{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"","title":"Dhalgren's Fluid City: Delany's Queer Ruins","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/6a28001ca917ce4c7065c483/2aab4592-07ee-43ce-8cb7-f22746307e36.jpg?height=200","description":"Samuel R. Delany's Dhalgren (1975) is 800 pages long, has sold over a million copies, and has never been out of print — despite being formally experimental, sexually explicit, and radically queer. The novel follows Kid, a bisexual, possibly Native American young man with memory loss, through Bellona, a city cut off from the rest of America where the sun sometimes rises twice and gangs wear holographic projectors as armor. Delany was a Black, gay, dyslexic writer from Harlem who had already won four Hugo and Nebula awards before he was 27. Dhalgren is his masterpiece and his most personal work, drawing on his experience of queer community, urban decay, and the sexual liberation movements of the early 1970s. This episode examines the novel's extraordinary ambition, its place in queer literary history, and how it challenged every convention of SF while remaining undeniably science fiction.","author_name":"Atween Studios"}