Order of Samuel R. Delany Books

Samuel R. Delany is an American author of science fiction and fantasy, erotic lit, and non-fiction books. Samuel grew up in Harlem, the son of a New York Public Library clerk and the owner of a funeral home. He was the nephew of civil rights pioneers Sadie and Bessie Delany. Delany has won the Hugo Award twice and the Nebula Award four times, among many other accolades. He became a professor in 1988, and has never stopped teaching at many different colleges.

Samuel R. Delany made his debut as a novelist in 1962 with the novel The Jewels of Aptor. Below is a list of Samuel R. Delany’s books in order of when they were first released:

Publication Order of Fall Of The Towers Books

Captives of the Flame	(1963)
The Towers of Toron	(1964)
The City of a Thousand Suns	(1965)

Publication Order of Neveryon Books

Tales of Neveryon	(1975)
Flight from Neveryon	(1978)
Neveryona	(1983)
The Bridge of Lost Desire	(1987)

Publication Order of Standalone Novels

The Ballad of Beta-2	(1965)
Babel-17	(1966)
The Einstein Intersection	(1967)
Nova	(1968)
The Tides of Lust	(1973)
Dhalgren	(1974)
Triton	(1976)
Empire	(1978)
Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand	(1985)
They Fly at Ciron	(1993)
The Mad Man	(1994)
Hogg	(1995)
Dark Reflections	(2007)
Through the Valley of the Nest of Spiders	(2011)

Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas

The Jewels of Aptor	(1962)
Empire Star	(1966)
We, in Some Strange Power's Employ, Move on a Rigorous Line	(1990)
Bread and Wine	(1999)
Phallos	(2004)

Publication Order of Short Story Collections

Aye, and Gomorrah	(1967)
Driftglass	(1971)
Distant Stars	(1981)
The Complete Nebula Award-Winning Fiction	(1986)
Driftglass / Starshards	(1993)
Atlantis	(1995)
The Mad Man: Or, The Mysteries of Manhattan	(2015)

Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books

The Jewel-Hinged Jaw	(1977)
The American Shore	(1978)
Heavenly Breakfast	(1979)
Times Square Red, Times Square Blue	(1983)
Starboard Wine	(1984)
The Straits of Messina	(1986)
The Motion of Light in Water	(1988)
Wagner/Artaud	(1988)
Silent Interviews	(1994)
Longer Views	(1996)
1984	(2000)
Shorter Views	(2000)
Black Gay Man	(2001)
About Writing	(2006)
The Atheist in the Attic	(2018)

Notes: Captives of the Flame is also known as Out of the Dead City. The Bridge of Lost Desire was re-published as Return to Neveryon. The Tides of Lust was also titled Equinox. Triton was also published as Trouble on Triton. Black Gay Man was written with Robert Reid-Pharr.

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