Samuel R. Delany Bibliography

• Atlantis: Three Tales, Wesleyan University Press (University Press of New England, Hanover, NH 03755): ©1995.
  ISBN: 0-8195-5283-6
  For Iva Hacker-Delany, John R. Keene, Jr., and Dennis Rickett
  • Atlantis: Model 1924
    Amherst / Ann Arbor / New York
    November 1992 - June 1993
  • Eric, Gwen, and D. H. Lawrence's Esthetic of Unrectified Feeling
    Amherst
    October 1988
  • Citre et Trans
    Amherst
    September 1990

• Hogg, Fiction Collective Two & Black Ice Books (Fiction Collective Two, The Unit for Contemporary Literature, Campus Box 4241, Normal, Illinois 61790-4241): ©1994.
  ISBN: Cloth, 0-932511-91-0
  ISBN: Cloth, 0-932511-88-0
  For Michael Perkins
  San Francisco, New York, London
  March 1969 - October 1973

• Silent Interviews: On Language, Race, Sex, Science Fiction, and Some Comics, Wesleyan University Press (University Press of New England, Hanover, NH 03755): ©1994.
  ISBN: Cloth: 0-8195-5276-3
  ISBN: Paperback: 0-8195-6280-7

• The Mad Man, Richard Kasak Books & Masquerade Books (Masquerade Books, 801 Second Avenue, New York, NY 10017): ©1994.
  ISBN: Cloth, 1-56333-193-4
  ISBN: UK pbk: 1-56333-194-2
  To David Demchuk; and once again for Sam and Leonard.
  New York & Canaan
  June 1993 - March 1994

• They Fly at Çiron, Incunabula (Incunabula, P. O. Box 30146, Seattle, WA 98103-0146): ©1993.
  ISBN: trade: 0-9633637-0-0
  ISBN: limited: 0-9633637-1-9
  For Dennis Rickett and with thanks to Sam DeBenedetto, Leonard Gibbs, & Don Eric Levine.
  • They Fly at Çiron
    New York / Amherst
    June 1962 / June 1992
  • Ruins
    New York
    1962
  • Return to Çiron
    Amherst
    September 1991

• The Motion of Light in Water: Sex and Science Fiction Writing in the East Village, 1957-1965, Arbor House (Arbor House, William Morrow and Company, Inc., 105 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10016): ©1988.
  ISBN: 0-87795-947-1
  This book would never have been begun without Robert S. Bravard & David G. Hartwell; it's written for my ideal readers, John Del Gaizo, Kathleen L. Spencer, Anthony C. Lilly, & Marilyn Hacker; nor would it ever have been finished without Robert Morales, Ricky & Janet Kagan, Shelley Frier, Mia Wolff, Linda Alexander, Daniel Sundance McLaughlin, & Charles Solomon Coup.
  New York
  August 1987

• The Bridge of Lost Desire (also published as Return to Nevèrÿon), Arbor House (Arbor House Publishing Company, 105 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10016): ©1987.
  ISBN: 0-87795-931-5
  for John P. Mueller, with thanks to Susan Palwick, Robert S. Bravard, & R. Keith Courtney
  • The Game of Time and Pain
  • The Tale of Rumor and Desire
  • The Tale of Gorgik
  • ``Return...'' A Preface by K. Leslie Steiner
    Ann Arbor
    Summer 1986

• Flight from Nevèrÿon, Bantam Books (Bantam Books, 666 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10103): ©1985.
  ISBN: 0-553-24856-1
  For Frank Romeo, and Robert Bravard, Camilla Decarnin, Mike Elkins, Gregory Frux, Robert Morales, & Michael Peplow, and, of course, Iva, who printed up file ``i''.
  • The Tale of Fog and Granite
    New York
    January 1984
  • The Mummer's Tale
    New York
    February 1984
  • The Tale of Plagues and Carnivals, or, Some Informal Remarks toward the Modular Calculus, Part Five
    New York
    May 1984
  • Closures and Openings
    New York
    February 1984

• Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand, Bantam Books (Bantam Books, 666 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10103): ©1984.
  ISBN: 0-553-25149-X
  For Frank Romeo

• Neveryóna, Bantam Books (Bantam Books, 666 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10103): ©1983.
  ISBN: 0-553-01434-X
  for Frank Romeo
  Montreal - New York
  July 1980 - November 1981

• Equinox (originally published as Tides of Lust), Masquerade Books (Masquerade Books, 802 Second Avenue, New York, NY 10017): ©1973, 1994.
  ISBN: 1-56333-157-8
  Discussions of Equinox, from the Bibliographical Note at its end:
  • Fox, Robert Elliot, "The Politics of Desire in Delany's Triton and The Tides of Lust," Black Amaerican Literature Forum, Joe Weixlmann, Ed., Summer 1984, Vol. 18, Number 2, pp. 49-56, A Publication of the School of Education Indiana State University: Terre Haute, 1984.
  • --. Conscientious Sorcerors: The Black Postmodernist Fiction of Leroi Jones/Amiri Baraka, Ishmael Reed, and Samuel R. Delany, pp. 97-103, Greenwood Press: New York, 1987
  • McEvoy, Seth. Samuel R. Delany, pp 97-99, Frederick Unger Publishing Co.: New York, 1984.
  • Mitchell, Charles. "Sci-Fi Meets the Tides of Porn," Oui 3, June, 1974: New York, 1974.
  • Slusser, George Edgar. The Delany Intersection, pp. 60-63, The Borgo Press: San Bernadino, 1977.
  • Steiner, K. Leslie. "`Scorpion Garden' Revisited: A note on the Anti-Pornography of Samuel R. Delany," The Straits of Messina, Samuel R. Delany, pp. 17-31, Serconia Press: Seattle, 1988.
  • Weedman, Jane Branham. Samuel R. Delany, A Starmont Reder's Guide #10, pp. 29-33, Starmont House: Mercer Island, 1982

• Tales of Nevèrÿon, Bantam Books (Bantam Books, 666 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10103): ©1979.
  ISBN: 0-553-22842-0
  New York
  Oct. 1976 - July 1978
  For Joanna Russ, Luise White, and Iva Hacker-Delany
  • The Tale of Gorgik
  • The Tale of Old Venn
  • The Tale of Small Sarg
  • The Tale of Potters and Dragons
  • The Tale of Dragons and Dreamers
  • Some Informal Remarks Toward the Modular Calculus, Part Three
    S. L. Kermit
    January 1981

• Triton, Bantam Books (Bantam Books, 666 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10103): ©1976.
  ISBN: 0-553-22979-6
  for Isaac Asimov, Jen Mark Gawron, and Howard, Barbara, David, Danny, Jeremy, and Juliet Wise

• Dhalgren, Bantam Books (Bantam Books, 666 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10103): ©1974.
  ISBN: 0-553-14861-3
  ISBN: 0-553-25391-3
  This book about many things must be for many people. Some of them are: Joseph Cox, Bill Brodecky, David Hartwell, Liz Landry, Joseph Manfredini, Patrick Muir, John Herbert McDowell, Jean Sullivan, Janis Schmidt, Charles Naylor, Ann O'Neil, Baird Searles, Martin Last, Bob & Joan Thurston, Richard Vriali, & Susan Schweers and Judy Ratner & Oliver Shank also Thomas M. Disch, Judith Merril, Michael Perkins, Joanna Russ, Judith Sherwin, & Marilyn Hacker
  San Francisco, Abaqii, Toronto, Clarion, Milford, New Orleans, Seattle, Vancouver, Middletown, East Lansing, New York, London
  January 1969 / September 1973

• Driftglass, Signet (Signet, The New American Library, Inc., 1633 Broadway, New York, NY 10019): ©1971.
  ISBN: 0-451-12092-2
  to Sara Ophelia Fitzgerald Boyd, Margaret Carey Boyd Delany, Sara Delany, and in memory of Samuel Ray Delany, Sr.
  
  • The Star Pit
  • Dog in a Fisherman's Net
  • Corona
  • Aye, and Gomorrah
  • Driftglass
  • We, in Some Strange Powers Employ, Move On a Rigorous Line
  • Cage of Brass
  • High Weir
  • Time Considered as a Helix of Semi-precious Stones
  • Night and Loves of Joe Dicostanzo

• Nova, Bantam Books (Bantam Books, 666 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10103): ©1968.
  ISBN: 0-553-10031-9
  To Bernard and Iva Kay
  Athens, June 1966 - New York, May 1967

• The Einstein Intersection (also published as A Fabulous, Formless Darkness), Ace Books (Ace Books, 1120 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10036): ©1967.
  Ace Book Number: 441-19682
  for Don Wollhein a responsible man in all meanings to and for what is within and: Jack Gaughan for what is without

• Babel-17, Ace Books (Ace Books, 1120 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10036): ©1966.
  Ace Book Number: 441-04591
  -this one, now, is for Bob, to explain just a little of the past year-

• Empire Star, Bantam Books (Bantam Books, 666 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10103): ©1966 by Ace Books, Inc.
  Published in 1983, `by arrangement with the Author'
  ISBN: 0-553-23425-0
  New York
  September 1965

• The Ballad of Beta-2 / Empire Star, Ace Books (Ace Books 1120 Avenue of the Americas New York, NY 10036): The Ballad of Beta-2 ©1965 by Ace Books, Inc. Empire Star ©1966 by Ace Books, Inc. Ace Book Number: 441-20571

• The Fall of the Towers, Bantam Books (Bantam Books, 666 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10103).
  ISBN: 0-553-25648-3
  These three are for Marilyn, of course
  
  • Out of the Dead City (originally published as Captives of the Flame) ©1963 by Ace Books, Inc.
    This part is for Peter Solaff
  • The Towers of Toron ©1964 by Ace Books, Inc.
    Yes, Antoine, I was writing another novel
  • City of a Thousand Suns ©1965 by Ace Books, Inc.
    For John and Marjorie Brunner, for, at least, the loan of a typewriter
  • Epilogue
    New York
    February 28th, 1964
  • Afterword
    New York
    March 24th, 1964
  • Notes on Revision
    San Francisco, 1970
  Revised copyright of the above 1965 (in the UK) by Samuel R. Delany.

• The Jewels of Aptor, Bantam Books (Bantam Books, 666 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10103): ©1962 (by Ace Books, Inc.), ©1968 by Samuel R. Delany.
  ISBN: 0-553-20311-8
  New York
  February, 1962

Other Writing

• ``Generic Protocols: Science Fiction and Mundane.'' The Technological Imagination: Theories and Fiction. Madison: Coda Press, 1980.
• "The Life of/and Writing." The New York Review of Science Fiction. Volume 26, October 1990.

Biographies and Criticism

• McEvoy, Seth. Samuel R. Delany, Frederick Unger Publishing Co.: New York, 1984.

• Jackson, Jr., Earl. ``Imagining it Otherwise: Alternative Sexualities in the Fictions of Samuel R. Delany." in Strategies of Deviance (Bloomington: Indiana UP: 1995). Theories of Representation and Difference, Teresa de Lauretis, General Editor.
  Delany figures throughout this book, especially the conclusion, not only the chapter in which Jackson focuses on him.

• Jackson, Jr., Earl. Fantastic Living: The Speculative Autobiographies of Samuel R. Delany. (forthcoming 1996).

Bibliography, from bookplates

Fiction
• Distant Stars (stories) 1981
• Driftglass / Starshards (collected stories)

Nonfiction
• The Jewel-Hinged Jaw 1977
• The American Shore 1978 (Study of Disch's Angouleme)
• Heavenly Breakfast 1978
• Starboard Wine 1982
• Wagner / Artaud
• The Straits of Messina
• Longer Views