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The Mad Man

The Mad Man

The Mad Man is a sexually drenched literary novel by Samuel R. Delany, first published in 1994 by Richard Kasak. In a disclaimer that appears at the beginning of the book, Delany describes it as a "pornotopic fantasy". It was originally published in 1994, republished and slightly revised in 1996, and republished again with significant changes in 2002 and again in an e-book version with further corrections in 2015. Delany considers the 2015 version the definitive edition.


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“Honesty is the best policy; a policy is, after all, a strategy for living in the polis — in the city …”

Source: The Mad Man (1994), p. 67; ellipses in the original

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