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Download or read book Driftglass written by Samuel R. Delany and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2021-06-03 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Delany's works have become essential to the history of science fiction' New Yorker Samuel Delany is one of the most radical and influential science fiction writers of our age, who reinvented the genre with his fearless explorations of race, class and gender. Driftglass is the definitive volume of his stories, featuring neutered space travellers, telepathy, Hells Angels and genetically modified amphibious workers. 'Delany's books interweave science fiction with histories of race, sexuality and control. In so doing, he gives readers fiction that reflects and explores the social truths of our world' The New York Times
Book Synopsis Modern Classics of Science Fiction by : Gardner Dozois
Download or read book Modern Classics of Science Fiction written by Gardner Dozois and published by St. Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 2013-12-10 with total page 695 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brian Aldiss William Gibson R.A. Lafferty Ursula K. Le Guin Lucius Shepard Bruce Sterling Theodore Sturgeon Howard Waldrop Connie Willis Gene Wolfe Roger Zelazny "The best stories are timeless. Long years from now the stories here may still touch someone, cause that person to blink, and put the book down for a second, and stare off through the hallow air, and shirver in wonder."
Book Synopsis Driftglass/Starshards by : Samuel R. Delany
Download or read book Driftglass/Starshards written by Samuel R. Delany and published by Collins. This book was released on 1993 with total page 535 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Aye, and Gomorrah by : Samuel R. Delany
Download or read book Aye, and Gomorrah written by Samuel R. Delany and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2013-07-25 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 favour for a black northern child. The ordinary stuff of fiction - but with a difference! These tales take place twenty-five, fifty, a hundred and fifty years from now. Men and women have been given gills to labor under the sea. Huge repair stations patrol the cables carrying power to the ends of the earth. Telepathic and precocious children yearn so passionately to visit distant galaxies that they'll kill to go. Brilliantly crafted, beautifully written, these are Samuel Delany's award-winning stories, like no other before or since.
Book Synopsis Samuel R. Delany by : Elizabeth Mannion
Download or read book Samuel R. Delany written by Elizabeth Mannion and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2024-12-17 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Samuel R. Delany: A Reference Guide to His Life and Works is the first encyclopedic overview of Delany’s fiction, essays, public talks, and interactions with leading writers and icons, from W. H. Auden to Wonder Woman. No book offers such a comprehensive guide to the scope of Delany’s presence in American letters, literary, and popular culture. The alphabetical listing is organized to maximize reader accessibility, with cross-references that allow for exploration of his intertextual and intracultural reach. His biography is also meticulously detailed with entries on his grandfather Henry Beard Delany (born enslaved and the first black bishop of the Episcopal Church), aunts Sarah and Bessie Delany (the celebrated sisters of Having our Say: The Delany Sisters’ First 100 Years), parents (into whose home many leaders of the Harlem Renaissance were welcomed), and the vast cultural landscape with which he has engaged for over five decades.. This bookcontains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has more than 200 cross-referenced entries addressing each of Delany’s major novels, short stories, nonfiction, and theoretical texts, and entries addressing the full scope of Delany’s writings and major events in his life. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Samuel R. Delany.
Download or read book Mermaids written by Patty Dann and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2022-11-15 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A teenager follows along as her mother moves from town to town—and man to man—in this coming-of-age novel: “Both hilarious and tragic . . . a radiant debut.” —The New York Times Book Review The inspiration for the cult-classic film starring Winona Ryder, Christina Ricci, and Cher, this novel is narrated by Charlotte Flax, a fourteen-year-old helplessly dragged by her mother from place to place, brief affair to brief affair. When they settle into a quiet New England town in 1963, the teenager yearns to stay put for once. With a convent just steps away from their home, this could be Charlotte’s chance to fulfill her dream of becoming a martyred Catholic saint—despite the fact that she’s Jewish. At the same time, the young caretaker at the convent is inspiring some unsaintly thoughts . . . “Patty Dann gives us a magnificent voice in the young Charlotte . . . Compelling and tender, touching and alive in her search to find some order in the chaos of her life.” —The New York Times Book Review “This is a really funny book about people trying to find something to hang onto in a world that keeps shifting under their feet. Patty Dann guides us through the guerilla war between mother and daughter, through the minefields that lie between being a child and being an adult, in a voice not like any we’ve heard before.” —John Sayles, director and novelist “Moments of pure gold . . . An energetic talent.” —Kirkus Reviews “Both of [the sisters’] characters are sharply etched and recognizable.” —Publishers Weekly “Poignant . . . a quirky charm.” —Booklist
Book Synopsis Mindscapes, the Geographies of Imagined Worlds by : George Edgar Slusser
Download or read book Mindscapes, the Geographies of Imagined Worlds written by George Edgar Slusser and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eighteen essays plus four examples from the ninth annual J. Lloyd Eaton Conference on Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature at the University of California, Riverside. The concept of mindscape, Slusser and Rabkin explain, allows critics to focus on a single fundamental problem: "The constant need for a relation between mind and some being external to mind." The essayists are Poul Anderson, Wendy Doniger O'Flaherty, Ronald J. Heckelman, David Brin, Frank McConnell, George E. Slusser, James Romm, Jack G. Voller, Peter Fitting, Michael R. Collings, Pascal J. Thomas, Reinhart Lutz, Joseph D. Miller, Gary Westfahl, Bill Lee, Max P. Belin, William Lomax, and Donald M. Hassler. The book concludes with four authors discussing examples of mindscape. The participants are Jean-Pierre Barricelli, Gregory Benford, Gary Kern, and David N. Samuelson.
Book Synopsis Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand by : Samuel R. Delany
Download or read book Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand written by Samuel R. Delany and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2004-12-15 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of a truly galactic civilization with over 6,000 inhabited worlds.
Download or read book Empire Star written by Samuel R. Delany and published by Macmillan Reference USA. This book was released on 1977 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos by : H. P. Lovecraft
Download or read book Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos written by H. P. Lovecraft and published by Del Rey. This book was released on 2011-10-12 with total page 728 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown." --H. P. LOVECRAFT, "Supernatural Horror in Literature" Howard Phillips Lovecraft forever changed the face of horror, fantasy, and science fiction with a remarkable series of stories as influential as the works of Poe, Tolkien, and Edgar Rice Burroughs. His chilling mythology established a gateway between the known universe and an ancient dimension of otherworldly terror, whose unspeakable denizens and monstrous landscapes--dread Cthulhu, Yog-Sothoth, the Plateau of Leng, the Mountains of Madness--have earned him a permanent place in the history of the macabre. In Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos, a pantheon of horror and fantasy's finest authors pay tribute to the master of the macabre with a collection of original stories set in the fearsome Lovecraft tradition: ¸ The Call of Cthulhu by H. P. Lovecraft: The slumbering monster-gods return to the world of mortals. ¸ Notebook Found in a Deserted House by Robert Bloch: A lone farmboy chronicles his last stand against a hungering backwoods evil. ¸ Cold Print by Ramsey Campbell: An avid reader of forbidden books finds a treasure trove of deadly volumes--available for a bloodcurdling price. ¸ The Freshman by Philip José Farmer: A student of the black arts receives an education in horror at notorious Miskatonic University. PLUS EIGHTEEN MORE SPINE-TINGLING TALES!
Book Synopsis The Bear in the Attic by : Patrick F. McManus
Download or read book The Bear in the Attic written by Patrick F. McManus and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2003-06 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Humorous essays about the joys and irritations of outdoor life range from the art of wrestling toads to pondering the philosophical nature of being lost.
Download or read book DISTANT STARS written by Samuel R. Delany and published by iBooks. This book was released on 2011-05 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Delany has a grasp of the evolutionary nature of mythology, a subtle comic touch, and a lyric sense of the outsider making his unorthodox way in the world--or worlds--that give his work a dimension unusual..."
Book Synopsis One Billion Years to the End of the World by : Arkady Strugatsky
Download or read book One Billion Years to the End of the World written by Arkady Strugatsky and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2020-08-06 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A beautiful book' Ursula K. Le Guin This mordantly funny and provocative tale from Soviet Russia's leading science fiction writers is the story of astrophysicist Dmitri Malianov. As he reaches a major breakthrough, he finds himself plagued by interruptions, from a mysterious crate of vodka to a glamorous woman on his doorstep. Is the Universe trying to tell him something? 'On putting down one of their books, you feel a cold breeze still lifting the hairs on the back of your neck' The New York Times
Book Synopsis World's Best Science Fiction, 1968 by : Donald A. Wollheim
Download or read book World's Best Science Fiction, 1968 written by Donald A. Wollheim and published by New York : Ace Books. This book was released on 1968 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A selection of the year's outstanding science fiction.
Download or read book Trafalgar written by Angélica Gorodischer and published by Small Beer Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Trafalgar's in town his friends know that even though the coffee might be terrible, the stories will be great.
Book Synopsis They Fly at Ciron by : Samuel R. Delany
Download or read book They Fly at Ciron written by Samuel R. Delany and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2012-10-15 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SURRENDER TO THE FORCES OF MYERTA! A small pastoral village is invaded without warning by the armies of a distant empire sweeping across the world. Facing mortal danger for the first time in their history, the villagers must forge a pact with the strange and fearsome race of flying people dwelling high above in the mountains.
Book Synopsis In Search of Silence by : Samuel R. Delany
Download or read book In Search of Silence written by Samuel R. Delany and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 719 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 volume—the first in a series—reveals 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 more—and 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 development—to see, in his juvenilia, traces that take full form in his novels—is 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 Díaz, author of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
