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Beschreibung
A, B, C: Three Short Novels contains the first three novels of Samuel R. Delany's long and illustrious career.

The Jewels of Aptor is a science-fantasy story about a seafaring quest that sets out to find powerful magic jewels on a mystical, forbidden island where unimaginable danger lies.

The Ballad of Beta-2 is about a future academic searching for the true story behind an interstellar voyage, a journey over multiple generations that ended in tragedy.

They Fly at Çiron is a fantasy about the clash between a marauding army and a peaceful village at the foot of a mountain from which a race of winged people oversees both sides.

Presenting these three novels in this omnibus volume for the first time, along with a new foreword and afterword by the author, A, B, C showcases Delany's masterful storytelling ability and deep devotion to his craft.
A, B, C: Three Short Novels contains the first three novels of Samuel R. Delany's long and illustrious career.

The Jewels of Aptor is a science-fantasy story about a seafaring quest that sets out to find powerful magic jewels on a mystical, forbidden island where unimaginable danger lies.

The Ballad of Beta-2 is about a future academic searching for the true story behind an interstellar voyage, a journey over multiple generations that ended in tragedy.

They Fly at Çiron is a fantasy about the clash between a marauding army and a peaceful village at the foot of a mountain from which a race of winged people oversees both sides.

Presenting these three novels in this omnibus volume for the first time, along with a new foreword and afterword by the author, A, B, C showcases Delany's masterful storytelling ability and deep devotion to his craft.
Über den Autor
Samuel R. Delany (born 1942) is one of the most influential and formally innovative voices in modern science fiction. Emerging during the New Wave movement of the 1960s, Delany expanded the thematic and stylistic boundaries of the genre, combining speculative imagination with linguistic experimentation, social inquiry, and philosophical [...] novels and short fiction frequently explore language, identity, technology, and the structures of power within imagined societies. Works such as Babel-17 and Nova helped redefine what science fiction could attempt formally and intellectually, while later novels continued to challenge conventional narrative expectations. Delany's career has been recognised with multiple Hugo and Nebula Awards, affirming his place among the central figures of late twentieth-century speculative literature.Blending rigorous conceptual design with literary ambition, Delany remains a key architect of contemporary science fiction's expansion beyond pulp adventure into complex cultural and theoretical terrain.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
Genre: Importe, Science Fiction & Fantasy
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781101911426
ISBN-10: 1101911425
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Delany, Samuel R.
Hersteller: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 203 x 132 x 27 mm
Von/Mit: Samuel R. Delany
Erscheinungsdatum: 07.07.2015
Gewicht: 0,548 kg
Artikel-ID: 107896841