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American author, critic, and academic (born )

Samuel R. Delany
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Born	Samuel Ray Delany Jr. () April 1, (age&#;82) Harlem, New York City, U.S.
Pen name	K. Leslie Steiner, S. L. Kermit
Occupation	Writer editor professor literary critic
Education	City College of New York
Period	–present[1]
Genre	Science fiction, fantasy, autobiography, creative nonfiction, erotic literature, literary criticism
Subject	Science fiction, lesbian and gay studies, eroticism
Literary movement	New Wave, Afrofuturism
Notable works	Babel, Hogg, The Einstein Intersection, Nova, Dhalgren, The Motion of Light in Water, Dark Reflections
Notable awards
Spouse	Marilyn Hacker &#; &#; (m.&#;; div.&#;)&#;
Partner	Dennis Rickett (–present)
Children	Iva Hacker-Delany

Samuel R. "Chip" Delany (, də-LAY-nee; born April 1, ) is an American writer and literary critic.

His work includes fiction (especially science fiction), memoir, criticism, and essays on science fiction, literature, sexuality, and society.

His fiction includes Babel, The Einstein Intersection (winners of the Nebula Award for and , respectively); Hogg, Nova, Dhalgren, the Return to Nevèrÿon series, and Through the Valley of the Nest of Spiders.

His nonfiction includes Times Square Red, Times Square Blue, About Writing, and eight books of essays. He has won four Nebula awards and two Hugo Awards, and he was inducted into the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame in

From January to May ,^[5][6] he was a professor of English, Comparative Literature, and/or Creative Writing at SUNY Buffalo, SUNY Albany, the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and Temple University.

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In , he won the Kessler Award; further, in , he won the third J. Lloyd Eaton Lifetime Achievement Award in Science Fiction from the academic Eaton Science Fiction Conference at UCR Libraries.^[7] The Science Fiction Writers of America named him its 30th SFWA Grand Master in ,^[8] and in , he was inducted into the New York State Writers Hall of Fame.

Delany received the Anisfield-Wolf Lifetime Achievement Award.

Early life

Samuel Ray Delany, Jr. was born on April 1, ,^[9] and raised in Harlem.^[10] His mother, Margaret Carey (Boyd) Delany (–), was a clerk in the New York Public Library system. His father, Samuel Ray Delany Sr.

(–), ran the Levy & Delany Funeral Home on 7th Avenue in Harlem, from until his death in The family lived in the top two floors of a three-story private house between five- and six-story Harlem apartment buildings.^{[citation needed]}

Delany was born into an accomplished and ambitious family of the African-American upper class.

His grandfather, Henry Beard Delany (—), was born into slavery, but after emancipation became educated, a priest and the first black bishop of the Episcopal Church.^[11] Civil rights pioneers Sadie and Bessie Delany were among his paternal aunts.^[10] (He drew from their lives as the basis for characters Elsie and Corry in "Atlantis: Model ", the opening novella in his semi-autobiographical collection Atlantis: Three Tales.) Other notable family members include his aunt, Harlem Renaissance poet Clarissa Scott Delany, and his uncle, judge Hubert Thomas Delany.^[12]

Delany attended the private Dalton School and, from through , spent summers at Camp Woodland in Phoenicia, New York.^[13] He studied at the merit-based Bronx High School of Science, during which he was selected to attend Camp Rising Sun, the Louis August Jonas Foundation's international summer scholarship program.

Delany's first published short story, "Salt", appeared in Dynamo, Bronx Science's literary magazine, in ^[14]

Delany's father died from lung cancer in October The following year, in August , Delany married poet/translator Marilyn Hacker, and the couple settled in New York's East Village neighborhood at East 5th Street.

Hacker was working as an assistant editor at Ace Books, and her intervention helped Delany become a published science fiction author by the age of ^[15] He had finished writing that first novel (The Jewels of Aptor, published in )^[10] while 19, shortly after dropping out of the City College of New York after one semester.

Career

His next work was the trilogy The Fall of the Towers, followed by The Ballad of Beta-2 and Babel; he described his writing in this period, and his marriage to Hacker, in his memoir The Motion of Light in Water. In , while Hacker remained in New York, Delany took a five-month trip to France, England, Italy, Greece, and Turkey.^[16] During this period, he wrote The Einstein Intersection.^[17] He drew on these locales in several works, including Nova and the short stories "Aye, and Gomorrah" and "Dog in a Fisherman's Net".

These works received critical praise: Algis Budrys called Delany a genius and poet and listed him with J. G. Ballard, Brian W. Aldiss, and Roger Zelazny as "an earthshaking new kind" of writer,^[17] while Judith Merril labeled him "TNT (The New Thing)".^[18]Babel and The Einstein Intersection won the Nebula Award for Best Novel in and , respectively.^[19][20]

"The Star-Pit", Delany's first professional short story, was published by Frederick Pohl in the February issue of Worlds of Tomorrow, and he placed three more in other magazines that year.^[1] In , he published four more short stories (including "Time Considered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Stones", winner of the Hugo Award for Best Short Story in )^[21] and Nova.

This was published by Doubleday, marking Delany's departure from Ace; it was his last science fiction novel until Dhalgren in

Weeks after Delany's return, he and Hacker began to live separately. Delany played and lived communally for five months on the Lower East Side with the Heavenly Breakfast, a folk-rock band whose other members were Susan Schweers, Steven Greenbaum (aka Wiseman), and Bert Lee (later a founding member of the Central Park Sheiks).

Delany wrote a memoir of his experiences with the band and communal life, which was eventually published as Heavenly Breakfast (). After he and Hacker briefly came together again, she moved to San Francisco. On New Year's Eve in , Delany joined her; they then moved to London. In the summer of Delany returned to New York, where he lived at the Albert Hotel in Greenwich Village.

In , Delany directed a short film entitled The Orchid (originally titled The Science Fiction Film in the Latter Twentieth Century), produced by Barbara Wise.^[22] Shot in 16 mm with color and sound, the production also employed David Wise, Adolfas Mekas, and was scored by John Herbert McDowell.^[23] That November, Delany was a visiting writer at Wesleyan University's Center for the Humanities.^[24]

That year, Delany wrote two issues of the comic book Wonder Woman,^[25] during a controversial period when the lead character abandoned her superpowers and became a secret agent.^[26] Delany scripted issues No.

and No. of the series.^[27] He was initially supposed to write a six-issue story arc that would culminate in a battle over an abortion clinic, but the story arc was canceled after Gloria Steinem led a lobbying effort protesting the removal of Wonder Woman's powers, a change predating Delany's involvement.^[28] Scholar Ann Matsuuchi concluded that Steinem's feedback was "conveniently used as an excuse" by DC management.^[29]

From December to December , Delany and Hacker lived in Marylebone, London.

During this period, Delany began working with sexual themes in earnest and wrote two pornographic works, Equinox (originally published as The Tides of Lust), and Hogg, which was unpublishable at the time due to its transgressive content; it did not find print until

Delany's eleventh novel, Dhalgren, was published in to both literary acclaim (from both inside and outside the science fiction community) and derision (mostly from within the community).

It sold more than one million copies. After a lengthy exchange of letters with Leslie Fiedler, Delany returned to the United States at Fiedler's behest to teach at the University at Buffalo as Visiting Butler Professor of English for the spring semester. That summer he returned to New York City.

Though he published two more major science fiction novels (Triton and Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand) in the decade following Dhalgren, Delany began to work in fantasy and science fiction criticism.

Beginning with The Jewel-Hinged Jaw (), a collection of critical essays that applied then-nascent literary theory to science fiction studies, he published several books of criticism, interviews, and essays. He was also a visiting fellow at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee in and the University at Albany in His main literary project through the late s and s was Return to Nevèrÿon, a four-volume series of sword and sorcery tales.

In , Delany was a visiting fellow at Cornell University. The next year, he became a professor of comparative literature at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He held this post for 11 years, before spending a year and a half as an English professor at the University at Buffalo.

Delany's works in the s included They Fly at Çiron, a re-written and expanded version of an unpublished short story he had written in , and his last novel in either the science fiction or fantasy genres for many years.

He also published his novel The Mad Man and several essay collections, including Times Square Red, Times Square Blue (), a pair of essays in which Delany drew on personal experience to examine the relationship between the effort to redevelop Times Square and the public sex lives of working-class men in New York City. Delany received the Bill Whitehead Award for Lifetime Achievement from Publishing Triangle in ; he has described this as the award of which he is proudest.^[30]

After an invited stay at the artist's community Yaddo, he moved to the English Department of Temple University in January , where he taught until his retirement in April In , Delany was the subject of a documentary film, The Polymath, or, The Life and Opinions of Samuel R.

Delany, Gentleman, directed by Fred Barney Taylor. The film debuted on April 25 at the Tribeca Film Festival, and in , it tied for Jury Award for Best Documentary at the International Philadelphia Lesbian and Gay Film Festival. Also in , Delany was the April "calendar boy" in the "Legends of the Village" calendar put out by Village Care of New York.^[31] In , his novel Dark Reflections was a winner of the Stonewall Book Award.^[32]

In , Delany was one of five judges (along with Andrei Codrescu, Sabina Murray, Joanna Scott and Carolyn See) for the National Book Awards fiction category.^[33]

His science fiction novel Through the Valley of the Nest of Spiders was published by Magnus Books on his birthday in In he received the Brudner Prize from Yale University, for his contributions to gay literature.

The same year, his comic book writer friend and planned literary executor, Robert Morales, died.^[34] He served as Critical Inquiry Visiting Professor at the University of Chicago during the winter quarter of ^[35] In , the year Delany retired from teaching at Temple University,^[36] the Caribbean Philosophical Association awarded him its Nicolás Guillén Lifetime Achievement Award.^[37]

Since , his archive has been housed at the Beinecke Library at Yale, where it is currently being organized.

Till then, his papers were housed at the Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center.^[38]

Personal life

As a child, Delany envied children with nicknames. He took one for himself on the first day of a new summer camp, Camp Woodland, at the age of 11, by answering "Everybody calls me Chip!" when asked his name.^[39] Decades later, Frederik Pohl called him "a person who is never addressed by his friends as Sam, Samuel or any other variant of the name his parents gave him."^[9]

Delany's name is one of the most misspelled in science fiction, having been misspelled on over 60 occasions in reviews.^[40] His publisher Doubleday misspelled his name on the title page of Driftglass, as did the organizers of Balticon in where Delany was guest of honor.

Delany has identified as gay since adolescence.^[41] However, some observers have described him as bisexual due to his complicated year marriage with poet/translator Marilyn Hacker, who was aware of Delany's orientation and has identified as a lesbian since their divorce.^[42]

Delany and Hacker had one child in , Iva Hacker-Delany, now a physician.^[43][44]

In , Delany entered a committed, nonexclusive relationship with Dennis Rickett, previously a homeless book vendor.

Their courtship is chronicled in the graphic memoir Bread and Wine: An Erotic Tale of New York (), a collaboration with the writer and artist Mia Wolff.

Delany is an atheist.^[45]

Delany is a supporter of NAMBLA.^[46]

Themes

Jewels, reflection, and refraction&#;– not just the imagery but reflection and refraction of text and concepts&#;– are also strong themes and metaphors in Delany's work.^[47] Titles such as The Jewels of Aptor, The Jewel-Hinged Jaw, "Time Considered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Stones", Driftglass, and Dark Reflections, along with the optic chain of prisms, mirrors, and lenses worn by several characters in Dhalgren, are a few examples of this; as in "We () move on a rigorous line" a ring is nearly obsessively described at every twist and turn of the plot.

Reflection and refraction in narrative are explored in Dhalgren and take center stage in his Return to Nevèrÿon series.

Following the publication of Nova, there was not only a large gap in Delany's published work (after releasing eight novels and a novella between and , his published output virtually stopped until ), there was also a notable addition to the themes found in the stories published after that time.

It was at this point that Delany began dealing with sexual themes to an extent rarely equaled in serious writing. Dhalgren and Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand include several sexually explicit passages, and several of his books such as Equinox (originally published as The Tides of Lust, a title that Delany does not endorse), The Mad Man, Hogg and Phallos can be considered pornography, a label Delany himself uses.^[48]

Novels such as Triton and the thousand-plus pages making up his four-volume Return to Nevèrÿon series explored in detail how sexuality and sexual attitudes relate to the socioeconomic underpinnings of a primitive&#;– or, in Triton's case, futuristic&#;– society.^[49] Even in works with no science fiction or fantasy content to speak of, such as Atlantis: Three Tales, The Mad Man, and Hogg, Delany pursued these questions by creating vivid pictures of New York and other American cities, now in the Jazz Age, now in the first decade of the AIDS epidemic, New York private schools in the s, as well as Greece and Europe in the s,^[50] and&#;– in Hogg&#;– generalized small-town America.^[51]Phallos details the quest for happiness and security by a gay man from the island of Syracuse in the second-century reign of the Emperor Hadrian.^[52]Dark Reflections is a contemporary novel, dealing with themes of repression, old age, and the writer's unrewarded life.^[53]

Writer and academic C.

Riley Snorton has addressed Triton's thematic engagement with gender, sexual, and racial difference and how their accommodations are instrumentalized in the state and institutional maintenance of social relations.^[54] Despite the novel's infinite number of subject positions and identities available through technological intervention, Snorton argues that Delany's proliferation of identities "take place within the context of increasing technologically determined biocentrism, where bodies are shaped into categories-cum-cartographies of (human) life, as determined by socially agreed-upon and scientifically mapped genetic routes."^[55]Triton questions social and political imperatives towards anti-normativity insofar that these projects do not challenge but actually reify the constrictive categories of the human.

In his book Afro-Fabulations, Tavia Nyong'o makes a similar argument in his analysis of The Einstein Intersection. Citing Delany as a Queer theorist, Nyong'o highlights the novella's "extended study of the enduring power of norms, written during the precise moment – 'the s' – when antinormative, anti-systemic movements in the United States and worldwide were at their peak."^[56] Like Triton, The Einstein Intersection features characters that exist across a range of differences across gender, sexuality, and ability.

This proliferation of identities "takes place within a concerted effort to sustain a gendered social order and to deliver a stable reproductive futurity through language" in the Lo society's caging of the non-functional "kages" who are denied language and care.^[57] Both Nyong'o and Snorton connect Delany's work with Sylvia Wynter's "genres of being human",^[58] underscoring Delany's sustained thematic engagement with difference, normativity, and their potential subversions or reifications, and placing him as an important interlocutor in the fields of Queer theory and Black studies.

The Mad Man, Phallos, and Dark Reflections are linked in minor ways. The beast mentioned at the beginning of The Mad Man graces the cover of Phallos.^[59]

Awards and recognition

• Pilgrim Award, presented by the Science Fiction Research Association for Lifetime Achievement in the field of science fiction scholarship.
• David R.

  Kessler award for LGBTQ Studies at CLAGS: The Center for LGBTQ Studies^[60]

• Inducted into the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame.^[61]
• J. Lloyd Eaton Lifetime Achievement Award in Science Fiction from the academic Eaton Science Fiction Conference at UCR Libraries.^[7]
• Brudner Prize for contributions to LGBT studies and LGBT communities, awarded by Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies (LGBTS) at Yale University.^[62]
• Science Fiction Writers of America named him its 30th SFWA Grand Master^[8]
• Inducted into the New York State Writers Hall of Fame.
• Sir Arthur Clarke Imagination in Service to Society Award for Outstanding Contributions to Fiction, Criticism and Essays on Science Fiction, Literature and Society by the Arthur C.

  Clarke Foundation.^[63]

• Anisfield-Wolf Lifetime Achievement Award.^[64]
• World Fantasy Award, Lifetime Achievement^[65]
• Lambda Literary Award, LGBTQ Erotica^[66]
• Delany was featured in the PBS television documentary series Articulate.^[67]
• Guest of honor at the Sturgeon Symposium at the J.

  Wayne and Elsie M. Gunn Center for the Study of Science Fiction, "Stars in Our Pockets: Celebrating Samuel R. Delany."^[68]

• MAPACA Divine Impact Award^[69]

Works

Fiction

Novels

Name	Published	ISBN	Notes[70]
The Jewels of Aptor		Published as Ace-Double F together with Second Ending by James White
Captives of the Flame		Published as Ace-Double F together with The Psionic Menace by John Brunner, republished as the more definitive Out of the Dead City[71] included in omnibus edition: The Fall of the Towers
The Towers of Toron		Published as Ace-Double F together with The Lunar Eye by Robert Moore Williams, included in omnibus edition: The Fall of the Towers
City of a Thousand Suns		Published by Ace Books as F, included in omnibus edition: The Fall of the Towers
The Ballad of Beta-2		Published as Ace-Double M together with Alpha Yes, Terra No! by Emil Petaja; Nebula Award nominee, [72]
Empire Star		Published as Ace-Double M together with The Tree Lord of Imeten by Tom Purdom
Babel		Published by Ace Books as F, Nebula Awardwinner, ;[73] Hugo Award nominee, [74]
The Einstein Intersection		Published by Ace Books as F, Nebula Award winner, [74] Hugo Award nominee, [75]
Nova			Hugo Award nominee, [76]
The Tides of Lust			Published by Lancer Books as #, later reprinted under Delany's preferred title Equinox (),
Dhalgren			Nebula Award nominee, [77] Locus Award nominee, [78]
Triton			Republished as Trouble on Triton in by Wesleyan University Press Nebula Award nominee, [78]
Empire			With Howard Chaykin Graphic novel Published by Byron Preiss/Berkley Windhover
Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand			Locus Award nominee, [79] Arthur C. Clarke Award nominee, [80]
They Fly at Çiron
The Mad Man
Hogg
Phallos
Dark Reflections			Stonewall Book Award winner, Lambda Award nominee, [81]
Through the Valley of the Nest of Spiders			Chapter 90 was inadvertently left out by the publisher, and was later published in Sensitive Skin magazine[82] Since then Delany has self-published a corrected edition on Amazon with a new cover by Mia Wolff, the missing chapter, and many cosmetic corrections.
The Atheist in the Attic			Novella; includes essay "Racism and Science Fiction", "'Discourse in an Older Sense': Outspoken Interview", and Bibliography
Shoat Rumblin: His Sensations and Ideas
Big Joe		Illustrated by Drake Carr and Sabrina Bockler. Published by Inpatient Press Lambda Literary Award winner, LGBTQ Erotica, [83]
This Short Day of Frost and Sun	—	Serially published in The Georgia Review from Summer [84]

Return to Nevèrÿon series

Main article: Return to Nevèrÿon (series)

Short stories

Story	First Publication Date[87]	Awards[70]	Drift- glass ()	Distant Stars (), illustrated, X	The Complete Nebula Award-Winning Fiction (),	Driftglass/ /Starshards (),	Atlantis: Three Tales (),	Aye, and Gomorrah, and other stories (),
"Salt"	in Dynamo[14]
"The Star Pit"	Feb in Worlds of Tomorrow	Hugo (nom)	Yes	Yes	Yes
"Dog in a Fisherman's Net"	May in Quark/3, Marilyn Hacker, Samuel R. Delany (ed.)	Yes	Yes	Yes
"Corona"[88]	Oct in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
"Aye, and Gomorrah"	Oct in Dangerous Visions, Harlan Ellison (ed.)	Hugo (nom), Nebula (win)	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
"Driftglass"	Jun in If	Nebula (nom)	Yes	Yes	Yes
"We, in Some Strange Power's Employ, Move on a Rigorous Line"	May as "Lines of Power", The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction	Hugo (nom), Nebula (nom)	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
"Cage of Brass"	Jun in If	Yes	Yes	Yes
"High Weir"	Oct in If	Yes	Yes	Yes
"Time Considered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Stones"	Dec in New WorldsMichael Moorcock and James Sallis (eds.)	Hugo (win), Nebula (win)	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
"Tapestry"	Apr in New American Review 9 (under the title "The Unicorn Tapestry")	Yes
"Night and the Loves of Joe Dicostanzo"	Nov in Alchemy and Academe, Anne McCaffrey (ed.)	Yes	Yes	Yes
"Prismatica"	Oct in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction	Hugo (nom)	Yes	Yes	Yes
"Empire Star"	as an Ace Double	Yes
"Omegahelm"	in Distant Stars	Yes	Yes	Yes
"Ruins"	in Distant Stars	Yes	Yes	Yes
"Among the Blobs"	in Mississippi Review 47/48	Yes	Yes
"The Desert of Time"	May in Omni
"Citre et Trans"	in Driftglass/Starshards	Yes	Yes
"Erik, Gwen, and D.H. Lawrence's Esthetic of Unrectified Feeling"[89]	in Driftglass/Starshards	Yes	Yes
"Atlantis: Model "	in Atlantis: Three Tales	Yes
"The Spendor and Misery of Bodies, of Cities"	in Review of Contemporary Fiction; repr. Samuel R. Delany – Wikipedia Samuel R. Delany | Biography, Books, & Facts | Britannica Samuel r delany biography of christopher5 Samuel R. Delany | Encyclopedia.com in Out of the Ruins ed. by Preston Grassmann
"In The Valley of the Nest of Spiders"	in Black Clock[90]
"The Hermit of Houston"	Sep in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction[91]	Locus (win)[92]
"To the Fordham"	Dec 6, in Boston Review[93]
"The Wyrm"	January 10, , in The Baffler[94]
"First Trip to Brewster"	Nov in Astra Magazine[95]

Comics/graphic novels

• Wonder Woman,
• Empire, art by Howard V.

  Chaykin,

• "Seven Moons' Light Casts Complex Shadows" in Epic Illustrated No. 2, art by Howard Chaykin, pages 67–74, June ^[96][97]
• Bread & Wine: An Erotic Tale of New York, art by Mia Wolff, introduction by Alan Moore,

Anthologies

Nonfiction

Critical works

• The Jewel-hinged Jaw: Notes on the Language of Science Fiction (Dragon Press, ; Wesleyan University Press revised edition , with an introduction by Matthew Cheney^[98])
• The American Shore: Meditations on a Tale of Science Fiction (Dragon Press, ; Wesleyan University Press , with an introduction by Matthew Cheney^[99])
• Starboard Wine: More Notes on the Language of Science Fiction (Dragon Press, ; Wesleyan University Press, , with an introduction by Matthew Cheney^[])
• Wagner/Artaud: A Play of 19th and 20th Century Critical Fictions (Ansatz Press, ), X
• The Straits of Messina (),
• Silent Interviews (),
• Longer Views () with an introduction by Kenneth R.

  James,

• "Racism and Science Fiction" (), New York Review of Science Fiction, Issue
• Shorter Views (),
• About Writing (),
• Conversations with Samuel R. Delany (), edited by Carl Freedman, University of Mississippi Press.
• Occasional Views, Volume 1: "More About Writing" and Other Essays (Wesleyan University Press, ).

  ISBN&#;

• Occasional Views, Volume 2: "The Gamble" and Other Essays (Wesleyan University Press, ). ISBN&#;
• DUETS: Frederick Weston & Samuel R. Delany in Conversation (Visual AIDS, )

Memoirs and letters

• Heavenly Breakfast (), a memoir of a New York City commune during the so-called Summer of Love,
• The Motion of Light in Water (), a memoir of his experiences as a young gay science fiction writer; winner of the Hugo Award,
• Times Square Red, Times Square Blue (NYU Press, ; , 20th anniversary edition with foreword by Robert Reid-Pharr), a discussion of changes in social and sexual interaction in New York's Times Square, ;
• Bread and Wine: An Erotic Tale of New York (), an autobiographical comic drawn by Mia Wolff with an introduction by Alan Moore,
• Selected Letters () with an introduction by Kenneth R.

  James,

• In Search of Silence: The Journals of Samuel R. Delany. Volume 1, (), edited and with an introduction by Kenneth R. James, Locus Award Finalist (non-fiction)^[]
• Letters from Amherst: Five Narrative Letters (Wesleyan University Press, ), with foreword by Nalo Hopkinson,

Introductions

• The Adventures of Alyx, by Joanna Russ
• We Who Are About To, by Joanna Russ
• Black Gay Man by Robert Reid-Pharr
• Burning Sky, Selected Stories, by Rachel Pollack
• Conjuring Black Funk: Notes on Culture, Sexuality, and Spirituality, Volume 1 by Herukhuti
• The Cosmic Rape, by Theodore Sturgeon
• Glory Road, by Robert A.

  Heinlein

• Green Lantern co-starring Green Arrow #1, by Dennis O'Neil, Neal Adams, Gil Kane (Paperback Library, )^[]
• Microcosmic God, by Theodore Sturgeon
• The Magic: (October October ) Ten Tales by Roger Zelazny, selected and introduced by Samuel R. Delany
• Masters of the Pit, by Michael Moorcock
• Nebula Winners 13, edited by Samuel R.

  Delany

• A Reader's Guide to Science Fiction, by Baird Searles, Martin Last, Beth Meacham, and Michael Franklin; foreword by Samuel R. Delany
• The Sandman: A Game of You, by Neil Gaiman
• Shade: An Anthology of Fiction by Gay Men of African Descent, edited by Charles Rowell and Bruce Morrow

See also

References

Citations