Product Description: The contents of 1984 are easy enough to describe: 57 letters and documents written in the mid-80s by novelist and critic Samuel R. Delany. Addressed to various friends, relatives, and colleagues, they present a vivid and exuberant mid-career portrait of a writer and thinker whose work has had an enormous influence across a startling range of literary and paraliterary genres, including science fiction, autobiography, pornography, historical fiction, comic books, literary criticism, queer theory, and more...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The American Shore: Meditations on a Tale of Science Fiction by Thomas M. Disch—“Angouleme” was first published in 1978 to the intense interest of science fiction readers and the growing community of SF scholars. Recalling Nabokov’s commentary on Pushkin’s Eugene Onegin, Roland Barthes’ commentary on Balzac’s Sarazine, and Grabinier’s reading of The Heart of Hamlet, this book-length essay helped prove the genre worthy of serious investigation...read more

An expanded edition of the classic anthology Driftglass, this collection of science fiction and fantasy tales by the master of speculative fiction includes the Nebula Award-winning title story, the Nebula and Hugo Award-winning 'Time Considered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Stones,' and thirteen other great works. Original. 12,500 first printing.

Rydra Wong, a poet and code expert, is asked to break a code used by an enemy government, but discovers that the code is really a supersophisticated language

Rydra Wong, a poet and code expert, is asked to break a code used by an enemy government, but discovers that the code is really a supersophisticated language, in a new edition of the classic Nebula Award-winning novel, which is accompanied by the short novel Empire Star, in which a simple-minded teenager is entrusted to carry a vital message to a distant world. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.

At turns autobiographical, political, literary, erotic, and humorous, Black Gay Man will spoil our preconceived notions of not only what it means to be black, gay and male but also what it means to be a contemporary intellectual. Both a celebration of black gay male identity as well as a powerful critique of the structures that allow for the production of that identity, Black Gay Man introduces the eloquent new voice of Robert Reid-Pharr in cultural criticism. At once erudite and readable, the range of topics and positions taken up in Black Gay Man reflect the complexity of American life itself. Treating subjects as diverse as the Million Man March, interracial sex, anti-Semitism, turn of the century American intellectualism as well as literary and cultural figures ranging from Essex Hemphill and Audre Lorde to W.E.B. DuBois, Frantz Fanon and James Baldwin, Black Gay Man is a bold and nuanced attempt to question prevailing ideas about community, desire, politics and culture. Moving beyond critique, Reid-Pharr also pronounces upon the promises of a new America. With the publication of Black Gay Man, Robert Reid-Pharr is sure to take his place as one of this country's most exciting and challenging left intellectuals. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Written by black, gay science-fiction writer, professor, and theorist Samuel R. Delany, and drawn by artist/martial arts instructor Mia Wolff, Bread & Wine, based on the poem “Bread and Wine” by the German lyric poet Friedrich Holderlin, is a graphic autobiography that flashes back to the unlikely story of how Delany befriended Dennis, and how they became an enduring couple—Delany, a professor at Philadelphia’s Temple University, Dennis, an intelligent man living on the streets...read more

After freeing the slaves of his land, Gorgik the Liberator, Minister to the Empress in the prehistoric Neveryon Empire, relates the story of his adventures to a young barbarian in this conclusion to the 'Neveryon' series

Follows the life of a gay African-American poet from New York City's Lower East Side, in a tale told in reverse that follows his receipt of a literary prize in his fifties, his ill-fated marriage to an emotionally disturbed woman, and his first sexual experience in college. Original.

Journeying to the central United States city of Bellona, where all have fled save madmen and criminals, a poet and adventurer known only as the Kid wonders at the strange portents that appear in the city's cloud-covered sky.

A classic compilation of short fiction by the award-winning author features the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning novella Time Considered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Stones, as well as 'Omegahelm,' 'Prismatica,' and 'Empire Star,' which chronicles the adventures through time and space of Comet Jo and his cybernetic companion Lump. Reprint.

The intersection of Einsteinian and alien universes brings about dramatic changes for the world

Product Description: Book by Delany, Samuel R.

A panoramic trilogy of the distant future by the four time Nebula Award-winning author captures a world of advanced science, military might, and decadent society as it follows the adventures of Jon Koshar in an omnibus edition containing Out of the Dead City, The Towers of Toran, and City of a Thousand Suns. Reprint. 12,500 first printing.

This collection of tales captures the collision between the fantasy world of Neveryon and the realities of life in present-day New York City (view table of contents)