Samuel R. Delany

Samuel Ray "Chip" Delany, Jr. (born April 1, 1942) is an award-winning science fiction author. He has written works that have garnered substanial critical acclaim, including the novels Dhalgren and Hogg. He is a professor at Temple University, and is also known in the academic world as a literary critic.

Selected bibliography

Novels:

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• The Jewels of Aptor (1962)
• The Ballad of Beta-2 (1965)
• Babel-17 (1966, Nebula Award)
• The Einstein Intersection (1967, Nebula Award)
• Nova (1968)
• Dhalgren (1975)
• Triton (novel) (1976) - also published as Trouble on Triton
• Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand (1984)
• The Mad Man (1994)
• Hogg (1995)

Memoirs and letters:

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• Heavenly Breakfast
• The Motion of Light in Water (1988, a memoir of his experiences as a young gay science fiction writer; winner of the Hugo Award)
• Times Square Red, Times Square Blue (1999, a discussion of changes in social and sexual interaction in New York's Times Square)
• Bread & Wine: An Erotic Tale of New York (1999, an autobiographical comic drawn by Mia Wolff with an introduction by Alan Moore)
• "1984" (2000)

Short story collections:

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• Driftglass (1971)
• Distant Stars (1981)
• Atlantis: Three Tales (1995)
• Aye, and Gomorrah (2003)

(Driftglass and Distant Stars include the Hugo Award and Nebula Award-winning "Time Considered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Stones." Aye, and Gomorrah is a compilation of all of Delany's short fiction, excepting the Neveryon tales)

Related Topics:
Hugo Award - Nebula Award

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The Return to Neveryon series:

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• Tales of Neveryon (short stories) (1979)
• Neveryona (novel) (1983)
• Flight from Neveryon (novellas) (1985)
• The Bridge of Lost Desire (novellas) (1987)

Critical works:

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• The Jewel-hinged Jaw (1977)
• The American Shore (1978)
• Starboard Wine (1984)
• The Straits of Messina (1989)
• Silent Interviews (1995)
• Longer Views (1996)
• Shorter Views (1999)