Dhalgren (Magill’s Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature)
At a glance:
- Author: Samuel R. Delany
- First Published: 1975
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Science fiction—New Wave
- Time of Work: The 1970’s
- Setting: Bellona, an imaginary American city
- Genres: Long fiction, Science fiction
- Subjects: 1970’s, United States or Americans, Space and time, Quest, Anarchism or anarchists
- Locales: Earth, alternate versions of
The Plot
Written over a period of four years and spanning more than eight hundred pages, Dhalgren is Samuel R. Delany’s magnum opus. Dhalgren’s main character is the twenty-seven- year-old Kid, who suffers from selective amnesia and other mental disturbances. At the novel’s start, Kid is hitchhiking to Bellona, a midwestern city trapped by a mysterious disaster in a shifting zone of reality where time runs in loops and occasionally a giant red sun or two moons appear in the heavens.
On his way into Bellona, Kid meets a strange Asian woman who, after...
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