2001
3 The Underbelly (By: Gary Phillips, Eleanor Arnason) 2010
4 Mammoths of the Great Plains (By: Eleanor Arnason) 2010
5 Modem Times 2.0 (By: Michael Moorcock, Eleanor Arnason) 2011
6 Surfing the Gnarl (By: Rudy Rucker) 2012
7 Patty Hearst & The Twinkie Murders: A Tale of Two Trials (By: Eleanor Arnason, Paul Krassner) 2013
8 Raising Hell (By: Norman Spinrad, Eleanor Arnason) 2014
9 Gypsy (By: Carter Scholz) 2015
10 Miracles Ain't What They Used to Be (By: Joe R. Lansdale, Eleanor Arnason) 2016
11 Fire. (By: Elizabeth Hand, Eleanor Arnason) 2017
12 The Atheist in the Attic (With: Eleanor Arnason) 2018
13 Beatrix Gates (By: Rachel Pollack) 2019
14 Talk Like a Man (By: Nisi Shawl) 2019
15 Big Girl (By: Meg Elison) 2020
16 Planetbreaker’s Son (By: Nick Mamatas) 2021
17 Utopias of the Third Kind (By: Vandana Singh) 2021
18 Night Shift (By: Eileen Gunn) 2022
19 The Collapsing Frontier (By: Jonathan Lethem) 2024
Sexual Cultures Books
# Titolo Anno
1 Private Affairs (By: Phillip Brian Harper) 1999
2 Times Square Red, Times Square Blue 1999
3 In Your Face (By: Mandy Merck) 2000
4 Tropics of Desire (By: José Quiroga) 2000
5 Murdering Masculinities (By: Greg Forter) 2000
6 Our Monica, Ourselves (By: Lauren Berlant, Lisa A. Duggan) 2001
7 Black Gay Man ( By: Robert F. Reid-Pharr) 2001
8 Passing 2001
9 The Explanation For Everything (By: Paul Morrison) 2002
10 Queer Globalizations (By: Martin F. Manalansan IV, Arnaldo Cruz-Malave) 2002
11 Queer Latinidad (By: Juana María Rodríguez) 2003
12 Love the Sin ( By: Janet R. Jakobsen) 2003
13 Boricua Pop (By: Frances Negrón-Muntaner, Frances n-Muntaner) 2004
14 Why I Hate Abercrombie & Fitch (By: Dwight A. McBride) 2005
15 In a Queer Time and Place (By: J. Jack Halberstam) 2005
16 God Hates Fags (By: Michael Cobb) 2006
17 Once You Go Black (By: Robert F. Reid-Pharr) 2007
18 The Latino Body (By: Lazaro Lima) 2007
19 Arranging Grief (By: Dana Luciano) 2007
20 Cruising Utopia (By: José Esteban Muñoz) 2009
21 Another Country 2010
22 Extravagant Abjection (By: Darieck Scott) 2010
23 Relocations (By: Karen Tongson) 2011
24 Single (By: Michael Cobb) 2012
25 Beyond the Nation (By: Martin Ponce) 2012
26 Brown Boys and Rice Queens (By: Eng-Beng Lim) 2013
27 Transforming Citizenships (By: Isaac West) 2013
28 Investigating Young People's Sexual Cultures (By: Clarissa Smith, Feona Attwood) 2014
29 The Delectable Negro (By: E. Patrick Johnson, Vincent Woodard, Justin A. Joyce, Dwight A. McBride) 2014
30 Sexual Futures, Queer Gestures, and Other Latina Longings ( By: Juana María Rodríguez) 2014
31 Sensational Flesh (By: Amber Jamilla Musser) 2014
32 The Exquisite Corpse of Asian America (By: Rachel C. Lee) 2014
33 Not Gay (By: Jane Ward) 2015
34 Embodied Avatars (By: Uri McMillan) 2015
35 A Taste for Brown Bodies (By: Hiram Pérez) 2015
36 Wedlocked (By: Katherine Franke) 2015
37 A Body, Undone (By: Christina Crosby) 2016
38 The Color of Kink (By: Ariane Cruz) 2016
39 Archives of Flesh (By: Robert F. Reid-Pharr) 2016
40 Black Performance on the Outskirts of the Left (By: Malik Gaines) 2017
41 The Life and Death of Latisha King 2018
42 Queer Nuns (By: Melissa M. Wilcox) 2018
43 After the Party ( By: Joshua Chambers-Letson) 2018
44 Sensual Excess (By: Amber Jamilla Musser) 2018
45 Afro-Fabulations 2018
46 Queer Times, Black Futures ( By: Kara Keeling) 2019
47 Queer Faith 2019
48 Archiving an Epidemic (By: Robb Hernández) 2019
49 Frottage (By: Keguro Macharia) 2019
50 The Sex Obsession (By: Janet R. Jakobsen) 2020
51 Becoming Human (By: Zakiyyah Iman Jackson) 2020
52 The Tragedy of Heterosexuality (By: Jane Ward) 2020
53 Keeping It Unreal (By: Darieck Scott) 2022
54 Sexuality Beyond Consent 2023
55 Queer Childhoods (By: Mary Zaborskis) 2024
56 Bottoms Up (By: Xiomara Verenice Cervantes-Gomez) 2024
57 Deviant Matter (By: Kyla Wazana Tompkins) 2024
58 Extravagant Camp (By: Chris A. Eng) 2025
59 Queer Lasting (By: Sarah Ensor) 2025
Samuel R. Delany Anthologies
# Titolo Anno
1 Shores Beneath 0
2 Dangerous Visions 1967
3 Dangerous Visions 3 1967
4 Quark 1 1970
5 Quark 4 1971
6 Those Who Can: A Science Fiction Reader 1973
7 Alpha 5 1974
8 Wondermakers 2 1974
9 Cosmos Science Fiction and Fantasy, November 1977 1977
10 Nebula Awards 13 1980
11 TriQuarterly 49: Science Fiction 1980
12 The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume Three: Nebula Winners 1965-1969 1981
13 What If? Volume 3 1982
14 Nebula Award Stories 3 1983
15 Worlds Apart 1986
16 diacritics: a review of contemporary criticism 1986
17 Mississippi Review 47 / 48 1988
18 Storming the Reality Studio 1991
19 Fiction International 22 1992
20 Avant-Pop: Fiction for a Daydream Nation 1993
21 The Mammoth Book of Erotica 1994
22 Swords of the Rainbow 1996
23 Shade 1996
24 Boys Like Us: Gay Writers Tell Their Coming Out Stories 1997
25 A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora 2000
26 The Ultimate Cyberpunk 2002
27 Supermen 2002
28 Reading the Bones 2004
29 110 Stories 2004
30 The Space Opera Renaissance 2006
31 The WisCon Chronicles, Volume 1 2007
32 Fiction's Present 2007
33 The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction 2010
34 Ecce Kosti Addenda 2012
35 The Shadows Took Shape 2013
36 The Sixth Science Fiction Megapack 2013
37 Telling Tales: The Clarion West 30th Anniversary Anthology 2013
38 Cross Worlds: Transcultural Poetics: An Anthology 2014
39 Mermaids and Other Mysteries of the Deep 2015
40 People of Color Destroy Science Fiction! 2016
41 Everyone: Worlds Without Walls 2017
42 Queer Ideas: The David R. Kessler Lectures from 1992–2001 2023
43 The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2018 2018
44 The Unquiet Dreamer: A Tribute to Harlan Ellison 2019
45 Theater of Terror: Revenge of the Queers! 2019
46 Out of the Ruins: The Apocalyptic Anthology 2021
47 Queer Ideas 2023