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| | Dhalgren - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Dhalgren was originally published in 1974 as a paperback original (a Frederik Pohl selection) by Bantam Books. | | | Because of Drummond's work, the third and later printings of the Vintage edition are considered by the author to be the most accurate rendering of the text ever published. | | | The accuracy of the text of the Bantam edition suffered from the fact that due to logistical delays beyond anyone's control, Delany had only three days to correct the nearly 900 pages of publisher's proofs prior to the book's first publication. |
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| | Bookreporter.com - DHALGREN by Samuel R. Delany |
| | DHALGREN takes place in an urban landscape where the laws of nature have broken down and the laws of mankind have as well; there is no way to tell which breakdown preceded the other. | | | DHALGREN was initially published in 1974 by Bantam Books. | | | The science fiction genre was flush with energy for a number of reasons, and Bantam hired Frederik Pohl (who even then was a grand master in the field) to find new and original science fiction novels and publish them under its imprint with the legend "A Frederik Pohl Book," or something like that. |
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| | Lambda Sci-Fi Books |
| | Superficially, Dhalgren is about a man who has forgotten his name, coming to the abandoned city of Bellona, somewhere in the United States, sometime in the mid-Twentieth Century, and what happens to him there. | | | This book by Samuel R. Delany - one of the most accomplished authors in SF and one of the fathers (oh, Daddy!) of cyberpunk - has been out of print for quite a while; and its re-publication (with a new forward by William Gibson that's fabulous!) is the cause of this commentary. | | | Secondly, Dhalgren is unlike any other book I have ever read, either in or out of the genre of FandSF. |
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| | Science Fiction Weekly Interview |
| | Dhalgren started out, the original prospectus for the book, was for a series of five political novels that was with Avon Books, who drew up a contract for them. | | | Indeed, Dhalgren was the book that I learned that doing contracts first is not what I want to do. | | | One of the things you've talked about is the attention to the detail of the prose that separates a science-fiction story from a non-science-fiction story. |
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| | Amazon.com: Dhalgren (Vintage): Books: Samuel R. Delany |
| | Dhalgren is one of the all-time bestselling science fiction novels. | | | Dhalgren explores the relationship between characters and author (or, perhaps, characters, "author," and author). | | | Dhalgren may be read with equal validity as SF, magic realism, or metafiction. |
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| | The SF Site Featured Review: Dhalgren |
| | Gibson is just one of a number of SF writers who claim Dhalgren to be inspirational, among them Paul DiFillipo and Elizabeth Hand. | | | Dhalgren is not there to be finally understood. | | | As Kidd, he is an innocent trying to make his way; as Kid, he becomes a bit obnoxious, a bit of a manipulator now that he knows his way around. |
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| | Thiamin Trek Weblog Archives: ReadingNotes/0323-0 |
| | Dhalgren is an important book, but it's not a great book. | | | Dhalgren has a reputation as a particularly difficult but excellent book, and at | | | I'm not a prude, and I am interested in gaining insight into the mind of a bisexual black man in the early 70s, but I didn't really get that, nor did I get much else. |
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| | Vintage Catalog Dhalgren by Samuel R. Delany Foreword by William Gibson |
| | The purpose of poetry was assumed to be for example (self-evident and unquestioned), the provision of images of heroes to the public, who could then, one assumes, model their own lives around them. | | | A few years after that, in the middle seventies, academics took it up and began to it for whatever they liked--usually the science fiction they happened to find particularly interesting to distinguish it from all the SF they didn't personally care for. | | | One of my more humbling experiences was learning of a woman on the West Coast who has read Dhalgren once a year for more than twenty years now. |
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| | Dhalgren is a book within a book within a book, and at the end I was left questioning whether or not Kid is a representation of Delany, and whether or not Dhalgren itself is a story about the creation of Dhalgren. | | | A chapter of prose is followed by a chapter of stream-of-consciousness scribbling. | | | The skies of Bellona are dark with smoke, there are two moons in the sky and sometimes one giant sun, the city is on fire, and no one can explain how or why. |
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| | Interesting: Jim Allen, shortly after the book came out, offered a similar interpretation, which had DHALGREN as the tale of "the forging of an artistic soul," or somesuch. | | | This may have colored how I felt about the book as a whole (though I wasn't greatly enamored of it even before then), but the bottom line is that I cannot recommend this book. | | | The Kidd goes through three loops (at least): first he's the eighteen-year-old main character, experiencing the events of DHALGREN; then he's the 27-year-old writer (and by the way, that's not him in the mirror, it's Delany), writing DHALGREN... |
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| | The SF Site: A Conversation With Samuel R. Delany |
| | The factors controlling a writer's popularity are as mysterious and ultimately as unknowable as the number of stars in the sky or (to quote Sir Thomas Browne) the name that Achilles used when he hid himself among the women. | | | Half a dozen years after Dhalgren appeared, someone sent me a recently written grammar book, for people learning English, in which -- among the various examples of American writing scattered throughout -- two or three paragraphs of Dhalgren were quoted as an example of economical and informative prose. | | | Now, however, it appears you're coming back in a significant way with Vintage Books' re-release of Dhalgren. |
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| | RCF - Book Reviews |
| | Dhalgren shares with such controversial genre-bending books as J. Ballard’s Crash (1973) and Joanna Russ’s The Female Man (1975) the quality of challenging the boundaries between the marvelous and the realistic, showing us the greatest of what science fiction can offer. | | | This hallucinatory book contains elements of what we might usually think of as science fiction—the appearance of two moons, a sun five-hundred-times too large—but the setting is also urban realism. | | | Dhalgren is a sexy, sexist, and sexual book that challenges how we read and how we perceive the world and its inhibitants. |
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| | Samuel R. Delany |
| | Vintage Books published trade paperback editions of Dhalgren (May 2001) and Babel-17/Empire Star (December 2001). | | | A short review of Dhalgren, as part of the One Book List. | | | A Dutch bibliography mentions William Gibson's foreword to the 1995 edition of Dhalgren. |
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| | glbtq >> discussion >> View topic - "Dhalgren" by Samuel R. Delany |
| | Delany is an amazing writer and "Dhalgren" is an amazing book. | | | This book is not for everyone but those who are nuts enough to read James Joyce too might find this book a great and worthy challenge. | | | In "Dhalgren" we have black and white, male and female, gay and straight, sane and mad.Rich language, fully developed characters who are alive, and a 700 page book where nothing happens and everything happens. |
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| | Reason: Dhalgren in New Orleans: What an old science-fiction novel can tell us about the Big Easy |
| | Some of the most beautiful parts of Dhalgren concern Kid's attempts to write poetry in a language that's appropriate to the strangeness of the city, and Lanya's intricate experiments with tape-loops and harmonica. | | | Subscribe to the print edition or the electronic edition. | | | This surreal work of science fiction seemed especially apt last week, as fires raged and stories of racism, rape, looting, and murder proliferated, and then–FEMA head Mike Brown continued to blame the victims who had not evacuated the city. |
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| | Illustrated SF Encyclopedia Entry: Samuel R. Delany |
| | It is the circular story of a typical Delany hero - a lone artist named Kidd - who comes to a mysterious city, has complex adventures there, writes a book which is almost certainly called "Dhalgren," and who leaves the way he came (as in James Joyce's |
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| | Writelife: Trying to explain Dhalgren |
| | But I know from his later books that the theme of disorientation, and a world fragmenting into more and more cultural and social groups, each with their own assumptions, is something Delany explored quite a bit. | | | The best I was able to come up with, was this: | | | The thing is, the book continues through this world, the characters (or players) eventually adapt to it... |
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| | Uppity-Negro.com: In Memoriam: Feel This Book |
| | I would offer to loan my copies, but this would involve locating my copies, and I'm not even sure where my address book is these days. | | | I'm thinking yes on Nova, (Trouble On) Triton or Babel-17, definite no way in hell on Dhalgren. | | | But yeah, something like Babel 17 or the Neveryona books would probably be more accessible. |
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| | Samuel R. Delany - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Dhalgren and Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand include several sexually explicit passages, and several of his books such as Equinox, The Mad Man, Hogg and Phallos could even be considered pornography, a term that Delany himself has endorsed before. | | | He has published several books of literary criticism, with an emphasis on issues in science fiction and other paraliterary genres, comparative literature, and queer studies. | | | Most of his works deal more explicitly with sexual themes than is common. |
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| | Dhalgren |
| | Dhalgren is a novel that, while it first appears to be linear (if you try to piece together the notebook parts of the final chapter), later seems to be circular (the end can loop to the beginning) and, finally, turns out to be a multi-layered construct. | | | Although shunned by narrowminded purists, "Dhalgren" is Delany's most widely read book, and a hugely influence on the science fiction of the 80's and 90's. | | | I am currently re-reading Dhalgren for (I believe) the 7th time, and I'm still as astounded and absorbed by the book as I was the first time through. |
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| | Another Damn Book Review by Edward Martin III |
| | It's the story of a man entering the city -- a man with no name and no memory, a poet, a visionary,a lover, a madman. | | | Dhalgren is the story of a stable system, a city of perpetual and unbelievable violence and savagery. |
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| | Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Dhalgren at Epinions.com |
| | On the one hand, it is tempting to reject it outright because of the cacaphony of story lines and blending of cultural prospectives, but if I were to do that, I would deter you from a work that has an excellent use of imagery and character development. | | | In the process of his living in Bellona he comes to terms with both his sexuality, his amnesia--since he cannot remember his name or anything about who he is, and his abilities as a poet. | | | One of Dhalgren's strengths is its unsual plot line: a young bisexual black-algonkin man comes into a town called Bellona that exists outside of space and time. |
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| | Classic Science Fiction Reviews |
| | A lesser or different book would have disposed of this scene in a paragraph or three, to reduced effect. | | | Dhalgren is at least half conversation, and this plethora of voices is one of the book's unique charms. | | | The way everyone in Bellona unquestioningly "does their own thing," the "groovy, man" level of acceptance and willingness to experiment--these attitudes now seem impossibly foreign, after the seismic shifts of the '80s and '90s. |
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| | The Den of Ubiquity: Books, music, random thoughts, semi-didactic rants, and opinions. What did you expect? Fangs? |
| | They've been fairly spotty, with the sprawling and uneven Dhalgren, the almost incomprehensible The Einstein Intersection, the readable misfit-in-utopia Triton, the space-operatic Nova, the lackluster Tales of Neverÿon, and the intriguing Fall of The Towers. | | | One of a bunch of Delany books I bought years and years ago upon reading the wonderful Babel-17. | | | But this one, which, perhaps tellingly, is earlier than Babel-17, is a small gem. |
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| | Dhalgren by Samuel R. Delany |
| | University Press of New England: Publisher of recent Delany books and reprints | | | Cross the bridge and enter the Dhalgren MOO. |
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| | eBay - Book: Dhalgren (ISBN: 0375706682) |
| | Arriving in Bellona, one of these cities, the Kid invents himself as an artist, in particular a writer, who writes the book "Dhalgren". | | | Dhalgren by Samuel R. Delany (2001) Signed by Author | | | Dhalgren - Delany, Samuel R. BookMarz-II Dhalgren by Samuel R. Delany (2001) |
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| | IROSF -- Dhalgren, a true classic. |
| | I had never read anything like it before or since. | | | I found two books that day that weren't in the sci-fi/fantasy section, they were in the regular fiction section. | | | Dhalgren is one of my favorite novels I have ever read. |
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| | An Interpretation of Dhalgren |
| | I read this book when I was about 23 (1974), so I can appreciate your comment about reading it when young. | | | My guess about the plot of Dhalgren may be wrong, but it involves the ending of the book and thus constitutes a *****SPOILER*****. | | | I've always had a theory about the plot and wanted to air it to see what would happen (I was careful to use a lot of apologies and disclaimers in the lead-in ). |
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| | Samuel Delany |
| | A finely crafted book rich in ideas and well drawn, idiosyncratic characters. | | | I include Dhalgren in the above list with some trepidation, as the book is not truly SF, and may not even be considered fantasy. | | | It deals with a young poet who cannot remember his name, who has a history (of what he can remember) of mental instability, wandering around a city? |
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| | Cruel.Com: Prussian Blue in the News... |
| | I agree, I hate them as much as ozzie loving wops. | | | Do you all realize that this has been posted and discussed here before. | | | Ya know, if I may I will speak with out self-condemnation, which I am going to anyway (consider the afore written shit rhetorical). |
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| | Dhalgren by Samuel R Delany |
| | See all available used copies of this book at: Abebooks UK or Abebooks US | | | FantasticFiction > Authors D > Samuel R Delany > Dhalgren | | | Title: Dhalgren (The Gregg Press Science Fiction Series) |
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| | Amazon.ca: Dhalgren: Search Results All Products |
| | Dhalgren by Samuel R. Delany (Author) (Paperback - May 15, 2001) | | | Dhalgren by Samuel R. Delany (Author) (Paperback - May 1996) | | | Dhalgren by Samuel R. Delany (Author) (Hardcover - June 1977) |
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| | On Dhalgren |
| | Dhalgren is, first of all, an 879-page science fiction novel by Samuel R. Delany, originally published in 1974. | | | The geography of Dhalgren is mostly inspired by Delany's novel. | | | In the second place, Dhalgren is the name of a MOO, a kind of online, text-based virtual world, which has been my home in cyberspace since 1994. |
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| | Stranded in the Jungle--07.Amnesia |
| | The protagonist of Samuel Delany's 1974 novel Dhalgren remembers everything, except for his own name. | | | Dhalgren is a huge, beautiful paean to wasting time. | | | His experiences are rich and varied; only a name is missing, a self to refer them to. |
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| | I made a bullwhip for a friend on Dhalgren built out of a generic scripted object that gives the user a number of lines from Written on the Body by Jeanette Winterson. | | | There's the Interzone on Dhalgren - strange and wonderful and reeking of Burroughs. | | | A vr lover once took me for a ride on the beach on his Harley and the same boy made me a unicorn that I could ride where I chose. |
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| | Finish Dhalgren on 43 Things |
| | for interesting perspective on dhalgren, it’s good to read delany’s autobiographical “heavenly breakfast’.. | | | ) But for some reason I have never been able to slog all the way through Dhalgren | | | i liked dhalgren a lot – more so a few months after reading it (maybe it’s been slowly sinking in)... |
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| | Dhalgren MOO |
| | In January 1994, I built a small MOO at Princeton, called Dhalgren, inspired by the science fiction of Samuel Delany and William Burroughs. | | | Besides my references to Delany and Burroughs, a grad student from Portland created a haunted carnival, a grad student from Brown added to the Delany theme and played the role of Kid, and an English professor from Rutgers created a theater featuring Japanese plays and poetry. | | | In the mid '90s, Dhalgren was a well-known MOO, respected for its dark, literary style. |
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| | Amazon.co.uk: Dhalgren: Books |
| | Known only as the Kid, he is emblematic of those who live in the new Bellona - the young, the poor, the mad, the violent, the outcast - the marginalised. | | | A Fire Upon the Deep (Gollancz SF S.); Paperback ~ Vernor Vinge | | | Revolving around a mysterious and intricate layering of puzzles that will keep readers gripped until the end, Dhalgren is controversial, challenging and scandalous, brilliantly tackling serious questions of sex, gender, race, class, art and identity. |
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| | Bibliography: Dhalgren |
| | This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License. | | | Dhalgren (1996, University Press of New England/Wesleyan, 0819562998, $17.95, 801pp, tp) | | | 1998 - Dhalgren Locus Poll Award, All-Time Best SF Novel before 1990 (Place: 35) |
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| | BBC - h2g2 - Death and impermanence - U188462 |
| | Most of the content on h2g2 is created by h2g2's Researchers, who are members of the public. | | | dhalgren hasn't added any friends to their list. | | | Discuss this entry - 3 replies - Latest reply: |
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| | Dhalgren Study Guide |
| | They include valuable resources to help motivate further learning, such as Ideas for Further Discussion and Related Titles. | | | 9 pages of summaries and analysis on Dhalgren by Samuel R. Delany. | | | Get the Dhalgren Short Guide—9 pages in all. |
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| | Reread The City After Dhalgren by Samuel Murphy. | | | Pay an escort of your affectional preference subset to not bathe for five days, cover themselves in glitter, dust, and sunscreen, wear a skanky neon wig, dance close naked, and say they have a lover back home. | | | Cut off the bindings, throw all the pages up in the air, and shuffle them back together. |
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| | What interesting connections between Dhalgren and Dark City would it be useful for us to talk about? | | | Are there useful connections between Dhalgren and the Jameson essay that we might ponder? | | | ð¿ â jbjb£ £ É} É} â ÿÿ ÿÿ ÿÿ l ¢ ¢ ¢ ¢ ¢ ¢ ¢ Ò Ò Ò Ò Ò Þ Ò Ù f ö ö ö ö ö ö ö ö — , ? _ Ä ¢ ö ö ö ö ö Ä R ¢ ¢ ö ö ö R R R ö R ¢ ö ¢ ö — R ¶ Ä ¢ ¢ ¢ ¢ ö — R B R ” r º T ¢ ¢ — ê ®¸—º Ò Ò H — Ù Ù z ù R ù — R à å 03.13.03 Samuel Delany, Dhalgren In small groups, spend about 15-20 minutes discussing the following: Do you have a better sense yet of what’s going on in Dhalgren? |
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| | Cruel.Com: *I Have A Query* |
| | Anything that gets you thru (or would that be through) the night. | | | Just trying to pass the time by making fun of the elderly. | | | Try this: "I know you are, but what am I?' |
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| | Dhalgren Summary / Study Guide |
| | Not only in Dhalgren but in many other works, such as Empire Star, The Einstein Intersection, Nova, and "Time Considered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Stones," he seems... | | | Simply highlight the word and press SHIFT + D for a definition. | | | Get total access to these eNotes with the: |
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| | Dhalgren by Samuel R. Delany |
| | A whole minute he squatted, pebbles clutched with his left foot (the bare one), listening to his breath sound tumble down the ledges. | | | AN excerpt from Dhalgren by Samuel R Delany |
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