Starboard Wine: More Notes on the Language of Science Fiction

“After all the years since it was first published, Starboard Wine remains one of the three or four most important critical statements ever made about science fiction. No one with a serious interest in the field should be ignorant of it.”–Carl Freedman, author of Critical Theory and Science Fiction

“After all the years since it was first published, Starboard Wine remains one of the three or four most important critical statements ever made about science fiction. No one with a serious interest in the field should be ignorant of it.”–Carl Freedman, author of Critical Theory and Science Fiction

“As a fiction writer, reviewer, critic, analyst, and theorist, Delany has done more than anyone to expand how people read, as well as write, science fiction and fantasy. His essays are a seminal achievement by one of the field’s most innovative thinkers.”–David N. Samuelson, professor emeritus, California State University, Long Beach

“Samuel Delany is without doubt a fine writer and intellectual critic without equal.”–S. Raeschild, Choice

SAMUEL R. DELANY is award-winning author of numerous works of fiction and nonfiction, most recently Through the Valley of the Nest of Spiders. He lives in New York City.