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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- Delany, Martin Robinson 1812-1885. American physician and social reformer who founded and edited the North Star (1847-1849) with Frederick Douglass.
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“Ah, no, flenflan, as a matter of fact, Samuel Delany is not a white dude.”
TOC: The Mammoth Book of Mindblowing SF edited by Mike Ashley
“And I love you, GRR, but Delany is also teaching, and that's so amazing.”
“Samuel R. Delany is a novelist and critic who lives in New York City a teaches at Temple University in Philadelphia.”
“Delany is a clever man, having written perhaps the most densely subtextual literature in the genre.”
“Delany is more than capable of writing a rousting space opera, but it seems with “Nova” he was as interested in the existential.”
“The interpolated, upside-down journal entries in Delany's DHALGREN are pataphysical quirks, as is the sentence split between end and beginning, fusing the narrative into a (logically impossible) loop.”
“Sex, of course, is a little more frequent and a lot more explicit in Delany's book; he is unembarrassed about polyamory and bisexuality where Proust is horrified by "inversion" - although Proust too has a lot of sex, the most explicit scene so far is one the narrator overhears rather than one he participates in.”
“But the reality is, Delany is moving to Wisteria Lane three seasons too late and this casting notice does nothing except scream ‘jump the shark’.”
“Ted: I'm not sure I can find an angle to what Delany is saying which permits the physically impossible to be read as SF in his terms.”
“I suspect my contribution to this might amount to Samuel R. Delany is a goddamn motherfuckin genius.”
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