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Aye, and Gomorrah: And Other Stories
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780375706714
Edition: 1st Vintage Books Ed
ISBN: 0375706712
Item Dimensions: 8680367519
Label: Vintage
Languages: EnglishUnknownEnglishOriginal LanguageEnglishPublished
Manufacturer: Vintage
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 400
Publication Date: April 08, 2003
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date: April 08, 2003
Studio: Vintage
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Editorial Review:A father must come to terms with his son's death in the war. In Venice an architecture student commits a crime of passion. A white southern airport loader tries to do a favor for a black northern child. The ordinary stuff of ordinary fiction--but with a difference! These tales take place twenty-five, fifty, a hundred-fifty years from now, when men and women have been given gills to labor under the sea. Huge repair stations patrol the cables carrying power to the ends of the earth. Telepathic and precocious children so passionately yearn to visit distant galaxies that they'll kill to go. Brilliantly crafted, beautifully written, these are Samuel Delany's award-winning stories, like no others before or since.
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I read this some time ago, so I won't go into great detail, but to say this is classic Delany--pulpy, academic, acid-trip Delany. Its a nice place to start to see if you love Delany. I started with "The Einstein Intersection," but this was the second thing I read. An incredibly under-appreciated author.
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An avid science fiction buff, I fell in love with Delany's short stories many years ago. He is an incredibly cerebral and visceral writer both, with challenging prose of haunting beauty. He upsets notions of social norms in a way that was revelatory to me as a teenager, and continues to underpin my beliefs of what is natural and possible in human beings and their relations. He is also one of the few writers of science fiction (though his work extends well beyond the genre) that counts as true ... Read More
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Samuel Delany is often cited by other SF authors as an inspriation or a great practitioner of the craft of writing. His novels, such as Dhalgren and Triton, are well-regarded. They are also frequently unapproachable: big, gnarly books with big, gnarly subjects. They certainly are not much like the rafts of semi-literate junk that passes for much of SF these days. But you won't sit down and toss of a Delany novel...
This book, though, is hugely approachable. As a short story collection, ... Read More
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Delany has always been one of SF most thoughtful writers and one of the least likely to simply settle for the genre's conventions. He's an author who deserves to be considered with some of the finest literary minds working today, with the only difference being that he chooses to work within the confines of
SF or fantasy, somehow always tweaking it until it becomes distinctly his, while remaining recognizable as SF. This is a collection of his short stories and contains most of the major ones ... Read More
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"Aye, and Gomorrah and Other Stories," by Samuel R. Delany, brings together 15 tales along with an afterword by the author. The copyright page gives the publication histories of the pieces in this book. The stories in this volume vary greatly in length: 2 fall into the 60-70 page range (and could, I suppose, be considered novellas), 2 fall into the less than 10 page range, and the rest are of various lengths in between; this nicely adds to the overall variety of the collection.Most of ... Read More
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