Samuel R. Delany’s Life of Contradictions

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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