... so ... Any rumors of upcoming Delany publications? Contrariwise, is it true (as I was told last year) that he's abandoned SPLENDOR/MISERY? -- ... Any...
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zvi@xxxxxxxx.xxx
Apr 9, 1999 7:20 pm
Hi Dan'l! From: "Dan'l Danehy-Oakes" <ddanehyo@...> ... Well, 'Bread and Wine: an Erotic Tale of New York City', was listed as forthcoming by Amazon...
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Amy Harlib
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Apr 10, 1999 4:13 am
-- Amy Harlib aharlib@... I'm Amy from New York City and Samuel Delany is one of my absolute # 1 favorite writers. I've read almost everything...
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David Cozy
cozy@xxx.xxxxxx.xx.xxx
Apr 11, 1999 3:34 am
Hello All: First of all, I'd like to thank Zvi for establishing this list, and for taking the trouble to inform me (and presumbaly others who had contacted him...
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David Cozy
cozy@xxx.xxxxxx.xx.xxx
Apr 11, 1999 3:34 am
... Yours, David Cozy mailto:cozy@......
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David Cozy
cozy@xxx.xxxxxx.xx.xxx
Apr 11, 1999 3:35 am
Has anyone on this list ever studied with Delany? Partly because I'm a teacher, I'd be interested to hear what he's like in the classroom. Yours, David Cozy ...
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David Cozy
cozy@xxx.xxxxxx.xx.xxx
Apr 11, 1999 3:35 am
Delany has mentioned here and there attempts he made as a youngster to write poetry, and he clearly remains an avid poetry reader. To my knowledge, none of...
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zvi@xxxxxxxx.xxx
Apr 11, 1999 3:09 pm
Hi David! From: David Cozy <cozy@...> ... From 'The Motion of Light in Water' (p. 144 of the Richard Kasak/Masquerade Edition [3rd edition]): ...
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zvi@xxxxxxxx.xxx
Apr 11, 1999 3:12 pm
From: David Cozy <cozy@...> ... I also noticed it wasn't on amazon. The guy on the phone at the Juno Books number was surprised by that, and...
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Eli Bishop
elib@xxxxxxxxxx.xxxx
Apr 11, 1999 8:28 pm
Hi. I'm glad to find this list, as I don't know many people who read Delany. Zvi - an excerpt from "The Splendor..."???? I MUST read that. As far as...
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zvi@xxxxxxxx.xxx
Apr 11, 1999 10:03 pm
Hi Eli, welcome to the list. From: Eli Bishop <elib@...> ... Yay! I'm very excited to hear that. What did he lecture on? ... Is there anything else...
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Richard Moorman
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Apr 11, 1999 10:30 pm
I've never met Delany, but if you want to know what Delany sounds like, you can hear him reading "The Einstein Intersection" at this site: ...
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Richard Moorman
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Apr 11, 1999 10:42 pm
I'm fond of the science-fictional Delany, the autobiographical and some of the critical Delany. "Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand" fascinated me, as did...
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Eli Bishop
elib@xxxxxxxxxx.xxxx
Apr 12, 1999 3:38 am
... It was part of a lecture series at the Gay and Lesbian Studies Center at City University, and the title was "3-2-1 Contact." What he lectured on... well,...
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Eli Bishop
elib@xxxxxxxxxx.xxxx
Apr 12, 1999 3:48 am
... Goodness. I don't know what to say about Neveryona; certainly the theoretical framework is very visible, but I had no trouble with it, and it works as...
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David Cozy
cozy@...
Apr 12, 1999 12:13 pm
... I have read it, though I'd forgotten about the excerpt you quoted (" . . . a young man named Delany . . . ."). In fact, I reread the introduction just a...
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Ron Henry
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Apr 12, 1999 2:10 pm
... Ouch. Well, though of course I'm aware that one's milage might always vary, I have to say your use of the word "unreadable" toward Neveryona takes me ...
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Dan'l Danehy-Oakes
ddanehyo@xx.xxxxxx.xxxx
Apr 12, 1999 5:35 pm
... I believe he also scripted a two-issue story for one of Marvel's color _Conan_ books back in the mid-70s, in which Conan encountered Michael Moorcock's...
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zvi@xxxxxxxx.xxx
Apr 13, 1999 12:54 pm
From: Eli Bishop <elib@...> ... Thanks for the lecture details, Eli. It's interesting to locate SRD within the political space of NYC and to hear...
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zvi@xxxxxxxx.xxx
Apr 13, 1999 1:21 pm
Hi David, From: David Cozy <cozy@...> ... I think they're numbered to suggest not a linear order, but only a separation that allows for them to...
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Dan'l Danehy-Oakes
ddanehyo@xx.xxxxxx.xxxx
Apr 13, 1999 2:41 pm
... I didn't go _quite_ that far. I was in high school when it hit the racks -- fifteen, in fact. I'd read BABEL-17 and FALL OF THE TOWERS and maybe TEI (if...
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zvi@xxxxxxxx.xxx
Apr 13, 1999 3:31 pm
I was digging through the internet speculative fiction database to try and answer Dan'l's question about the relative timelines of Varley's 'nine worlds' and...
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Dan'l Danehy-Oakes
ddanehyo@xx.xxxxxx.xxxx
Apr 13, 1999 3:39 pm
... I don't think I'd go that far, but I'll suggest that it's a lot more work to learn how to enjoy it as an adult. I take Delany's arguments about the...
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David Cozy
cozy@xxx.xxxxxx.xx.xxx
Apr 13, 1999 9:07 pm
... Ron: I just wanted to thank you for this post. I liked the Neveryona books from my first reading of them; your note, like the best critical writing,...
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David Cozy
cozy@xxx.xxxxxx.xx.xxx
Apr 13, 1999 9:32 pm
... Good points, Zvi. Perhaps, like learning a language post-puberty, learning to enjoy the rhetoric of science fiction later in life, though not impossible,...
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Richard C. Dunham
dunhamrc@xxx.xxxx
Apr 14, 1999 5:47 pm
Hey all - just wanted to atke a moment to introduce myself to the group. I'm excited to see something like this start up. I first encountered Delany in my...
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Ron Henry
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Apr 14, 1999 10:05 pm
... I suspect it *is* true, Zvi, especially if we accept the sort of adaptive reading strategy models that Delany himself usually promotes. I personally know...
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Eli Bishop
elib@xxxxxxxxxx.xxxx
Apr 15, 1999 2:26 am
... Well... I think if I read a realistic 20th-century novel set in, say, New York, featuring a guy like Bron who said and thought and did most of the same...
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Eli Bishop
elib@xxxxxxxxxx.xxxx
Apr 15, 1999 2:26 am
... I _think_ I know what you mean with regard to Delany, but could you give an example from his non-fiction? ... Same here, but... ... ...since I never...
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David Cozy
cozy@xxx.xxxxxx.xx.xxx
Apr 15, 1999 1:51 am
... There are, I am sure, as many reasons for not enjoying science fiction as there are people who don't enjoy it. The "sensawonda," or lack thereof, may,...
