The Ballad of Beta-2

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Author(s):

Samuel R Delany

First Pub:

1965

Genre(s):

Science Fiction

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Internal ID:

191

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Added: 29-Dec-2002

Last Updated: 27-Apr-2020

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Author(s)

Samuel R Delany
Birth: 01 Apr 1942 New York City

Notes:

From the Random House Website:

After his seventh novel Empire Star (1966), Samuel Delany began publishing short fiction professionally with “The Star Pit.” It appeared in Worlds of Tomorrow and was turned into a popular two-hour radio play, broadcast annually over WBAI-FM for more than a decade. Two tales, “Aye, and Gomorrah” and “Time Considered as a Helix of Semi-precious Stones,” won Nebula Awards as best SF short stories of, respectively, 1967 and 1969. Aye, and Gomorrah contains all the significant short science fiction and fantasy Delany published between 1965 and 1988, excepting only those tales in his Return to Nevèrÿon series. A native New Yorker, Delany teaches English and Creative Writing at Temple University in Philadelphia. In July of 2002 he was inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame.

Awards

1966

Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America

Nebula Award - Best Novella

Nominee

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