BookSeriesInOrder.com





Book Notification

Samuel R. Delany Books In Order

Book links take you to Amazon. As an Amazon Associate I earn money from qualifying purchases.

Publication Order of The Fall of the Towers Books

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 (With: Bernard Meisler,John Lurie) (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 (With: Eleanor Arnason) (2018)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Letters from Amherst (2019)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Frederick Weston & Samuel R. Delany in Conversation (With: Frederick Weston) (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

Quark/3 (By: ) (1971)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle

Publication Order of The Hugo Winners Books

with Anne McCaffrey, Isaac Asimov, Robert Bloch, Harlan Ellison, Robert Silverberg, Poul Anderson, Philip Jose Farmer, Fritz Leiber
1955 to 1961 (By: Isaac Asimov,Robert Bloch) (1962)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
1973 (By: Isaac Asimov) (1979)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
1976 - 1979 (By: Isaac Asimov) (1985)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
1980 - 1982 (By: Isaac Asimov) (1986)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
1986-1988 (By: Isaac Asimov) (1990)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle

Publication Order of Outspoken Authors Books

The Human Front (By: Ken MacLeod) (2001)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Left Left Behind (By: Terry Bisson,Eleanor Arnason) (2009)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Lucky Strike (By: Kim Stanley Robinson) (2009)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Underbelly (By: Gary Phillips,Eleanor Arnason) (2010)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Mammoths of the Great Plains (By: Eleanor Arnason) (2010)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Wild Girls (By: Ursula K. Le Guin,Eleanor Arnason) (2011)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Modem Times 2.0 (By: Michael Moorcock,Eleanor Arnason) (2011)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow (By: Cory Doctorow,Eleanor Arnason) (2011)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Surfing the Gnarl (By: Rudy Rucker,Eleanor Arnason) (2012)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Report from Planet Midnight (By: Nalo Hopkinson,Eleanor Arnason) (2012)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Science of Herself (By: Karen Joy Fowler,Eleanor Arnason) (2013)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Patty Hearst & The Twinkie Murders: A Tale of Two Trials (By: Eleanor Arnason,Paul Krassner) (2013)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
New Taboos (By: John Shirley) (2013)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Raising Hell (By: Norman Spinrad,Eleanor Arnason) (2014)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
My Life, My Body (By: Marge Piercy) (2015)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Gypsy (By: Carter Scholz,Eleanor Arnason) (2015)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Miracles Ain't What They Used to Be (By: Joe R. Lansdale,Eleanor Arnason) (2016)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Fire. (By: Elizabeth Hand,Eleanor Arnason) (2017)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Totalitopia (By: John Crowley) (2017)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Atheist in the Attic (With: Eleanor Arnason) (2018)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Thoreau's Microscope (By: Michael Blumlein,Eleanor Arnason) (2018)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Beatrix Gates (By: Rachel Pollack) (2019)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
A City Made of Words (By: Paul Park) (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!

Book Series In Order » Authors » Samuel R. Delany

Leave a Reply