7/4/2023 0 Comments Empire star samuel r delany![]() Delany was justly among the most celebrated SF writers of the 60s and 70s. ![]() ![]() My original copy of the two books, bought in 1975 for $1.25, is not bound dos-a-dos like a typical Ace Double - I think this is a still later reissue of the 1973 Ace Double, but I may be wrong - perhaps this was the 1973 version (though $1.25 seems a high price). The Ballad of Beta-2 and Empire Star were later reissued together as #20571 in the last year of Ace Doubles, 1973. Delany had 5 novels appear as part of Ace Doubles: his first, The Jewels of Aptor the first two novels in his Fall of the Towers trilogy The Ballad of Beta-2, and this one. To the best of my knowledge, neither book appeared in any other form previous to this publication. Empire Star is about 29,000 words long, The Tree Lord of Imeten is about 48,000 words. Delany certainly isn't forgotten, but to an extent Empire Star is underappreciated (in my opinion), and Tom Purdom is surely a writer who deserves a wider audience. This books pairs a very interesting early novel (or novella) by one of the greatest of SF writers (and a newly minted SFWA Grandmaster) with an enjoyable early novel by a favorite writer of mine, a man whose work flew largely under the radar until a modest increase in visibility engendered by a late career resurgence. Not having finished reading my latest old bestseller, I'm turning to an Ace Double, as noted previously also an interest of mine. ![]() Delany/ The Tree Lord of Imeten, by Tom Purdom ![]()
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