Sturgeon called Dhalgren"the very best ever to come out of the science fiction field" (23), while Ellison with signature Waldorf-and-Statlerian flare called it "an unrelenting bore of a literary exercise afflicted with elephantiasis, anemia of ideas and malnutrition of plot and character development. Wood's anthology presents the range of that controversy nicely, bookended in my mind by the reviews of two sf sf greats: Theodore Sturgeon and Harlan Ellison. Dhalgrenhas long been established as an sf classic, and it can be easy to forget what a controversy it kicked up in the sf community when it first appeared. The opening section is titled "Contemporary Reviews, 1975-1976," and in only seven reviews it does a good job of demonstrating the variety of responses Dhalgrenreceived when it was first published.
Delany's Dhalgrenis that it presents a fairly comprehensive timeline of Dhalgren's reception history through the twentieth century. One of the most useful aspects of On Samuel R. These unusual additions make this a unique collection that opens up a number of forgotten or otherwise unexplored avenues into the world of Dhalgrenscholarship. Delany's Dhalgrenis arranged into six sections, covering everything from some contemporary reviews of Dhalgrento its relationship to various other texts, including John Ashbery's "The Instruction Manual" (1956) and Delany's own Hogg(1995). The book we have now exists thanks to Bill Wood, Delany's personal assistant, who helped to make some last-minute additions to the anthology and prepared it for publication with Fantastic Books. This anthology began its existence as a set of Xeroxed documents relating to Dhalgrenin Samuel Delany's personal possession and stayed that way for years before it was published. Delany's Dhalgrenis an eclectic collection of reviews, essays, interviews, and one poem all relating to Delany's most famous novel, published in 1975.
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