Samuel R. Delany on structure, part one
I’ve been slowly working my way through Samuel R. Delany’s About Writing: Seven Essays, Four Letters and Five Interviews. I’m enjoying it very much. It’s challenging, idiosyncratic, precise, erudite,...
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In part one, I wrote about Samuel R. Delany’s comments about structure in About Writing: Seven Essays, Four Letters and Five Interviews in relation to the units of structure: sentences, scenes,...
View ArticleSamuel R. Delany on science fiction as atonal music
I’m about halfway through Samuel R. Delany’s the Jewel-Hinged Jaw and am not only enjoying it, but also struck by how little seems to have changed in the field. Oh, some of the concerns and details are...
View ArticleSamuel Delany on science fiction and effective social histories
I have things to say about some of the fiction I have been reading, but before I get to that (hopefully next week), I have yet another passage from Samuel R. Delany’s the Jewel-Hinged Jaw to share. As...
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