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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.
THE BALLAD OF BETA-2.
Boston: Gregg Press, 1977. Octavo, cloth. First hardcover edition. Text offset from that of the 1965 Ace edition. New introduction by David G. Hartwell. "The young hero investigates the true meaning of the eponymous ballad, a space-going culture's folk song. This is very much a romantic sf adventure, but it's also the first of Delany's novels to reveal his strong interest in modes of communication-subject matter which was to dominate most of his later books." Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction (Second edition), p. 25. 1965 Nebula nominee.
DHALGREN.
Boston: Gregg Press, 1977. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Signed by Delany on the title page. This edition contains all textual corrections from the author, including several dropped lines of dialogue (these corrections were not fully made through the first nine printings of the paperback editions). Lengthy introduction by Jean Mark Gawron. "Convoluted and fascinating, it remains on of the key works of avant-garde SF, by an author determined to extend the limits of the genre." - Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 4-127. Nominated for the Nebula award for best novel in 1975. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-315. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, Additions. Survey of Science Fiction Literature II, pp. 533-38.
DISTANT STARS ...
Toronto, New York, London, Sydney: Bantam Books, [1981]. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Trade paperback format. See Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 4-166.
DRIFTGLASS.
Boston: Gregg Press, 1977. Octavo, cloth. First U.S. trade hardcover edition. First published in 1971, this is a corrected reprint with new introduction by Robert Thurston. "Ten glittery SF stories, comprising Delany's entire short fiction output up to 1970. Contains two Nebula award-winners: "Aye, and Gomorrah" (1967) and "Time Considered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Stones" (1968). Effective marriages of style and ideative substance, these pieces represent American 1960s New Wave SF at its best." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction (Second edition), p. 109. Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 4-166. Survey of Science Fiction Literature II, pp. 625-28.
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. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-316. Survey of Science Fiction Literature II, pp. 703-7.
THE EINSTEIN INTERSECTION.
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1968. Octavo, boards. First edition. "A fabulous tour de force of the imagination." - Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 4-129. Nebula award winner 1967 (tied with Flowers for Algernon), nominated for the Hugo award, 1968.
THE JEWELS OF APTOR.
Boston: Gregg Press, 1976. Octavo, cloth. First U.S. hardcover edition. First U.S. printing of the complete text. The author's first book. "In a post-holocaust world, a group of young people set out on a quest for a wonderful jewel. Baroque far-future stuff, exuberantly inventive. Delany's debut (he was all of 19 when he wrote it)." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction (Second edition), p. 195.
NEVERYONA: OR, THE TALE OF SIGNS AND CITIES.
Toronto, New York, Sydney: Bantam Books:, [1983]. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Trade paperback original. Barron: Fantasy Literature 4A-84.
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." 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. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-319. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 374.