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Samuel R. Delany

Samuel R. Delany is an American writer known for his contributions to science fiction and fantasy, as well as erotic literature and non-fiction. He was raised in Harlem, the son of a clerk at the New York Public Library and a funeral home owner. He is the nephew of civil rights activists Sadie and Bessie Delany. Delany has received numerous honors, including two Hugo Awards and four Nebula Awards. In 1988, he became a professor and has continued to teach at various colleges. He made his novel debut in 1962 with The Jewels of Aptor. Below is a chronological list of Samuel R. Delany’s published works.

Samuel R. Delany became a published novelist in 1962 with the novel The Jewels of Aptor. Below is a list of Samuel R. Delany's books in order of when they were originally released:

Publication Order of The Fall of the Towers Books

Book Title Year Amazon USA Amazon UK
Captives of the Flame / Out of the Dead City (1963) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Towers of Toron (1964) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
City of a Thousand Suns (1965) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk

Publication Order of Return to Nevèrÿon Books

Book Title Year Amazon USA Amazon UK
Tales of Nevèrÿon (1979) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Neveryóna (1983) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Flight from Nevèrÿon (1985) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Bridge of Lost Desire / Return to Neveryon (1987) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk

Publication Order of Standalone Novels Books

Book Title Year Amazon USA Amazon UK
The Ballad of Beta-2 (1965) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Babel-17 (1966) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Einstein Intersection (1967) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Nova (1968) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Tides of Lust (1973) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Dhalgren (1975) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Tritón / Trouble on Triton (1976) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Empire (1978) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand (1984) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
They Fly At Çiron (1993) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Hogg (1994) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Mad Man (1994) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Dark Reflections (2007) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Through the Valley of the Nest of Spiders (2011) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Voyage, Orestes! (2019) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Shoat Rumblin: His Sensations and Ideas (2020) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk

Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas Books

Book Title Year Amazon USA Amazon UK
The Jewels of Aptor (1962) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Empire Star (1966) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Home Is the Hangman/We, in Some Strange Power's Employ, Move on a Rigorous Line (1990) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Bread and Wine (1999) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Phallos (2004) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk

Publication Order of Collections Books

Book Title Year Amazon USA Amazon UK
Aye, and Gomorrah (1967) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Driftglass (1971) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Distant Stars (1981) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Complete Nebula Award-Winning Fiction (1986) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Driftglass/Starshards (1993) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Atlantis (1995) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Sensitive Skin #9: post-beat, pre-apocalyptic art, writing and music (With: Bernard Meisler,John Lurie) (2012) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
A, B, C (2015) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Novels of Samuel R. Delany Volume One (2017) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Occasional Views, Volume 1 (2021) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Occasional Views, Volume 2 (2021) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Roots of Imagination: A Chrestomathy (2023) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk

Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books

Book Title Year Amazon USA Amazon UK
The Jewel-Hinged Jaw (1977) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The American Shore (1978) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Heavenly Breakfast (1979) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Starboard Wine (1984) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Motion of Light in Water (1988) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Wagner Artaud (1988) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Straits of Messina (1989) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Silent Interviews (1994) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Longer Views (1996) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Times Square Red, Times Square Blue (1999) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
1984 (2000) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Shorter Views (2000) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Black Gay Man (2001) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
About Writing (2006) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Conversations with Samuel R. Delany (2009) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Atheist in the Attic (With: Eleanor Arnason) (2018) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Letters from Amherst (2019) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Frederick Weston & Samuel R. Delany in Conversation (With: Frederick Weston) (2021) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Occasional Views, Volume 1 (2021) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Of Solids and Surds (2021) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Occasional Views, Volume 2 (2021) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Tragedy of Ophelia: Two Essays (2021) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk

Publication Order of Outspoken Authors Books

Book Title Year Amazon USA Amazon UK
Miracles Ain't What They Used to Be (By: Joe R. Lansdale,Eleanor Arnason) (2016) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Atheist in the Attic (With: Eleanor Arnason) (2018) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk

Publication Order of PM's Outspoken Authors Books

Book Title Year Amazon USA Amazon UK
The Presidential Papers (By: John H. Kessel) (1984) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Human Front (By: Ken MacLeod) (2001) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Underbelly (By: Gary Phillips,Eleanor Arnason) (2010) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Mammoths of the Great Plains (By: Eleanor Arnason) (2010) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Modem Times 2.0 (By: Michael Moorcock,Eleanor Arnason) (2011) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Surfing the Gnarl (By: Rudy Rucker) (2012) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Patty Hearst & The Twinkie Murders: A Tale of Two Trials (By: Eleanor Arnason,Paul Krassner) (2013) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Raising Hell (By: Norman Spinrad,Eleanor Arnason) (2014) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Gypsy (By: Carter Scholz) (2015) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Miracles Ain't What They Used to Be (By: Joe R. Lansdale,Eleanor Arnason) (2016) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Fire. (By: Elizabeth Hand,Eleanor Arnason) (2017) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Atheist in the Attic (With: Eleanor Arnason) (2018) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Beatrix Gates (By: Rachel Pollack) (2019) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Talk Like a Man (By: Nisi Shawl) (2019) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Big Girl (By: Meg Elison) (2020) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Planetbreaker’s Son (By: Nick Mamatas) (2021) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Utopias of the Third Kind (By: Vandana Singh) (2021) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Night Shift (By: Eileen Gunn) (2022) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Collapsing Frontier (By: Jonathan Lethem) (2024) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk

Publication Order of Sexual Cultures Books

Book Title Year Amazon USA Amazon UK
Private Affairs (By: Phillip Brian Harper) (1999) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Times Square Red, Times Square Blue (1999) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
In Your Face (By: Mandy Merck) (2000) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Tropics of Desire (By: José Quiroga) (2000) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Murdering Masculinities (By: Greg Forter) (2000) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Our Monica, Ourselves (By: Lauren Berlant,Lisa A. Duggan) (2001) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Black Gay Man (By: Robert F. Reid-Pharr) (2001) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Passing (By: ) (2001) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Explanation For Everything (By: Paul Morrison) (2002) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Queer Globalizations (By: Martin F. Manalansan IV,Arnaldo Cruz-Malave) (2002) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Queer Latinidad (By: Juana María Rodríguez) (2003) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Love the Sin (By: Janet R. Jakobsen) (2003) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Boricua Pop (By: Frances Negrón-Muntaner,Frances n-Muntaner) (2004) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Why I Hate Abercrombie & Fitch (By: Dwight A. McBride) (2005) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
In a Queer Time and Place (By: J. Jack Halberstam) (2005) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
God Hates Fags (By: Michael Cobb) (2006) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Once You Go Black (By: Robert F. Reid-Pharr) (2007) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Latino Body (By: Lazaro Lima) (2007) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Arranging Grief (By: Dana Luciano) (2007) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Another Country (By: ) (2010) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Extravagant Abjection (By: Darieck Scott) (2010) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Relocations (By: Karen Tongson) (2011) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Single (By: Michael Cobb) (2012) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Beyond the Nation (By: Martin Ponce) (2012) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Brown Boys and Rice Queens (By: Eng-Beng Lim) (2013) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Transforming Citizenships (By: Isaac West) (2013) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Investigating Young People's Sexual Cultures (By: Clarissa Smith,Feona Attwood) (2014) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Delectable Negro (By: E. Patrick Johnson,Vincent Woodard,Justin A. Joyce,Dwight A. McBride) (2014) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Sexual Futures, Queer Gestures, and Other Latina Longings (By: Juana María Rodríguez) (2014) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Sensational Flesh (By: Amber Jamilla Musser) (2014) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Exquisite Corpse of Asian America (By: Rachel C.Lee) (2014) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Not Gay (By: ) (2015) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Embodied Avatars (By: Uri McMillan) (2015) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
A Taste for Brown Bodies (By: Hiram Pérez) (2015) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Wedlocked (By: Katherine Franke) (2015) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
A Body, Undone (By: Christina Crosby) (2016) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Color of Kink (By: Ariane Cruz) (2016) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Archives of Flesh (By: Robert F. Reid-Pharr) (2016) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Black Performance on the Outskirts of the Left (By: Malik Gaines) (2017) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Life and Death of Latisha King (By: ) (2018) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Queer Nuns (By: Melissa M. Wilcox) (2018) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
After the Party (By: ) (2018) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Sensual Excess (By: Amber Jamilla Musser) (2018) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Afro-Fabulations (By: ) (2018) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Queer Times, Black Futures (By: ) (2019) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Queer Faith (By: ) (2019) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Archiving an Epidemic (By: Robb Hernández) (2019) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Frottage (By: Keguro Macharia) (2019) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Sex Obsession (By: Janet R. Jakobsen) (2020) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Becoming Human (By: Zakiyyah Iman Jackson) (2020) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Tragedy of Heterosexuality (By: Jane Ward) (2020) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Keeping It Unreal (By: Darieck Scott) (2022) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Sexuality Beyond Consent (By: ) (2023) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Queer Childhoods (By: Mary Zaborskis) (2024) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Bottoms Up (By: Xiomara Verenice Cervantes-Gomez) (2024) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Deviant Matter (By: Kyla Wazana Tompkins) (2024) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Extravagant Camp (By: Chris A. Eng) (2025) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Queer Lasting (By: Sarah Ensor) (2025) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk

Publication Order of Anthologies Books

Book Title Year Amazon USA Amazon UK
Quark 1 (1970) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Quark 4 (1971) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Those Who Can: A Science Fiction Reader (1973) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Alpha 5 (1974) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Wondermakers 2 (1974) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Cosmos Science Fiction and Fantasy, November 1977 (1977) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Nebula Awards 13 (1980) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
TriQuarterly 49: Science Fiction (1980) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume Three: Nebula Winners 1965-1969 (1981) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
What If? Volume 3 (1982) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Worlds Apart (1986) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
diacritics: a review of contemporary criticism (1986) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Mississippi Review 47 / 48 (1988) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Storming the Reality Studio (1991) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Fiction International 22 (1992) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Avant-Pop: Fiction for a Daydream Nation (1993) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Mammoth Book of Erotica (1994) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Swords of the Rainbow (1996) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Shade (1996) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Boys Like Us: Gay Writers Tell Their Coming Out Stories (1997) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora (2000) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Ultimate Cyberpunk (2002) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Supermen (2002) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Reading the Bones (2004) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
110 Stories (2004) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Space Opera Renaissance (2006) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The WisCon Chronicles, Volume 1 (2007) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Fiction's Present (2007) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction (2010) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Ecce Kosti Addenda (2012) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Shadows Took Shape (2013) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Sixth Science Fiction Megapack (2013) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Telling Tales: The Clarion West 30th Anniversary Anthology (2013) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Cross Worlds: Transcultural Poetics: An Anthology (2014) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Mermaids and Other Mysteries of the Deep (2015) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
People of Color Destroy Science Fiction! (2016) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Everyone: Worlds Without Walls (2017) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2018 (2018) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Unquiet Dreamer: A Tribute to Harlan Ellison (2019) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Theater of Terror: Revenge of the Queers! (2019) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Out of the Ruins: The Apocalyptic Anthology (2021) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Queer Ideas (2023) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk

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