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Author: Samuel R. Delany Author Record # 22 Legal Name: Delany, Samuel Ray, Jr. Birthplace: New York City, New York, USA Birthdate: 1 April 1942 Language: English Webpages: bedetheque.com, comicvine.gamespot.com, Gutenberg, hachette.co.uk, IMDB, lareviewofbooks.org, oneringcircus.com, pseudopodium.org, samueldelany.com, SFE-1, SFE-2, Tumblr, Wikipedia-EN, X/Twitter Used These Alternate Names: Samuel R. Delaney, Samuel Delany, Chip Delany, サミュエル・ディレイニー?Samyueru Direinī Samyueru Direinii , Semjuel Dilejni, Semjuel R. Dilejni, С. Дилени?S. Dileni , サミュエル・Ｒ・ディレイニー?Samyueru R. Direinī , サミュエル・R・ディレイニー?Samyueru R. Direinī Samyueru R. Direinii , S. L. Kermit, K. Leslie Steiner Note: Samuel Ray 'Chip' Delany, Jr was born in Harlem in 1942, and published his first novel at the age of just 20. As author, critic and academic, his influence on the modern genre has been profound and he remains one of science fiction's most important and discussed writers. He has won the Hugo Award twice and the Nebula Award four times, including consecutive wins for Babel-17 and The Einstein Intersection. Since January 2001 he has been a professor of English and Creative Writing at Temple University in Philadelphia, where he is Director of the Graduate Creative Writing Program. [source: Claire North / Hachette] Author Tags: science fiction (30), interstellar travel (7), gay (6), fantasy (5), Earth (4), aliens (4), music (4), telepathy (4), slavery (3), distant future (3), sexuality (3), feet (3), mutants (3), near future (3), prostitution (2), interplanetary travel (2), dragons (2), assassination (2), quest (2), far future (2) and 161 additional tags. View all tags for Samuel R. Delany

• Neveryon
  • 1
    Tales of Nevèrÿon^?Tales of Neveryon
    (1979) [C] also appeared as:
    • Translation: Storie di Nevèrÿon [Italian] (1980)
    • Translation: Geschichten aus Nimmerya [German] (1982)
    • Translation:
      Les contes de Neverÿon^?Les contes de Neveryon
      [French] (1982) [as by Samuel Delany]
    • Translation:
      Geschichten aus Nimmèrÿa^?Geschichten aus Nimmerya
      [German] (2012)
  • 2
    Neveryóna or: The Tale of Signs and Cities^?Neveryona or: The Tale of Signs and Cities
    (1983) also appeared as:
    • Translation: Das Land Nimmerya [German] (1984)
    • Variant:
      Neveryóna^?Neveryona
      (2011)
    • Translation:
      Nimmeryána^?Nimmeryana
      [German] (2015)
  • 3
    Flight from Nevèrÿon^?Flight from Neveryon
    (1985) [C] also appeared as:
    • Translation: Flucht aus Nimmerya [German] (1988)
  • 4 The Bridge of Lost Desire (1987) [C] also appeared as:
    • Variant:
      Return to Nevèrÿon^?Return to Neveryon
      (1989)
    • Variant: Return to Neveryon (2013)
  • The Tale of Gorgik (1979) [SF] also appeared as:
    • Translation: La storia di Gorgik [Italian] (1980)
    • Translation: Conte de Gorgik [French] (1982) [as by Samuel Delany]
    • Translation: Die Geschichte von Gorgik [German] (1982)
    • Variant: The Tale of Gorgik [2] (2017)
  • Appendix: Some Informal Remarks Toward the Modular Calculus, Part Three (1979) [SF] only appeared as:
    • Variant: Appendix: Some Informal Remarks Toward the Modular Calculus, Part Three (1979) [as by S. L. Kermit]
    • Translation: Appendice. Alcuni commenti informali sul Calcolo Modulare, Parte III [Italian] (1980)
    • Translation:
      Appendice (Les contes de Neverÿon)^?Appendice (Les contes de Neveryon)
      [French] (1982) [as by S. L. Kermit]
    • Translation:
      Einige vorläufige Anmerkungen über den Modular Calculus, Teil Drei ...^?Einige vorlaeufige Anmerkungen ueber den Modular Calculus, Teil Drei ...
      [German] (1982) [as by S. L. Kermit]
    • Translation:
      Anhang: Einige vorläufige Bemerkungen über den modularen Kalkül, Teil 3^?Anhang: Einige vorlaeufige Bemerkungen ueber den modularen Kalkuel, Teil 3
      [German] (2012) [as by S. L. Kermit]
  • The Tale of Dragons and Dreamers (1979) [SF] also appeared as:
    • Translation: La storia dei draghi e dei sognatori [Italian] (1980)
    • Translation:
      Conte des dragons et des rêveurs^?Conte des dragons et des reveurs
      [French] (1982) [as by Samuel Delany]
    • Translation:
      Die Geschichte von Drachen und Träumern^?Die Geschichte von Drachen und Traeumern
      [German] (1982)
  • The Tale of Old Venn (1979) [SF] also appeared as:
    • Translation: La storia della vecchia Venn [Italian] (1980)
    • Translation: Conte de la vieille Venn [French] (1982) [as by Samuel Delany]
    • Translation: Die Geschichte der Alten Venn [German] (1982)
  • The Tale of Potters and Dragons (1979) [SF] also appeared as:
    • Translation: La storia dei vasai e dei draghi [Italian] (1980)
    • Translation: Conte des potiers et des dragons [French] (1982) [as by Samuel Delany]
    • Translation:
      Die Geschichte von Töpfern und Drachen^?Die Geschichte von Toepfern und Drachen
      [German] (1982)
  • The Tale of Small Sarg (1979) [SF] also appeared as:
    • Translation: La storia del piccolo Sarg [Italian] (1980)
    • Translation: Conte de petit Sarg [French] (1982) [as by Samuel Delany]
    • Translation: Die Geschichte vom Kleinen Sark [German] (1982)
  • Neveryóna (excerpt)^?Neveryona (excerpt)
    (1982) [SF]
  • Appendix A: The Culhar' Correspondence (1983) [SF] also appeared as:
    • Translation: Appendix A Die "Culhar"-Korrespondenz [German] (1984)
    • Translation: Anhang A: Die Culhar'-Korrespondenz [German] (2015)
  • Appendix A: Postscript (1985) [SF] also appeared as:
    • Variant: Postscripts (1988)
  • Appendix A: The Tale of Plagues and Carnivals, or, Some Informal Remarks toward the Modular Calculus, Part Five (1985) [SF] also appeared as:
    • Variant: The Tale of Plagues and Carnivals, or, Some Informal Remarks toward the Modular Calculus, Part Five (1985)
    • Translation:
      Anhang A: Die Geschichte von den Seuchen und Lustbarkeiten oder Einige vorläufige Bemerkungen über den Modular Calculus, Teil V^?Anhang A: Die Geschichte von den Seuchen und Lustbarkeiten oder Einige vorlaeufige Bemerkungen über den Modular Calculus, Teil V
      [German] (1988)
  • Appendix B: Closures and Openings (1985) [SF] also appeared as:
    • Variant: Appendix: Closures and Openings (1985)
    • Translation:
      Anhang B: Schluß und Ausblick^?Anhang B: Schluss und Ausblick
      [German] (1988)
  • Preface (Flight from Nevèrÿon)^?Preface (Flight from Neveryon)
    (1985) [SF] only appeared as:
    • Translation: Vorwort (Flucht aus Nimmerya) [German] (1988)
  • The Mummer's Tale (1985) [SF] also appeared as:
    • Translation:
      Die Geschichte des Komödianten^?Die Geschichte des Komoedianten
      [German] (1988)
  • The Tale of Fog and Granite (1985) [SF] also appeared as:
    • Translation: Die Geschichte des Schmugglers [German] (1988)
  • The Game of Time and Pain (1987) [SF]
  • The Tale of Rumor and Desire (1987) [SF]
  • Return to Nevèrÿon^?Return to Neveryon
    (2017) [O/1-4]
  
  
• Phallos
  • Phallos (2004) [SF]
  • Phallos: Enhanced and Revised Edition (2013)
  
  
• The Fall of the Towers
  • 1 Out of the Dead City (1963) also appeared as:
    • Variant: Captives of the Flame (1963)
    • Translation: Sklaven der Flamme [German] (1971) [as by Samuel R. Delaney]
    • Translation: Sklaven der Flamme [German] (1971)
    • Translation: Prisonniers de la flamme [French] (1971)
    • Translation: Flucht aus der toten Stadt [German] (1985)
    • Translation: Prisonniers de la flamme [French] (1989) [as by Samuel Delany]
  • 2 The Towers of Toron (1964) also appeared as:
    • Translation: Les tours de Toron [French] (1971)
    • Translation: As Torres de Toron [Portuguese] (1972)
    • Translation:
      Die Türme von Toron^?Die Tuerme von Toron
      [German] (1978)
    • Translation:
      Die Türme von Toron^?Die Tuerme von Toron
      [German] (1985)
    • Translation: Les tours de Toron [French] (1998) [as by Samuel Delany]
  • 3 City of a Thousand Suns (1965) also appeared as:
    • Translation: A Cidade dos Mil Sóis [Portuguese] (1967)
    • Translation:
      La cité des mille soleils^?La cite des mille soleils
      [French] (1971)
    • Translation: Stadt der tausend Sonnen [German] (1979)
    • Translation: Die Stadt der tausend Sonnen [German] (1985)
    • Translation:
      La cité des mille soleils^?La cite des mille soleils
      [French] (1989) [as by Samuel Delany]
  • The Fall of the Towers (1970) [O/1-3] also appeared as:
    • Translation: La chute des tours [French] (1971) [O]
    • Translation:
      Die Türme von Toron^?Die Tuerme von Toron
      [German] (1985) [O]
    • Translation: La chute des tours [French] (1998) [O] [as by Samuel Delany]
  
  
• Through the Valley of the Nest of Spiders
  • Through the Valley of the Nest of Spiders (2012) also appeared as:
    • Variant: Through the Valley of the Nest of Spiders: Part 1 (2019)
    • Variant: Through the Valley of the Nest of Spiders: Part 2 (2019)

• The Jewels of Aptor (1962) also appeared as:
  • Translation: I gioielli di Aptor [Italian] (1973)
  • Translation: Les joyaux d'Aptor [French] (1975)
  • Translation: I gioielli di Aptor [Italian] (1981)
  • Translation: Die Juwelen von Aptor [German] (1985)
  • Serializations:
  • Translation: Dragulj sa aptora (Part 1 of 2) [Serbian] (1989) [as by Semjuel R. Dilejni]
  • Translation: Dragulj sa aptora (Part 2 of 2) [Serbian] (1989) [as by Semjuel R. Dilejni]
• The Ballad of Beta-2 (1965) also appeared as:
  • Translation:
    La ballade de Bêta-2^?La ballade de Beta-2
    [French] (1980)
  • Translation: Die Ballade von Beta-2 [German] (1985)
  • Serializations:
  • Translation: La ballata di Beta-2 (Complete Novel) [Italian] (1970)
• Babel-17 (1966) also appeared as:
  • Translation: Babel 17 [French] (1973)
  • Translation: Babel 17 [German] (1975)
  • Translation: Babel-17 [Dutch] (1979) [as by Samuel Delany]
  • Translation: Babel-17 [German] (1982)
  • Translation: Babel-17 [Italian] (1988)
  • Translation: Babel-17 [Portuguese] (1989)
  • Variant: Babel-17 (1992) [as by Samuel R. Delaney]
  • Translation: Babel-17 [Portuguese] (2019)
  • Translation: Babel-17 [German] (2023)
  • Serializations:
  • Translation: Babel 17 (Complete Novel) [Italian] (1971)
• The Einstein Intersection (1967) also appeared as:
  • Translation: Einstein, Orpheus und andere [German] (1972)
  • Translation: L'intersection Einstein [French] (1977)
  • Variant: A Fabulous, Formless Darkness (1986)
  • Translation:
    Пересечение Эйнштейна^?Peresechenie Eynshteyna
    [Russian] (1992) [as by
    С. Дилени^?S. Dileni
    ]
  • Translation:
    Intersecția Einstein^?Intersectia Einstein
    [Romanian] (1995)
  • Translation: Einstein perduto [Italian] (2000)
  • Translation:
    Das Einstein-Vermächtnis^?Das Einstein-Vermaechtnis
    [German] (2024)
  • Serializations:
  • Translation: Einstein perduto (Complete Novel) [Italian] (1971)
• Nova (1968) also appeared as:
  • Translation: Nova [French] (1971) [as by Samuel Delany]
  • Translation: Nova [Italian] (1971)
  • Translation: Nova [German] (1973)
  • Translation: Nova [Swedish] (1976)
  • Translation: Nova [Dutch] (1978)
  • Translation: Nova [Spanish] (1979)
  • Translation: Nova [Serbian] (1986) [as by Semjuel Dilejni]
  • Translation: Nova [French] (2008)
  • Translation: Nova [Romanian] (2017)
  • Translation: Nova [Portuguese] (2023)
• Dhalgren (1975) also appeared as:
  • Translation: Dhalgren [German] (1980)
  • Translation: Dhalgren [Italian] (1982)
• Triton (1976) also appeared as:
  • Translation: Triton [French] (1977)
  • Translation: Triton [Italian] (1978)
  • Translation: Triton [German] (1981)
  • Variant: Trouble on Triton (1996)
• Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand (1984) also appeared as:
  • Translation: In meinen Taschen die Sterne wie Staub [German] (1985)
• They Fly at Çiron (1993)
• The Splendor and Misery of Bodies, of Cities (unpublished)
• Voyage Orestes! (unpublished)

• Driftglass (1971) also appeared as:
  • Variant: Driftglass (1971) [as by Samuel R. Delaney]
  • Translation:
    Treibglas: Erzählungen vom Rand der Wirklichkeit^?Treibglas: Erzaehlungen vom Rand der Wirklichkeit
    [German] (1982)
• Distant Stars (1981)
• Driftglass/Starshards (1993)
• They Fly at Çiron (1993)
• Atlantis: Three Tales (1995)
• Aye, and Gomorrah (2003)

• The Jewels of Aptor / Second Ending (1962) [O/2N] with James White
• Captives of the Flame / The Psionic Menace (1963) [O/2N] with John Brunner [only as by Samuel R. Delany and Keith Woodcott]
• The Towers of Toron / The Lunar Eye (1964) [O/2N] with Robert Moore Williams
• Alpha Yes, Terra No! / The Ballad of Beta-2 (1965) [O/2N] with Emil Petaja
• The Tree Lord of Imeten / Empire Star (1966) [O/2N] with Tom Purdom
• The Ballad of Beta-2 / Empire Star (1973) [O/2N] also appeared as:
  • Translation:
    La ballade de Bêta-2 suivi de Empire Star^?La ballade de Beta-2 Suivi de Empire Star
    [French] (1980) [O/2N]
• Nelle pieghe del tempo / I gioielli di Aptor [Italian] (1981) [O] with
  Yves Dermèze^?Yves Dermeze
  [only as by
  Paul Béra^?Paul Bera
  and Samuel R. Delany]
• Die Ballade von Beta 2 [German] (1985) [O]
• The Complete Nebula Award-Winning Fiction (1986) [O]
• Babel-17 / Empire Star (2001) [O/2N] also appeared as:
  • Translation: Babel-17 / Estrela Imperial [Portuguese] (2019) [O]
  • Variant: Babel-17 and Empire Star (2022) [O]
• Chants de l'espace [French] (2008) [O]
• The Jewels of Aptor / Captives of the Flame (2013) [O]
• A, B, C: Three Short Novels (2015) [O]
• Einstein perduto / Nova [Italian] (2017) [O]

• The New York Review of Science Fiction
  • The New York Review of Science Fiction, October 1988 (1988) with Kathryn Cramer and David G. Hartwell and Patrick Nielsen Hayden and Teresa Nielsen Hayden and Susan Palwick
  • The New York Review of Science Fiction - 1988 (1988) with Kathryn Cramer and L. W. Currey and David G. Hartwell and Patrick Nielsen Hayden and Teresa Nielsen Hayden and Susan Palwick
  • The New York Review of Science Fiction - 1989 (1989) with Kathryn Cramer and L. W. Currey and David G. Hartwell and Susan Palwick
  • The New York Review of Science Fiction - 1990 (1990) with Kathryn Cramer and L. W. Currey and David G. Hartwell and Gordon Van Gelder
  • The New York Review of Science Fiction - 1991 (1991) with Kathryn Cramer and L. W. Currey and David G. Hartwell and Robert K. J. Killheffer and Gordon Van Gelder
  • The New York Review of Science Fiction - 1992 (1992) with Kathryn Cramer and L. W. Currey and David G. Hartwell and Donald G. Keller and Robert K. J. Killheffer and Gordon Van Gelder
  • The New York Review of Science Fiction - 1992 (1992) with Kathryn Cramer and L. W. Currey and David G. Hartwell and Robert K. J. Killheffer and Gordon Van Gelder

• Nebula Awards
  • 13 Nebula Winners Thirteen (1980)
  
  
• Quark
  • 1 Quark/1 (1970) with Marilyn Hacker
  • 2 Quark/2 (1971) with Marilyn Hacker
  • 3 Quark/3 (1971) with Marilyn Hacker
  • 4 Quark/4 (1971) with Marilyn Hacker

• Tango Charlie and Foxtrot Romeo / The Star Pit (1989) with John Varley
• Home Is the Hangman / We, in Some Strange Power's Employ, Move on a Rigorous Line (1990) with Roger Zelazny

• Empire Star (1977) also appeared as:
  • Translation: Metagaláxia [Portuguese] (1971)
• Empire (1978) [graphic format] with Howard Chaykin [only as by Howard V. Chaykin and Samuel R. Delany]
• From Phallos (2000)
• Phallos (2004)
• The Atheist in the Attic plus "Racism and Science Fiction" and "Discourse in an Older Sense" Outspoken Interview (2018)

• Occasional Views
  • 1 "More About Writing" and Other Essays (2021)
  • 2 "The Gamble" and Other Essays (2021)
  
  
• The Journals of Samuel R. Delany
  • 1 In Search of Silence: Volume I, 1957-1969 (2017)

• The Jewel-Hinged Jaw: Notes on the Language of Science Fiction (1977) also appeared as:
  • Variant: The Jewel-Hinged Jaw: Revised Edition: Notes on the Language of Science Fiction (2009)
• The American Shore: Meditations on a Tale of Science Fiction by Thomas M. Disch — Angouleme^?The American Shore: Meditations on a Tale of Science Fiction by Thomas M. Disch - Angouleme
  (1978) also appeared as:
  • Variant: The American Shore (2015)
• Heavenly Breakfast: An Essay on the Winter of Love (1979)
• Starboard Wine (1984)
• Wagner/Artaud: A Play of 19th and 20th Century Critical Fictions (1988)
• The Motion of Light in Water: Sex and Science Fiction Writing in the East Village, 1957-1965 (1988) also appeared as:
  • Variant: The Motion of Light in Water: East Village Sex and Science Fiction Writing: 1960-1965 (1990)
  • Variant: The Motion of Light in Water: Sex and Science Fiction Writing in the East Village: 1960-1965 (1993)
  • Variant: The Motion of Light in Water: Sex and Science Fiction Writing in the East Village (2014)
  • Translation: Die Bewegung von Licht in Wasser [German] (2014)
• The Straits of Messina (1989)
• Silent Interviews (1994)
• Longer Views (1996)
• Shorter Views: Queer Thoughts & the Politics of the Paraliterary (1999)
• Times Square Red, Times Square Blue (1999)
• 1984: Selected Letters (2000)
• About Writing: Seven Essays, Four Letters, & Five Interviews (2006)
• Letters from Amherst: Five Narrative Letters (2019)
• Of Solids and Surds (2021)
• The Tragedy of Ophelia: Two Essays (2021)

• Empire Star (1966) also appeared as:
  • Translation: Metagaláxia [Portuguese] (1971)
  • Translation: Stella imperiale [Italian] (1977)
  • Translation: Empire star [French] (1980)
  • Translation: Imperiums-Stern [German] (1981)
  • Translation: Imperiumsstern [German] (1981)
  • Translation: Estrela Imperial [Portuguese] (2019)
• The Star Pit (1967) also appeared as:
  • Variant: The Star-Pit (1967)
  • Translation: Das Sternenloch [German] (1982)
  • Translation:
    La fosse aux étoiles^?La fosse aux etoiles
    [French] (1984)
  • Translation: Zvezdani ponor [Serbian] (1987) [as by Semjuel Dilejni]
• Driftglass (1967) also appeared as:
  • Translation: Opalines [French] (1968)
  • Translation: Drijfglas [Dutch] (1969)
  • Translation: La fossa di Slash [Italian] (1972)
  • Translation: Treibglas [German] (1974)
  • Translation: Treibglas [German] (1982)
  • Translation:
    ドリフトグラス^?Dorifuto Gurasu
    [Japanese] (1998) [as by
    サミュエル・Ｒ・ディレイニー^?Samyueru R. Direinī
    ]
• Aye, and Gomorrah ... (1967) also appeared as:
  • Translation: Raumfahrer [German] (1970)
  • Translation: Aye, aye und Gomorrah [German] (1970)
  • Variant: Aye, and Gomorrah (1970)
  • Translation: ... et pour toujours Gomorrhe [French] (1973)
  • Translation: Ouais, et Gomorrhe... [French] (1975)
  • Translation: Ouais, et Gomorrhe... [French] (1981) [as by Samuel Delany]
  • Translation: Jawohl, und Gomorrah [German] (1982)
  • Translation: Spaceri [Croatian] (1986)
  • Translation: Und dann war da noch Gomorrha ... [German] (1987)
  • Translation: Para sempre, e Gomorra... [Portuguese] (2011)
  • Translation:
    Da... și Gomora^?Da... si Gomora
    [Romanian] (2013)
• Corona (1967) also appeared as:
  • Translation: Corona [French] (1969)
  • Translation: Corona [German] (1982)
  • Translation:
    コロナ^?Korona
    [Japanese] (2001) [as by
    サミュエル・R・ディレイニー^?Samyueru R. Direinī
    Samyueru R. Direinii
    ]
• Nova (excerpt) (1968)
• Ruins (1968)
• Lines of Power (1968) also appeared as:
  • Variant: We, in Some Strange Power's Employ, Move on a Rigorous Line (1968)
  • Translation: Les anges aux figures sales [French] (1976)
  • Translation: Im Dienste einer fremden Macht, bewegen wir uns auf einer erbarmungslosen Bahn [German] (1982)
• Cage of Brass (1968) also appeared as:
  • Translation: Cage de cuivre [French] (1970)
  • Translation:
    Der Käfig von Messing^?Der Kaefig von Messing
    [German] (1982)
• House A-Fire (1968)
• High Weir (1968) also appeared as:
  • Translation: La Grande Barre [French] (1970)
  • Translation: Hochwehr [German] (1982)
• The Power of the Nail (1968) with Harlan Ellison also appeared as:
  • Variant: Power of the Nail (1968)
  • Translation: Du pouvoir des clous [French] (1980)
• Time Considered As a Helix of Semi-Precious Stones (1968) also appeared as:
  • Translation: Il tempo considerato come una spirale di pietre semipreziose [Italian] (1970)
  • Translation:
    Le temps considéré comme une hélice de pierres semi-précieuses^?Le temps considere comme une helice de pierres semi-precieuses
    [French] (1975)
  • Translation: Zeit, betrachtet als eine Spirale von Halbedelsteinen [German] (1975)
  • Translation: Die Zeit, als Spirale aus Halbedelsteinen betrachtet [German] (1981)
  • Translation: Tiden sedd som en spiral av halvädelstenar [Swedish] (1982)
  • Translation: Zeit, angenommen als eine Helix von Halbedelsteinen [German] (1982)
  • Translation:
    Vreme shvaćeno kao spirala poludragog kamenja^?Vreme shvacheno kao spirala poludragog kamenja
    Vreme shvaceno kao spirala poludragog kamenja
    [Serbian] (1987) [as by Semjuel Dilejni]
  • Translation: Vrijeme je spirala poludragog kamenja [Croatian] (1988)
  • Translation: Il tempo considerato come una spirale di pietre semipreziose [Italian] (1995)
  • Translation:
    Čas považovaný za spirálu z polodrahokamů^?Cas povazovany za spiralu z polodrahokamu
    Chas povazhovany za spiralu z polodrahokamu
    [Czech] (1997)
  • Translation:
    Le temps considéré comme une hélice de pierres semi-précieuses^?Le temps considere comme une helice de pierres semi-precieuses
    [French] (2008)
  • Variant: Time Considered As a Helix of Semiprecious Stones (2023)
• The Dying Castles (1970) with Michael Moorcock and James Sallis [also as by Michael Moorcock]
• The Unicorn Tapestry (1970)
• Night and the Loves of Joe Dicostanzo (1970) also appeared as:
  • Translation: Nacht und die Liebe des Joe Discostanzo [German] (1982)
• Dog in a Fisherman's Net (1971) also appeared as:
  • Translation: Hund in einem Fischernetz [German] (1982)
• They Fly at Ciron (1971) with James Sallis also appeared as:
  • Translation: Tu ne tueras point [French] (1972)
• Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand (Excerpt) (1973)
• Excerpt from Dhalgren (1974)
• Prismatica (1977)
• Empire (1978)
• Empire (excerpt) (1978) with Howard Chaykin
• Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand (excerpt) (1980)
• Seven Moons' Light Casts Complex Shadows (1980)
• Omegahelm (1981) also appeared as:
  • Translation: Omegahelm [German] (1984)
• Neveryóna (Preview) - Of Roads, Real Cities (1982)
• from Neveryóna: 1. Of Dragons, Mountains, Transhumance, Sequence, and Sunken Cities, or: The Violence of the Letter (1983)
• Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand (excerpt) (1984)
• Tapestry (1987)
• Among the Blobs (1988) also appeared as:
  • Translation: Unter Blobs [German] (1990)
• Carska zvezda [Serbian] (1990)
• Eric, Gwen, and D. H. Lawrence's Esthetic of Unrectified Feeling (1991)
• The Desert of Time (1992)
• Citre et Trans (1993)
• On the Unspeakable (1993)
• Return to Çiron (1993)
• The Mad Man (excerpt) (1994)
• Equinox (1994)
• Atlantis: Model 1924 (1995)
• From The Splendor and Misery of Bodies, of Cities (1996) also appeared as:
  • Variant: The Splendor and Misery of Bodies, of Cities (2021)
• From Phallos (2000)
• Babel 17 (excerpt) [Dutch] (2005)
• Neveryóna or: The Tale of Signs and Cities (excerpt) (2014)
• Babel-17 (excerpt) (2014)
• The Hermit of Houston (2017)
• The Atheist in the Attic (2018)
• Fire in the Sky (2018) [only as by Samuel Delany]
• A Night in the Lonesome October (2021)

• English, American (1967)
• Gregory Corso in Athens (1967)

• Books (F&SF)
  • Books (F&SF, January 1968) (1968) with Terry Carr and Joanna Russ
  
  
• Films (F&SF)
  • Films: Charly (1969)
  • Films: Barbarella (1969)
  • Films: The Illustrated Man (1969)
  
  
• Introductions for 'The Last Interview' series
  • Introduction (The Last Interview and Other Conversations) (2023)
  
  
• The Future in Books
  • The Future in Books (Amazing Stories, November 1968) (1968) with James Blish [only as by William Atheling, Jr. and Samuel R. Delany]
  
  
• The Profession of Science Fiction
  • 8 Shadows (1974) also appeared as:
    • Variant:
      Shadows — Part 1^?Shadows - Part 1
      (1974)
    • Variant:
      Shadows — Part Two^?Shadows - Part Two
      (1975)
    • Variant: When Is a Paradox Not a Paradox? (1975)

• A Fictional Architecture That Manages Only with Great Difficulty Not Once to Mention Harlan Ellison (1967) also appeared as:
  • Variant: Forward to an Afterword: A Fictional Architecture That Manages Only with Great Difficulty Not Once to Mention Harlan Ellison (1986)
• Editorial: Sketch for Two Part Invention (1967)
• Afterword (Aye, and Gomorrah...) (1967)
• Faust and Archimedes (1968) also appeared as:
  • Variant: Faust and Archimedes: Thomas H. Disch and Roger Zelazny (2011)
• 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
• Introduction (Star Well) (1968) also appeared as:
  • Translation: Einleitung (Der galaktische Dandy) [German] (1982)
• Letter (Exploding Madonna 3) (1968) [only as by Chip Delany]
• Characters (1969)
• Untitled ("Rehashing some of the things I said in my first letter to John Bangsund ...") (1969) also appeared as:
  • Variant: Samuel R. Delany Writes... (1969) [as by Chip Delany]
• Letter (Speculation 21) (1969) [only as by Samuel Delany]
• About Five Thousand One Hundred and Seventy-Five Words (1969) also appeared as:
  • Variant: About Five Thousand Seven Hundred and Fifty Words (1971)
  • Variant: About 5,750 Words (2011)
• About Five Thousand Seven Hundred and Fifty Words (1969)
• Letter (SF Commentary 7) (1969)
• Letter to Science Fiction Review, December 1969 (1969)
• Afterword (The Fall of the Towers) (1970) also appeared as:
  • Variant: Author's Afterword (The Fall of the Towers) (1970)
  • Translation:
    Nachwort (Die Türme von Toron)^?Nachwort (Die Tuerme von Toron)
    [German] (1985)
• Author's Note (City of a Thousand Suns) (1970)
• Author's Note (The Towers of Toron) (1970)
• Author's Note on the Revision of This Edition (The Fall of the Towers) (1970) also appeared as:
  • Variant: Author's Note (Out of the Dead City) (1977)
  • Translation:
    Notizen zur Überarbeitung (Die Türme von Toron)^?Notizen zur Ueberarbeitung (Die Tuerme von Toron)
    [German] (1985)
• On Pure Story-Telling (1970)
• Letter (Speculation 26) (1970)
• Critical Methods: Speculative Fiction (1970) also appeared as:
  • Variant: Critical Methods/Speculative Fiction (1977)
• Editorial (Quark/1) (1970) with Marilyn Hacker
• Quarks (1971)
• Introduction (Quark/2) (1971) with Marilyn Hacker
• Forward (Quark/3) (1971) with Marilyn Hacker
• Reading Between the Words (1971) also appeared as:
  • Variant: Teaching S-f Writing (1977)
• On Speculative Fiction (1971) with Marilyn Hacker
• Letter to a Critic: Popular Culture, High Art, and the S-F Landscape (1973) also appeared as:
  • Variant: Appendix B: Letter to a Critic: Popular Culture, High Art, and the SF Landscape, 1972 (2011)
• Popular Culture, SF Publishing & Poetry (1973)
• Thickening the Plot (1973)
• Letter (The Alien Critic #9) (1974)
• The Scorpion Garden (1975)
• Notes (Theodore Sturgeon Reads His Stories) (1976)
• Introduction (Alyx) (1976) also appeared as:
  • Variant: Alyx (1977)
  • Variant: Alyx: Joanna Russ (2011)
• Interview with Darrell Schweitzer (1976)
• Appendix A: From the Triton Journal: Work Notes and Omitted Pages (1977)
• Appendix B: Ashima Slade and the Harbin-Y Lectures: Some Informal Remarks Toward the Modular Calculus, Part Two (1977)
• Appendix: Shadows (1977)
• Introduction (The Cosmic Rape) (1977) also appeared as:
  • Variant: Sturgeon (1984)
• Preface (The Jewel-Hinged Jaw) (1977)
• Prisoners' Sleep (1977) also appeared as:
  • Variant: Prisoners' Sleep: A Reading of the Dream Scene in Camp Concentration (2011)
• To Read The Dispossessed (1977)
• Star Wars (1977)
• Introduction (The American Shore) (1978)
• Samuel R. Delany Speaks: The Word Is Not the Thing (1978)
• Afterword (Glory Road) (1979)
• Science Fiction and "Literature" — or, The Conscience of the King^?Science Fiction and "Literature" - or, The Conscience of the King
  (1979)
• Introduction (Glory Road) (1979) also appeared as:
  • Variant: Heinlein (1984)
• Foreword (A Reader's Guide to Science Fiction) (1979)
• The Winter of Love (1979)
• Introduction (Nebula Winners 13) (1980)
• Reflections on Historical Models (1980)
• Introduction (Fundamental Disch) (1980)
• The Discourse of Science Fiction (1981)
• Of Doubts and Dreams (1981)
• Introduction (Uranian Worlds) (1983)
• Appendix B: Acknowledgments (Neveryóna) (1983) also appeared as:
  • Translation: Danksagungen (Das Land Nimmerya) [German] (1984)
  • Translation: Anhang B: Danksagungen [German] (2015)
• "Who Is John Brunner ... ?" (1983)
• Acknowledgements (Starboard Wine) (1984)
• An Experimental Talk (1984)
• Dichtung und Science Fiction (1984)
• Disch (1984)
• Russ (1984)
• Some Presumptuous Approaches to Science Fiction (1984)
• Starboard Wine, an Introduction (1984)
• The Necessity of Tomorrows (1984)
• Three Letters to Science Fiction Studies: i) A Letter from New York (1984)
• Three Letters to Science Fiction Studies: ii) Another Letter from New York (1984)
• Three Letters to Science Fiction Studies: iii) A Letter from Rome (1984)
• untitled (The Faces of Science Fiction) (1984)
• Writer's Note (Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand) (1984)
• An Appreciation: Theodore Sturgeon (1985)
• In the Once Upon a Time City (1985)
• Theodore Sturgeon: In Memoriam (1985)
• Forward to an Afterword (1986)
• Memoir (Driftglass) (1986)
• Appendix: Buffon's Needle (1987) with Robert Wentworth (I) also appeared as:
  • Variant: Appendix B: Buffon's Needle (1989)
• Film (Review of Aliens) (1987)
• Film (Review of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre II) (1987)
• Othello in Brooklyn (1987)
• Return ... A Preface (1987) only appeared as:
  • Variant: Return ... (1987) [as by K. Leslie Steiner]
  • Variant: Return ... A Preface (1987) [as by K. Leslie Steiner]
  • Variant: Appendix: Return ... A Preface (1987) [as by K. Leslie Steiner]
  • Translation:
    Rückkehr ... eine Vorbemerkung^?Rueckkehr ... eine Vorbemerkung
    [German] (2012) [as by K. Leslie Steiner]
• The Gestation of Genres: Literature, Fiction, Romance, Science Fiction, Fantasy... (1987)
• Cyberpunk Forum/Symposium: Is Cyberpunk a Good Thing or a Bad Thing? (1988) also appeared as:
  • Translation: Ist Cyberpunk eine gute oder schlechte Sache? [German] (1990)
• Wagner/Artaud: A Play of 19th and 20th Century Critical Fictions (1988)
• Sentences: An Introduction (1988) also appeared as:
  • Translation:
    Sätze: Eine Einleitung^?Saetze: Eine Einleitung
    [German] (2014)
• The Peripheries of Love (1988) also appeared as:
  • Translation:
    Außenbezirke der Liebe^?Aussenbezirke der Liebe
    [German] (2014)
• Flow My Tears ...: Theater and Science Fiction (1988)
• A Note (The Bridge of Lost Desire) (1988)
• サイボーグ・フェミニズム宣言^?Saibōgu Feminizumu Sengen
  サイボーグ・フェミニズムせんげん
  Saiboogu Feminizumu Sengen
  サイボーグフェミニズムせんげん
  [Japanese] (1988) [only as by
  サミュエル・ディレイニー^?Samyueru Direinī
  Samyueru Direinii
  ]
• "The Scorpion Garden" Revisited (1989) only appeared as:
  • Variant: "The Scorpion Garden" Revisited: A Note on the Anti-Pornography of Samuel R. Delany (1989) [as by K. Leslie Steiner]
• Of Sex, Objects, Sign, Systems, Sales, SF, and Other Things (1989) [only as by K. Leslie Steiner]
• Preface (The Straits of Messina) (1989)
• Ruins/Foundations or, The Fall of the Towers Twenty Years After (1989)
• Some Remarks Toward a Reading of Dhalgren (1989) [only as by K. Leslie Steiner]
• Tales of Nevèrÿon (1989) [only as by K. Leslie Steiner]
• The Early Delany (1989)
• Trouble on Triton (1989) [only as by K. Leslie Steiner]
• Neither the Beginning Nor the End of Structuralism, Post-Structuralism, Semiotics, or Deconstruction for Science Fiction Readers: An Introduction (Part 1 of 3) (1989)
• Neither the Beginning Nor the End of Structuralism, Post-Structuralism, Semiotics, or Deconstruction for Science Fiction Readers: An Introduction (Part 2 of 3) (1989)
• Neither the Beginning Nor the End of Structuralism, Post-Structuralism, Semiotics, or Deconstruction for Science Fiction Readers: An Introduction (Part 3 of 3) (1989)
• Letter (Science Fiction Eye #5) (1989) [only as by K. Leslie Steiner]
• Response to "The New Generation Gap" (1989)
• How Not to Teach Science Fiction (1989)
• On Reading (1990)
• The Column at the Market's Edge (1990)
• Science and Literature (1990)
• Modernism, Postmodernism, Science Fiction (1990)
• The Life of/and Writing (1990)
• Afterword (Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand) (1990)
• An Antiphon (1991)
• A Review of "Possession: A Romance" by A. S. Byatt (1991)
• Zelazny / Varley / Gibson — and Quality (part 1 of 2) (1992)
• Zelazny / Varley / Gibson — and Quality (part 2 of 2) (1992)
• The Future of the Body—and Science Fiction and Technology^?The Future of the Body-and Science Fiction and Technology
  (1992)
• Skerries of the Dream: A Preface (1993)
• Afterword (Argyll) (1993)
• Note (They Fly at Çiron) (1993)
• Introduction: Reading and the Written Interview (1994)
• Introduction (Unconquered Countries: Four Novellas) (1994)
• Aversion/Perversion/Diversion (1995)
• Microflorilegium (1995)
• Foreword: Theodore Sturgeon (1995)
• Atlantis Rose...: Some Notes on Hart Crane (1996)
• Reading at Work, and Other Activities Frowned on by Authority: A Reading of Donna Haraway's "Manifesto for Cyborgs: Science, Technology, and Socialist Feminism in the 1980s" (1996)
• Shadow and Ash (1996)
• The Politics of Paraliterary Criticism (1996)
• The Politics of Paraliterary Criticism, Part II (1996)
• Preface (Longer Views) (1996)
• The Politics of Paraliterary Criticism, Part III (1996)
• Ed Emshwiller (1997)
• A Tribute to Judith Merril (1997)
• Preface (Adrift in a Vanishing City) (1998)
• Racism and Science Fiction (1998)
• Introduction (Burning Sky) (1998)
• An Exhortation to SF Scholars (2000)
• Einleitung (Lichte Augenblicke) [German] (2003)
• Joanna Russ and D. W. Griffith (2004)
• Thoughts on the Passing of Jacques Derrida (2004)
• Introduction (We Who Are About to ...) (2005)
• Emblems of Talent: An Introduction (2005)
• Octavia E. Butler (2006)
• Introduction (Masters of the Pit) (2008)
• Where I Write (2009) only appeared as:
  • Variant: Where I Write (2009) [as by Chip Delany]
  • Translation: Where I Write [French] (2009) [as by Chip Delany]
• Appendix A: Midcentury: An Essay in Contextualization (2011)
• Letter to the Symposium on "Women in Science Fiction" under the Control, for Some Deeply Suspect Reason, of One Jeff Smith (2011)
• Prefaces and Acknowledgments to the First, Second, and Revised Editions (The Jewel-Hinged Jaw) (2011)
• Samuel R. Delany on Susan Palwick (2013)
• Escaping Ethnocentricity? (2014)
• Inclusive Reviewing: A Discussion (2014) with L. Timmel Duchamp and
  Fábio Fernandes^?Fabio Fernandes
  and Andrea Hairston and Alex Dally MacFarlane and Sofia Samatar and Aishwarya Subramanian
• A, B, C, Three Early Science Fiction Novels: A Foreword (2015) also appeared as:
  • Variant: Foreword (A, B, C: Three Short Novels) (2015)
• A, B, C, Three Early Science Fiction Novels: An Afterword (2015) also appeared as:
  • Variant: Afterword (A, B, C: Three Short Novels) (2015)
• Introduction (Father of Lies) (2016)
• untitled (2016)
• Preface (Out of the Dead City) (2016)
• Introduction (We Who Are About to ...) (2018)
• In Philadelphia (2018)
• Zelazny! (2018)
• Introduction (The Primary Education of the Camiroi) (2019)
• Introduction (The World As Will and Wallpaper) (2019)
• Preface (The Tragedy of Ophelia) (2021)
• The Tragedy of Ophelia (2021)
• From The Motion of Light in Water (2022)

• I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream (1968) by Harlan Ellison
• Black Easter (1968) by James Blish
• Possession: A Romance (1991) by A. S. Byatt
• To Write Like a Woman: Essays in Feminism and Science Fiction (1995) by Joanna Russ
• The Complete Stories of Theodore Sturgeon, Volume X: The Man Who Lost the Sea (2005) by Theodore Sturgeon

• Locus Interview
  • Samuel R. Delany: The Grammar of Narrative (2010) with Samuel R. Delany

• Anthony Davis — A Conversation^?Anthony Davis - A Conversation
  (1994) with Anthony Davis
• The K. Leslie Steiner Interview (1994) with Samuel R. Delany only appeared as:
  • Variant: The K. Leslie Steiner Interview (1994) [as by K. Leslie Steiner]
  • Variant: An Interview with Samuel R. Delany (1996) [as by K. Leslie Steiner]
• Para•doxa Interview with James Morrow: Blinded by the Enlightenment (1999) with James Morrow
• Samuel R. Delany Interviews Charles N. Brown (2010) with Charles N. Brown

• An Interview with Samuel Delany (1975) by Malcolm Edwards
• Algol Interview: Samuel R. Delany (1976) by Darrell Schweitzer
• Samuel R. Delany (1980) by Charles Platt
• Chip Shot (1983) by Robert Morales
• Rencontre avec Samuel R. Delany [French] (1983) by Gilles Bergal
• Science Fiction and Criticism: The Diacritics Interview (1986) by
  巽孝之^?たつみたかゆき
  Tatsumi Takayuki
• An Interview with Samuel R. Delany (1987) by Kenneth James (1932-)
• The Semiology of Silence: The Science Fiction Studies Interview (1987) by Sinda Gregory and Larry McCaffery
• L'urbanisme fantastique de Samuel Delany [French] (1987) by Pascal J. Thomas
• Some Real Mothers: An Interview with Samuel R. Delany (1988) by
  巽孝之^?たつみたかゆき
  Tatsumi Takayuki
• Sex, Race, and Science Fiction: The Callaloo Interview (1990) by Robert F. Reid-Pharr
• An Interview with Samuel R. Delany (1990) by Larry McCaffery
• The Column at the Market's Edge (1990) by Constance Penley and Sharon Willis
• Samuel R. Delany: Teaching to Learn (1991) by uncredited
• Samuel R. Delany (1993) by Mark Dery
• The K. Leslie Steiner Interview (1994) by Samuel R. Delany
• Toto, We're Back! The Cottonwood Review Interview (1994) by Lloyd Hemingway and Johan Heye
• Refractions of *Empire*: The Comics Journal Interview [1] (1994) by Dennis O'Neil
• Refractions of *Empire*: The Comics Journal Interview [2] (1994) by Gary Groth
• The Susan Grossman Interview (1994) by Susan Grossman
• Para•doxa Interview with Samuel R. Delany (1995) by Victor Reinking
• Samuel R. Delany: Teaching and Writing (1995) by uncredited
• A Perfectly Mysterious Process (1995) by Paul Kincaid
• Octavia Butler and Samuel R. Delany / MIT Cultural Studies Project (1998) by uncredited (co-interviewed with Octavia E. Butler)
• An Interview with Samuel R. Delany (2004) by Adam Roberts
• Samuel R. Delany (2005) by Jayme Lynn Blaschke
• Conversations with Samuel R. Delany (2009) by Carl Freedman
• Samuel R. Delany: The Grammar of Narrative (2010) by Samuel R. Delany
• StarShipSofa Interrogations: Samuel R. Delany (2010) by Tony C. Smith
• An Interview with Samuel R. Delany (2011) by Roz Kaveney
• An Interview with Samuel R. Delany (2016) by Brian Evenson
• "Discourse in an Older Sense" (2018) by Terry Bisson
• Samuel R. Delany (2022) by Nicole Rudick
• Galaxy Brain (2023) by Julian Lucas
• Interview with Samuel R. Delany (2024) by James Machell

• The Tides of Lust (1973) also appeared as:
  • Variant: The Tides of Lust (1980) [as by Samuel Delany]
  • Translation: Vice versa [French] (1980)
  • Variant: Equinox (1994)
• The Mad Man (1994)
• Hogg (1995)
• Dark Reflections (2007) also appeared as:
  • Translation: Dunkle Reflexionen [German] (2013)
• Voyage, Orestes! [A Surviving Novel Fragment] (2019)
• Shoat Rumblin: His Sensations and Ideas (2020)
• Big Joe (2021) [graphic format]

• Hogg (excerpt) (1999) [only as by Samuel Delany]
• Bread & Wine: An Erotic Tale of New York (1999)