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Aye, and Gomorrah: And Other Stories

A father must come to terms with his son's death in the war. In Venice an architecture student commits a crime of passion. A white southern airport loader tries to do a favor for a black northern child. The ordinary stuff of ordinary fiction—but with a difference! These tales take place twenty-five, fifty, a hundred-fifty years from now, when men and women have been given gills to labor under the sea. Huge repair stations patrol the cables carrying power to the ends of the earth. Telepathic and precocious children so passionately yearn to visit distant galaxies that they'll kill to go. Brilliantly crafted, beautifully written, these are Samuel Delany's award-winning stories, like no others before or since.

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3 * The Star Pit * (1967) * novella by Samuel R. Delany

70 * Corona * (1967) * shortstory by Samuel R. Delany

91 * Aye, and Gomorrah ... * (1967) * shortstory by Samuel R. Delany

102 * Driftglass * (1967) * shortstory by Samuel R. Delany

122 * We, in Some Strange Power's Employ, Move on a Rigorous Line * (1968) * novella by Samuel R. Delany (variant of Lines of Power)

182 * Cage of Brass * (1968) * shortstory by Samuel R. Delany

195 * High Weir * (1968) * novelette by Samuel R. Delany

218 * Time Considered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Stones * (1968) * novelette by Samuel R. Delany

260 * Omegahelm * (1981) * shortstory by Samuel R. Delany

273 * Among the Blobs * (1988) * shortstory by Samuel R. Delany

280 * Tapestry * (2003) * shortstory by Samuel R. Delany

285 * Prismatica * (1977) * novelette by Samuel R. Delany

319 * Ruins * (1968) * shortstory by Samuel R. Delany

329 * Dog in a Fisherman's Net * (1971) * shortstory by Samuel R. Delany

351 * Night and the Loves of Joe Dicostanzo * (1970) * shortstory by Samuel R. Delany

372 * Of Doubts and Dreams * (1981) * essay by Samuel R. Delany

Genre
science fictionLGBTfantasy
Themes
LGBT
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 383 pages
Form
short stories

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