Samuel R Delany: 30 books

Four mind-bending novels from science fiction's most transformative decade in a deluxe collector's edition hardcover, including two long out-of-print classics In this second volume of a two-volume set gathering the best American science fiction from the tumultuous 1960s, R. A. Lafferty's quirky...

A unique anthology of stories written by Harlan Ellison in collaboration with the sci-fi masters of his time. Robert Bloch, Ben Bova, Algis Budrys, Avram Davidson, Samuel R. Delany, Joe L. Hensley, Keith Laumer, William Rotsler, Robert Sheckley, Robert Silverberg, Henry Slesar, Theodore Sturgeon,...

The Jewels Of Aptor by Samuel R. Delany.

The narrator of Hogg is a Huck Finn–like youngster caught in society’s most sinister seams—but unlike Huck, he passes no moral judgments on the violence he takes part in . . .** Hogg is the story of a man—a depraved trucker named Franklin Hargus, whom the people he works for call...

A quest for a priceless element—and revenge—fuels this far-future interstellar adventure that “reads like Moby-Dick at a strobe-light show” (Time).   In 3172, the universe is divided between three political units: the stars and worlds of Draco, with Earth as its power center; the Pleiades...

In this far-future classic, sexual attraction is a science, gender is a whole new construct, and information is both precious and perilous . . . With a burst of radiation to the brain, an angry young man is transformed into a dim-witted slave—suitable only for the most brutal work. But...

SAMUEL R. DELANY considers Captives of the Flame to be the first of a trilogy dealing with the same epoch and characters. It is, however, his second published novel, his first being The Jewels of Aptor.

Dans un lointain avenir, les hommes se sont répandus jusqu’aux confins de notre galaxie. Mais seuls quelques rares êtres exceptionnels – d’aucuns les qualifient des psychopathes – peuvent s’aventurer au-delà : les « dorés ». Vyme et les autres qui travaillent dans la Fosse aux Etoiles...

La conquête de l’espace exige quelques sacrifices. Afin de se protéger contre les effets nocifs des rayons cosmiques, les spatiaux ont accepté l’androgynie en échange de la possibilité de voyager vers d’autres mondes. Mais personne n’avait prévu qu’ils deviendraient à leur tour l’objet...

Appearing in book form for the first time, "The Atheist in the Attic" is a suspenseful and vivid historical narrative, recreating the top-secret meeting between the mathematical genius Leibniz and the philosopher Spinoza caught between the horrors of the cannibalistic Dutch Rampjaar and...

A four-volume “postmodern sword-and-sorcery” epic from a multiple Hugo and Nebula Award–winning author (The Washington Post Book World). Tales of Nevèrÿon: After his parents are killed during a political coup, Gorgik is taken into captivity and forced to work the government obsidian...

Au cours d’un conflit interstellaire, l’Alliance terrienne se voit menacée par une série d’attentats visant ses installations stratégiques les plus sensibles. Ces attaques coïncident avec des émissions dans une langue impénétrable : Babel 17. Les autorités militaires font appel à Rydra...

1 - LA FOSSE AUX ÉTOILES. L’espace vous détruit, sauf si vous êtes un des rares privilégiés qui peuvent aller PLUS LOIN... Lorsque je débarquai à la fosse aux Étoiles, le fait de travailler ici, aux confins de la galaxie, me fit un certain effet. Peut-être était-ce de savoir qu’on ne...

A philosophy student’s research draws him into the sexual underground of 1980s and early nineties New York John Marr is surprised he doesn’t have AIDS. He has been having near-daily sexual encounters with strange men since before the dawn of HIV, but he remains healthy. His initiation began...