Driftglass

Driftglass
	cover of the first edition
Author	Samuel R. Delany
Country	United States
Language	English
Genre	Science fiction; Fantasy; Short stories
Publisher	Signet Books
Publication date	1971
Media type	Print (Hardback & Paperback)
Pages	278 pp

Driftglass is a 1971 collection of science fiction short stories by Samuel R. Delany. The stories originally appeared in the magazines Worlds of Tomorrow, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, If and New Worlds or the anthologies Quark/3, Dangerous Visions and Alchemy & Academe.

"The Star Pit"
"Dog in a Fisherman’s Net"
"Corona"
"Aye, and Gomorrah..."
"Driftglass"
"We, in Some Strange Power’s Employ, Move on a Rigorous Line"^[1]
"Cage of Brass"
"High Weir"
"Time Considered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Stones" (winner of the Hugo Award and Nebula Award)
"Night and the Loves of Joe Dicostanzo"

References

↑ This story is dedicated to Roger Zelazny, of whose work it is a pastiche. Zelazny also appears as a character. "'My name's Roger...' followed by something Polish and unpronounceable that began with Z and ended with Y." (p. 141) It also contains a pre-Internet reference to "a worldwide computer system." (p.155)