It’s a massive behemoth and possibly the closest thing you could imagine to an unfilmable novel. But starting tomorrow, New York City’s The Kitchen is doing a stage play of Samuel R. Delany’s ...

Samuel R. Delany’s Dhalgren is—like Moby-Dick, Naked Lunch, or “Chocolate Rain”—an essential monument both to, and of, American craziness. It doesn’t just document our craziness, it documents our ...

When Samuel R. Delany’s Dhalgren was first published, it was listed as “a Frederik Pohl selection.” Now at last, Pohl blogs about how he acquired a book that 20 or 30 publishers had rejected, and ...

The Alibi of Capital: How We Broke the Earth to Steal the Future on the Promise of a Better Tomorrow ...

When Samuel R. Delany first started writing science fiction in the early 1960s, he was one of only a tiny handful of blacks active in the field, and he had trouble shaking the erroneous label of "the ...

It’s four rickety flights up to the home of Samuel Delany. The front door is ajar. ”Welcome to the owl’s nest,” he says, as his round face widens into a great bearded grin. He is in a good mood. He is ...

Recombinant city : a foreword by William Gibson -- Prism, mirror, lens -- Ruins of morning -- House of the ax -- In time of plague -- Creatures of light and darkness -- Palimpsest -- Anathemata : a ...