By Samuel R. Delany
In Shorter perspectives, Hugo and Nebula award-winning writer Samuel R. Delany brings his outstanding highbrow powers to undergo on a variety of subject matters. even if he's exploring the deeply felt problems with identification, race, and sexuality, untangling the intricacies of literary conception, or the writing strategy itself, Delany is likely one of the such a lot lucid and insightful writers of our time. those essays cluster round themes on the topic of queer conception at the one hand, and at the different, questions in regards to the paraliterary genres: technological know-how fiction, pornography, comics, and extra. Readers new to Delany's paintings will locate this selection of shorter items an extremely solid advent, whereas these already acquainted with his writing will relish having those essays among covers for the 1st time.
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