<p><b>''Delany''s works have become essential to the history of science fiction'' <i>New Yorker</i></b><br><br>Samuel Delany is one of the most radical and influential science fiction writers of our age, who reinvented the genre with his fearless explorations of race, class and gender. <i>Driftglass</i> is the definitive volume of his stories, featuring neutered space travellers, telepathy, Hells Angels and genetically modified amphibious workers.<br><br>''Delany''s books interweave science fiction with histories of race, sexuality and control. In so doing, he gives readers fiction that reflects and explores the social truths of our world'' <i>The </i><i>New York Times</i></p>