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Samuel R. Delany

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'''Samuel Ray "Chip" Delany, Jr.''' (born April 1, [[1942]], [[New York City]]) is an award-winning American [[science fiction]] author. He has written works that have garnered substantial critical acclaim, including the novels ''[[Nova (novel)|Nova]]'', ''The Einstein Intersection'', ''[[Hogg (novel)|Hogg]]'', and ''[[Dhalgren]]''. He is a professor of Comparative Literature and Creative Writing at Temple University, and is also known in the [[academic]] world as a [[literary critic]].

===Biography===
Delany was born and raised in Harlem and attended the Dalton School and Bronx High School of Science. Delany and the poet [[Marilyn Hacker]], who met in high school, were married for several years and have a daughter.

Delany was a published science fiction author by the age of 20, and published six well-regarded science fiction novels between 1962 and 1968, as well as several prize-winning short stories (collected in ''Driftglass''). ''Dhalgren'' was published in [[1974|1974]]. His main literary project through the late 1970s and 1980s was the Neveryon series.

Delany has published several [[autobiographical]]/semi-autobiographical accounts of his life as a black and [[gay]] writer, including his [[Hugo Award]] winning autobiography, ''[[The Motion of Light in Water]]''.

In recent years, Delany has been teaching English, Comparative Literature, and writing. Delany spent 11 years teaching at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, a year and a half at the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York|University at Buffalo, and moved to the English Department of Temple University in [[2001]]. He has also published several books of criticism, interviews, and other essays.

===Themes===
Most of his works deal more explicitly with sexual themes than is common. ''[[Dhalgren]]'' and ''[[Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand]]'' include several sexually explicit passages, and several of his books such as ''[[Equinox (book)|Equinox]]'', ''[[The Mad Man]]'', ''[[Hogg (novel)|Hogg]]'' and ''[[Phallos (novel)|Phallos]]'' could even be considered [[pornography]], a term that Delany himself has endorsed before. He has published several books of literary criticism, with an emphasis on issues in [[science fiction]] and other [[paraliterature|paraliterary]] [[genre]]s, [[comparative literature]], and [[queer studies]].

==Selected bibliography==
===Fiction===
====Novels====
*''[[The Jewels of Aptor]]'' (1962)
*''[[Captives of the Flame]]'' (1963) - also published as ''Out of the Dead City''
*''[[The Towers of Toron]]'' (1964)
*''[[City of a Thousand Suns]]'' (1965)
*''[[The Ballad of Beta-2]]'' (1965)
*''[[Empire Star]]'' (novella) (1966)
*''[[Babel-17]]'' (1966, [[Nebula Award]])
*''[[The Einstein Intersection]]'' (1967, [[Nebula Award]])
*''[[Nova (novel)|Nova]]'' (1968), ISBN 0553100319
*''The Tides of Lust'' (1973) (republished as ''Equinox'')
*''[[Dhalgren]]'' (1974), ISBN 0553148613
*''[[Triton (novel)]]'' (1976), ISBN 0553126806 - also published as ''Trouble on Triton''
* ''Empire'' (1978)
*''[[Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand]]'' (1984), ISBN 0553050532
*''[[The Mad Man]]'' (1994), ISBN 1563331934
*''[[Hogg (novel)|Hogg]]'' (1995), ISBN 0932511910
*''[[Phallos (novella)]]'' (2004), ISBN 0917453417

====Return to Nevèrÿon series====
*''[[Tales of Nevèrÿon]]'' (short stories) (1979), ISBN 0553123335
*''[[Neveryóna|Neveryóna, or the Tale of Signs and Cities]]'' (novel) (1983), ISBN 055301434X
*''[[Flight from Nevèrÿon]]'' (novellas) (1985), ISBN 0553248561
*''[[The Bridge of Lost Desire]]'' (novellas) (1987), ISBN 0877959315

====Short story collections====
*''Driftglass'' (1971)
*''Distant Stars'' (1981), ISBN 055301336X
*''Distant Suns'' (1981)
*''The Complete Newbula Award-Winning fiction'' (1986)
*''Draftglass / Starshards'' (1993)
*''Atlantis: Three Tales'' (1995), ISBN 0819552836
*''[[Aye, and Gomorrah]]'' (2003), ISBN 0375706712
(''[[Driftglass]]'' and ''Distant Stars'' include the [[Hugo Award|Hugo]] 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 Nevèrÿon tales.)

====Short stories====
* "[[Aye, and Gomorrah ...]]" (1967)
* "[[Time Considered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Stones]]" (1968)
* "[[They Fly at Cirron]]" (1971)
* "[[High Weir]]" in ''[[The Norton Book of Science Fiction]]''

===Nonfiction===
====Critical works====
*''[[The Jewel-hinged Jaw]]: Notes on the Language of Science Fiction'' (1977)
*''[[The American Shore]]'' (1978)
*''[[Starboard Wine]]: More Notes on the Language of Science Fiction'' (1984)
*''[[The Straits of Messina]]'' (1989), ISBN 0934933049
*''Comics'' (1994)
*''[[Silent Interviews]]'' (1995), ISBN 0819562807
*''[[Longer Views]]'' (1996), ISBN 0819562939
*''[[Shorter Views]]'' (1999), ISBN 0819563692
*''[[About Writing (Delany)|About Writing]]'' (2005), ISBN 0819567167
* "Of Sex, Objects, Sign, Systems, Sales, SF, and Other Things" (as K. Leslie Steiner)
* "Some Remarks Toward a Reading of ''Dhalgren''" (as K. Leslie Steiner)
* "Reading at Work, and Other Activities Frowned on by Authority: A Reading of Donna Haraway's 'Manifesto for Cyborgs: Science, Technology, and Socialist Feminism in the 1980s'" (1996)
* "[[A Tribute to Judith Merril]]" (1997)
* "[[Racism and Science Fiction]]" (1998)

====Memoirs and letters====
*''Heavenly Breakfast'' (1979), ISBN 0553127969
*''[[The Motion of Light in Water]]'' (1988, a memoir of his experiences as a young gay science fiction writer; winner of the [[Hugo Award]]), ISBN 0877959471
*''Times Square Red, Times Square Blue'' (1999, a discussion of changes in social and sexual interaction in New York's [[Times Square]]), ISBN 0814719198
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