Samuel R. Delany

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  • Bibliography:
    46 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1963
  • Latest Book:
    April 2021
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Full Series List in Order

Return to Neveryeon

1 - Tales of Neveryeon (Sep-1979)
2 - Neveryeon (Mar-1983)
3 - Flight from Neveryon (Apr-1985)
4 - Return to Neveryeon (Mar-1994)

Book List in Order: 46 titles

  • Captives Of The Flame

    The Empire of Toromon had finally declared war. The attacks on its planes had been nothing compared to the final insult - the kidnapping of the Crown Prince. The enemy must be dealt with, and when they were, Toromon would be able to get back on its e...

  • Aye, and Gomorrah: and Other Stories

    A father must come to terms with his son's death in the war. In Venice an architecture student commits a crime of passion. A white southern airport loader tries to do a favor for a black northern child. The ordinary stuff of ordinary fiction--but wit...

  • Babel-17

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    Author of the bestselling Dhalgren and winner of four Nebulas and one Hugo, Samuel R. Delany is one of the most acclaimed writers of speculative fiction.

    Babel-17, winner of the Nebula Award for best novel of the year, is a fascinating tale o...

  • The Einstein Intersection

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    In the far-distant future, when Einsteinian and alien universes intersect, the world begins to change: strangely, wonderfully, incredibly. And the trek of Lobey, an alien Orpheus, across a weirdly sumptuous planet, leads him to the Dove, fabulous ...

  • The Fall of the Towers

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    Here is a majestic trilogy of the far future brought together in a single volume. Delany's brilliant panorama portrays advanced science and decayed society, a universe-wide canvas filled with rogues and saints of all races, not only human but those w...

  • Driftglass

  • Dhalgren

    • / Science Fiction
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    Nebula Award Finalist: Reality has come unglued and a mad civilization takes root in Bellona, in this science fiction classic. A young halfNative American known as the Kid has hitchhiked from Mexico to the midwestern city Bellonaonly something ...

  • Nova

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    Given that the suns of Draco stretch almost sixteen light years from end to end, it stands to reason that the cost of transportation is the most important factor of the 32nd century. And since Illyrion is the element most needed for space travel, Lor...

  • The Ballad Of Beta 2



  • Out of the Dead City

  • The City of a Thousand Suns

  • Empire

  • The Jewels of Aptor

    What was the strange impetus that drove a group of four widely different humans to embark on a fear-filled journey across a forbidden sea to a legendary land? This was Earth still, but the Earth of a future terribly changed after a planet-searing dis...

  • Heavenly Breakfast

    • / General Fiction
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    Cultural Writing. Memoir. HEAVENLY BREAKFAST is Samuel R. Delaney's wise and vivid essay on urban communes and cooperatives in the winter of 'Sixty-seven/'Sixty-eight. It examines their function, structure, permanence, and impermanence as precisely a...

  • Tales of Neveryeon

    Return to Neveryeon - 1

    In his four-volume series Return to Nevèrÿon, Hugo and Nebula award-winner Samuel R. Delany appropriated the conceits of sword-and-sorcery fantasy to explore his characteristic themes of language, power, gender, and the nature of civilization. Wesl...

  • Night and the Loves of Joe Dicostanzo

    in Alchemy & Academe

    ENTER THE WORLD OF TRANSMUTATIONS -- MENTAL AND ELEMENTAL, ALCHEMICAL AND ACADEMIC NIGHT AND THE LOVES OF JOE DICOSTANZO by Samuel R. Delany When a young man living in an abandoned castle discovers he has strange and wonderful powers, he's delig...

  • Nebula Winners Thirteen

  • Empire Star

    • / Science Fiction
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  • Neveryeon

    Return to Neveryeon - 2

    In his four-volume series Return to Nevèrÿon, Hugo and Nebula award-winner Samuel R. Delany appropriated the conceits of sword-and-sorcery fantasy to explore his characteristic themes of language, power, gender, and the nature of civilizati...



  • Flight from Neveryon

    Return to Neveryeon - 3

    In his four-volume series Return to Nevèrÿon, Hugo and Nebula award-winner Samuel R. Delany appropriated the conceits of sword-and-sorcery fantasy to explore his characteristic themes of language, power, gender, and the nature of civilization. Wesl...

  • Stars In My Pocket Like Grains of Sand

    "

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

    Stars in My Pocket like Grains of Sand is a science fiction masterpiece, an essay on the inexplicability of sexual attractiveness, and an examination of interstel...

  • The Complete Nebula Award-Winning Fiction

    Combined edition of two novels and two short stories which won the Nebula Award. Babel - 17 (winner, 1966 Nebula, 1995 James Tiptree, Jr. Award, Classics; nominated, 1967 Hugo Award; 1975 Locus Poll Award, All-Time Best Novel (Place: 36)); A Fabulous...

  • Triton

    "1976" copy. Shows some light signs of age, with some age yellowing and small amount of edge and spine wear. Little red dot on top edge. Front cover has a spine edge crease but spine is in great condition. Very good copy! Tight and clean. Ships very ...

  • Bridge of Lost Desire

    In Neveryon, slavery is nonexistent, and three long tales explore the life of the legendary manGorgik the Liberatorresponsible for freeing the empire's slaves. Seen through his own eyes (``The Game of Time and Pain''), Gorgik is a man still caught in...

  • Equinox

  • Return to Neveryeon

    Return to Neveryeon - 4

    In his four-volume series Return to Nevèrÿon, Hugo and Nebula award-winner Samuel R. Delany appropriated the conceits of sword-and-sorcery fantasy to explore his characteristic themes of language, power, gender, and the nature of civilization. Wesl...

  • The Mad Man: or, The Mysteries of Manhattan

  • Silent Interviews

    Collected interviews featuring the Nebula Awardâ€"winning author and his thoughts on topics like literary criticism, comic books, race, and sexuality. For nearly three decades, Samuel R. Delany’s science fiction has transported millions of readers ...

  • They Fly at Ciron

    As this novel begins, the peaceful village of Çiron faces conquest and domination by the army of Myetra, as led by a cruel prince. The Myetrans subdue Çiron, killing many and enslaving the rest.

    But Rahm escapes -- and then befriends one of ...



  • Atlantis: Three Tales

    From the Hugo and Nebulaâ€"winning author, three literary tales trace the intricate interdependencies of memory, experience, and the self. Wesleyan University Press has made a significant commitment to the publication of the work of Samuel R. Delany,...

  • Hogg

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    The narrator of Hogg is a Huck Finnâ€"like youngster caught in society’s most sinister seams -- but unlike Huck, he passes no moral judgments on the violence he takes part in . . .Hogg is the story of a man -- a deprav...

  • Trouble on Triton: An Ambiguous Heterotopia

    In this novel by a Nebula Awardâ€"winning author, a man looks for love in a society where you can be anyone you want, on a moon at war with Earth. In a story as exciting as any science fiction adventure written, Samuel R. Delany’s 1976 SF novel, or...

  • Longer Views

  • Distant Stars

    A collection of classic fiction, a short novel, and a fascinating essay, with over sixty pages of illustrations. Includes: "Omegahelm"-On a lonely planet, the dictator of half a universe reveals her dark secret. Set in the universe of Delany's novel ...

  • Phallos

  • Dark Reflections

    Arnold Hawley, a gay, African -- American poet, has lived in NYC for most of his life. Dark Reflections traces Hawley's life in three sections -- in reverse order. Part one: Hawley, at 50 years old, wins the an award for his sixth book of poems. Part...

  • Shorter Views

    <P>In Shorter Views, Hugo and Nebula award-winning author Samuel R. Delany brings his remarkable intellectual powers to bear on a wide range of topics. Whether he is exploring the deeply felt issues of identity, race, and sexuality, untangling ...

  • Through the Valley of the Nest of Spiders

  • The Tides of Lust



  • Bread & Wine: An Erotic Tale of New York

  • The Motion of Light in Water

    In the bohemian sixties, a young writer tries to make sense of his life With the poet Marilyn Hacker, Delany moves into a tenement on a dead-end street that the landlord reserves for interracial couples. Between playing folk music in the evenings ...

  • A, B, C

    "A, B, C: Three Short Novels" contains the first three novels of Samuel R. Delany’s long and illustrious career. "The Jewels of Aptor" is a science-fantasy story about a seafaring quest that sets out to find powerful magic jewels on a mystical,...

  • In Search of Silence

    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 f...

  • The Atheist in the Attic

    The title novella, “The Atheist in the Attic,” appearing here in book form for the first time, is a suspenseful and vivid historical narrative, recreating the top-secret meeting between the mathematical genius Leibniz and the philosopher Spinoza ...

  • Letters from Amherst

    Entertaining and informative letters written from 1984 to 1991 by the award-winning author and critic. Five substantial letters written from 1989 to 1991 bring readers into conversation with Hugo and Nebula Awardâ€"winning author Samuel Delany. With ...

  • Occasional Views Volume 1

Award-Winning Books by Samuel R. Delany

Babel-17
1967 Nebula Award -- Novel
Babel-17 / Empire Star
1966 Nebula Award -- Novel
Dhalgren
2002 Spectrum Award -- Hall of Fame
The Einstein Intersection
1967 Nebula Award -- Novel


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Samuel R. Delany has published 46 books.

Samuel R. Delany does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Occasional Views Volume 1, was published in April 2021.

The first book by Samuel R. Delany, Captives Of The Flame, was published in January 1963.

Yes. Samuel R. Delany has 1 series.
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