Distant Stars - Hardcover

Delany, Samuel R.; Delaney, Stephen R.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1596874880 ISBN 13: 9781596874886

Verlag: iBooks, 2011

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"Delany has a grasp of the evolutionary nature of mythology, a subtle comic touch, and a lyric sense of the outsider making his unorthodox way in the world--or worlds--that give his work a dimension unusual..."

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Samuel R. Delany (born 1942) is one of the most influential and formally innovative voices in modern science fiction. Emerging during the New Wave movement of the 1960s, Delany expanded the thematic and stylistic boundaries of the genre, combining speculative imagination with linguistic experimentation, social inquiry, and philosophical depth.His novels and short fiction frequently explore language, identity, technology, and the structures of power within imagined societies. Works such as Babel-17 and Nova helped redefine what science fiction could attempt formally and intellectually, while later novels continued to challenge conventional narrative expectations. Delany's career has been recognised with multiple Hugo and Nebula Awards, affirming his place among the central figures of late twentieth-century speculative literature.Blending rigorous conceptual design with literary ambition, Delany remains a key architect of contemporary science fiction's expansion beyond pulp adventure into complex cultural and theoretical terrain.

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• Verlag: iBooks
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2011
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1596874880
• ISBN 13: 9781596874886
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 354
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