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The Sandman Vol. 5: A Game of You
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You may have heard somewhere that Neil Gaiman's Sandman series consisted of cool, hip, edgy, smart comic books. And you may have thought, "What the hell does that mean?" Enter A Game of You to confound the issue even more, while at the same time standing as a fine example of such a description. This is not an easy book. The characters are dens... »
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Dhalgren
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What is Dhalgren? Dhalgren is one of the greatest novels of 20th-century American literature. Dhalgren is one of the all-time bestselling science fiction novels. Dhalgren may be read with equal validity as SF, magic realism, or metafiction. Dhalgren is controversial, challenging, and scandalous. Dhalgren is a b... »
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Einstein Intersection
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There is no doubt Delany can write well but I think you either like his style or you don't with not much in between. Much of his writing is more like science fiction poetry than prose and Einstein Intersection is the most extreme example of that I have read so far. Delany leaves a lot to the imagination and a lot to figure out on your own. I think h... »
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Babel-17/Empire Star
These are incredibly entertaining and thought-provoking stories, but they're not pure entertainment. While they are not quite as abstruse as something lik... »
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Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand
Delany is a highly-regarded science fiction author known for his notoriously hard-to-read novels (such as this one, or Dhalgren). As a voracious reader of... »
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Nova
This is only the second Delany novel I have read, having done so right after being simply amazed by Dhalgren. I selected this one to read next because it... »
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Dark Reflections
I'm not going to reiterate the plot, you can get that from the capsule reviews above.
Mainly I just wanted to say this book contains many exa... »
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The Fall of the Towers
Those unfamiliar with Samuel R. Delany's excellent science fiction might be better served by reading his great 1960s work, most notably, "The Einstein Int... »
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