Last and First Tales
  • Published:
    Jun-2026
    Jun-16-2026 (Release)
  • Formats:
    Print
  • Main Genre:
    General Fiction
  • Pages:
    240
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Sci-fi Grand Master Samuel R. Delany presents a career and genre-spanning anthology of stories: innovative, erotic, provocative, and unforgettable.From the publication of his first novel The Jewels of Aptor to his 1975 bestseller Dhalgren and beyond, Samuel R. Delany has been a fearless and unique figure in American letters. Curated by the author, Last and First Tales gathers Delany’s twenty-first century short fiction alongside previously unavailable work dating back to his earliest, startlingly precocious experiments in prose. Here you will find queer sexual awakenings; a future in which race and gender have evolved in strange new ways; newly emended versions of Delany’s classic stories; and myriad other reminiscences, inquiries, and transgressions.As Junot Diaz writes in his foreword, “In Last and First Tales a reader will find the entire breadth of Delany’s remarkable sixty-five-plus-year oeuvre. All the singularities of talent, of insight, of compassion, all the rigorous intellectual and aesthetic surveys, the endless restless erudition and curiosity . . . I can think of no better survey of the labyrinth that is Delany’s work.”
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People / Creatures
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    • First Edition
    • Jun-2026
    • Coffee House Press
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 1566897572
    • ISBN13: 9781566897570



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