This has become a fascinating conversation, & I too am grateful to Knut
(and have a great reading at the Stanza Poetry festival, Knut) for his
comments, not least because I too am a huge fan of Delany's writing, &
he has certainly brought the erotic & the political together in a field
where, when he entered it, did not do very much of that. In fact early
SF had little sense of the connections between technology & culture,
nor how culture dealt with the erotic lives of its citizens. Delany
always brought all those fields into interesting strife...
Doug
Douglas Barbour
Department of English
University of Alberta
Edmonton Alberta T6G 2E5 Canada
(780) 436 3320
http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/dbhome.htm
'Goodbye Porkpie Hat': A slow air written by bass legend, band-leader
and composer Charles Mingus . . . . It originally appeared on is 1959
album for Columbia "Migus Ah Um" scored for quintet.
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