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Samuel R. Delany: award-winning science fiction books

Samuel R. Delany has 9 science fiction books recognized by the Hugo, Nebula, Locus and Arthur C. Clarke Awards, including 2 winners.

Award wins

Babel-17 by Samuel R. Delany, book cover

Babel-17

by Samuel R. Delany

Novel · 1966

Nebula winnerHugo recognition

During an interstellar war one side develops a language, Babel-17, that can be used as a weapon. Learning it turns one into an unwilling traitor as it alters perception and thought. This is discovered by the starship captain Rydra Wong.

Nova by Samuel R. Delany, book cover

Nova

by Samuel R. Delany

Novel · 1968

Hugo recognition

These are at least some of the ways you can read NOVA: as a fast-action farflung interstellar adventure; as archetypal mystical/mythical allegory (in which the Tarot and the Grail both figure prominently); as modern myth told in the S-F idiom... the reader observes, recollects, or…

Dhalgren by Samuel R. Delany, book cover

Dhalgren

by Samuel R. Delany

Novel · 1975

Locus recognitionNebula recognition

A mysterious disaster has stricken the midwestern American city of Bellona, and its aftereffects are disturbing: a city block burns down and is intact a week later; clouds cover the sky for weeks, then part to reveal two moons; a week passes for one person…

Triton by Samuel R. Delany, book cover

Triton

by Samuel R. Delany

Novel · 1976

Nebula recognition

Trouble on Triton: An Ambiguous Heterotopia (1976) is a science fiction novel by American writer Samuel R. Delany. It was nominated for the 1976 Nebula Award for Best Novel, and was shortlisted for a retrospective James Tiptree, Jr. Award in 1995. It was originally published under the shorter title Triton.

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