Delany's aunts were Sadie and Bessie Delany Delany used some of their adventures as the basis for the adventures of his characters Elsie and Corry in the opening novella Atlantis: Model 1924 in his book of largely autobiographical stories Atlantis: Three Tales.ĭelany attended the Dalton School and the Bronx High School of Science, during which he was selected to attend Camp Rising Sun, the Louis August Jonas Foundation's international summer scholarship program. The family lived in the top two floors of the three-story private house between five- and six-story Harlem apartment buildings. His father, Samuel Ray Delany, Senior, ran a successful Harlem undertaking establishment, Levy & Delany Funeral Home, on 7th Avenue, between 1938 and his death in 1960. His mother, Margaret Carey Boyd Delany, was a library clerk in the New York Public Library system.

He was born to a prominent black family on April 1, 1942, and raised in Harlem. Samuel Ray Delany, also known as 'Chip,' is an award-winning American science fiction author. But they have no idea of Lorq's secret obsession: to gather Illyrion at the source by flying through the very heart of an imploding star. The varied and exotic crew who sign up with Captain Lorq van Ray know their mission is dangerous, and they soon learn that they are involved in a deadly race with the charismatic but vicious leader of an opposing space federation.

The balance of galactic power in the 31st century revolves around Illyrion, the most precious energy source in the universe. the reader observes, recollects, or participates in a range of personal experience including violent pain and disfigurement, sensory deprivation and overload, man-machine communion, the drug experience, the creative experience - and inter-personal relationships which include incest and assassination, father-son, leader-follower, human-pet, and lots more! These are the ways you can read NOVA: as a fast-action farflung interstellar adventure as archetypal mystical/mythical allegory (in which the Tarot and the Grail both figure prominently) as modern myth told in the S-F idiom.

Nova by samuel r delany