Scholarship and criticism on Samuel Delany

Notice

This is not necessarily a "complete" bibliography of scholarship on this author. Rather, it is a selective bibliography of feminist SF scholarship, or scholarship of particular interest to feminist SF scholars.

Books

Douglas Barbour.

• Worlds out of Words: the SF Novels of Samuel R. Delany (Somerset, England: Bran's Head Books, 1979).

Seth McEvoy.

• Samuel R. Delany (New York: Ungar, 1984).

Articles

Russell Blackford.

• "Hi-Tech, Samuel R. Delany and the Transhuman Condition," New York Review of Science Fiction (Oct. 1974)

Pat Califia.

• "Samuel Delany: Setting Future Limits," The Advocate (# 332), Dec. 9 1982.

Neil Easterbrook.

• "Anarchy, State, Heterotopia: The Political Imagination in Heinlein, Le Guin, and Delany". In Political Science Fiction, ed. Clyde Wilcox & Donald Hassler, pp. 43-75. University of South Carolina Press, 1997.

John Fekete.

• "The Dispossessed and Triton: Act and System in Utopian Science Fiction." Science-Fiction Studies, no. 18 (July 1979): pp. 129-143.

Charles Johnson.

• "A Dialogue: Samuel Delany and Joanna Russ on Science Fiction." Callaloo: An Afro-American and African Journal of Arts and Letters, v. 7, no. 3 (Fall 1984): pp. 27-35.

Michelle Masse.

• "'All you have to do is know what you want': Individual Expectations in Triton", in Coordinates: Placing Science Fiction and Fantasy, ed. by George Slusser, Eric Rabkin, and Robert Scholes. (1983) Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press.

Tom Moylan.

• Demand the Impossible: Science Fiction and the Utopian Imagination. New York & London: Methuen, 1986. (Studies of Joanna Russ's The Female Man; Ursula K. Le Guin's The Dispossessed; Marge Piercy's Woman on the Edge of Time; and Samuel Delany's Triton.)

Michael W. Peplow

• "Meet Samuel R. Delany, Black Science Fiction Writer," Crisis, April 1979.

Michael W. Peplow and Robert S. Bravard.

• Samuel R. Delany: A Primary and Secondary Bibliography, 1962-1979 (Boston: G. K. Hall, 1980).

Gregory Renault.

• "Speculative Porn: Aesthetic Form in Samuel R. Delany's The Tides of Lust", Extrapolation, v. 24, no. 2 (Summer 1983): pp. 116-129.

James Sallis.

• Editor, Ash of Stars: On the Writing of Samuel R. Delany. (1996).

T. Tatsumi.

• "Some Real Mothers: An Interview with Samuel R. Delany." Science Fiction Eye Volume 1, no. 3 (1988): pages 5-11.

Gianni Vattimo.

• "From Utopia to Heterotopia." in The Transparent Society, translated by David Webb. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992.

Jane Branham Weedman.

• Samuel R. Delany