A collection of classic fiction, a short novel, and a fascinating essay, with over sixty pages of illustrations. Includes: Omegahelm-On a lonely planet, the dictator of half a universe reveals her dark secret. Set in the universe of Delany's novel Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand; Empire Star-The adventures of Comet Jo as he travels through time and space with his cybernetic companion Lump; Prismatica-An enchanting fantasy about a prince, a grey man and his black trunk, and a beautiful lady from a rainbow world; plus the Nebula and Hugo Award-winning novella Time Considered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Stones, and more.
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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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Important voice in sf,
By Ron Henry (Ithaca NY) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Distant Stars (Hardcover)
DISTANT STARS is a curious re-collection of Delany short stories. It's perhaps notable most for including the story "Omegahelm", which is unavailable elsewhere but interesting in that it is uses the same narrative setting as Delany's well-known novel STARS IN MY POCKET LIKE GRAINS OF SAND. Most of Delany's best-known and award-winning stories are here, alongside several previously-uncollected lesser efforts. The volume also includes some ambitious, if not always entirely successful, illustrations to accompany the tales. In any case, probably a must for Delany devotees, and it's a shame the collection is out of print.
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By Blue Tyson "- Research Finished" (Legion clubhouse) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Distant Stars (Paperback)
An Ibooks reprint of an earlier collection. having never seen the earlier one, not sure if it was illustrated the same way, but there is a lot of drawing in here, and even one page montages throughout showing several of the illustrations in one circle.
Empire Star here it would seem was actually published as a book quite a long time ago when people still published very short books. A combination of science fiction and fantasy here. Distant Stars : Prismatica - Samuel R. Delany Distant Stars : Corona - Samuel R. Delany Distant Stars : Empire Star - Samuel R. Delany Distant Stars : Time Considered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Stones - Samuel R. Delany Distant Stars : Omegahelm - Samuel R. Delany Distant Stars : Ruins - Samuel R. Delany Distant Stars : We in Some Strange Power's Employ Move on a Rigorous Line [Lines of Power] - Samuel R. Delany A bit of colour about the joint would be good. 3 out of 5 Telepaths can use a good band. 3.5 out of 5 Time to teach ourselves. 3.5 out of 5 Singing shiny password. 4 out of 5 Power symbols. 3.5 out of 5 Ordinary thief problem. 2.5 out of 5 Devil and demon energy overcomes angels. 4 out of 5
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