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Samuel R. Delany Quotes

American author and literary critic (born 1942)

Samuel Ray Delany Jr. (born 1 April 1942) is an award-winning science fiction author. He has written works that have garnered substantial critical acclaim, including the novels Nova, The Einstein Intersection, Hogg, and Dhalgren. He is a professor of Comparative Literature and Creative Writing at Temple University, and is also known in the academic world as a literary critic.

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Alternative Names: Samuel Ray Delany, Jr. • Samuel Ray Delany • Chip Delany • Samuel Ray "Chip" Delany, Jr. • K. Leslie Steiner • S. L. Kermit

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Similar: Ursula K. Le Guin 71.3% Margaret Atwood 70.0% Saul Bellow 69.6% Alan Moore 69.5% Salman Rushdie 69.4% Tom Stoppard 69.1% Umberto Eco 69.0% John Fowles 68.3% Roger Zelazny 67.8% Doris Lessing 67.3%
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Could it be, he wondered, he’d only thought he’d seen what he’d seen because of his own desires, researches, expectations?

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