Atlantis - Three Tales

Samuel R. Delany

ISBN 10: 0819552836 / ISBN 13: 9780819552839

Published by Wesleyan University Press, New England, 1995

About this Item

New England (1995). Wesleyan University Press. First edition/printing. Signed, dated, and location noted by Delany on the title page without further inscription. A nice signature. Fine in every way and in a similar dust wrapper. 8vo. Pp. 212.

Seller Inventory # #000393

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Atlantis - Three Tales
• Publisher: Wesleyan University Press, New England
• Publication Date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0819552836
• ISBN 13: 9780819552839
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

About this title

Synopsis

Three marvelously structured stories trace the intricate interdependencies of memory, experience, and the self.

Wesleyan University Press has made a significant commitment to the publication of the work of Samuel R. Delany, including this recent fiction, now available in paperback. The three long stories collected in Atlantis: three tales — "Atlantis: Model 1924," "Erik, Gwen, and D. H. Lawrence's Aesthetic of Unrectified Feeling," and "Citre et Trans" — explore problems of memory, history, and transgression.

Winner of both the Hugo and Nebula awards, and Guest of Honor at the 1995 World Science Fiction Convention in Glasgow, Delany was won a broad audience among fans of postmodern fiction with his theoretically sophisticated science fiction and fantasy. The stories of Atlantis: three tales are not SF, yet Locus, the trade publication of the science fiction field, notes that the title story "has an odd, unsettling power not usually associated with mainstream fiction."

A writer whose audience extends across and beyond science fiction, black, gay, postmodern, and academic constituencies, Delany is finally beginning to achieve the broader recognition he deserves.

About the Authors

SAMUEL R. DELANY many prizes include the Hugo Award, the Nebula Award, and the William Whitehead Memorial Award for a lifetime's contribution to gay and lesbian literature. Wesleyan has published both his fiction and nonfiction, including Atlantis: three tales (1995), Silent Interviews: On Language, Race, Sex, Science Fiction, and Some Comics (1994), Longer Views: Extended Essays (1996), and Shorter Views: Queer Thoughts & the Politics of the Paraliterary. The press has also reissued his classic science fiction and fantasy novels Dhalgren (1996), The Einstein Intersection (1998) and the four-volume Return to Nevčr˙on series.

Samuel R. Delany is Professor of Contemporary Literature at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.