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From the four-time Nebula Award–winning author, an indispensable work of science fiction criticism, revised and expanded. Samuel R. Delany's The Jewel-Hinged Jaw appeared originally in 1977, and is now long out of print and hard to find. The impact of its demonstration that science fiction was a special language, rather than just gadgets and green-skinned aliens, began reverberations still felt in science fiction criticism. This edition includes two new essays, one written at the time and one written about those times, as well as an introduction by writer and teacher Matthew Cheney, placing Delany's work in historical context. Close textual analyses of Thomas M. Disch, Ursula K. Le Guin, Roger Zelazny, and Joanna Russ read as brilliantly today as when they first appeared. Essays such as “About 5,750 Words” and “To Read The Dispossessed” first made the book a classic; they assure it will remain one.“Delany's first work of non-fiction, The Jewel Hinged Jaw: Notes on the Language of Science Fiction, remains a benchmark of sf criticism thirty-three years after its initial publication in 1977.... Extensively revised and reissued in 2009, JHJ has become even stronger, containing twelve e

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Author

Samuel R. Delany, Matthew Cheney

Publisher

Brand: Wesleyan; Wesleyan University Press

Published

2009

Language

EN

ISBN

9780819572462

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Criticism, Fiction, Literary Fiction

Rating

4.25 / 5 (31 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13