5 reviewed books
ReviewBabel-17Almost every one of Delany's novels could have been named Stranger in a Strange Book. But here the strangeness works. Even today many doubt that genre conventions can coexist with literary experimentation. Babel-17 is a corrective to that skepticism....→ReviewDhalgrenSamuel Delany asked for an analytics of attention rather than a calculus of form. Ted Gioia reviews Dhalgren, the novel that sets out to deliver exactly that.→ReviewNovaHere are Delany's usual bag of tricks. Sci-fi plot lines get turbocharged with archetypes. Astronauts are fetishized beyond recognition. Characters are thrust into great adventures but announce they would really rather write a book...→ReviewThe Einstein Intersection"If the Holy Bible was printed as an Ace Double," Charles McGrath once quipped, "it would be cut down to two 20,000-word halves with the Old Testament retitled as 'Master of Chaos' and the New Testament as 'The Thing With Three Souls.'"→ReviewTribute to Samuel R. Delany on his 70th BirthdayAlmost every Samuel Delany novel could be called Stranger in a Strange Book. Ted Gioia marks the author's seventieth birthday with three of his very best.→