Samuel R. Delany's many prizes include the Hugo Award, the Nebula Award, and the William Whitehead Memorial Award for a lifetime's contribution to gay and lesbian literature. Wesleyan has published both his fiction and nonfiction, including Atlantis: three tales (1995), Longer Views: Extended Essays (1996), and Shorter Views: Queer Thoughts & the Politics of the Paraliterary. The press has also reissued his classic science fiction and fantasy novels Dhalgren (1996), Trouble on Triton (1996, originally published as Triton), The Einstein Intersection (1998) and the four-volume Return to Nevèrÿon series.
"Delany has a unique place in late 20th century letters. A lifelong
inhabitant of the margins, both social and literary, he has used
his marginalized status as a lens to focus his astute observations
of American literature and society. From these interviews his voice
emerges, provocative, precise, and engaging."--Kathleen Spencer
"Yevgeny Zamyatin? Stanislaw Lem? Forget it! Delany is both, with a
lot of Borges and Bruno Schultz thrown in."--Village Voice
"This is a suberb and important book for anyone interested in
Delany, SF, or SF criticism . . . engaging, well put together, fun
to read, and challenging. As usual, with anything written by
Delany, the texts all operate at many levels: personal, historical,
critical, theoretical, and metatheoretical."--Extrapolation
"Delany is fascinating whether discussing SF, comics, or his
experiences as a Black American, and this collection . . . is as
entertaining as it is informative."--Science Fiction Chronicle
"Yevgeny Zamyatin? Stanislaw Lem? Forget it! Delany is both, with a
lot of Borges and Bruno Schultz thrown in."--Village Voice
"Samuel R. Delany never shies away from contestable positions or
provocative opinions. In his fiction, Delany can write like
quicksilver, and in lectures or panel discussions, he is easily
SF's most articulate spokesperson in academia . . . There is much
here that is not covered in Delany's critical or autiobiographical
writings, and much that anyone seriously interested in SF--or many
of Delany's other favorite topics--ought to consider."--Locus
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