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.
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Author | Samuel R. Delany |
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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"
gollark: Consider the difficulty of designing a working car versus trying to patch together a bad car after it's done while it's driving and incapable of stopping without exploding.
gollark: And fix them in the design.
gollark: It's not necessarily harder if you can think of the problems when designing it.
gollark: If you have general AI good enough to be running the structure in the first place, it can just be on the design team.
gollark: "Humans have frequently been observed engaging in attacks against expensive infrastructure projects. Planning... New subgoal is to hijack human automated manufacturing systems and eliminate any human interference in structure operation."
References
- "The Internet Speculative Fiction Database". Retrieved 2008-01-03.
- Contento, William G. "Index to Science Fiction Anthologies and Collections". Retrieved 2008-01-03.
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