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5 unusual facts about Samuel R. Delany


Invisible theater

A similar form of "micro-theater" was portrayed by Samuel R. Delany in his science-fiction novel Triton.

The Last Angel of History

The film bases its concepts around George Clinton's Mothership Connection and features interviews with George Clinton, Derrick May, Samuel R. Delany, Nichelle Nichols, Juan Atkins, DJ Spooky, Goldie and others to explore the link between black music as a way of exploring the future.

Time Considered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Stones – The BBC Sessions 1979–1984

The name of the album was taken from a short story by science fiction writer Samuel R. Delany.

With 100 Kazoos

Dedicatees of the work include the science fiction writers Roger Zelazny, Theodore Sturgeon, Samuel R. Delany and the astronomer Patrick Moore.

Women in speculative fiction

Additionally, movement among writers concerned with feminism and gender roles sprang up, leading to a genre of "feminist science fiction including Joanna Russ' 1975 The Female Man, Samuel R. Delany's 1976 Trouble on Triton: An Ambiguous Heterotopia, and Marge Piercy's 1976 Woman on the Edge of Time.


Annie Elizabeth Delany

Annie Elizabeth "Bessie" Delany (3 September 1891 – 25 September 1995) was an American dentist and civil rights pioneer who was the subject, along with her elder sister Sarah "Sadie" Delany, of the New York Times bestselling oral history, Having Our Say, written by journalist Amy Hill Hearth.

Black science fiction

Writers such as Samuel R. Delany, Nalo Hopkinson, Minister Faust, Nnedi Okorafor, N. K. Jemisin, Tananarive Due, Andrea Hairston, and Nisi Shawl are among the writers who continue to work in black science fiction.

Donation Land Claim Act

The passage of the law was largely due to the efforts of Samuel R. Thurston, the Oregon territorial delegate to Congress.

Feminism and equality

Genders (usually distinguished from sexes) are counted as other than two in some feminist utopian literature, according to Karin Schönpflug, analyzing works by Gabriel de Foigny (1676), Ursula le Guin (1969), Samuel Delany (1976), Donna Haraway (1980), and Alkeline van Lenning (1995).

Malinda Lo

Malinda Lo was made a member of the faculty of the Lambda Literary Foundation's 2013 Writer Retreat for Emerging LGBT Voices, along with Samuel R. Delaney, Sarah Schulman and David Groff.

Marietta Earthworks

The complex was again surveyed and drawn in 1838 by Samuel R. Curtis (at the time a civil engineer for the state of Ohio).

Mark Dery

In it, he interviews three African-American thinkers—science fiction writer Samuel R. Delany, writer and musician Greg Tate, and cultural critic Tricia Rose—about different critical dimensions of Afrofuturism in an attempt to define the aesthetic.

National Registry of Exonerations

The editor of the registry is Michigan Law professor Samuel R. Gross, who with Michael Shaffer wrote the report Exonerations in the United States, 1989-2012.

Samuel Caldwell

Samuel R. Caldwell (1880–1941), first American citizen convicted under the 1937 Marijuana Tax Act

Samuel R. Peters

Peters was elected as a Republican to the Forty-eighth and to the three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1883-March 3, 1891).

Samuel R. Scottron

Scottron was the maternal grandfather of noted singer Lena Horne (1917–2010).

Samuel R. Thayer

He then relocated to Minneapolis, Minnesota, studied law with Francis R. E. Cornell, attained admission to the bar, and established a practice in Minneapolis.

Samuel Spencer

Samuel R. Spencer (1871–1961), American politician, Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut

Samuel Williamson

Samuel R. Williamson, Jr., American academic, President and Vice-Chancellor of The University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee

Sarah Louise Delany

Sarah Louise "Sadie" Delany (September 19, 1889 – January 25, 1999) was an African-American educator and civil rights pioneer who was the subject, along with her younger sister Elizabeth "Bessie" Delany, of the New York Times bestselling oral history, Having our Say, by journalist Amy Hill Hearth.


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