Driftglass/Starshards Explained

Driftglass/Starshards
Author:	Samuel R. Delany
Cover Artist:	John Harris
Country:	United Kingdom
Language:	English
Genre:	Science fiction Fantasy Short stories
Publisher:	Grafton
Release Date:	1993
Media Type:	Print (paperback)
Pages:	535 pp
Isbn:	0-586-21422-4
Oclc:	230941720

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.

Every story in this collection was later collected in Aye, and Gomorrah, and other stories, except for "Citre et Trans" and "Erik, Gwen, and D.H. Lawrence’s Esthetic of Unrectified Feeling", which were collected in .

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

• Web site: The Internet Speculative Fiction Database . 2008-01-03 .
• Web site: Contento . William G. . Index to Science Fiction Anthologies and Collections . 2008-01-03 .