When this richly written novel first appeared in 1974, Samuel R. Delany began to sweep up what would eventually exceed a million readers with his tale of Bellona, a city at the center of the United States, shaken by a catastrophe that has unhinged the very structure of reality. Skies darkened by smoke from burning buildings, population reduced to youth gangs, drifters, prophets, and perverts, Bellona is a city where a young man known only as the Kid - poet, lover, and finally a leader of the volatile "scorpions" - tries to create a life for himself and those around him in a landscape where two moons can suddenly shine through the night clouds or a sun thousands of times larger than any ever seen before may rise - and set - in a day. Dhalgren is a novel that interrogates a range of inchoately American oppositions: black and white, male and female, gay and straight, sane and mad.

Udgivet af Gollancz 1905

Samuel R. Delany
Amerikansk forfatter som voksede op I Harlem I New York. Han har skrevet mange bøger gennem årene men allerede I 1967 vandt han to Nebula priser, den ene for sin roman "The Einstein Intersection" og den anden for novellen "Aye, and Gomorrah…", og vandt både Hugo og Nebula I 1969 for novellen "Time Considered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Stones". Andre af Delaney's mest kendte værker er fantasy-serien om "Neveryon", samt murstensværjet "Dhalgren".