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Delany's first novel, from 1962, serves as a sort of prologue to the subsequent Captives of the Flame, 1963.

Bellona is a city at the center of the United States. Something has happened there … the population has fled. Madmen and criminals wander the streets.

Lorq von Ray is plenty willing to fly through the core of a recently imploded sun in order to obtain seven tons of Draco's most valuable natural resource.

Babel-17, winner of the Nebula Award for best novel of the year, is a fascinating tale of a famous poet bent on deciphering a secret language that is the key to the enemy's deadly force, a tas

Nebula Award Finalist: Reality unravels in a Midwestern town in this sci-fi epic by the acclaimed author of Babel-17. Includes a foreword by William Gibson.

The Nebula Award Winner: “By looking at a typical space opera adventure from a different angle, Delany . . . give[s] us a weird, welcoming book” (Tor.com).