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...
Some odd characters with strange philosophies. Class conflict on a large scale. All set against the backdrop of the 32nd century spanning many galaxies.
Basically, I was shamed into reading Nova. Well, maybe not shamed, exactly. But a number of friends, upon learning that I'd never read anything by Samuel R. Delany, strongly suggested that I read this book.Nova won the Hugo Award for Delany in 1968. It's a space opera about a good-guy space captain ...
Rydra Wong, an ex-military cryptographer, a poet, and a linguist, has been approached by the military once again to help decipher the Babel-17 code used by the alien invaders in their many attacks. Rydra realizes that Babel-17 is not a code, but a language. After obtaining some of the original recor...
I’m not sure how I feel about Triton. There were parts I couldn’t get enough off, reading obsessively and loosing track of time. And others I just plain skipped. There’s a lot of sci-fi science explained in great detail, which began as interesting but quickly became arrogant and unnecessary. Also th...
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...
This is not a great book. There were times when I wasn't even sure it was a good book. But it's trying so many interesting things, testing the boundaries of science fiction, and perhaps, the comfort of the reader, to get at some truly fascinating things. Some of these experiments may have failed, bu...
Znacie hipotezę Sapira-Whorfa, według której język, którego dana osoba używa, wpływa na jej sposób myślenia? Skoro nie zna się danego słowa, niemożliwe jest wyobrażenie sobie konceptu który za nim stoi. No dobra, teoria S-W to tylko teoria, ale jaka wspaniała baza dla powieści science-fiction. Akcja...
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