Dhalgren

In one of the most profound and bestselling science fiction novels of all time, Samuel R. Delany has produced a novel to stand with the best American fiction of the 1970s (Jonathan Lethem).

Bellona is a city at the dead center of the United States. Something has happened there … The population has fled. Madmen and criminals wander the streets. Strange portents appear in the cloud-covered sky. Into this disaster zone comes a young man–poet, lover, and adventurer–known only as the Kid.

Tackling questions of race, gender, and sexuality,Dhalgrenis a literary marvel and groundbreaking work of American magical realism.

After his seventh novel,Empire Star(1966),Samuel R. Delanybegan publishing short fiction professionally with “The Star Pit.” It appeared inWorlds of Tomorrowand was turned into a popular two-hour radio play, broadcast annually over WBAI-FM for more than a decade. Two tales, “Aye, and Gomorrah” and “Time Considered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Stones,” won Nebula Awards as the best science fiction short stories, respectively, of 1967 and 1969.Aye, and Gomorrah: And Other Storiescontains all the significant short science fiction and fantasy works that Delany published between 1965 and 1988, excepting only those tales in his Return to NevrYon series. A native New Yorker, Delany teaches English and creative writing at Temple University in Philadelphia. In July of 2002, he was inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame.

• Publisher: Vintage (May 15, 2001)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 816 pages
• ISBN-10: 0375706682
• ISBN-13: 9780375706684
• Item Weight: 1.27 pounds
• Dimensions: 5.15 x 1.41 x 7.94 inches
• Sam Delany