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Inland Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-26-05 05:15 PM
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Samuel R. Delaney back in bookstores
for you people who like your sci fi to be a mindbender. "Dhalgren", "Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand" are beyond my powers of description.
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Technowitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-27-05 04:24 AM
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1. "Brass Orchids" baby...
To this day, I still don't know what the hell Dhalgren was about, but I loved that poetry book title.
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Tom Yossarian Joad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-28-05 07:43 PM
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2. I must have read Dhalgren four times...
I did a lot of....

Never mind.

I think he was trying to show Brian Aldiss how to write psychedelic SciFi.

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