![]() ![]() As a result, the conversations presented here are as rigorously constructed, elusive, and intellectually stimulating as his essays. He insists that all interviews with him be written correspondence so that he is allowed the time and space to deliberate on each response. In fact, two of his critical works are collections of interviews and correspondence. ![]() Delany considers the interview an especially fruitful form for the generation of ideas, and he has made it an integral part of his own work. Delany collects interviews with the writer from 1980 to 2007. His essays and critical works approach a wide variety of subjects from a perspective that is both resolutely philosophical and deeply provocative.Ĭonversations with Samuel R. Several of his works- Dhalgren, The Einstein Intersection, Babel-17, Stars in My Pocket like Grains of Sand, and the Nevèrÿon quartet-are considered landmarks of “new wave” science fiction. ![]() Dhalgren may be read with equal validity as SF, magic realism, or metafiction. As a gay African American writer, Delany's cerebral, experimental prose crosses lines of genre, gender, sexuality, and class. Dhalgren is one of the all-time bestselling science fiction novels. 1942) is also one of the most acclaimed figures in contemporary literary theory and gay/lesbian literature. A key figure in modern science fiction and fantasy, Samuel R. ![]()
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