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"Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand" really messed me up as a young lad, I had no business reading that at that age. As an adult I went back and read most o
by marktangotango 9y ago
"Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand" really messed me up as a young lad, I had no business reading that at that age. As an adult I went back and read most of his stuff, it aged really well, Star Pit and Einstein Intersection are two favorites of mine. His work really had no contemporaries in that era. At least not that I ever read.
- lobster_johnson 9y agoI dunno, Philip K. Dick, Stanislaw Lem, Ursula LeGuin and Harlan Ellison were certainly on par with Delaney in the soft/mind-bending category. In my opinion, they have aged better; much of the more overtly experimental sci-fi of the late 1960s and early 1970s feels a bit dated today. J. G. Ballard comes to mind (his non-sci-fi novels are much better). On the other hand, there is some brilliant stuff (like R. A. Lafferty, and William Borroughs's sci-fi stuff) that is undeservedly forgotten.
- TheOtherHobbes 9y agoMy first introduction to SF was finding Lafferty and Delaney and Lem and Dick in random raids of the SF section in a small provincial library. I've been spoiled ever since. I grew up assuming all SF was that creative, literate, and fascinatingly weird. Sadly that turned out not to be true.
- user51442 9y agoRoger Zelazny? He gives an amusing account of him and Delany signing each others books here: http://www.tor.com/2016/05/26/a-few-more-words-from-roger-zelazny-on-ellison-delany-and-brust/ http://www.tor.com/2016/05/26/a-few-more-words-from-roger-ze...