DELANY R. SAMUEL

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Η ισορροπία της γαλακτικής ισχύος τον 31ο αιώνα περιστρέφεται γύρω από το ΙΛΙΡΙΟΝ, την πιο πολύτιμη πηγή ενέργειας στο σύμπαν. Το ετερογενές, εξωτικό πλήρωμα που ταξιδεύει με τον καπετάνιο Λορκ φον Ραίη, ξέρει ότι η αποστολή τους είναι επικίνδυνη σύντομα μαθαίνουν ότι ο φον Ραίη είναι μπλεγμένος σε μία θανατηφόρα κούρσα με τον χαρισματικό αλλά βίαιο αρχηγό μιας αντίπαλης διαστημικής ένωσης. Όμως ποτέ δεν θα μπορούσαν να μαντέψουν την πραγματική φύση της έμμονης ιδέας του Λορκ - να συγκεντρώσει Ιλίριον απ' την πηγή του πετώντας μέσα απ' τ...
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(P/B) BABEL-17
BABEL-17 is the novel which catapulted Samuel R. Delany into the front rank of SF writers. In the far future, after human civilization has spread through the galaxy, communications begin to arrive in an apparently alien language. They appear to threaten invasion, but in order to counter the threat, the messages must first be understood. (From the publisher)...
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(P/B) DRIFTGLASS
Samuel Delany is one of the most radical and influential science fiction writers of our age, who reinvented the genre with his fearless explorations of race, class and gender. Driftglass is the definitive volume of his stories, featuring neutered space travellers, telepathy, Hells Angels and genetically modified amphibious workers. (From the publisher)...
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(P/B) THE MOTION OF LIGHT IN WATER
Winner of the Hugo Award for Non-fiction The unexpurgated edition of the award-winning autobiography Born in New York City's black ghetto Harlem at the start of World War II, Samuel R. Delany married white poet Marilyn Hacker right out of high school. The interracial couple moved into the city's new bohemian quarter, the Lower East Side, in summer 1961. Through the decade's opening years, new art, new sexual practices, new music, and new political awareness burgeoned among the crowded streets and cheap railroad apartments. Beautifully, viv...
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(P/B) DHALGREN
A counter-culture classic and a classic of SF - a young man arrives in a near future US and writes a book that may be DHALGREN. A young man arrives in the anarchic city of Bellona, in a near future USA. This world has two moons but could otherwise be our own. The man, known only as 'the Kid', begins to write a novel called Dhalgren that begins where it ends. Dhalgren is about the possibilites of fiction and about the special demands and pleasures of youth culture. (From the publisher)...
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