was born on April 1, 1942, and raised in Harlem. Delany received the 2021 Anisfield-Wolf Lifetime Achievement Award. The Science Fiction Writers of America named him its 30th SFWA Grand Master in 2013, and in 2016, he was inducted into the New York State Writers Hall of Fame. Lloyd Eaton Lifetime Achievement Award in Science Fiction from the academic Eaton Science Fiction Conference at UCR Libraries.

In 1997 he won the Kessler Award, and in 2010 he won the third J. įrom January 1975 to May 2015, he was a professor of English, Comparative Literature, and/or Creative Writing at SUNY Buffalo, SUNY Albany, the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and Temple University. After winning four Nebula awards and two Hugo Awards over the course of his career, Delany was inducted in 2002 into the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame. His nonfiction includes Times Square Red, Times Square Blue, About Writing, and eight books of essays. His fiction includes Babel-17, The Einstein Intersection (winners of the Nebula Award for 19, respectively) Nova, Dhalgren, the Return to Nevèrÿon series, and Through the Valley of the Nest of Spiders. His work includes fiction (especially science fiction), memoir, criticism, and essays on science fiction, literature, sexuality, and society.

' Chip' Delany ( / d ə ˈ l eɪ n i/, duh- LAY-nee born April 1, 1942) is an American writer and literary critic. The novel deals with several issues related to the peculiarities of language, how conditions of life shape the formation of words and meaning, and how words themselves can shape the actions of people.Samuel R. She is rescued, however, by her dedicated crew, who figure out the danger and neutralizes its effects. Rydra later finds that she herself is becoming the traitor as she learns more about Babel-17. Rydra realizes it is a language in and of itself, and furthermore that she has a traitor on the ship. Initially Babel-17 is thought to be a code used by enemy agents. She is recruited by her government to discover how the enemy are infiltrating and sabotaging strategic sites. This is discovered by the beautiful star-ship captain, linguist, poet, and telepath Rydra Wong. The change is made more dangerous by the language's seductive enhancement of other abilities. Learning it turns one into an unwilling traitor as it alters perception and thought. During an interstellar war one side develops a language, Babel-17, that can be used as a weapon.

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