Starboard Wine. Samuel R. Delany

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       Starboard Wine

       Also by Samuel R. Delany

      FICTION

      The Jewels of Aptor (1962)

       The Fall of the Towers

      Out of the Dead City (1963)

      The Towers of Toron (1964)

      City of a Thousand Suns (1965)

      The Ballad of Beta-2 (1965)

      Babel-17 (1966)

      Empire Star (1966)

      The Einstein Intersection (1967)

      Nova (1968)

      Driftglass (1969)

      Equinox (1973)

      Dhalgren (1975)

      Trouble on Triton (1976)

       Return to Nevèrÿon

      Tales of Nevèrÿon (1979)

      Neveryóna (1982)

      Flight from Nevèrÿon (1985)

      Return to Nevèrÿon (1987)

      Distant Stars (1981)

      Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand (1984)

      Driftglass/Starshards (collected stories, 1993)

      They Fly at Çiron (1993)

      The Mad Man (1994)

      Hogg (1995)

      Atlantis: Three Tales (1995)

      Aye, and Gomorrah (and other stories, 2004)

      Phallos (2004)

      Dark Reflections (2007)

      Through the Valley of the Nest of Spiders (2012)

      GRAPHIC NOVELS

      Empire (artist, Howard Chaynkin; 1980)

      Bread & Wine (artist, Mia Wolff; 1999)

      NONFICTION

      The Jewel-Hinged Jaw (1977; revised, 2008)

      The American Shore (1978)

      Starboard Wine (1978; revised, 2012)

      Heavenly Breakfast (1979)

      The Motion of Light in Water (1988)

      Wagner/Artaud (1988)

      The Straits of Messina (1990)

      Silent Interviews (1994)

      Longer Views (1996)

      Times Square Red, Times Square Blue (1999)

      Shorter Views (1999)

      1984: Selected Letters (2000)

      About Writing (2005)

      STARBOARD WINE

      REVISED EDITION

      More Notes on the Language of Science Fiction

      Samuel R. Delany

      WESLEY AN UNIVERSITY PRESS

       Middletown, Connecticut

      Wesleyan University Press

      Middletown CT 06459

       www.wesleyan.edu/wespress

      Wesleyan edition © 2012 Samuel R. Delany

      Introduction © 2012 Matthew Cheney

      Original edition © 1984 Samuel R. Delany

      All rights reserved

      Manufactured in the United States of America

      Typeset in Trump Mediaeval by Integrated Publishing Solutions, Grand Rapids, Michigan.

      Wesleyan University Press is a member of the Green Press Initiative.

      The paper used in this book meets their minimum requirement for recycled paper.

      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Delany, Samuel R.

      Starboard wine: more notes on the language of science fiction / Samuel R. Delany.—Rev. ed.

      p. cm.

      Includes index.

      ISBN 978-0-8195-6884-7 (pbk.: alk. paper)—isbn 978-0-8195-7294-3 (ebook)

      1. Delany, Samuel R. 2. Science fiction—History and criticism. 3. Science fiction—Technique. I. Title.

      PS3554.E437S67 2012

      814’.54—dc23

      2012006646

      5 4 3 2 1

       ForDavid Hartwell

      Contents

       Acknowledgments

       Starboard Wine, An Author’s Introduction

       Science Fiction and Difference: An Introduction to Starboard Wine by Matthew Cheney

       1. The Necessity of Tomorrow(s)

       2. Heinlein

       3. Some Presumptuous Approaches to Science Fiction

       4. Sturgeon

       5. Science Fiction and “Literature”—or, The Conscience of the King

       6. Russ

       7. An Experimental Talk

       8. Disch, I

       9. Disch, II

       10. Dichtung und Science Fiction

       11. Three Letters to Science Fiction Studies

       1) A Letter from New York

       2) Another Letter from New York

       3) A Letter from Rome

       12. Reflections on Historical Models

       Index

      Acknowledgments

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