The incredible, incomparable Samuel R Delany has been named a Grand Master by the Science Fiction Writers of America. It’s hard to imagine a writer more deserving. You should really read his whole canon, but if I had to pick just one, it’d be Stars in My Pockets Like Grains of Sand, an extraordinary book even among his extraordinary body of work.
This award astonishes me, humbles me, and I am honored by it. It recalls to me–with the awareness of mortality age ushers up–the extraordinary writers who did not live to receive it: Roger Zelazny, Joanna Russ, Thomas M. Disch, Octavia E. Butler–as well, from the generation before me, Katherine MacLean, very much alive. I accept the award for them, too: they are the stellar practitioners without whom my own work, dim enough, would have been still dimmer. ~Samuel R. Delany
2013 Damon Knight Grand Memorial Grand Master Award: Samuel R. Delany
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