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...
I just (in the last 20 minutes or so) heard from Chip that "Wesleyan will be bringing out within the year new editions of both *The Jewel-hinged Jaw* and...
The PENNSound website has complete audio of a January 2007 panel discussion on Hart Crane, featuring Chip Delany, Charles Bernstein and Brian Reed. PENNSound...
... My copy (which I was lucky enough to purchase at the time, since it went o.p almost instantly) was a hardcover published by Dragon Press (i.e., David...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Please join M. Asli Dukan/The Invisible Universe Foundation and POC Doc Film Development, Inc. to support the completion of the new...
1. "About Five Thousand..." is *not* one of the "key pieces" from STARBOARD WINE; it's from THE JEWEL-HINGED JAW.2. SW, like TJHJ and THE AMERICAN SHORE, was...
... Argh, you're right. Serves me right for trying to remember this stuff when my copies are in a garage on the wrong coast and my memory is almost as good a...
Yasi, When you're finished, you'll have a nice, fresh perspective of the book. Do you think you might have the time to put a brief synopsis into the Wikipedia...
Kevin,This puts me in mind of something I've been meaning to ask. Some members of the Gene Wolfe mailing list (including myself)have begun building a...
Thanks so much to everyone for your help and suggestions. Unfortunately for us, the new Wesleyan edition will not be published until the fall of 2008. I will...
I stumbled onto this reference. I don't recall Wilkins or the philosophical languages (universal character) of the 17th century coming up in Delany, but I'm...
... Perhaps it relates Wilkins' ideas with the language that is central to _Babel-17_. -- Erich Schneider erich@......
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Aug 15, 2007 4:06 am
Erich is right. The article explains how the Babel-17 language works, then introduces the reader to Wilkins' artificial language and notes some similarities...
Here's a link to a review that appears in the 8/9/07 NY Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/09/books/review/Dreisinger-t.html?_r=1&ref=review&oref=slogin And...
The New York Times? That's nice and prominent. Has anything else by Delany ever been reviewed in the NYT? I vaguely recall 'Times Square Red, Times Square...
... Gerald Jonas reviewed a bunch of his books for the NYT over the years. For example, here's his review of _Stars..._, which I am currently rereading: ...
Hello Supporters, The Invisible Universe fundraiser scheduled for Friday, 14 September 2007 at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem has...
... Actually, the millennium article ("Future Shock") was in the Village Voice. Here's the link: http://www.villagevoice.com/news/9952,delany,11385,1.html...
I just found this announcement a few minutes ago. (Wish I could have found it sooner for the benefit of those in NYC and surrounding areas. I'm going to try...
I was going to sell this Delany book on eBay but thought I'd offer it to the list for sale first. This is the Incunabula edition from 1993, later published by...
Wow ! I bought it when it was published, I have it (the Incunabula edition, but no dedicace), and I did not even know it was so valuable ! Please tell me how...
