Author: Samuel R. Delany
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0375706690
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
Author of the bestselling Dhalgren and winner of four Nebulas and one Hugo, Samuel R. Delany is one of the most acclaimed writers of speculative fiction. Babel-17, winner of the Nebula Award for best novel of the year, is a fascinating tale of a famous poet bent on deciphering a secret language that is the key to the enemy’s deadly force, a task that requires she travel with a splendidly improbable crew to the site of the next attack. For the first time, Babel-17 is published as the author intended with the short novel Empire Star, the tale of Comet Jo, a simple-minded teen thrust into a complex galaxy when he’s entrusted to carry a vital message to a distant world. Spellbinding and smart, both novels are testimony to Delany’s vast and singular talent.
Empire Star
Author: Samuel R. Delany
Publisher: Macmillan Reference USA
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
Publisher: Macmillan Reference USA
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
Babel-17/Empire Star
Author: Samuel R. Delany
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0375706690
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
Author of the bestselling Dhalgren and winner of four Nebulas and one Hugo, Samuel R. Delany is one of the most acclaimed writers of speculative fiction. Babel-17, winner of the Nebula Award for best novel of the year, is a fascinating tale of a famous poet bent on deciphering a secret language that is the key to the enemy’s deadly force, a task that requires she travel with a splendidly improbable crew to the site of the next attack. For the first time, Babel-17 is published as the author intended with the short novel Empire Star, the tale of Comet Jo, a simple-minded teen thrust into a complex galaxy when he’s entrusted to carry a vital message to a distant world. Spellbinding and smart, both novels are testimony to Delany’s vast and singular talent.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0375706690
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
Author of the bestselling Dhalgren and winner of four Nebulas and one Hugo, Samuel R. Delany is one of the most acclaimed writers of speculative fiction. Babel-17, winner of the Nebula Award for best novel of the year, is a fascinating tale of a famous poet bent on deciphering a secret language that is the key to the enemy’s deadly force, a task that requires she travel with a splendidly improbable crew to the site of the next attack. For the first time, Babel-17 is published as the author intended with the short novel Empire Star, the tale of Comet Jo, a simple-minded teen thrust into a complex galaxy when he’s entrusted to carry a vital message to a distant world. Spellbinding and smart, both novels are testimony to Delany’s vast and singular talent.
Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand
Author: Samuel R. Delany
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
ISBN: 0819567140
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 377
Book Description
The story of a truly galactic civilization with over 6,000 inhabited worlds.
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
ISBN: 0819567140
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 377
Book Description
The story of a truly galactic civilization with over 6,000 inhabited worlds.
Nova
Author: Samuel R. Delany
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0375706704
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
Given that the suns of Draco stretch almost sixteen light years from end to end, it stands to reason that the cost of transportation is the most important factor of the 32nd century. And since Illyrion is the element most needed for space travel, Lorq von Ray is plenty willing to fly through the core of a recently imploded sun in order to obtain seven tons of it. The potential for profit is so great that Lorq has little difficulty cobbling together an alluring crew that includes a gypsy musician and a moon-obsessed scholar interested in the ancient art of writing a novel. What the crew doesn’t know, though, is that Lorq’s quest is actually fueled by a private revenge so consuming that he’ll stop at nothing to achieve it. In the grandest manner of speculative fiction, Nova is a wise and witty classic that casts a fascinating new light on some of humanity’s oldest truths and enduring myths.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0375706704
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
Given that the suns of Draco stretch almost sixteen light years from end to end, it stands to reason that the cost of transportation is the most important factor of the 32nd century. And since Illyrion is the element most needed for space travel, Lorq von Ray is plenty willing to fly through the core of a recently imploded sun in order to obtain seven tons of it. The potential for profit is so great that Lorq has little difficulty cobbling together an alluring crew that includes a gypsy musician and a moon-obsessed scholar interested in the ancient art of writing a novel. What the crew doesn’t know, though, is that Lorq’s quest is actually fueled by a private revenge so consuming that he’ll stop at nothing to achieve it. In the grandest manner of speculative fiction, Nova is a wise and witty classic that casts a fascinating new light on some of humanity’s oldest truths and enduring myths.
Empire
Author: Samuel R. Delany
Publisher: Putnam Publishing Group
ISBN:
Category : Archaeologists
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
"A powerful device has been hidden in separate pieces. Qrelon, whose planet was destroyed by the empire, leads a small group of rebels that risks everything to collect the pieces of the device that, once complete, will be the weapon powerful enough to destroy the planet-sized computer that runs the empire. Wryn, an archaeology student, is chosen by the empire to assassinate the rebel leader."--Wikipedia
Publisher: Putnam Publishing Group
ISBN:
Category : Archaeologists
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
"A powerful device has been hidden in separate pieces. Qrelon, whose planet was destroyed by the empire, leads a small group of rebels that risks everything to collect the pieces of the device that, once complete, will be the weapon powerful enough to destroy the planet-sized computer that runs the empire. Wryn, an archaeology student, is chosen by the empire to assassinate the rebel leader."--Wikipedia
Through the Valley of the Nest of Spiders
Author: Samuel R. Delany
Publisher: Alyson Books
ISBN: 9781593502034
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"Samuel R. Delany is not only one of the most profound and courageous writers at work today, he is a writer of seemingly limitless range."--Michael Cunningham A vast river of a novel alive with explicit sexuality and the the richness of life itself, Through the Valley of the Nest of Spiders concerns a gay, working-class, interracial relationship. In 2007, just before Eric's seventeenth birthday, his father brings him to Diamond Harbor, a failing tourist town on the Georgia coast, to live with his mother. There Eric meets nineteen-year-old Morgan Haskell, who works with his father, Dynamite Haskell, and the two boys soon join their lives--and their bodies--together on the coast as a couple over the next seventy-five years. The author of more than forty books, Samuel R. Delany is a novelist and critic whose novel Dhalgren has sold over a million copies. He is a recipient of the William Whitehead Memorial Award for a Lifetime Contribution to Gay and Lesbian Writing and the Lambda Literary Pioneer Award. He is a professor of English and creative writing at Temple University in Philadelphia.
Publisher: Alyson Books
ISBN: 9781593502034
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"Samuel R. Delany is not only one of the most profound and courageous writers at work today, he is a writer of seemingly limitless range."--Michael Cunningham A vast river of a novel alive with explicit sexuality and the the richness of life itself, Through the Valley of the Nest of Spiders concerns a gay, working-class, interracial relationship. In 2007, just before Eric's seventeenth birthday, his father brings him to Diamond Harbor, a failing tourist town on the Georgia coast, to live with his mother. There Eric meets nineteen-year-old Morgan Haskell, who works with his father, Dynamite Haskell, and the two boys soon join their lives--and their bodies--together on the coast as a couple over the next seventy-five years. The author of more than forty books, Samuel R. Delany is a novelist and critic whose novel Dhalgren has sold over a million copies. He is a recipient of the William Whitehead Memorial Award for a Lifetime Contribution to Gay and Lesbian Writing and the Lambda Literary Pioneer Award. He is a professor of English and creative writing at Temple University in Philadelphia.
Babel-17
Author: Samuel R. Delany
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781613472972
Category : Human-alien encounters
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Two novels bound tête-bêche. Issued in slipcase.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781613472972
Category : Human-alien encounters
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Two novels bound tête-bêche. Issued in slipcase.
Babel-17
Author: Samuel R. Delany
Publisher: Memoranda Verlag
ISBN: 3910914039
Category : Fiction
Languages : de
Pages : 248
Book Description
In ferner Zukunft hat sich die menschliche Zivilisation in der ganzen Galaxis ausgebreitet. Dabei kommt es zum Kontakt mit Außerirdischen, die fremdartiger nicht sein könnten – und nicht alle sind den Menschen friedlich gesonnen. Einer der außerirdischen Spezies scheint es gelungen zu sein, ihre Sprache im interstellaren Krieg als Waffe einzusetzen. Rydra Wong, Linguistin, Dichterin und Telepathin, erhält den Auftrag, das Geheimnis dieser Sprache zu entschlüsseln. Gemeinsam mit einer Gruppe sternenfahrender Abenteurer unternimmt sie eine Reise ins Ungewisse ... Als Auftakte der Werkausgabe: Das erste der drei frühen Meisterwerke von Samuel R. Delany, ein intellektuelles Lesevergnügen ersten Ranges.
Publisher: Memoranda Verlag
ISBN: 3910914039
Category : Fiction
Languages : de
Pages : 248
Book Description
In ferner Zukunft hat sich die menschliche Zivilisation in der ganzen Galaxis ausgebreitet. Dabei kommt es zum Kontakt mit Außerirdischen, die fremdartiger nicht sein könnten – und nicht alle sind den Menschen friedlich gesonnen. Einer der außerirdischen Spezies scheint es gelungen zu sein, ihre Sprache im interstellaren Krieg als Waffe einzusetzen. Rydra Wong, Linguistin, Dichterin und Telepathin, erhält den Auftrag, das Geheimnis dieser Sprache zu entschlüsseln. Gemeinsam mit einer Gruppe sternenfahrender Abenteurer unternimmt sie eine Reise ins Ungewisse ... Als Auftakte der Werkausgabe: Das erste der drei frühen Meisterwerke von Samuel R. Delany, ein intellektuelles Lesevergnügen ersten Ranges.
Babel
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Category :
Languages : fr
Pages :
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Category :
Languages : fr
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Babel 17
Author: Samuel Ray Delany
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : fr
Pages : 294
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : fr
Pages : 294
Book Description