Samuel Delany

Samuel Ray "Chip" Delany, Jr. (born April 1, 1942) is a Black American writer (although the Library of Congress incorrectly recorded his nationality as English) , academic, and literary critic. Delany was born and raised in Harlem and attended the Bronx High School of Science. Delany and the poet Marilyn Hacker, who met in high school, were married for several years and have a daughter. Delany spent 11 years teaching at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and moved to the English Department of Temple University in 2001.

He has written extensively in the mainstream science fiction and fantasy genres. He is also the author of a number of fictional and autobiographical works that include references to extreme aspects of human sexuality.

Table of contents

1 Selected Bibliography 2 External links 3 References

Selected Bibliography

• The Ballad of Beta-2
• The Jewels of Aptor
• Babel-17
• The Einstein Intersection
• Heavenly Breakfast
• "Time Considered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Stones"
• Nova
• Triton
• Dhalgren
• Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand
• The Motion of Light in Water (a memoir of his experiences as a young gay science fiction writer)
• Tales of Neveryon
• Times Square Red, Times Square Blue

Delany's name is one of the most misspelt in science fiction, with over 60 different spellings in reviews. His publisher Doubleday even misspelt his name on the title page of his book Driftglass as did the organizers of the 16th Balticon where Delany was guest of honour.

See also:

• Sex in science fiction

External links

• http://www.pcc.com/~jay/delany/
• Delany bibliography

References

Robert S. Bravard; Michael W. Peplow, Through a Glass Darkly: Bibliographing Samuel R. Delanyin Black American Literature Forum, Vol. 18, No. 2.