Driftglass/Starshards

Driftglass/Starshards is a 1993 collection of short stories by Samuel R. Delany. The collection contains the entire contents of Delany's 1971 collection, Driftglass, stories from Distant Stars (1981) and others that had not previously been collected. Many of the stories originally appeared in the magazines Worlds of Tomorrow, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, If and New Worlds or the anthologies Quark/3, Dangerous Visions and Alchemy & Academe.

Driftglass/Starshards

Cover from the first edition
Author	Samuel R. Delany
Cover artist	John Harris
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
Genre	Science fiction Fantasy Short stories
Publisher	Grafton
Publication date	1993
Media type	Print (paperback)
Pages	535 pp
ISBN	0-586-21422-4
OCLC	230941720

Every story in this collection was later collected in Aye, and Gomorrah, and other stories, except for "Citre et Trans" and "Erik, Gwen, and D.H. Lawrence’s Esthetic of Unrectified Feeling", which were collected in Atlantis: Three Tales.

Contents

• Of Doubts and Dreams
• Part One
  • "The Star Pit"
  • "Corona"
  • "Aye, and Gomorrah..."
  • "Driftglass"
  • "We, in Some Strange Power’s Employ, Move on a Rigorous Line"
  • "Cage of Brass"
  • "High Weir"
  • "Time Considered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Stones"
  • "Omegahelm"
• Part Two
  • "Prismatica"
  • "Ruins"
  • "Dog in a Fisherman’s Net"
  • "Night and the Loves of Joe Dicostanzo"
• Part Three
  • "Among the Blobs"
  • "Citre et Trans"
  • "Erik, Gwen, and D.H. Lawrence’s Esthetic of Unrectified Feeling"

References

• "The Internet Speculative Fiction Database". Retrieved 2008-01-03.
• Contento, William G. "Index to Science Fiction Anthologies and Collections". Retrieved 2008-01-03.