Samuel R. Delany Books in Order
Samuel R. Delany is an award-winning American science fiction author known for his groundbreaking works. Born to a prominent black family in Harlem on April 1, 1942, Delany draws inspiration from his childhood in the vibrant urban landscape. His mother, Margaret Carey Boyd Delany, was a dedicated library clerk, and his father, Samuel Ray Delany, Senior, ran a respected funeral home in Harlem. Delany's aunts, Sadie and Bessie, were also influential figures, and their adventures are woven into his stories, such as the novella "Atlantis: Model 1924" in "Atlantis: Three Tales." Delany attended the Dalton School and the Bronx High School of Science, where he was selected for the prestigious Camp Rising Sun program. A published author at 20, Delany quickly established himself with nine critically acclaimed science fiction novels between 1962 and 1968, as well as numerous prize-winning short stories.
Bibliography verified: January 2026
Book Series by Samuel R. Delany
- #1AmazonThe Jewel-Hinged Jaw(1977)
- #2AmazonThe American Shore(1978)
- #3AmazonHeavenly Breakfast(1979)
- #4AmazonStarboard Wine(1984)
- #5AmazonThe Motion of Light in Water(1988)
- #6AmazonWagner Artaud(1988)
- #7AmazonThe Straits of Messina(1989)
- #8AmazonSilent Interviews(1994)
- #9AmazonLonger Views(1996)
- #10AmazonTimes Square Red, Times Square Blue(1999)
- #11AmazonShorter Views(2000)
- #12AmazonBlack Gay Man(2001)
- #13AmazonAbout Writing(2006)
- #14AmazonConversations with Samuel R. Delany(2009)
- #15AmazonThe Atheist in the Attic (With: Eleanor Arnason)(2018)
- #16AmazonLetters from Amherst(2019)
- #17AmazonFrederick Weston & Samuel R. Delany in Conversation (With: Frederick Weston)(2021)
- #18AmazonOccasional Views, Volume 1(2021)
- #19AmazonOf Solids and Surds(2021)
- #20AmazonOccasional Views, Volume 2(2021)
- #21AmazonThe Tragedy of Ophelia: Two Essays(2021)
- #1AmazonThe Human Front (By: Ken MacLeod)(2001)
- #2AmazonThe Left Left Behind (By: Terry Bisson,Eleanor Arnason)(2009)
- #3AmazonLucky Strike (By: Kim Stanley Robinson)(2009)
- #4AmazonThe Underbelly (By: Gary Phillips,Eleanor Arnason)(2010)
- #5AmazonMammoths of the Great Plains (By: Eleanor Arnason)(2010)
- #6AmazonThe Wild Girls (By: Ursula K. Le Guin,Eleanor Arnason)(2011)
- #7AmazonModem Times 2.0 (By: Michael Moorcock,Eleanor Arnason)(2011)
- #8AmazonThe Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow (By: Cory Doctorow,Eleanor Arnason)(2011)
- #9AmazonReport from Planet Midnight (By: Nalo Hopkinson,Eleanor Arnason)(2012)
- #10AmazonThe Science of Herself (By: Karen Joy Fowler,Eleanor Arnason)(2013)
- #11AmazonPatty Hearst & The Twinkie Murders: A Tale of Two Trials (By: Eleanor Arnason,Paul Krassner)(2013)
- #12AmazonNew Taboos (By: John Shirley)(2013)
- #13AmazonRaising Hell (By: Norman Spinrad,Eleanor Arnason)(2014)
- #14AmazonMy Life, My Body (By: Marge Piercy)(2015)
- #15AmazonGypsy (By: Carter Scholz,Eleanor Arnason)(2015)
- #16AmazonMiracles Ain't What They Used to Be (By: Joe R. Lansdale,Eleanor Arnason)(2016)
- #17AmazonFire. (By: Elizabeth Hand,Eleanor Arnason)(2017)
- #18AmazonTotalitopia (By: John Crowley)(2017)
- #19AmazonThe Atheist in the Attic (With: Eleanor Arnason)(2018)
- #20AmazonThoreau's Microscope (By: Michael Blumlein,Eleanor Arnason)(2018)
- #21AmazonThe Beatrix Gates (By: Rachel Pollack)(2019)
- #22AmazonA City Made of Words (By: Paul Park)(2019)
- #23AmazonBig Girl (By: Meg Elison)(2020)
- #24AmazonNot What I Intended (By: Nancy Kress)(2025)
- #1AmazonThe Presidential Papers (By: John H. Kessel)(1984)
- #2AmazonThe Human Front (By: Ken MacLeod)(2001)
- #3AmazonThe Underbelly (By: Gary Phillips,Eleanor Arnason)(2010)
- #4AmazonMammoths of the Great Plains (By: Eleanor Arnason)(2010)
- #5AmazonModem Times 2.0 (By: Michael Moorcock,Eleanor Arnason)(2011)
- #6AmazonSurfing the Gnarl (By: Rudy Rucker)(2012)
- #7AmazonPatty Hearst & The Twinkie Murders: A Tale of Two Trials (By: Eleanor Arnason,Paul Krassner)(2013)
- #8AmazonRaising Hell (By: Norman Spinrad,Eleanor Arnason)(2014)
- #9AmazonGypsy (By: Carter Scholz)(2015)
- #10AmazonMiracles Ain't What They Used to Be (By: Joe R. Lansdale,Eleanor Arnason)(2016)
- #11AmazonFire. (By: Elizabeth Hand,Eleanor Arnason)(2017)
- #12AmazonThe Atheist in the Attic (With: Eleanor Arnason)(2018)
- #13AmazonTalk Like a Man (By: Nisi Shawl)(2019)
- #14AmazonBig Girl (By: Meg Elison)(2020)
- #15AmazonPlanetbreaker’s Son (By: Nick Mamatas)(2021)
- #16AmazonUtopias of the Third Kind (By: Vandana Singh)(2021)
- #17AmazonNight Shift (By: Eileen Gunn)(2022)
- #18AmazonThe Collapsing Frontier (By: Jonathan Lethem)(2024)
- #1AmazonPrivate Affairs (By: Phillip Brian Harper)(1999)
- #2AmazonTimes Square Red, Times Square Blue(1999)
- #3AmazonIn Your Face (By: Mandy Merck)(2000)
- #4AmazonTropics of Desire (By: José Quiroga)(2000)
- #5AmazonMurdering Masculinities (By: Greg Forter)(2000)
- #6AmazonOur Monica, Ourselves (By: Lauren Berlant,Lisa A. Duggan)(2001)
- #7AmazonBlack Gay Man (By: Robert F. Reid-Pharr)(2001)
- #8AmazonPassing (By: )(2001)
- #9AmazonThe Explanation For Everything (By: Paul Morrison)(2002)
- #10AmazonQueer Globalizations (By: Martin F. Manalansan IV,Arnaldo Cruz-Malave)(2002)
- #11AmazonQueer Latinidad (By: Juana María Rodríguez)(2003)
- #12AmazonLove the Sin (By: Janet R. Jakobsen)(2003)
- #13AmazonBoricua Pop (By: Frances Negrón-Muntaner,Frances n-Muntaner)(2004)
- #14AmazonWhy I Hate Abercrombie & Fitch (By: Dwight A. McBride)(2005)
- #15AmazonIn a Queer Time and Place (By: J. Jack Halberstam)(2005)
- #16AmazonGod Hates Fags (By: Michael Cobb)(2006)
- #17AmazonOnce You Go Black (By: Robert F. Reid-Pharr)(2007)
- #18AmazonThe Latino Body (By: Lazaro Lima)(2007)
- #19AmazonArranging Grief (By: Dana Luciano)(2007)
- #20AmazonCruising Utopia (By: José Esteban Muñoz)(2009)
- #21AmazonAnother Country (By: )(2010)
- #22AmazonExtravagant Abjection (By: Darieck Scott)(2010)
- #23AmazonRelocations (By: Karen Tongson)(2011)
- #24AmazonSingle (By: Michael Cobb)(2012)
- #25AmazonBeyond the Nation (By: Martin Ponce)(2012)
- #26AmazonBrown Boys and Rice Queens (By: Eng-Beng Lim)(2013)
- #27AmazonTransforming Citizenships (By: Isaac West)(2013)
- #28AmazonInvestigating Young People's Sexual Cultures (By: Clarissa Smith,Feona Attwood)(2014)
- #29AmazonThe Delectable Negro (By: E. Patrick Johnson,Vincent Woodard,Justin A. Joyce,Dwight A. McBride)(2014)
- #30AmazonSexual Futures, Queer Gestures, and Other Latina Longings (By: Juana María Rodríguez)(2014)
- #31AmazonSensational Flesh (By: Amber Jamilla Musser)(2014)
- #32AmazonThe Exquisite Corpse of Asian America (By: Rachel C.Lee)(2014)
- #33AmazonNot Gay (By: Jane Ward)(2015)
- #34AmazonEmbodied Avatars (By: Uri McMillan)(2015)
- #35AmazonA Taste for Brown Bodies (By: Hiram Pérez)(2015)
- #36AmazonWedlocked (By: Katherine Franke)(2015)
- #37AmazonA Body, Undone (By: Christina Crosby)(2016)
- #38AmazonThe Color of Kink (By: Ariane Cruz)(2016)
- #39AmazonArchives of Flesh (By: Robert F. Reid-Pharr)(2016)
- #40AmazonBlack Performance on the Outskirts of the Left (By: Malik Gaines)(2017)
- #41AmazonThe Life and Death of Latisha King (By: )(2018)
- #42AmazonQueer Nuns (By: Melissa M. Wilcox)(2018)
- #43AmazonAfter the Party (By: )(2018)
- #44AmazonSensual Excess (By: Amber Jamilla Musser)(2018)
- #45AmazonAfro-Fabulations (By: )(2018)
- #46AmazonQueer Times, Black Futures (By: )(2019)
- #47AmazonQueer Faith (By: )(2019)
- #48AmazonArchiving an Epidemic (By: Robb Hernández)(2019)
- #49AmazonFrottage (By: Keguro Macharia)(2019)
- #50AmazonThe Sex Obsession (By: Janet R. Jakobsen)(2020)
- #51AmazonBecoming Human (By: Zakiyyah Iman Jackson)(2020)
- #52AmazonThe Tragedy of Heterosexuality (By: Jane Ward)(2020)
- #53AmazonKeeping It Unreal (By: Darieck Scott)(2022)
- #54AmazonSexuality Beyond Consent (By: )(2023)
- #55AmazonQueer Childhoods (By: Mary Zaborskis)(2024)
- #56AmazonBottoms Up (By: Xiomara Verenice Cervantes-Gomez)(2024)
- #57AmazonDeviant Matter (By: Kyla Wazana Tompkins)(2024)
- #58AmazonExtravagant Camp (By: Chris A. Eng)(2025)
- #59AmazonQueer Lasting (By: Sarah Ensor)(2025)
- #1AmazonThe Ballad of Beta-2(1965)
- #2AmazonBabel-17(1966)
- #3AmazonThe Einstein Intersection(1967)
- #4AmazonNova(1968)
- #5AmazonThe Tides of Lust(1973)
- #6AmazonDhalgren(1975)
- #7AmazonTritón / Trouble on Triton(1976)
- #8AmazonEmpire(1978)
- #9AmazonStars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand(1984)
- #10AmazonThey Fly At Çiron(1993)
- #11AmazonHogg(1994)
- #12AmazonThe Mad Man(1994)
- #13AmazonDark Reflections(2007)
- #14AmazonThrough the Valley of the Nest of Spiders(2011)
- #15AmazonVoyage, Orestes!(2019)
- #16AmazonShoat Rumblin: His Sensations and Ideas(2020)
- #17AmazonThe Jewels of Aptor(1962)
- #18AmazonEmpire Star(1966)
- #19AmazonHome Is the Hangman/We, in Some Strange Power's Employ, Move on a Rigorous Line(1990)
- #20AmazonBread and Wine(1999)
- #21AmazonPhallos(2004)
- #22AmazonAye, and Gomorrah(1967)
- #23AmazonDriftglass(1971)
- #24AmazonDistant Stars(1981)
- #25AmazonThe Complete Nebula Award-Winning Fiction(1986)
- #26AmazonDriftglass/Starshards(1993)
- #27AmazonAtlantis(1995)
- #28AmazonSensitive Skin #9: post-beat, pre-apocalyptic art, writing and music (With: Bernard Meisler,John Lurie)(2012)
- #29AmazonA, B, C(2015)
- #30AmazonThe Novels of Samuel R. Delany Volume One(2017)
- #31AmazonOccasional Views, Volume 1(2021)
- #32AmazonOccasional Views, Volume 2(2021)
- #33AmazonRoots of Imagination: A Chrestomathy(2023)
- #34AmazonLast and First Tales(2026)
About Samuel R. Delany
Samuel R. Delany is an award-winning American science fiction author known for his groundbreaking works. Born to a prominent black family in Harlem on April 1, 1942, Delany draws inspiration from his childhood in the vibrant urban landscape. His mother, Margaret Carey Boyd Delany, was a dedicated library clerk, and his father, Samuel Ray Delany, Senior, ran a respected funeral home in Harlem. Delany's aunts, Sadie and Bessie, were also influential figures, and their adventures are woven into his stories, such as the novella "Atlantis: Model 1924" in "Atlantis: Three Tales." Delany attended the Dalton School and the Bronx High School of Science, where he was selected for the prestigious Camp Rising Sun program. A published author at 20, Delany quickly established himself with nine critically acclaimed science fiction novels between 1962 and 1968, as well as numerous prize-winning short stories.
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