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BABEL-17.
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1967. Octavo, boards. First British and first hardcover edition. Co-winner of the 1966 Nebula award for best novel. "Clever, colorful, and highly original..." Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 4-126.
BABEL-17.
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1967. Octavo, boards. First edition. Co-winner of the 1966 Nebula award for best novel. "Clever, colorful, and highly original..." Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 4-126.
BABEL-17.
Boston: Gregg Press, [1976]. Octavo, cloth. First U.S. hardcover edition. The first hardcover edition of the revised text. Photographically reproduced from a copy of the 1969 Sphere Books edition, the only complete text and the one preferred by Delany. "An artificial language is being used as an unorthodox weapon of interstellar war, and poet Rydra Wong is the last best hope for the saving of Earth's civilization. A very colorful, inventive space opera." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. [25]. "Language games and ray guns fuse together in what may be the last possible variant on the old space-fiction themes." - J. G. Ballard, Guardian. Co-winner of the 1966 Nebula award for best novel. 1967 Hugo nominee. [Reference: Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-314].
DISTANT STARS ...
Toronto, New York, London, Sydney: Bantam Books, [1981]. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Trade paperback format. [Reference: See Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 4-166].
THE EINSTEIN INTERSECTION
Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, [1986]. Octavo, frontispiece by Frank Mayo, full leather, a.e.g. Later edition. New introduction by George Zebrowski. "A computer named PHAEDRA orchestrates the bizarre happenings in this fantasy patterned after the myth of Orpheus." - Mowshowitz, p. 304. Winner of the 1967 Nebula award for best novel (tied with FLOWERS FOR ALGERNON). 1968 Hugo nominee. Collector's notes laid in. Issued as part of the Easton Press "Masterpieces of Science Fiction" series. [Reference: Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-316. Survey of Science Fiction Literature II, pp. 703-7].
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THE FALL OF THE TOWERS (in 3 volumes): OUT OF THE DEAD CITY [with] THE TOWERS OF TORON [with] CITY OF A THOUSAND SUNS.
[Lakewood, CO]: Centipede Press, [2016]. Large octavo (7.5 x 10.5"), 3 volumes, artwork by David Ho, cloth. Limited edition. One of 300 copies signed by Delany, David Ho (artist) and Michael Swanwick (introduction). This is copy number 1. New introduction by Michael Swanwick.
NEVERYONA: OR, THE TALE OF SIGNS AND CITIES.
Toronto, New York, Sydney: Bantam Books:, [1983]. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Trade paperback original. [Reference: Barron: Fantasy Literature 4A-84].
NOVA.
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1968. Octavo, cloth. First edition. "The most action-packed of Delany's novels, but no less sophisticated for that. Beautifully written." - Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-317. "One of the most inventive man-computer linkages is the symbiosis in ... NOVA (1968)." - Warrick, pp. 176-8. 1969 Hugo nominee. [Reference: Pringle, Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels 54. Survey of Science Fiction Literature IV, pp. 1560-65].
STARS IN MY POCKET LIKE GRAINS OF SAND.
Toronto, New York, London, Sydney, Auckland: Bantam Books, [1984]. Octavo, cloth-backed boards. First edition. First book of a diptych of novels titled "Visible and Invisible Persons Distributed in Space." [Reference: Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-318. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 421].
TRITON.
Toronto, New York, London: Bantam Books, [1976]. Small octavo, cover art by Mitchell Hooks, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Bantam Books Y2567. Paperback original. "...Triton is more traditionally structured, but is in some ways more sophisticated. It presents a series of future societies differentiated mainly along sexual lines; the male protagonist, who begins by displaying a rather insensitive, traditional machismo, ultimately chooses to become a woman (see Transgender SF), but remains alienated. Triton (a moon of Neptune) is an "ambiguous heterotopia" with a bewildering variety of available lifestyles. The book poses interesting questions about sexuality, and also about freedom of choice." - SFE online. "In a fantastically rich and varied space-faring future, people can choose their own sexes, identities, whatever. A densely written (some would say turgid) utopian novel of high ambition. Be be warned that it's a difficult book to read." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction (1995), p. 387. Nebula award nominee. [Reference: Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-319. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 374].
NEBULA AWARD STORIES THIRTEEN.
New York, Cambridge, Hagerstown, Philadelphia, San Francisco, London, Mexico City, S o Paulo, Sydney: Harper & Row, Publishers, [1980]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Collects six stories by Harlan Ellison, John Varley, Raccoona [i.e.Alice] Sheldon, Edward Bryant, Spider and Jeanne Robinson, and Vonda N. McIntyre. [Reference: Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-1364].
THE DELANY INTERSECTION: CONSIDERED AS A WRITER OF SEMI-PRECIOUS WORDS.
San Bernardino: Borgo Press, 1977. Octavo, wrappers. First edition. Paperback original.