Samuel R. Delany
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Oct 26, 2026
NanceHOST
I'm sure you probably read it.
NanceHOST
Dahlgren by Samuel R. Delaney.
Damien WalterGUEST
Another of the...
Damien WalterGUEST
I've tried many times to, to read Dahlgren.
Treavor BettisHOST
genius or you're gonna need a bigger story
Erin M. EvansHOST
i think it's war of art is the one i'm thinking of he does like those too yeah those are more structure right um And stuff that's, like, one of my favorites is About Writing by Samuel Delaney.
Erin M. EvansHOST
And specifically, like, that is a series of, like, essays and then, like, letters he wrote.
Erin M. EvansHOST
Man, there's one other thing, because it's got a name that's, like, seven essays, three letters or something.
QuinnHOST
Other New Wave authors include Frank Herbert, who wrote Dune, Ursula K.
QuinnHOST
Le Guin, who wrote The Left Hand of Darkness, J.G. Ballard, Samuel R. Delaney, Harlan Ellison, who wrote I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream, New Wave stories, including hers, often included details that dealt with gender and sexuality and alienation, violence, essentially the darker side of human behavior as well.
QuinnHOST
and she went on to win multiple Hugo Awards and Nebula Awards.
QuinnHOST
For years, almost nobody knew who she actually was, and Sheldon even became closed through correspondence with writers like Ursula K.
QuinnHOST
It's from the New Wave that we get books like Dune, books like The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K.
QuinnHOST
Le Guin, The Man in the High Castle, Nova by Samuel R. Delaney.
QuinnHOST
Philip K. Dick's short story, Faith of Our Fathers, follows a man named Tong Chin who works for the government in the city of Hanoi.
QuinnHOST
He works specifically for the Ministry of Cultural Artifacts.
David NaimonHOST
I mean, I think this goes back to her limitations and her relationship to her limitations.
David NaimonHOST
Because, for instance, back in the 70s, she was part of a feminism and science fiction conference with Samuel Delaney and Joanna Russ and Vonda McIntyre.
David NaimonHOST
And several of them really took her to task on her own relationship to feminism at the time.
David NaimonHOST
And 20 years later, she agrees with a lot of what she's being critiqued on.
Caroline KayeHOST
And the tower becomes a kind of library or a universe Instead of too few languages, there are effectively all possible combinations of language and Babel then becomes a problem of infinite knowledge, meaning and interpretation.
Caroline KayeHOST
The science fiction novel Babel 17 by Samuel R. Delany and the themes Babel and language and communication, language becomes a weapon, A mysterious language changes cognition and perception in the story.
Caroline KayeHOST
Babel is no longer simply about languages separating people.
Caroline KayeHOST
It asks whether language can actually control thought.
Scott EdelmanHOST
So when you were doing those early stories, did you find that you were under the influence too much of other writers? I mean, 'cause I found that when I was writing, I was...
Scott EdelmanHOST
It took a long time before I found a voice of my own and I was being, oh, I was being Roger Zelazny or Harlan Ellison or something, or Chip Delany or whatever.
Scott EdelmanHOST
And so did you find that that was something that you had to fight at the beginning-
Martha WellsGUEST
Yeah
Mike ReisnerGUEST
Okay.
Mike ReisnerGUEST
So, uh, very cool sci-fi author, Samuel R. Delany, one of my favorites.
NicoleHOST
Mm-hmm, mm-hmm.
Mike ReisnerGUEST
Won multiple Nebula, Hugo, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, every award you can imagine.
Brandon OgbunuGUEST
And now that it's a select on the former, I think those are the people that make all the decisions, kind of like they, right? It's that, that kind of behavior is encouraged.
Brandon OgbunuGUEST
I think for me, from very early, it was like I love learning, I love publishing a manuscript.
Brandon OgbunuGUEST
I love all the standard things you're supposed to love about the job.
Adam BeckerHOST
Yeah.
Brandon OgbunuGUEST
Right? Again, administratively, I'll defend the way we've structured things.
Brandon OgbunuGUEST
And I think when you think that way, you can walk that towards to thinking into everything we do, everything we do with the sciences.
Brandon OgbunuGUEST
How a committee is constructed, why we give seminars the way we do, the construction of the manuscript.
Brandon OgbunuGUEST
Like-
Dave McArthurHOST
There's a femme fatale that he gets involved with.
Dave McArthurHOST
They go on this jet-setting adventure all around the world, and then eventually up into space, that leads to uncovering the fact that the movers and shakers of the plot are AI, multiple different AI, bad guys who are the authorities who are supposed to control the AI, and then other bad guys that are the Yakuza, and then other bad guys that are corporations.
Dave McArthurHOST
So it's basically lots of shadowy figures and organizations, all represented by a wasp hive that he destroys with fire.
Clint LanierHOST
Okay.
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