Book description
The Star Folk were an anachronism. Living in their cluster of giant
ships far out in space, cut off from contact with their fellow humans,
they were shrouded in mystery. Through the allegory of an ancient song,
Joneny, an anthropology student, set out to unravel that mystery - and
found a truth stranger than any allegory...
Samuel R Delany (1942 - )
Samuel Ray 'Chip' Delany, Jr was born in Harlem in 1942, and published
his first novel at the age of just 20. As author, critic and academic,
his influence on the modern genre has been profound and he remains one
of science fiction's most important and discussed writers. He has won
the Hugo Award twice and the Nebula Award four times, including
consecutive wins for Babel-17
and The Einstein Intersection
. Since January 2001 he has been a professor of English and Creative
Writing at Temple University in Philadelphia, where he is Director of
the Graduate Creative Writing Program.
