This can totally be read without reading Dhalgren--I didn't make it clear that the connections are thematic (and in motifs, too, such as people wearing mirrors), not plot-wise.
Intro to Delany, hmm...I think this book is as good a place to start as any, really. The thing is that his career divides into sff and not-sff, and his sff further divides into, basically, the 60s (culminating with Nova), and the 70s-80s. The later stuff is what's chock-full of critical theory in action; Trouble on Triton or maybe Tales of Neverÿon are good places to start on that front. For his earlier stuff, my favorites are Nova, Babel-17, and The Fall of the Towers.
I wanted to kill Bron too. But I think the narrative makes it fairly clear that Bron doesn't deserve too much sympathy, which makes it easier to read.
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Intro to Delany, hmm...I think this book is as good a place to start as any, really. The thing is that his career divides into sff and not-sff, and his sff further divides into, basically, the 60s (culminating with Nova), and the 70s-80s. The later stuff is what's chock-full of critical theory in action; Trouble on Triton or maybe Tales of Neverÿon are good places to start on that front. For his earlier stuff, my favorites are Nova, Babel-17, and The Fall of the Towers.
I wanted to kill Bron too. But I think the narrative makes it fairly clear that Bron doesn't deserve too much sympathy, which makes it easier to read.