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Samuel R. Delany Books in Order
Samuel R. Delany is an award-winning American science fiction author known for his groundbreaking works. Born to a prominent black family in Harlem on April 1, 1942, Delany draws inspiration from his childhood in the vibrant urban landscape. His mother, Margaret Carey Boyd Delany, was a dedicated library clerk, and his father, Samuel Ray Delany, Senior, ran a respected funeral home in Harlem. Delany's aunts, Sadie and Bessie, were also influential figures, and their adventures are woven into his stories, such as the novella "Atlantis: Model 1924" in "Atlantis: Three Tales." Delany attended the Dalton School and the Bronx High School of Science, where he was selected for the prestigious Camp Rising Sun program. A published author at 20, Delany quickly established himself with nine critically acclaimed science fiction novels between 1962 and 1968, as well as numerous prize-winning short stories.
Bibliography verified: April 2026
Quick Answer
What are all of Samuel R. Delany's book series? Samuel R. Delany has written 7 book series. The most notable is the Non-Fiction series.
Complete series list with all books in reading order below.
Book Series by Samuel R. Delany
- #1
The Jewel-Hinged Jaw(1977) - #2
The American Shore(1978) - #3
Heavenly Breakfast(1979) - #4Starboard Wine(1984)
- #5
The Motion of Light in Water(1988) - #6
Wagner Artaud(1988) - #7
The Straits of Messina(1989) - #8
Silent Interviews(1994) - #9
Longer Views(1996) - #10
Times Square Red, Times Square Blue(1999) - #11Shorter Views(2000)
- #12
Black Gay Man(2001) - #13About Writing(2006)
- #14Conversations with Samuel R. Delany(2009)
- #15
The Atheist in the Attic (With: Eleanor Arnason)(2018) - #16
Letters from Amherst(2019) - #17
Frederick Weston & Samuel R. Delany in Conversation (With: Frederick Weston)(2021) - #18
Occasional Views, Volume 1(2021) - #19
Of Solids and Surds(2021) - #20
Occasional Views, Volume 2(2021) - #21
The Tragedy of Ophelia: Two Essays(2021)
- #1
The Human Front (By: Ken MacLeod)(2001) - #2
The Left Left Behind (By: Terry Bisson,Eleanor Arnason)(2009) - #3
Lucky Strike (By: Kim Stanley Robinson)(2009) - #4
The Underbelly (By: Gary Phillips,Eleanor Arnason)(2010) - #5
Mammoths of the Great Plains (By: Eleanor Arnason)(2010) - #6
The Wild Girls (By: Ursula K. Le Guin,Eleanor Arnason)(2011) - #7
Modem Times 2.0 (By: Michael Moorcock,Eleanor Arnason)(2011) - #8
The Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow (By: Cory Doctorow,Eleanor Arnason)(2011) - #9
Report from Planet Midnight (By: Nalo Hopkinson,Eleanor Arnason)(2012) - #10
The Science of Herself (By: Karen Joy Fowler,Eleanor Arnason)(2013) - #11
Patty Hearst & The Twinkie Murders: A Tale of Two Trials (By: Eleanor Arnason,Paul Krassner)(2013) - #12
New Taboos (By: John Shirley)(2013) - #13
Raising Hell (By: Norman Spinrad,Eleanor Arnason)(2014) - #14
My Life, My Body (By: Marge Piercy)(2015) - #15
Gypsy (By: Carter Scholz,Eleanor Arnason)(2015) - #16
Miracles Ain't What They Used to Be (By: Joe R. Lansdale,Eleanor Arnason)(2016) - #17
Fire. (By: Elizabeth Hand,Eleanor Arnason)(2017) - #18
Totalitopia (By: John Crowley)(2017) - #19The Atheist in the Attic (With: Eleanor Arnason)(2018)
- #20
Thoreau's Microscope (By: Michael Blumlein,Eleanor Arnason)(2018) - #21
The Beatrix Gates (By: Rachel Pollack)(2019) - #22
A City Made of Words (By: Paul Park)(2019) - #23
Big Girl (By: Meg Elison)(2020) - #24
Not What I Intended (By: Nancy Kress)(2025)
- #1
The Presidential Papers (By: John H. Kessel)(1984) - #2The Human Front (By: Ken MacLeod)(2001)
- #3The Underbelly (By: Gary Phillips,Eleanor Arnason)(2010)
- #4Mammoths of the Great Plains (By: Eleanor Arnason)(2010)
- #5Modem Times 2.0 (By: Michael Moorcock,Eleanor Arnason)(2011)
- #6
Surfing the Gnarl (By: Rudy Rucker)(2012) - #7Patty Hearst & The Twinkie Murders: A Tale of Two Trials (By: Eleanor Arnason,Paul Krassner)(2013)
- #8Raising Hell (By: Norman Spinrad,Eleanor Arnason)(2014)
- #9
Gypsy (By: Carter Scholz)(2015) - #10Miracles Ain't What They Used to Be (By: Joe R. Lansdale,Eleanor Arnason)(2016)
- #11Fire. (By: Elizabeth Hand,Eleanor Arnason)(2017)
- #12The Atheist in the Attic (With: Eleanor Arnason)(2018)
- #13
Talk Like a Man (By: Nisi Shawl)(2019) - #14
Big Girl (By: Meg Elison)(2020) - #15
Planetbreaker’s Son (By: Nick Mamatas)(2021) - #16
Utopias of the Third Kind (By: Vandana Singh)(2021) - #17
Night Shift (By: Eileen Gunn)(2022) - #18
The Collapsing Frontier (By: Jonathan Lethem)(2024)
- #1
Tales of Nevèrÿon(1979) - #2
Neveryóna(1983) - #3
Flight from Nevèrÿon(1985) - #4
The Bridge of Lost Desire / Return to Neveryon(1987)
- #1
Private Affairs (By: Phillip Brian Harper)(1999) - #2Times Square Red, Times Square Blue(1999)
- #3
In Your Face (By: Mandy Merck)(2000) - #4
Tropics of Desire (By: José Quiroga)(2000) - #5
Murdering Masculinities (By: Greg Forter)(2000) - #6
Our Monica, Ourselves (By: Lauren Berlant,Lisa A. Duggan)(2001) - #7
Black Gay Man (By: Robert F. Reid-Pharr)(2001) - #8
Passing (By: )(2001) - #9
The Explanation For Everything (By: Paul Morrison)(2002) - #10
Queer Globalizations (By: Martin F. Manalansan IV,Arnaldo Cruz-Malave)(2002) - #11
Queer Latinidad (By: Juana María Rodríguez)(2003) - #12
Love the Sin (By: Janet R. Jakobsen)(2003) - #13
Boricua Pop (By: Frances Negrón-Muntaner,Frances n-Muntaner)(2004) - #14
Why I Hate Abercrombie & Fitch (By: Dwight A. McBride)(2005) - #15
In a Queer Time and Place (By: J. Jack Halberstam)(2005) - #16
God Hates Fags (By: Michael Cobb)(2006) - #17
Once You Go Black (By: Robert F. Reid-Pharr)(2007) - #18
The Latino Body (By: Lazaro Lima)(2007) - #19
Arranging Grief (By: Dana Luciano)(2007) - #20
Cruising Utopia (By: José Esteban Muñoz)(2009) - #21
Another Country (By: )(2010) - #22
Extravagant Abjection (By: Darieck Scott)(2010) - #23
Relocations (By: Karen Tongson)(2011) - #24
Single (By: Michael Cobb)(2012) - #25
Beyond the Nation (By: Martin Ponce)(2012) - #26
Brown Boys and Rice Queens (By: Eng-Beng Lim)(2013) - #27
Transforming Citizenships (By: Isaac West)(2013) - #28
Investigating Young People's Sexual Cultures (By: Clarissa Smith,Feona Attwood)(2014) - #29
The Delectable Negro (By: E. Patrick Johnson,Vincent Woodard,Justin A. Joyce,Dwight A. McBride)(2014) - #30
Sexual Futures, Queer Gestures, and Other Latina Longings (By: Juana María Rodríguez)(2014) - #31
Sensational Flesh (By: Amber Jamilla Musser)(2014) - #32
The Exquisite Corpse of Asian America (By: Rachel C.Lee)(2014) - #33
Not Gay (By: Jane Ward)(2015) - #34
Embodied Avatars (By: Uri McMillan)(2015) - #35
A Taste for Brown Bodies (By: Hiram Pérez)(2015) - #36
Wedlocked (By: Katherine Franke)(2015) - #37
A Body, Undone (By: Christina Crosby)(2016) - #38
The Color of Kink (By: Ariane Cruz)(2016) - #39
Archives of Flesh (By: Robert F. Reid-Pharr)(2016) - #40
Black Performance on the Outskirts of the Left (By: Malik Gaines)(2017) - #41
The Life and Death of Latisha King (By: )(2018) - #42
Queer Nuns (By: Melissa M. Wilcox)(2018) - #43
After the Party (By: )(2018) - #44
Sensual Excess (By: Amber Jamilla Musser)(2018) - #45
Afro-Fabulations (By: )(2018) - #46
Queer Times, Black Futures (By: )(2019) - #47
Queer Faith (By: )(2019) - #48
Archiving an Epidemic (By: Robb Hernández)(2019) - #49
Frottage (By: Keguro Macharia)(2019) - #50
The Sex Obsession (By: Janet R. Jakobsen)(2020) - #51
Becoming Human (By: Zakiyyah Iman Jackson)(2020) - #52
The Tragedy of Heterosexuality (By: Jane Ward)(2020) - #53
Keeping It Unreal (By: Darieck Scott)(2022) - #54
Sexuality Beyond Consent (By: )(2023) - #55
Queer Childhoods (By: Mary Zaborskis)(2024) - #56
Bottoms Up (By: Xiomara Verenice Cervantes-Gomez)(2024) - #57
Deviant Matter (By: Kyla Wazana Tompkins)(2024) - #58
Extravagant Camp (By: Chris A. Eng)(2025) - #59
Queer Lasting (By: Sarah Ensor)(2025)
- #1
The Ballad of Beta-2(1965) - #2Babel-17(1966)
- #3
The Einstein Intersection(1967) - #4
Nova(1968) - #5
The Tides of Lust(1973) - #6Dhalgren(1975)
- #7
Tritón / Trouble on Triton(1976) - #8
Empire(1978) - #9
Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand(1984) - #10
They Fly At Çiron(1993) - #11Hogg(1994)
- #12The Mad Man(1994)
- #13
Dark Reflections(2007) - #14
Through the Valley of the Nest of Spiders(2011) - #15
Voyage, Orestes!(2019) - #16
Shoat Rumblin: His Sensations and Ideas(2020) - #17
The Jewels of Aptor(1962) - #18Empire Star(1966)
- #19
Home Is the Hangman/We, in Some Strange Power's Employ, Move on a Rigorous Line(1990) - #20Bread and Wine(1999)
- #21Phallos(2004)
- #22Aye, and Gomorrah(1967)
- #23
Driftglass(1971) - #24Distant Stars(1981)
- #25
The Complete Nebula Award-Winning Fiction(1986) - #26
Driftglass/Starshards(1993) - #27
Atlantis(1995) - #28
Sensitive Skin #9: post-beat, pre-apocalyptic art, writing and music (With: Bernard Meisler,John Lurie)(2012) - #29
A, B, C(2015) - #30
The Novels of Samuel R. Delany Volume One(2017) - #31Occasional Views, Volume 1(2021)
- #32Occasional Views, Volume 2(2021)
- #33
Roots of Imagination: A Chrestomathy(2023) - #34
Last and First Tales(2026)
- #1
Captives of the Flame / Out of the Dead City(1963) - #2The Towers of Toron(1964)
- #3
City of a Thousand Suns(1965)
About Samuel R. Delany
Samuel R. Delany is an award-winning American science fiction author known for his groundbreaking works. Born to a prominent black family in Harlem on April 1, 1942, Delany draws inspiration from his childhood in the vibrant urban landscape. His mother, Margaret Carey Boyd Delany, was a dedicated library clerk, and his father, Samuel Ray Delany, Senior, ran a respected funeral home in Harlem. Delany's aunts, Sadie and Bessie, were also influential figures, and their adventures are woven into his stories, such as the novella "Atlantis: Model 1924" in "Atlantis: Three Tales." Delany attended the Dalton School and the Bronx High School of Science, where he was selected for the prestigious Camp Rising Sun program. A published author at 20, Delany quickly established himself with nine critically acclaimed science fiction novels between 1962 and 1968, as well as numerous prize-winning short stories.
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