Samuel R. Delany’s Life of Contradictions

Re:Samuel R. Delany’s Life of Contradictions by marktangotango on Tuesday May 23, 2017 @07:53PM (#14406496)

"Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand" really messed me up as a young lad, I had no business reading that at that age. As an adult I went back and read most of his stuff, it aged really well, Star Pit and Einstein Intersection are two favorites of mine. His work really had no contemporaries in that era. At least not that I ever read.

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Re:Samuel R. Delany’s Life of Contradictions by lobster_johnson on Tuesday May 23, 2017 @11:01PM (#14407307)

I dunno, Philip K. Dick, Stanislaw Lem, Ursula LeGuin and Harlan Ellison were certainly on par with Delaney in the soft/mind-bending category. In my opinion, they have aged better; much of the more overtly experimental sci-fi of the late 1960s and early 1970s feels a bit dated today. J. G. Ballard comes to mind (his non-sci-fi novels are much better).

On the other hand, there is some brilliant stuff (like R. A. Lafferty, and William Borroughs's sci-fi stuff) that is undeservedly forgotten.

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Re:Samuel R. Delany’s Life of Contradictions by TheOtherHobbes on Wednesday May 24, 2017 @04:39AM (#14408441)

My first introduction to SF was finding Lafferty and Delaney and Lem and Dick in random raids of the SF section in a small provincial library.

I've been spoiled ever since. I grew up assuming all SF was that creative, literate, and fascinatingly weird. Sadly that turned out not to be true.

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Re:Samuel R. Delany’s Life of Contradictions by user51442 on Wednesday May 24, 2017 @09:51AM (#14409977)

Roger Zelazny? He gives an amusing account of him and Delany signing each others books here: http://www.tor.com/2016/05/26/a-few-more-words-from-roger-ze...

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