Hello All, Just a note to inform you that the new issue of Black Clock magazine (issue 7) is available. It contains a new short story by Mr. Delany entitled...
... opera of ... Funny, I wrote a sequel to Dhalgren a couple of years ago, then -- fittingly --- lost part of it (wrote it in two spiral-bound notebooks) and...
... Re: "None of Delany's books and stories are high-concept enough for Hollywood. That is, there is no single plot you can summarize into one sentence, like...
For those of you in the Seattle area, Chip will be doing a reading and signing tomorrow at the JBL Theater in the Science Fiction Museum under the Space...
That's what I read (though I have yet to actually read the entire novel, I've jumped around in it a bit, and that part really struck out at me). When I was...
I was at the Clarion West reading (flew up from LA to attend and flew back the next morning, and totally worth it). During the Q&A period I mentioned that his...
My copy of _The Mad Man_ is the first, hardback, edition. When I finished it I felt like I had completed an Olympic endurance event. I understand that he...
Heh. I have the Rhino(eros) paperback, and I haven't read any other editions -- mostly for the same reasons as you. I was able to enjoy reading 'The Motion of...
He did some changes on the Masquerade/Rhino edition because he was rushed on the hardcover edition. Richard Kasak, the publisher, had bought the book as a...
What would anyone say about the presence of "the erotic body" in this new novel? I have not read it yet. I am writing an essay on said use of the erotic body...
... Maybe I'm running low on my academese, but what is "the erotic body"? Is it a body being described sexually? And what, in the phrase quoted by several from...
I enjoy the academic play with words, it's fun but bullshit. I know too many people who write so bogged down in jargon and rhetoric that they are saying...
... "The object" as opposed to "the subject". Your classic work of modern literature deals with "the subject" - people's inner lives, their relationship to the...
... Not a whole lot, actually. The protagonist has almost completely repressed his sexuality, has had sex only a handful of times in his 60+ years of life, and...
Hi everyone, I am looking for a quotation from *The Mad Man,* and I hope that someone on this list knows the page or chapter where I can find it (I own the ...
Hello. I hope that this is not an inappapropriate posting for your list. I am a librarian at a small college in Detroit. Mr. Delany will speak here as part of...
... For what it's worth, it took me about five years (maybe longer, though not as long as ten years) to find a copy of that book. In my experience (and I got...
I little while ago I started reading the 1966 revised Ace version of "The Towers of Toron", immediately came to the Author's Note and decided to wait till I...
I get a dead link with that one, so here's an alternative approach: <http://home.earthlink.net/~teluial/Delany-AboutFiveThousandSevenHundredAndFiftyWords.html>...
Go figure. Second time, of course, it works. Ah well, there's a tinyurl for easier use, at least... I have a friend who heavily into sea fiction, especially...
