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:
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Publication Order of The Fall of the Towers Books
| Captives of the Flame / Out of the Dead City | (1963) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Towers of Toron | (1964) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| City of a Thousand Suns | (1965) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Return to Nevèrÿon Books
| Tales of Nevèrÿon | (1979) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Neveryóna | (1983) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Flight from Nevèrÿon | (1985) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Bridge of Lost Desire / Return to Neveryon | (1987) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
| The Ballad of Beta-2 | (1965) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Babel-17 | (1966) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Einstein Intersection | (1967) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Nova | (1968) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Tides of Lust | (1973) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Dhalgren | (1975) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Tritón / Trouble on Triton | (1976) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Empire | (1978) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand | (1984) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| They Fly At Çiron | (1993) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Hogg | (1994) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Mad Man | (1994) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Dark Reflections | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Through the Valley of the Nest of Spiders | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Voyage, Orestes! | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Shoat Rumblin: His Sensations and Ideas | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas
| The Jewels of Aptor | (1962) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Empire Star | (1966) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Home Is the Hangman/We, in Some Strange Power's Employ, Move on a Rigorous Line | (1990) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Bread and Wine | (1999) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Phallos | (2004) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Collections
| Aye, and Gomorrah | (1967) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Driftglass | (1971) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Distant Stars | (1981) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Complete Nebula Award-Winning Fiction | (1986) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Driftglass/Starshards | (1991) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Atlantis | (1995) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Sensitive Skin #9: post-beat, pre-apocalyptic art, writing and music | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| A, B, C | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Novels of Samuel R. Delany Volume One | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Occasional Views, Volume 1 | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Occasional Views, Volume 2 | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Roots of Imagination: A Chrestomathy | (2023) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books
Publication Order of Quark Books
| Quark/3 | (1971) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Outspoken Authors Books
Publication Order of PM's Outspoken Authors Books
Publication Order of Anthologies
| Shores Beneath | (0) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Dangerous Visions | (1967) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Dangerous Visions 3 | (1967) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Quark 1 | (1970) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Quark 4 | (1971) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Those Who Can: A Science Fiction Reader | (1973) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Alpha 5 | (1974) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Wondermakers 2 | (1974) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Cosmos Science Fiction and Fantasy, November 1977 | (1977) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Nebula Awards 13 | (1980) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| What If? Volume 3 | (1982) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Worlds Apart | (1986) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| diacritics: a review of contemporary criticism | (1986) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Mississippi Review 47 / 48 | (1988) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Storming the Reality Studio | (1991) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Fiction International 22 | (1992) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Avant-Pop: Fiction for a Daydream Nation | (1993) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Mammoth Book of Erotica | (1994) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Swords of the Rainbow | (1996) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Shade | (1996) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Boys Like Us: Gay Writers Tell Their Coming Out Stories | (1997) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora | (2000) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Ultimate Cyberpunk | (2002) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Supermen | (2002) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Reading the Bones | (2004) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| 110 Stories | (2004) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Space Opera Renaissance | (2006) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The WisCon Chronicles, Volume 1 | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Fiction's Present | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Ecce Kosti Addenda | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Shadows Took Shape | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Sixth Science Fiction Megapack | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Telling Tales: The Clarion West 30th Anniversary Anthology | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Cross Worlds: Transcultural Poetics: An Anthology | (2014) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Mermaids and Other Mysteries of the Deep | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Everyone: Worlds Without Walls | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2018 | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Unquiet Dreamer: A Tribute to Harlan Ellison | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Theater of Terror: Revenge of the Queers! | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Out of the Ruins: The Apocalyptic Anthology | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Queer Ideas: The David R. Kessler Lectures from 1992–2001 | (2023) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
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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What is the name of the sequel(s) to, Stars in my pocket like grains of sand.
It was going to be titled “The Splendor and Misery of Bodies, of Cities” however it was never released nor finished. Samuel has said he expects he will never finish it.