Distant Stars

Distant Stars
Cover from the first edition
Author(s)	Samuel R. Delany
Illustrator	John Pierard, John Collier, John Jude Palencar, Jeannette Adams, John Coffey, John Pound and Michael Sorkin
Cover artist	Michael Whelan
Country	United States
Language	English
Genre(s)	Science fiction Short stories
Publisher	Bantam Books
Publication date	1981
Media type	Print (Paperback)
Pages	352 pp
ISBN	0-533-01336-X

Distant Stars is a 1981 collection of short stories by Samuel R. Delany. Many of the stories originally appeared in the magazines The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Algol and New Worlds, while the novella Empire Star was originally published as an Ace Double with Tree Lord of Imeten by Tom Purdom.

Contents

• Of Doubts and Dreams
• "Prismatica"
• "Corona"
• "Empire Star"
• "Time Considered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Stones"
• "Omegahelm"
• "Ruins"
• "We, in Some Strange Power’s Employ, Move on a Rigorous Line"

References

• "The Internet Speculative Fiction Database". http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?DSTNTSTRS371981. Retrieved 2008-01-02. 
• Contento, William G.. "Index to Science Fiction Anthologies and Collections". http://contento.best.vwh.net/t122.htm#A2612. Retrieved 2008-01-02.