Sometimes veins work their way through in patterns like snowflakes, regular and geometric others, irregular and angled like coral. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2. That sense of opacity of writing comes up a lot in the book. In NovemberDelany turned “The Star Pit” into a two hour radio drama, in which he starred, and which was broadcast annually in New Driffglass for a decade. I love how the story combines the sensibilities of Steinbeck with science fiction, but it is told with Delany’s unique voice and vision. Oh, and some more about provincialism and perspective. On the contrary, it reinforces the joy of the hunt, emphasizing what is very much a human endeavour. It is a far more nuanced take on transformation, and transcendence, arguing as it seems to do on the one hand that humans deal with change, even radical physical augmentation, in a surprisingly straightforward way, and, on the other hand, that this inability to understand the significance of what such transformation might entail becomes our own undoing. Posted by Tito at 8: You are commenting using your Twitter account. This is one of two fantasies in the collection and what fantasy there is, is subdued, mostly in the minds of the driftglaxs. Otherwise, his prose is as evocative and compelling as any author in SF. And if you have, then this collection is still a wonderful synopsis of some of his finest early writing.īut its likely to still connect with gays, and could potentially open the eyes of straights in more traditional societies. Honestly, Deiftglass think Delany was trying too hard to write the next Jabberwocky-styled classic instead of sticking with what he knew best. Short Science Fiction Analysis: Driftglass, by Samuel R.
Heinlein may have come up with the term himself, but there is one earlier citation: Except he would also seem to have only just arrived at Heavenly Delxny in November ’66, posing something of a puzzle. Mainly there is the parallel between the frelks seeking liason with spacers in back alleys and certain established driftglaes of city parks with the necessarily circumspect arrangements made by gays in pre-Stonewall times and later. Driftglaass was far ahead of his time, not so much with the nuts and bolts engineering aspects but with the social insights, the attitudes to questions of gender, sexuality, culture. Granted, The Star Pit has a pretty dense plot, too. Science fiction by a master of the genre.Īnd it’s even better, developing a rather more complicated system of ideas about freedom and superceding constraints of place and world-view. Driftglass on *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers.
“Driftglass” is a lovely story about a type of military unit which uses technology to allow humans to live underwater. In that story, humans have to adapt to a ocean. My interest in Driftglass stemmed from reading a James Blish short story called Surface Tension.
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