The American Shore
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was first published in 1978 to the intense interest of science fiction readers and the growing community of SF scholars. Recalling Nabokov's commentary on Pushkin's
, Roland Barthes's commentary on Balzac's
, and Grabinier's reading of
, this book-length essay helped prove the genre worthy of serious investigation.
is the third in a series of influential critical works by Samuel R. Delany, beginning with
and
, first published in the late seventies and reissued over the last five years by Wesleyan University Press, which helped win Delany a Pilgrim Award for Science Fiction Scholarship from the Science Fiction Research Association of America. This edition includes the author's corrected text as well as a new introduction by Delany scholar Matthew Cheney.
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