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Samuel R. Delany (b. April 1, 1942 in New York City) is an award-winning American author of science fiction and fantasy fiction and criticism.

He won back-to-back best novel Nebula Awards for Babel-17 (1966) and The Einstein Intersection (1967); he also won the Nebula for short story in 1967 for "Aye, and Gomorrah".

His 1969 novelette "Time Considered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Stones" won both the Nebula and Hugo Awards. He won a nonfiction Hugo for The Motion of Light in Water: Sex and Science Fiction Writing in the East Village, 1957-1965 (1989, Arbor House).

He has won two Lambda Literary Awards: in 1995, in the Science Fiction and Fantasy category for Atlantis: Three Tales, and in 1999 in Gay Men's Studies, for Times Square Red, Times Square Blue.

His other novels include Nova (1968), Dhalgren (1975), Triton (1976, later reissued with Delany's preferred title Trouble on Triton), and Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand (1984).

The ciritcal success of Dhalgren cemented Delany's position in the pantheon of the American New Wave of the mid-1960s to mid-1970s (see discussion at Dhalgren).

Delany's later work includes the fantasy series Neveryóna (1983), Return to Nevèrÿon (1987) (also published as The Bridge of Lost Desire), and Flight from Nevèrÿon (1985).

Delany's short fiction has been collected in Driftglass (1971) and Distant Stars (1981).

Delany's works of science fiction criticism include The Jewel-Hinged Jaw (1977), The American Shore (a 1978 study of Thomas Disch's "Angouleme"), and Starboard Wine (1982), all issued by Dragon Press; and Silent Interviews: On Language, Race, Sex, Science Fiction and Some Comics (Wesleyan University Press, 1994).

Delany is currently a professor of English and Creative Writing in the English Department of the College of Liberal Arts at Temple University in Philadelphia.