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The Jewel-Hinged Jaw: Notes on the Language of Science Fiction
ISBN: 9780819568830 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Samuel R. Delany's The Jewel-Hinged Jaw appeared originally in 1977, and is now long out of print and hard to find. The impact of its demonstration that science fiction was a special language, rather than just gadgets and green-skinned aliens, began reverberations still felt in science fiction criticism. This edition includes two new essays, one written at the time and one written about those times, as well as an introduction by writer and teacher Matthew Cheney, placing Delany's work in historical context. Close textual analyses of Thomas M. Disch, Ursula K. Le Guin, Roger Zelazny, and...
Samuel R. Delany's The Jewel-Hinged Jaw appeared originally in 1977, and is now long out of print and hard to find. The impact of its demonstration th...
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Starboard Wine: More Notes on the Language of Science Fiction
ISBN: 9780819568847 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In Starboard Wine, Samuel R. Delany explores the implications of his now-famous assertion that science fiction is not about the future. Rather, it uses the future as a means of talking about the present and its potentiality. By recognizing a text's specific "difference," we begin to see the quality of its particulars. Through riveting analyses of works by Joanna Russ, Robert Heinlein, Theodore Sturgeon, and Thomas M. Disch, Delany reveals critical strategies for reading that move beyond overwrought theorizing and formulaic thinking. Throughout, the author performs the kinds of careful inquiry...
In Starboard Wine, Samuel R. Delany explores the implications of his now-famous assertion that science fiction is not about the future. Rather, it use...
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Tales of Nevèrÿon
ISBN: 9780819562708 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In his four-volume series Return to Neverÿon, Hugo and Nebula award-winner Samuel R. Delany appropriated the conceits of sword-and-sorcery fantasy to explore his characteristic themes of language, power, gender, and the nature of civilization. Wesleyan University Press has reissued the long-unavailable Neverÿonvolumes in trade paperback. The eleven stories, novellas, and novels in Return to Neverÿon's four volumes chronicle a long-ago land on civilization's brink, perhaps in Asia or Africa, or even on the Mediterranean. Taken slave in childhood, Gorgik gains his freedom,...
In his four-volume series Return to Neverÿon, Hugo and Nebula award-winner Samuel R. Delany appropriated the conceits of sword-and-sorcery fantas...
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66,39 |
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Occasional Views Volume 1: "More About Writing" and Other Essays
ISBN: 9780819579744 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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Occasional Views, Volume 2: The Gamble and Other Essays
ISBN: 9780819579775 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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Captives of the Flame
ISBN: 9781483704708 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 130 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The green of beetles wings ... the red of polished carbuncle ... a web of silver fire. Lightning tore his eyes apart, struck deep inside his body; and he felt his bones split. Before it became pain, it was gone. And he was falling through blue smoke. The smoke was inside him, cool as blown ice. It was getting darker.
He had heard something before, a ... voice: the Lord of the Flames.... Captives of the Flame is the first novel in the Fall of the Towers trilogy. The green of beetles wings ... the red of polished carbuncle ... a web of silver fire. Lightning tore his eyes apart, struck deep inside his body; and...
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Return to Nevèrÿon
ISBN: 9780819562784 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 293 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In his four-volume series Return to Neverÿon, Hugo and Nebula award-winner Samuel R. Delany appropriated the conceits of sword-and-sorcery fantasy to explore his characteristic themes of language, power, gender, and the nature of civilization. Wesleyan University Press has reissued the long-unavailable Neverÿonvolumes in trade paperback. The eleven stories, novellas, and novels in Return to Neverÿon's four volumes chronicle a long-ago land on civilization's brink, perhaps in Asia or Africa, or even on the Mediterranean. Taken slave in childhood, Gorgik gains his freedom,...
In his four-volume series Return to Neverÿon, Hugo and Nebula award-winner Samuel R. Delany appropriated the conceits of sword-and-sorcery fantas...
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Captives of the Flame
ISBN: 9781023259552 / Angielski / Miękka / 2025 / 120 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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77,47 |
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A, B, C: Three Short Novels: The Jewels of Aptor, the Ballad of Beta-2, They Fly at Ciron
ISBN: 9781101911426 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. A, B, C: Three Short Novels contains the first three novels of Samuel R. Delany's long and illustrious career.
The Jewels of Aptor is a science-fantasy story about a seafaring quest that sets out to find powerful magic jewels on a mystical, forbidden island where unimaginable danger lies. The Ballad of Beta-2 is about a future academic searching for the true story behind an interstellar voyage, a journey over multiple generations that ended in tragedy. They Fly at Ciron is a fantasy about the clash between a marauding army and a peaceful... A, B, C: Three Short Novels contains the first three novels of Samuel R. Delany's long and illustrious career.
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The Jewels of Aptor
ISBN: 9781023263979 / Angielski / Twarda / 2025 / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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133,58 |
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Shorter Views
ISBN: 9780819563699 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 476 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In Shorter Views, Hugo and Nebula award-winning author Samuel R. Delany brings his remarkable intellectual powers to bear on a wide range of topics. Whether he is exploring the deeply felt issues of identity, race, and sexuality, untangling the intricacies of literary theory, or the writing process itself, Delany is one of the most lucid and insightful writers of our time. These essays cluster around topics related to queer theory on the one hand, and on the other, questions concerning the paraliterary genres: science fiction, pornography, comics, and more. Readers new to Delany's work will...
In Shorter Views, Hugo and Nebula award-winning author Samuel R. Delany brings his remarkable intellectual powers to bear on a wide range of topics. W...
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107,94 |
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Babel-17/Empire Star
ISBN: 9780375706691 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. 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,... Author of the bestselling Dhalgren and winner of four Nebulas and one Hugo, Samuel R. Delany is one of the most acclaimed writers of speculativ...
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The Fall of the Towers
ISBN: 9781400031320 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Come and enter Samuel Delany s tomorow, in this trilogy of high adventure, with acrobats and urchins, criminals and courtiers, fishermen and factory-workers, madmen and mind-readers, dwarves and ducheses, giants and geniuses, merchants and mathematicians, soldiers and scholars, pirates and poets, and a gallery of aliens who fly, crawl, burrow, or swim."
Come and enter Samuel Delany s tomorow, in this trilogy of high adventure, with acrobats and urchins, criminals and courtiers, fishermen and factory-w...
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The Motion of Light in Water: Sex and Science Fiction Writing in the East Village
ISBN: 9780816645244 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 584 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Samuel Delany is a science fiction writer, teacher and recipient of the William Whitehead Memorial Award for a lifetime's contribution to lesbian and gay culture. His autobiography focuses on his life in New York's lower east side in the 1960s and his development as a black gay writer in an open interracial marriage. The original edition, published
Samuel Delany is a science fiction writer, teacher and recipient of the William Whitehead Memorial Award for a lifetime's contribution to lesbian and ...
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Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand
ISBN: 9780008352110 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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Conversations with Samuel R. Delany
ISBN: 9781604732771 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 214 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. A key figure in modern science fiction and fantasy, Samuel R. Delany (b. 1942) is also one of the most acclaimed figures in contemporary literary theory and gay/lesbian literature. As a gay African American writer, Delany's cerebral, experimental prose crosses lines of genre, gender, sexuality, and class. Several of his works--Dhalgren, The Einstein Intersection, Babel-17, Stars in My Pocket like Grains of Sand, and the Neverÿon quartet are considered landmarks of "new wave" science fiction. His essays and critical works approach a wide variety of subjects from a perspective that...
A key figure in modern science fiction and fantasy, Samuel R. Delany (b. 1942) is also one of the most acclaimed figures in contemporary literary theo...
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Father of Lies
ISBN: 9781566894159 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. " Evenson's] scary fictional treatment of church hypocrisy has the feeling of a reasoned attack on blind religious obedience." "Publishers Weekly " Provost Eldon Fochs may be a sexual criminal. His therapist isn't sure, and his church is determined to protect its reputation. "Father of Lies "is Brian Evenson's fable of power, paranoia, and the dangers of blind obedience, and a terrifying vision of how far institutions will go to protect themselves against the innocents who may be their victims."
" Evenson's] scary fictional treatment of church hypocrisy has the feeling of a reasoned attack on blind religious obedience." "Publishers Weekly "... |
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Conversations with Samuel R. Delany
ISBN: 9781604732788 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. A key figure in modern science fiction and fantasy, Samuel R. Delany (b. 1942) is also one of the most acclaimed figures in contemporary literary theory and gay/lesbian literature. As a gay African American writer, Delany's cerebral, experimental prose crosses lines of genre, gender, sexuality, and class. Several of his works--Dhalgren, The Einstein Intersection, Babel-17, Stars in My Pocket like Grains of Sand, and the Neveryon quartet are considered landmarks of "new wave" science fiction. His essays and critical works approach a wide variety of subjects from a perspective that is...
A key figure in modern science fiction and fantasy, Samuel R. Delany (b. 1942) is also one of the most acclaimed figures in contemporary literary theo...
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Atlantis: Three Tales
ISBN: 9780819563125 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Wesleyan University Press has made a significant commitment to the publication of the work of Samuel R. Delany, including this recent fiction, now available in paperback. The three long stories collected in Atlantis: three tales -- "Atlantis: Model 1924," "Erik, Gwen, and D. H. Lawrence's Aesthetic of Unrectified Feeling," and "Citre et Trans" -- explore problems of memory, history, and transgression. Winner of both the Hugo and Nebula awards, and Guest of Honor at the 1995 World Science Fiction Convention in Glasgow, Delany was won a broad audience among fans of postmodern fiction with...
Wesleyan University Press has made a significant commitment to the publication of the work of Samuel R. Delany, including this recent fiction, now ava...
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In Search of Silence: The Journals of Samuel R. Delany, Volume I, 1957-1969
ISBN: 9780819570895 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 720 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. For fifty years Samuel Delany has cultivated a special relationship with language in works of fiction, criticism, and memoir that have garnered critical praise and legions of fans. The present volume - the first in a series - reveals a new dimension of his genius. In Search of Silence presents over a decade's worth of Delany's private journals, commencing in 1957 when he was still a student at the Bronx High School of Science, and ending in 1969 when he was living in San Francisco and on the verge of reconceiving the novel that would become Dhalgren. In these pages, Delany muses on the...
For fifty years Samuel Delany has cultivated a special relationship with language in works of fiction, criticism, and memoir that have garnered critic...
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