Samuel R. Delany

Science fiction master Samuel R. Delany has long been at the forefront of radical sex in literature, pushing boundaries with what he calls his “gay smut” novels (The Tides of Lust, Hogg) and the outsider history of his memoir, Times Square Red, Times Square Blue. But, oh, his science fiction and fantasy—the sword-and-sorcery of Neveryon, the interstellar linguistics of Babel-17, the space opera of Nova, the reality-bending mythic wonderland of Dhalgren, and four decades of endlessly studied short stories all speak for themselves. If you fail to pick up our paper on its publication date of Wednesday, April 3, and see that the legend has a reading at The Regulator that night, maybe you can still catch him the next night, when he will be in coversation about sexual futures in the annual Queer Theory Lecture at Duke.