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Samuel R. Delany is an American author renowned for his science fiction and fantasy novels. His works are celebrated for their complex narrative structures, profound social commentary, and exploration of gender. Born on April 1, 1942, Delany's writing career spans several decades, and he has had a significant impact on contemporary literature.

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“Historically, I guess that's how science fiction works: you start by using aliens to think the unthinkable and then, eventually, another writer, having grown a little more comfortable with the earlier notion, brings it into the human.”

Thinking Humans Littles Fiction Comfortable Science Fiction Notion Aliens Unthinkable

Author:Samuel R. Delany

“The emblem of a philosophy is not that it contains a set of specific thoughts , but that it generates a way of thinking.”

Thinking Way Philosophy Way Of Thinking Emblems

Book:Trouble on Triton: An Ambiguous Heterotopia

Source: Trouble on Triton: An Ambiguous Heterotopia

“Babes, I am so bored here that I don't think, since I've come, I've ever been more than three minutes away from some really astonishing act of violence.”

Thinking Three Violence Minutes Bored Astonishing Babe Acts Of Violence So Bored

Author:Samuel R. Delany

“Science fiction isn’t just thinking about the world out there. It’s also thinking about how that world might be—a particularly important exercise for those who are oppressed, because if they’re going to change the world we live in, they—and all of us—have to be able to think about a world that works differently.”

Ifs Thinking World Important Might Able Fiction Exercise Science Fiction Changing The World Oppressed

Author:Samuel R. Delany

“I read The NAMBLA Bulletin fairly regularly and I think it is one of the most intelligent discussions of sexuality I've ever found...I would have been so much happier as an adolescent if NAMBLA had been around when I was 9, 10, 11, 12, 13.”

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Author:Samuel R. Delany

“I think of myself as a very lazy writer, though other people see it differently.”

People Thinking Lazy

Author:Samuel R. Delany

“I think a 23-page ordinary comic is an investment for the artist, but if you're doing something 60 to 104 pages, that's a really big investment for an artist. So unless you've got someone who wants to pay you while you're doing it or up front, it's kind hard to get someone to do that with you, unless you're the artist yourself.”

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Author:Samuel R. Delany

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Born: April 1, 1942
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