Webs within webs, circles within circles, [Delany s] imagination creates a mirror of the oceanic density of our times, and leaves you asking for more. "The Village Voice
" A grand job these tales of Samuel Delany s have a fine, rich strangeness . Beautifully intricate and gloriously mystifying, all this intricate tapestry of advanced science and decayed society the author has portrayed marvelously well. --P. Schuyler Miller, " Analog Magazine"
A writer of consistently high ambition and achievement Delany s fiction demands and rewards the kind of close reading that one ungrudgingly brings to the serious novelists .Sentence, phrase by phrase, [he] invites the reader to collaborate in the process of creation. The reader who accepts this invitation has an extraordinarily satisfying experience in store for him/her. --Gerald Jonas, " The New York Times Book Review"
Delany has a fearsomely stocked intellect, and a wider range of experience than most writers can even imagine . He is brilliant, driven, prolific. --"The Nation""
"Webs within webs, circles within circles, [Delany's] imagination...creates a mirror of the oceanic density of our times, and leaves you asking for more."--
The Village Voice "A grand job...these tales of Samuel Delany's have a fine, rich strangeness.... Beautifully intricate and gloriously mystifying, all this intricate tapestry of advanced science and decayed society the author has portrayed marvelously well." --P. Schuyler Miller,
Analog Magazine "A writer of consistently high ambition and achievement...Delany's fiction demands--and rewards--the kind of close reading that one ungrudgingly brings to the serious novelists....Sentence, phrase by phrase, [he] invites the reader to collaborate in the process of creation. The reader who accepts this invitation has an extraordinarily satisfying experience in store for him/her." --Gerald Jonas,
The New York Times Book Review "Delany has a fearsomely stocked intellect, and a wider range of experience than most writers can even imagine.... He is brilliant, driven, prolific." --
The Nation