Specifically, it's about that need to get out of your small home town and limited perspective, but stretched from an opening image of an ant-farm to intergalactic-scale problems and beyond. And it's even better, developing a rather more complicated system of ideas about freedom and superceding constraints of place and world-view. So apparently immediately after writing the exuberantly entertaining interstellar fairytale Empire Star in something like 10 days in order to finance a trip to Europe, before even getting to leave, Delany sat down and wrote this one, another novella of nearly Empire Star length. Delany didn't write a lot of stories - preferring, apparently, the longer form - but when he did, they're unsurprisingly excellent. And it's even better, developing a r Well, these are great. The Star Pit (NYC, Oct 1965) So apparently immediately after writing the exuberantly entertaining interstellar fairytale Empire Star in something like 10 days in order to finance a trip to Europe, before even getting to leave, Delany sat down and wrote this one, another novella of nearly Empire Star length. Rooted in the present, projected into the future, it is an existence where anything can happen-and does!. in a world where not dying is the ultimate form of punishment.Īnd in a remote outpost near Canada, a lone cluster of Hell's Angels prepare for the final battle with a society which demands that all men share in the good life.
so that others may explore the outer limits of sexual perversion.įar beneath the surface of the planet earth, a doomed architect lives out the rest of his years in a hideous life-sustaining coffin. From Ganymede to Gomorrah, a bizarre breed of planet-hopping humans sell their sexless, neutered bodies.
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