“A very moving, intensely fascinating literary autobiography from an extraordinary writer. Thoroughly admirable candor and luminous stylistic precision; the artist as a young man and a memorable picture of an age.” —William Gibson, critically acclaimed author
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- The Motion of Light in Water
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Read by Stefan Rudnicki
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Release Date: 4/28/20
Formats: Digital Audy
Born in New York City’s black ghetto Harlem at the start of World War II, Samuel R. Delany married white poet Marilyn Hacker right out of high school. The interracial couple moved into the city’s new bohemian quarter, the Lower East Side, in summer 1961.
Through the decade’s opening years, new art, new sexual practices, new music, and new political awareness burgeoned among the crowded streets and cheap railroad apartments. Beautifully, vividly, insightfully, Delany calls up this era of exploration and adventure as he details his development as a black gay writer in an open marriage, with tertiary walk-ons by Bob Dylan, Stokely Carmichael, W. H. Auden, and James Baldwin, and a panoply of brilliantly drawn secondary characters.
- The Motion of Light in Water
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Read by Stefan Rudnicki
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Release Date: 4/28/20
Formats: Digital Audy
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- Stars in My Pocket like Grains of Sand
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Read by Stefan Rudnicki
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Release Date: 3/05/19
Formats: Digital Audy
The story of a truly galactic civilization with over 6,000 inhabited worlds.
Stars in My Pocket like Grains of Sand is a science fiction masterpiece, an essay on the inexplicability of sexual attractiveness, and an examination of interstellar politics among far-flung worlds. First published in 1984, the novel’s central issues—technology, globalization, gender, sexuality, and multiculturalism—have only become more pressing with the passage of time.
The novel’s topic is information itself: What are the repercussions, once it has been made public, that two individuals have been found to be each other’s perfect erotic object out to “point nine-nine-nine and several nines percent more?” What will it do to the individuals involved, to the city they inhabit, to their geosector, to their entire world society, especially when one is an illiterate worker, the sole survivor of a world destroyed by “cultural fugue,” and the other is—you!
- Stars in My Pocket like Grains of Sand
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Read by Stefan Rudnicki
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Release Date: 3/05/19
Formats: Digital Audy
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- The Einstein Intersection
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Foreword written and read by Neil Gaiman
Directed by Gabrielle de Cuir
Read by Stefan Rudnicki
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Release Date: 4/17/18
Formats: Digital Audy
The Einstein Intersection won the Nebula Award for best science fiction novel of 1967. The surface story tells of the problems a member of an alien race, Lo Lobey, has assimilating the mythology of Earth, where his kind have settled among the leftover artifacts of humanity. The deeper tale concerns, however, the way those who are “different” must deal with the dominant cultural ideology. The tale follows Lobey’s mythic quest for his lost love, Friza. In luminous and hallucinated language, it explores what new myths might emerge from the detritus of the human world as those who are “different” try to seize history and the day.
- The Einstein Intersection
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Foreword written and read by Neil Gaiman
Directed by Gabrielle de Cuir
Read by Stefan Rudnicki
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Release Date: 4/17/18
Formats: Digital Audy
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- Nova
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Directed by Claire Bloom
Read by Stefan Rudnicki
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Release Date: 3/08/16
Formats: Digital Audy
Given that the suns of Draco stretch almost sixteen light years from end to end, it stands to reason that the cost of transportation is the most important factor driving the thirty-second century. And since Illyrion is the element most needed for space travel, Lorq von Ray is plenty willing to fly through the core of a recently imploded sun in order to obtain seven tons of it. The potential for profit is so great that Lorq has little difficulty cobbling together an alluring crew, including a gypsy musician and a moon-obsessed scholar interested in the ancient art of writing a novel. What the crew doesn’t know is that Lorq’s quest is actually fueled by a private revenge so consuming that he’ll stop at nothing to achieve it.
In the grandest manner of speculative fiction, Nova is a wise and witty classic that casts a fascinating new light on some of humanity’s oldest truths and enduring myths.
- Nova
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Directed by Claire Bloom
Read by Stefan Rudnicki
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Release Date: 3/08/16
Formats: Digital Audy
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- Dhalgren
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Directed by Claire Bloom and Cassandra de Cuir
Read by Stefan Rudnicki
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Release Date: 1/19/16
Formats: Digital Audy
In Dhalgren, perhaps one of the most profound and bestselling science fiction novels of all time, Samuel R. Delany has produced a novel that rivals the best American fiction of the 1970s.
Bellona is a city at the dead center of the United States. Something has happened there … the population has fled. Madmen and criminals wander the streets. Strange portents appear in the cloud-covered sky. And into this disaster zone comes a young man—a poet, lover, and adventurer—known only as the Kid.
Tackling questions of race, gender, and sexuality, Dhalgren is a literary marvel and a groundbreaking work of American magical realism.
- Dhalgren
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Directed by Claire Bloom and Cassandra de Cuir
Read by Stefan Rudnicki
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Release Date: 1/19/16
Formats: Digital Audy
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- Babel-17
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Directed by Cassandra de Cuir
Read by Stefan Rudnicki
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Release Date: 11/17/15
Formats: Digital Audy
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 task that requires she travel with a splendidly improbable crew to the site of the next attack.
- Babel-17
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Directed by Cassandra de Cuir
Read by Stefan Rudnicki
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Release Date: 11/17/15
Formats: Digital Audy