There is no novel more central to my experience of science fiction or of writing. Nowadays I frequently teach “Aye, and Gomorrah…”, and use Dhalgren as well for teaching purposes. With that formidable white beard of his, he should also be named Zeus of the Grand Masters’ Pantheon! I should add that he can also deconstruct most completely your story while being warm, witty, and encouraging. He reads beautifully, and he’s charming and funny. That was one of the top ten occasions of my life. He awes me with his virtuosity and courage in writing.Īs a sidenote, I got to read with him in New York a few years back. Moments in his writing blow me away, make me stop and marvel how he’s constructed them. I consider his Neveryon books important to fantasy–perhaps even paving the way for the “grittier” generations to come, but they’re something to be sampled separately from the SF.ĭelany is amazing. His book About Writing has been tremendously useful to me and when stuck I sometimes do what he calls “writing to discover,” focusing on transcribing the moment in the story and letting the act of transcribing tell me what comes next.Īs far as gateway-I love Nova, Babel-17, and The Fall of the Towers. My father brought it back from an airport PB rack and I must have read it five or six times in my teens. Delany, edited by Carl Freedman, and it was the most delightful reading I had in a while.ĭelany’s The Fall of the Towers was the first adult SF I ever read. My gateway drug to Delany was Aye, and Gomorrah in my late twenties, and then Babel-17. Speaking of non-fiction, I’d strongly recommend About Writing, but recently I read Conversations with Samuel R. He inspired me to write in a non-linear way (but never forgetting to tell a story, or stories) and to write in different POVs, genderwise. So I thought, if I’m going to melt my students’ brains into goo, I might as well melt them with the best!ĭelany has been a great influencer of my worldview and of my work since I started, writing in Portuguese in the late eighties, and now more than ever (I had the supreme honor and pleasure of having him as my instructor last July at Clarion West in Seattle, for crying out loud–it doesn’t get much better than this). My students were all twelve, which most people would say is too young for Delany… but it was part of Duke’s TIP program for gifted students, and we were told to design our syllabi like entry-level college courses, crammed into three weeks. I did, however, use About Writing and The Jewel-Hinged Jaw as textbooks for a course I taught this past summer, on speculative fiction creative writing. I’m embarrassed to admit that I haven’t read much of his fiction-some of the Neveryon stuff, and a few short stories, but little else so far. How has Delany influenced your own work or views on writing and literature? For readers who haven’t read much by Delany, is there such a thing as a Delany “gateway” story, novel or essay?Īs someone who got to support Steven Gould in his choice of Delany, I’d like to start off by saying, “Yay!” Delany has influenced science-fiction and fantasy, and literature in general, in different ways-as fiction writer, critic, theorist, memoirist, editor, teacher.
Delany was named Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master by SFWA.
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