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Samuel Ray Delany Jr. – amerykański pisarz science fiction i krytyk literacki. Laureat nagród Nebula i Hugo.

Dorastał w Harlemie w dobrze sytuowanej rodzinie afroamerykańskiej. Jego matka była bibliotekarką, a ojciec przedsiębiorcą pogrzebowym. Uczęszczał do Bronx High School of Science. Mimo iż publicznie przyznaje się do bycia gejem, przez 19 lat był żonaty z poetką Marilyn Hacker i ma córkę Ivę Hacker-Delany.

Od 1988 r. Delany zajmował stanowisko profesora literatury na kilku uniwersytetach, m.in. University of Massachusetts at Amherst, University at Buffalo, a ostatnio na Temple University w Filadelfii. Jest autorem książek z dziedziny literaturoznawstwa.

Debiutował jako pisarz w wieku 20 lat, powieścią The Jewels of Aptor. Uważany jest za czołowego twórcę Nowej Fali SF. Jego utwory charakteryzują się złożonością i wyrafinowaniem.

Oprócz powieści uznanie zdobyły także krótkie formy, np. opowiadania Aye, and Gomorrah i Time Considered as a Helix of Semi-precious Stones .

Jest dyslektykiem. Wikipedia  

✵ 1. Kwiecień 1942
Samuel R. Delany Fotografia
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Samuel R. Delany: Cytaty po angielsku

“Life is hard for everyone, and we must not take credit ourselves for the little that others can do with theirs. Rather look instead to whom we can give credit, if not thanks, for what little we have been able to do with our own.”

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Samuel R. Delany książka Flight from Nevèrÿon

Źródło: Flight from Nevèrÿon (1985), Chapter 2, “The Mummer’s Tale” Section 1 (p. 134)

“But that kind has not a true word in him. I wouldn’t be surprised if everything he said were a lie. Such as he lies as he breathes. Truth is something he’s never even learned to speak.”

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Samuel R. Delany książka Flight from Nevèrÿon

Section 11 (p. 123)
Flight from Nevèrÿon (1985)

“Could it be, he wondered, he’d only thought he’d seen what he’d seen because of his own desires, researches, expectations?”

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Samuel R. Delany książka Flight from Nevèrÿon

Section 10 (pp. 117-118)
Flight from Nevèrÿon (1985)

“I’m a public man, my princess. That means my only meaning is the web of signs I publicly inhabit.”

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Samuel R. Delany książka Flight from Nevèrÿon

Section 10 (p. 111)
Flight from Nevèrÿon (1985)

“Life, I sometimes think—like dreams, like stories, like plans, even like lies if you will—is to be pondered on, interpreted, interrogated: but you had best not try to change it too radically in the middle, or you risk never finding its secret.”

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Samuel R. Delany książka Flight from Nevèrÿon

Section 10 (p. 109)
Flight from Nevèrÿon (1985)

“I still feel that style is important for reading pleasure, and sex is important for pleasure in life. Each appeases a different type of desire. And while I find nothing shameful in taking direct erotic pleasure from reading or writing, I don’t think they entail a necessary relation. The processes you have me describing are contingent psychological processes. Neither marks one end nor the other of any necessary or even philosophical relationship…”

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Samuel R. Delany

On including sexual themes in his writings in “Samuel R. Delany, The Art of Fiction No. 210” https://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/6088/samuel-r-delany-the-art-of-fiction-no-210-samuel-r-delany in The Paris Review (Summer 2011)

“We’re not going to climb that in the dark, are we?”

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Samuel R. Delany książka The Jewels of Aptor

asked Iimmi.
“Better than in the light,” said Urson. “This way you can’t see how far you have to fall.”
Źródło: The Jewels of Aptor (1962), Chapter IX (p. 108)

“Oh, I cannot tell you how the notion of eternity bores me—not to mention all the silly stories we are always making up to render the idea palatable!”

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Samuel R. Delany książka They Fly at Çiron

Źródło: They Fly at Çiron (1993), Chapter 7 (p. 202)

“Half dead’s a lot worse than dead, when you know you’re gonna die in another three, six days no matter what anyone else does.”

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Samuel R. Delany książka They Fly at Çiron

Źródło: They Fly at Çiron (1993), Chapter 6 (p. 166)

“Oh, I assure you—I’m only a little outlaw. Don’t fear me, friend. I never broke any big laws. I just forget and do what I want sometimes, and discover it wasn’t what someone else wanted me to do.”

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Samuel R. Delany książka They Fly at Çiron

Źródło: They Fly at Çiron (1993), Chapter 4 (p. 96)