In my utopian and SF studies, one thing I keep banging my head against is everyone declaring loudly that Delany’s *Triton* is a utopia, A) without addressing that he called it a “heterotropia” in direct response to Le Guin’s *Dispossessed* that did use the word “utopia,” and, more importantly, B) without ever citing Foucault, where Delany got the word “heterotopia” from in the first place, which Delany declares directly.

Again and again and again.

#PhD #CompExams #Utopia #SciFi #Delany

Der sehr gute Hannes Riffel (ehemals Fischer TOR) hat mit #Carcosa im Herbst einen neuen Verlag am Start und bringt dort: #Delany, #Russ, #Wolfe, Becky #Chambers und Moores #Jerusalem. Nicht schlecht.

Neil Gaiman is adapting Samuel Delany's Nova to a TV series apparently?

This is one of the very few American SF novels that has a major character who's Romani (Pontichos Provechi, the Mouse), so I really hope they will in fact hire a Romani actor to play him....

#TV #Nova #Delany #Prime #Series #Romani #Roma #ScienceFiction #SFF #NeilGaiman

An excellent profile of author Samuel R. Delany by Julian Lucas for #TheNewYorker

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/07/10/samuel-r-delany-profile

#author #delany #scifi

Ein Porträt von #Delany im #newyorker #scifi #writing https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/07/10/samuel-r-delany-profile?fbclid=IwAR3VD1xsy2jZ1MpznP2nsNDMsnY2_dG_-cBqdV3ctWUsLpWsms4uTTTYskk

Some of the book artwork of Samuel R. #Delany's 70s/80s stuff is just... well, you just have to see it.

Some of these pictures have stuck with me for years.

(From _Tales of Nevèrÿona_.)

By the thirty-second century, the novel has been superseded by an art form called the psychorama (from Samuel R. #Delany’s Nova.) #ScienceFiction #SciFi #History

“What is important in good SF, and what makes SF that lasts, is how it talks to us of our present.” — @neilhimself #Delany #ScienceFiction #SciFi #History

Mouse, the protagonist in Samuel R. #Delany’s Nova, plays the syrynx, a multi-sensory instrument that projects sensation to the audience. #ScienceFiction #SciFi #History

#Delany #NestofSpiders hatte schon mal mein Unbehagen hinsichtlich "Inzest/Consent" beschrieben. Anderer Aspekt: #sf. Der Protagonist ist Jg. '88. Ort ist aber ein southern backwater und enge Paargeschichte. Historie d. 21. Jhdt. dringt kaum ein.
Inflation, Implantate, Terrorismus, Seuche, "wonder decade", Mondbesiedlung, aber es fühlt sich an wie heute. Funktioniert: im Persönlichen ändert sich "eigentlich nichts", außer dass man für den Dollar früher noch was gekriegt hat. Altern in sf.

Reading #Dahlgren by Samuel #Delany. More than 800 pages. Major mind-fuck. Third time through. Imagine a #DavidLynch film, but in book form.

#raindropsreads #triton #delany