by Samuel R. Delany
I loved Delany's The Mad Man, a favorite of mine for a few years. I was really interested in reading another work of his, especially one that's so highly regarded.This was a beautiful epic of science fiction/magical realism, with a colorful cast of characters and realistic dialogue. One thing I like...
“Really? Samuel Delany has written "unreadable garbage"? Would you care to share with us the precise nature of the stories or novels which qualify as such, or have you not, as I strongly suspect, actually read any of his work? I presume this is the same Samuel Delany who has been a professor of Engl...
While Delaney is a science-fiction writer, this is not really a science fiction book. It is magical realism if it is anything and the book is profoundly experimental. It doesn't have a plot that you can summarize, but essentially a person known only as The Kid arrives in a city in which a disaster...
I tried to read this when I was a sci-fi hungry adolescent. I failed miserably. Whether it was the fault of the messy structure of the book or lack of effort on my part is lost in the mists of time.
I'm not quite sure how I feel about this book. I'm quite sure, though, that it could have benefited from an editor. Even considering purposefully distorted narrative and intentional errors in first-person, there is still too much. The amount of typos due to author self-editing a huge amount of tex...
i can't really claim to have read it, since i only made it a 3rd of the way through, but i feel justified in rating it, and so there you have it.
I really loved the language, some of the characters, and the strong sense of setting in this book. Delany draws you in and is absolutely captivating with his style but holy crap was this book brutally pointless. Just wandering around with no real structure or reason for being. There's lots of gri...
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