Driftglass/Starshards

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image_caption = Cover from the first edition
author = Samuel R. Delany
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cover_artist = John Harris
country = United Kingdom
language = English
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genre = Science fiction Short stories
publisher = Grafton
release_date = 1993
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media_type = Print (Paperback)
pages = 535 pp
isbn = ISBN 0-586-21422-4
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"Driftglass/Starshards" is a 1993 collection of short stories by Samuel R. Delany. The collection contains the entire contents of Delany's 1971 collection, "Driftglass", stories from "Distant Stars" (1981) and others that had not previously been collected. Many of the stories originally appeared in the magazines "Worlds of Tomorrow", "The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction", "If" and "New Worlds" or the anthologies "Quark/3", "Dangerous Visions" and "Alchemy & Academe".

Contents

* Of Doubts and Dreams
* Part One
** "The Star Pit"
** "Corona"
** "Aye, and Gomorrah..."
** "Driftglass"
** "We, in Some Strange Power’s Employ, Move on a Rigorous Line"
** "Cage of Brass"
** "High Weir"
** "Time Considered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Stones"
** "Omegahelm"
* Part Two
** "Prismatica"
** "Ruins"
** "Dog in a Fisherman’s Net"
** "Night and the Loves of Joe Dicostanzo"
* Part Three
** "Among the Blobs"
** "Citre et Trans"
** "Erik, Gwen, and D.H. Lawrence’s Esthetic of Unrectified Feeling"

References

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