Promotional Information

* #6 in the Millennium SF Masterworks series, a library of the finest science fiction ever written * Winner of the Nebula Award as best sf novel of the year * 'The first of a remarkable series of vital and stunning masterpieces, a dazzlingly realised star-spanning epic populated with truly mysterious aliens and humans entirely believable yet gorgeously strange. After this, the future was never the same again' -- Paul J. McAuley

About the Author

Born in 1942 in Harlem, New York, Samuel R. Delany has become one of SF's most influential and discussed authors. He has won the Nebula Award four times and the Hugo twice. Since 2001 he has been Professor of English and Creative Writing at Temple University in Philadelphia.