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 The Fall of the Towers Books
| Captives of the Flame / Out of the Dead City | (1963) |    |
| The Towers of Toron | (1964) | |
| City of a Thousand Suns | (1965) | |
Publication Order of Return to Nevèrÿon Books
| Tales of Nevèrÿon | (1979) | |
| Neveryóna | (1983) | |
| Flight from Nevèrÿon | (1985) | |
| The Bridge of Lost Desire / Return to Neveryon | (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 | (1975) | |
| Tritón aka Trouble on Triton | (1976) | |
| Empire | (1978) | |
| Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand | (1984) | |
| They Fly At Çiron | (1993) | |
| Hogg | (1994) | |
| The Mad Man | (1994) | |
| Dark Reflections | (2007) | |
| Through the Valley of the Nest of Spiders | (2011) | |
| Voyage, Orestes! | (2019) | |
Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas
| The Jewels of Aptor | (1962) | |
| Empire Star | (1966) | |
| Home Is the Hangman/We, in Some Strange Power's Employ, Move on a Rigorous Line | (1990) | |
| Bread and Wine | (1999) | |
| Phallos | (2004) | |
Publication Order of Collections
| Aye, and Gomorrah | (1967) | |
| Driftglass | (1971) | |
| Distant Stars | (1981) | |
| The Complete Nebula Award-Winning Fiction | (1986) | |
| Driftglass/Starshards | (1991) | |
| Atlantis | (1995) | |
| A, B, C | (2015) | |
| The Novels of Samuel R. Delany Volume One | (2017) | |
Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books
| The Jewel-Hinged Jaw | (1977) | |
| The American Shore | (1978) | |
| Heavenly Breakfast | (1979) | |
| Starboard Wine | (1984) | |
| The Motion of Light in Water | (1988) | |
| Wagner Artaud | (1988) | |
| The Straits of Messina | (1989) | |
| Silent Interviews | (1994) | |
| Longer Views | (1996) | |
| Times Square Red, Times Square Blue | (1999) | |
| 1984 | (2000) | |
| Shorter Views | (2000) | |
| Black Gay Man | (2001) | |
| About Writing | (2006) | |
| Conversations with Samuel R. Delany | (2009) | |
| The Atheist in the Attic | (2018) | |
| Letters from Amherst | (2019) | |
Publication Order of Quark Books
| Quark/3 | (1971) | |
Publication Order of The WisCon Chronicles Books
| The WisCon Chronicles, Volume 1 | (2007) | |
| The WisCon Chronicles, Vol. 2: Provocative essays on feminism, race, revolution, and the future | (2008) | |
| The Wiscon Chronicles, Vol.3: Carnival of Feminist SF | (2009) | |
| The WisCon Chronicles, Volume 4 | (2010) | |
| The Wiscon Chronicles Volume 5 | (2011) | |
| The WisCon Chronicles Vol. 6: Futures of Feminism and Fandom | (2012) | |
| The Wiscon Chronicles Vol 7: Shattering Ableist Narratives | (2013) | |
| The WisCon Chronicles Vol. 8: Re-Generating WisCon | (2014) | |
| The WisCon Chronicles, Vol.9 | (2015) | |
| Trials by Whiteness | (2017) | |
Publication Order of Anthologies
| Dangerous Visions | (1967) | |
| Quark 1 | (1970) | |
| Quark/ 4 | (1971) | |
| Those Who Can: A Science Fiction Reader | (1973) | |
| Wondermakers 2 | (1974) | |
| Nebula Awards 13 | (1980) | |
| Storming the Reality Studio: A Casebook of Cyberpunk & Postmodern Science Fiction | (1991) | |
| Avant-Pop: Fiction for a Daydream Nation | (1993) | |
| Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora | (2000) | |
| The Ultimate Cyberpunk | (2002) | |
| Dark Matter: Reading the Bones | (2004) | |
| 110 Stories | (2004) | |
| The Space Opera Renaissance | (2006) | |
| The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction | (2010) | |
| Telling Tales: The Clarion West 30th Anniversary Anthology | (2013) | |
| Mermaids and Other Mysteries of the Deep | (2015) | |
| The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction September/October 2017 | (2017) | |
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.
If You Like Samuel R. Delany Books, You’ll Love…
Samuel R. Delany Synopsis: In The Mad Man by Samuel R. Delany, for his thesis, graduate student John Marr researches the life and work of the brilliant Timothy Hasler – a philosopher whose career was cut tragically short over a decade earlier. Marr encounters numerous obstacles as other researchers turn up evidence of Hasler’s personal life that is deemed simply too unpleasant and disillusioning for the rarefied air of academe. On another front, Marr finds himself increasingly drawn toward more shocking, depraved sexual entanglements with the homeless men of his neighborhood, until it begins to seem that Hasler’s death might hold some key to his own life as a gay man in the age of AIDS. As John Marr learns more about the enigma that was Timothy Hasler, his own increasing sexual debasement leads him to a point where his and the philosopher’s lives collide violently…
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.