Samuel R. Delany Books In Order
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Captives of the Flame / Out of the Dead City | (1963) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Towers of Toron | (1964) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
City of a Thousand Suns | (1965) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Return to Nevèrÿon Books
Tales of Nevèrÿon | (1979) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Neveryóna | (1983) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Flight from Nevèrÿon | (1985) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Bridge of Lost Desire / Return to Neveryon | (1987) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
The Ballad of Beta-2 | (1965) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Babel-17 | (1966) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Einstein Intersection | (1967) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Nova | (1968) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Tides of Lust | (1973) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Dhalgren | (1975) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Tritón / Trouble on Triton | (1976) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Empire | (1978) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand | (1984) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
They Fly At Çiron | (1993) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Hogg | (1994) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Mad Man | (1994) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Dark Reflections | (2007) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Through the Valley of the Nest of Spiders | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Voyage, Orestes! | (2019) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Shoat Rumblin: His Sensations and Ideas | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas
The Jewels of Aptor | (1962) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Empire Star | (1966) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Home Is the Hangman/We, in Some Strange Power's Employ, Move on a Rigorous Line | (1990) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Bread and Wine | (1999) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Phallos | (2004) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Collections
Aye, and Gomorrah | (1967) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Driftglass | (1971) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Distant Stars | (1981) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Complete Nebula Award-Winning Fiction | (1986) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Driftglass/Starshards | (1991) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Atlantis | (1995) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Sensitive Skin #9: post-beat, pre-apocalyptic art, writing and music | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A, B, C | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Novels of Samuel R. Delany Volume One | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Occasional Views, Volume 1 | (2021) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Occasional Views, Volume 2 | (2021) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Roots of Imagination: A Chrestomathy | (2023) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books
The Jewel-Hinged Jaw | (1977) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The American Shore | (1978) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Heavenly Breakfast | (1979) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Starboard Wine | (1984) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Motion of Light in Water | (1988) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Wagner Artaud | (1988) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Straits of Messina | (1989) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Silent Interviews | (1994) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Longer Views | (1996) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Times Square Red, Times Square Blue | (1999) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
1984 | (2000) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Shorter Views | (2000) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Black Gay Man | (2001) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
About Writing | (2006) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Conversations with Samuel R. Delany | (2009) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Atheist in the Attic | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Letters from Amherst | (2019) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Frederick Weston & Samuel R. Delany in Conversation | (2021) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Occasional Views, Volume 1 | (2021) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Of Solids and Surds | (2021) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Occasional Views, Volume 2 | (2021) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Tragedy of Ophelia: Two Essays | (2021) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Quark Books
Publication Order of The Hugo Winners Books
1955 to 1961 | (1962) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
1973 | (1979) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
1976 - 1979 | (1985) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
1980 - 1982 | (1986) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
1986-1988 | (1990) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Outspoken Authors Books
The Human Front | (2001) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Left Left Behind | (2009) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Lucky Strike | (2009) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Underbelly | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Mammoths of the Great Plains | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Wild Girls | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Modem Times 2.0 | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Surfing the Gnarl | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Report from Planet Midnight | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Science of Herself | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Patty Hearst & The Twinkie Murders: A Tale of Two Trials | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
New Taboos | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Raising Hell | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
My Life, My Body | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Gypsy | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Miracles Ain't What They Used to Be | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Fire. | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Totalitopia | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Atheist in the Attic | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Thoreau's Microscope | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Beatrix Gates | (2019) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A City Made of Words | (2019) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Anthologies
Shores Beneath | (0) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Dangerous Visions | (1967) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Dangerous Visions 3 | (1967) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Quark 1 | (1970) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Quark 4 | (1971) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Those Who Can: A Science Fiction Reader | (1973) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Alpha 5 | (1974) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Wondermakers 2 | (1974) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Cosmos Science Fiction and Fantasy, November 1977 | (1977) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Nebula Awards 13 | (1980) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
What If? Volume 3 | (1982) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Worlds Apart | (1986) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
diacritics: a review of contemporary criticism | (1986) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Mississippi Review 47 / 48 | (1988) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Storming the Reality Studio | (1991) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Fiction International 22 | (1992) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Avant-Pop: Fiction for a Daydream Nation | (1993) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Mammoth Book of Erotica | (1994) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Swords of the Rainbow | (1996) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Shade | (1996) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Boys Like Us: Gay Writers Tell Their Coming Out Stories | (1997) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora | (2000) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Ultimate Cyberpunk | (2002) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Supermen | (2002) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Reading the Bones | (2004) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
110 Stories | (2004) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Space Opera Renaissance | (2006) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The WisCon Chronicles, Volume 1 | (2007) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Fiction's Present | (2007) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Ecce Kosti Addenda | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Shadows Took Shape | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Sixth Science Fiction Megapack | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Telling Tales: The Clarion West 30th Anniversary Anthology | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Cross Worlds: Transcultural Poetics: An Anthology | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Mermaids and Other Mysteries of the Deep | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Everyone: Worlds Without Walls | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2018 | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Unquiet Dreamer: A Tribute to Harlan Ellison | (2019) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Theater of Terror: Revenge of the Queers! | (2019) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Out of the Ruins: The Apocalyptic Anthology | (2021) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Queer Ideas: The David R. Kessler Lectures from 1992–2001 | (2023) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Samuel R. Delany is an American author of fiction. He was born in New York City on April 1, 1942. His middle name is Ray and some of his friends call him by his unofficial nickname Chip. He is a published writer that generally writes in the genre of science fiction. His writing has won several awards and appeared on film several times as himself and once acting in a short.
Delany was raised in Harlem by his mother and father. They were a prominent black family that lived on the top two floors of a private house of three stories. His mother worked as a library clerk in the public libraries of New York City. His father ran a funeral home in Harlem that did well and ran from 1938 until he passed in 1960. Delany based some of his characters on his aunts s in Atlantis: Model 1924, a novella.
He went to the Dalton school and later the High School of Science in the Bronx. There he was selected to get the opportunity to go through an international program for summer scholarship at Camp Rising Sun. In high school he dated Marilyn Hacker, a poet. In 1961, they were married. They had a daughter in 1974 named Iva. Their marriage endured for nineteen years. Iva went on to work in New York City in theater.
He became a published author by twenty years old and between 1962 and the following six years was able to write and publish nine novels in the science fiction genre and short stories that won prizes and awards. One of his first science fiction novels published was in 1965 and was called The Ballad of Beta-2. He would spend much of the seventies and early eighties working on his series, Return to Neveron.
He was the subject of a documentary film that premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2007. The film was titled The Polymath. He has taught at several universities, including comparative literature at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and English at the University of Buffalo and Temple University.
Delany has also enjoyed several guest professorship positions visiting at colleges and universities. He has also written extensively on his life as a writer that is also dyslexic, black, and gay. His autobiography won a Hugo Award. He has also written several books that include interviews, stories, criticisms, and interviews.
He is the author of the fictional Fall of the Towers series. The series kicked off in 1963 with the release of the debut sci-fi novel, which was originally called Captives of the Flame but then was switched over to the alternate title, Out of the Dead City. Delany followed that up with a sequel that hit bookshelves just one year later. It was titled The Towers of Toron. The series was turned into an official trilogy with the release of the final book in Delany’s trilogy, which was titled The City of a Thousand Suns.
Out of the Dead City is the exciting first science fiction novel in Samuel R. Delany’s exciting Towers series! Check out the debut novel that kicked everything off and made several readers life-long fans of Delany’s work. This is a science fiction novel like no other.
The book was originally written in 1963 as Captives of the Flame but was rewritten and polished up and given this new title for the release in 1968, as it is a different work after being edited and changed. The stories were originally set in the same world as another book he wrote that was titled The Jewels of Aptor. He changed that later so that the series would be unconnected and be set in Earth (post-holocaust).
In ‘Dead City’, the reader encounters a planet that is totally unknown but is home to a radiation barrier. There are two sides. One plays host to the human beings, which are reminded of a war that went on. The other is a dead city that glimmers. In this kingdom is a king that has grown weak as well as a potential heir to the throne that will keep everything in life.
But when the prince is taken and a kidnapping is on, the civilization is galvanized enough to declare war on the people beyond the barrier. Things seem like they are moving swiftly, but one individual’s situation may be enough to begin turning things around. One man has the strange gift of having a body structure that can be crystallized enough to withstand radiation.
He may be resistant to the powerful radiation that pours out from the barrier. The powers also let him become nearly see-through in the light. His gifts may just be what allows them to get through the barrier– not for the purpose of waging war, but for the purpose of stopping it once and for all.
Can he lead a group of people with him to shut down the battle, or is it far too late for that? You’re going to have to check out Dead City by this acclaimed author to find out for yourself in this stunning debut of this engaging science fiction series!
The Towers of Toron is the second installment in the Towers series. If you loved the first novel in this fun sci-fi series, you are bound to enjoy this creative sequel. Check out the final book in this series if you liked these two as well!
When the population of Earth drove the Lord of the Flames out and across the galaxy, they thought that they had settled the matter once and for all. However, when they receive a warning that he has returned to Earth and is on the move once again, things look grim. If the news is true, his return means that Earth is at risk of plunging into chaos.
The Lord is evil that does not have physical substance and needs to be warm in strange ways. His arrival threatens the entire planet and the people that live on it. But will he back down, or does evil refuse to take a day off? You are going to have to check out this classic science fiction novel and read to the end to find out!
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