Given that the suns of Draco stretch almost sixteen light years from end to end, it stands to reason that the cost of transportation is the most important factor of the 32nd century. And since Illyrion is the element most needed for space travel, Lorq von Ray is plenty willing to fly through the core of a recently imploded sun in order to obtain seven tons of it. The potential for profit is so great that Lorq has little difficulty cobbling together an alluring crew that includes a gypsy musician and a moon-obsessed scholar interested in the ancient art of writing a novel. What the crew doesn’t know, though, is that Lorq’s quest is actually fueled by a private revenge so consuming that he’ll stop at nothing to achieve it.

Samuel R Delany, Jr., age 2-and-a-half, at the home of Judge Myles Paige in Greenwood Lake, NJ, summer 1944

The Jewels of Aptor (1962)
The Fall of the Towers
Out of the Dead City (1963)
The Towers of Toron (1964)
City of a Thousand Suns (1965)
The Ballad of Beta-2 (1965)
Babel-17 (1966)
Empire Star (1966)
The Einstein Intersection (1967)
Nova (1968)
Driftglass (1969)
Equinox (1973)
Dhalgren (1975)
Trouble on Triton (1976)
Return to Nevèrÿon
Tales of Nevèrÿon (1979)
Neveryóna (1982)
Flight from Nevèrÿon (1985)
Return to Nevèrÿon (1987)
Distant Stars (1981)
Stars in My Pockets Like Grains of Sand (1984)
Driftglass/Starshards (1993)
They Fly at Çiron (1993)
The Mad Man (1994)
Hogg (1995)
Atlantis: Three Tales (1995)
Aye, and Gomorrah (2004)
Phallos (2004

The Jewel-Hinged Jaw (1977)
The American Shore (1978)
Heavenly Breakfast (1979)
Starboard Wine (1984)
The Motion of Light in Water 1988)
Wagner/Artaud (1988)
The Straits of Messina (1990)
Silent Interviews (1994)
Longer Views (1996)
Times Square Red, Times Square Blue (1999)
Shorter Views (1999)
1984: Selected Letters (2000)

Empire (1980)
Bread & Wine (1999)

Born in Harlem Hospital, April 1st, 1942, and raised on 7th Ave. in the two floors above his father's funeral home, at 2250 7th Ave., Samuel Ray Delany, from age three to June 1947, attended Horace Mann Nursery School on 120th St. and Broadway. His Aunt Laura and Uncle Ed Murrell, with his cousins Nanny, Ed, Jr., and Little Bill (born in the same month as his sister Peggy), lived on the top floor of the 7th Ave. house before moving to the Bronx. In 1947 his parents switched him to the Dalton School at 108 E. 89th St. between Park and Lexington. He was one of three black children in the class, one of whom was his cousin, Mickey DesVerney, on his mother's side of the family. But all of the black students at Dalton were either relatives or family friends.

Junot Díaz entrevista Samuel R. Delany

Back in the States, Delany produced, scripted, and edited two short films for Frank with a young an named Jack Newman as camera-man on both.

Bizarre psychedelic jewel of novel that sometimes reads like prose poetry. Allusions to Bester, Holy Grail, Moby Dick, tarot, City of the Dreadful Night add to the enjoyment all with interesting thoughts on film and music, the future of the novel, humanity and technology, work and other weird thoughts. – Adam

Delaney is concerned most with how stories and their narrative mechanisms create the world, exploring myth in 'The Einstein Intersection', language in 'Babel 17', the act of storytelling in 'The Ballad of Beta Two', etc. 'Nova' also is a story about stories. – Bertolt

Two years later, a second film, 10-minutes long and in color, was called The Aunts. The stories were both Romeo's, and in the filming, he directed the actors. Delany is only listed as “friend” in Bye Bye Love and “script boy” in the other. The first cost Delany $3000; the second cost $6000.

Octavia Butler and Samuel Delany also broke SF’s racial barriers during this time, and their simultaneous ability to disrupt norms around gender, sexuality and class have made them canonical.

[Entrevistado por Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah, The Paris Review n. 210]

[por Peter Bebergal, The New Yorker, 29 de Julho de 2015]

Mia Wolff painted her oil on linen triptych The City of Green Fire between 1997 and 1998, at her New Paltz, New York, studio, where I first saw them in late Spring or Summer shortly after their completion.

[by Samuel R. Delany, from NYRSF Issue 120, August 1998. "Racism in SF" first appeared in volume form]

Samuel Delaney's Nova is an absolutely immersive tale that I honestly didn't really enjoy on first read. I thought it was pretentious, annoying, and far too complex to have any real structure and meaning. But then, upon second read, I discovered that the hidden gems of information and characterization that make up the story create this fantastic hidden narrative that you must really look for to enjoy. – Travis Gallington