| "The Languages of Science Fiction: Samuel R. Delany's Babel-17" copyright 1993 Carl Malmgren, originally appeared in Extrapolation, Vol. 34, No. 1, published by The Kent State University Press. Reprinted by permission of the author. |
| "To See What Condition Our Condition Is In: Trial by Language in Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand" copyright 1996 Mary Kay Bray. Appears for the first time here. |
| "Debased and Lascivious? Samuel R. Delany's Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand" copyright 1986, 1996 Russell Blackford, originally appeared in Australian Science Fiction Review, Second Series, Vol. 1, No. 4, September 1986. Reprinted (with minor revisions) by permission of the author. |
| "The Politics of Desire in Delany's Triton and Tides of Lust" copyright 1984 Robert Elliot Fox, originally appeared in Black American Literature Forum, Vol. 18, No. 2, Summer 1984. Reprinted by permission of the author and Black American Literature Forum (now African American Review). |
| "On Dhalgren" copyright 1977 Jean Mark Gawron, originally appeared as introduction to Gregg Press library edition of Dhalgren (Boston: 1977). Reprinted by permission of the author. |
| " 'This You-Shaped Hole of Insight and Fire': Meditations on Delany's Dhalgren" copyright 1996 Robert Elliot Fox. Appears for the first time here. |
| "Necessary Constraints: Samuel R. Delany on Science Fiction" copyright 1994 by The Science Fiction Foundation, originally appeared in Foundation: The Review of Science Fiction, No. 60, Spring 1994 (UK). Reprinted here, in abridged form, by permission of the author. |
| "Nevron Deconstructed: Samuel R. Delany's Tales of Nevron and the 'Modular Calculus,'" copyright 1985, 1996 Kathleen L. Spencer, appeared in an earlier form (as "Deconstructing Tales of Nevron: Delany, Derrida, and the Modular Calculus Parts I-IV") in Essays in Arts and Sciences, vol. XIV, May 1985. Reprinted, revised and expanded for this book, by permission of the author. |
| "Delany's Dirt" copyright 1995 Ray Davis, originally appeared in The New York Review of Science Fiction. Reprinted by permission of the author. |
| "Subverted Equations: G. Spencer Brown's Laws of Form and Samuel R. Delany's Analytics of Attention" copyright 1996 Ken James. Appears for the first time here. |
Copyright 1996 by James Sallis
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Ash of stars : on the writing of Samuel R. Delany / edited by James Sallis.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index.
ISBN 0-87805-852-4 (cloth : alk. paper). ISBN 0-87805-895-8 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1. Delany, Samuel R.Criticism and interpretation. 2. Science fiction, AmericanHistory
and criticism. I. Sallis, James, 1944 .
PS3554.E437Z55 1996
813'.54dc20 95-39443
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