― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Wednesday, 21 May 2003 06:25 (twenty years ago) link
anyway thank you vahid, and v.sorry the spotlight felt maybe a bit hot and horrible up there for a moment - however at least you can be proud knowing you didn't ask creepy asslick questions so hurrah!!
― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 21 May 2003 08:13 (twenty years ago) link
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Monday, 26 May 2003 00:54 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 26 May 2003 01:00 (twenty years ago) link
― vahid (vahid), Monday, 26 May 2003 01:19 (twenty years ago) link
― Ess Kay (esskay), Monday, 26 May 2003 04:56 (twenty years ago) link
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― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Monday, 26 May 2003 21:32 (twenty years ago) link
Are people with only one shoe a running theme in his books? I've only read Dhalgren and Nova and it shows up in both.
― David Beckhouse (David Beckhouse), Monday, 26 May 2003 22:14 (twenty years ago) link
― mark s (mark s), Monday, 26 May 2003 22:16 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 26 May 2003 23:01 (twenty years ago) link
I bought this book used at Mary Jo's Book Exchange in Canby, Oregon, back when the population was about 3000 people. I took it home and started reading it and felt guilty, weird, scared: it was gay! and straight! and sexual! and cool! and difficult! I was probably in like 6th or 7th grade. Some education, no? Anyway, it freaked me out too much and I sold it back. Years later, in hschool, my issues sorted out, I read an article in The Portland International Review about how important, etc., it was. I bought it the next day at Powell's, with that same excellent cover, for like $2. I didn't know Delany was black OR gay OR anything.
And damn were The Einstein Intersection and Babel-17 mindfucks of the highest order.
― Neudonym, Tuesday, 8 July 2003 00:47 (twenty years ago) link
― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 00:54 (twenty years ago) link
― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 01:07 (twenty years ago) link
― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 01:08 (twenty years ago) link
― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 15:31 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 15:52 (nineteen years ago) link
― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 16:16 (nineteen years ago) link
― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 19:45 (nineteen years ago) link
― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 01:36 (nineteen years ago) link
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― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 10 January 2005 18:07 (nineteen years ago) link
― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 10 January 2005 18:09 (nineteen years ago) link
― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Monday, 10 January 2005 18:31 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ken L (Ken L), Monday, 10 January 2005 18:33 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 10 January 2005 18:35 (nineteen years ago) link
When I met him, I was very self-conscious about my nail-biting, although I realized that I was probably 20 years too young (and maybe 50lbs too thin) for his tastes. (Actually maybe I didn't know that latter part at that point; I met him before I had read much.)
Motion Of Light ends before he writes Dhalgren; I don't think he mentions it at all.
― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 10 January 2005 21:55 (nineteen years ago) link
Just finished Dark Reflections. The first two sections are really good, but the third one is weak, and almost makes me think less of the book as a whole. But going back and rereading bits of the first two sections is the antidote to that. Overall it's a good book, but not great.
― Rock Hardy, Wednesday, 15 August 2007 03:26 (sixteen years ago) link
What's this? Is it a new collection of critical works?
― Jon Lewis, Wednesday, 15 August 2007 15:24 (sixteen years ago) link
No, it's a new novel.
― Rock Hardy, Wednesday, 15 August 2007 15:53 (sixteen years ago) link
Are you shitting me there's a new actual Delaney novel OMG?!?!
― Jon Lewis, Wednesday, 15 August 2007 16:09 (sixteen years ago) link
Wow, didn't hear about this at all.
― Jordan, Wednesday, 15 August 2007 16:22 (sixteen years ago) link
Is it another pr0n? (Not that I'm judging-- I liked Mad Man.)
― Jon Lewis, Wednesday, 15 August 2007 16:25 (sixteen years ago) link
Not porn. Not SF. Delany, not Delaney.
Oh hell, here.
― Rock Hardy, Wednesday, 15 August 2007 18:29 (sixteen years ago) link
I know I could easily have gone and found that myself, but thanks.
Looks great, actually. Might buy it tonight.
― Jon Lewis, Wednesday, 15 August 2007 18:48 (sixteen years ago) link
hurry up and finish the sequel to "stars in their pockets like grains of sand" you fat bastard
― moonship journey to baja, Saturday, 6 December 2008 21:02 (fifteen years ago) link
v4h1d hurry up and listen to the radio show me and mark s dedicated to him! it includes a reading of "aye and gomorrah".
― Tracer Hand, Saturday, 6 December 2008 21:04 (fifteen years ago) link
link pls
― moonship journey to baja, Saturday, 6 December 2008 21:05 (fifteen years ago) link
http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2008/09/a-bite-of-stars-a-slug-of-time-and-thou-episode-11/
― Tracer Hand, Saturday, 6 December 2008 21:21 (fifteen years ago) link
would be amazed but thrilled if this ever happens. Will be somewhat surprised if he ever publishes another sf novel.
― WmC, Saturday, 6 December 2008 21:33 (fifteen years ago) link
Through the Valley of the Nest of Spiders coming sometime from Bamberger Books.
June 2009 interview: http://io9.com/5295779/samuel-delany-answers-your-science-fiction-questions
His 1971 film The Orchid has recently gone up on Youtube:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ub4lqJXApRE&feature=related
― America's Next Most Disabled Ballerina (WmC), Tuesday, 22 December 2009 19:22 (fourteen years ago) link
haha my first question on the revive was gonna be "where is 'through the valley of the nest of spiders' (you fat bastard)?"
― strongohulkingtonsghost, Tuesday, 22 December 2009 22:53 (fourteen years ago) link
LOL pwnage
...some of the most recent incarnations of the Cyberpunk stuff seem to me to be kind of dull. It seems to become a collection of endless mannerist fights, with everyone firing various and sundry power guns at each other from around corners, and I don't see what the point of it all is.
― .gif of the magpie (Jon Lewis), Tuesday, 22 December 2009 23:21 (fourteen years ago) link
Bamberger went out of business, so he had to find a new publisher for Through the Valley of the Nest of Spiders. New publisher is Magnus Books, release date October 18 2011.
― Mr. Patrick Batman (WmC), Sunday, 19 June 2011 16:46 (twelve years ago) link
hmmmmm.
btw fellow nerds, interview in the current paris review. (one with wm. gibson too.) haven't read it yet but it's the first p.r. i've been interested in front-to-back in quite a while.
― strongo hulkington's ghost dad, Sunday, 19 June 2011 16:49 (twelve years ago) link
Nice. $30/4 issues for ipad, I might do that.
Also, since the last time I checked (3-4 months ago), finally there's some Delany available as e-books.
― Mr. Patrick Batman (WmC), Sunday, 19 June 2011 16:56 (twelve years ago) link
dear mr delany
pls finish "the splendor and misery of bodies, of cities" before dying
― moonship journey to baja, Sunday, 19 June 2011 22:30 (twelve years ago) link
Not likely, according to the interview I linked above.
Djehuty asks: "Will he ever finish and publish The Splendor and Misery of Bodies, of Cities?"
Probably not, I can't say for sure. Again, I haven't written it off entirely. I did write about 150 pages of it at some point. But a number of things had come up to undercut it. I've explained it many, many times, and don't mind explaining it again. I was in a major relationship at that time, that kind of fueled the first volume, Stars In My Pocket Like Grains Of Sand. And that relationship broke up, and that was the beginning of the Eighties, at the same time the AIDS situation came in. A lot of it, as the diptych was originally planned out, was a celebration of lot of the stuff I saw at the time in the gay world. Sort of in allegorical form, a lot of that was being celebrated. There was a lot of the gay situation that made me rethink some of that, not in any kind of simplistic way, but in a fairly complicated way. So between the personal breakup, which was an eight-year relationship that came to ane nd, and the changes in the world situation, there were other things that sort of grabbed my interest more. That made the second one a little hard to go on.
― Mr. Patrick Batman (WmC), Sunday, 19 June 2011 22:47 (twelve years ago) link
i mean, it's a rare novel you can pick up again at six month intervals and not feel like the effort's become completely pointless
― attempt to look intentionally nerdy, awkward or (thomp), Saturday, 2 February 2013 17:28 (eleven years ago) link
just checking in with your poop-eating friends.
― a basset hound (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Saturday, 2 February 2013 17:49 (eleven years ago) link
i still need to read this.
For whatever reason I pulled a copy of Dhalgren off the shelf last night and reread the first 80 or so pages. The Kid's about to become a poet and get his ass kicked.
― Dr. Alfred P. Falfa (WilliamC), Saturday, 2 February 2013 17:56 (eleven years ago) link
to be fair, i probably feel more excited at the idea of rereading dhalgren than i do getting through the second half of ...spiders.
― attempt to look intentionally nerdy, awkward or (thomp), Sunday, 3 February 2013 03:41 (eleven years ago) link
good thread, someone said 15 years too late
― zionsmommy (mattresslessness), Friday, 5 June 2015 05:25 (eight years ago) link
crossposting from the ILB thread.
Good (first half of an) interview: http://www.sfsignal.com/archives/2015/07/interview-samuel-r-delany-three-novels-launched-career-part-1/
He was also interviewed by Gary Wolfe for the Coode Street Podcast — http://jonathanstrahan.podbean.com/e/episode-241-samuel-r-delany/ — but it seemed a bit lightweight and inessential. Getting a bit of press/doing a bit of promotional work for the new Vintage edition of three early novels.
― dart scar rashes (WilliamC), Friday, 24 July 2015 15:50 (eight years ago) link
Didn't know about those reprints, thanks!
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 24 July 2015 15:54 (eight years ago) link
For all my Delany fandom, in the early 80s I breezed through his early work once, quickly and with poor attention to detail. Time to reread.
― dart scar rashes (WilliamC), Friday, 24 July 2015 16:00 (eight years ago) link
Another good new interview, from The Nation - http://www.thenation.com/article/samuel-r-delany-speaks/
― rack of lamb of god (WilliamC), Monday, 24 August 2015 21:52 (eight years ago) link
The Motion Of Light In Water is one of the best autobiographies/memoirs ever written (him being young & etc in NY 1957-1965) - pretty much the first thing I read of his, Tim, & I luvved luvved ELL YOU VEE luvved it to death.― Ess Kay (esskay), Sunday, May 25, 2003 11:56 PM (12 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
it's true
― slam dunk, Tuesday, 25 August 2015 01:12 (eight years ago) link
Still a hero, another new interview:
https://io9.gizmodo.com/samuel-r-delany-on-his-legacy-creativity-and-promisc-1833407173
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 1 May 2019 23:44 (five years ago) link