sfadb : Samuel R. Delany Awards (original) (raw)
Awards Summary
Career and Special Awards: 7
Major Awards: 6
Locus Awards: 1
Other Awards: 2
Total Number of Award Wins and Nominations: 70
— Living Inductee — winner
World Fantasy Awards — for Fantasy works; juried, with nominations from World Fantasy Con members
— life achievement — winner
Eaton Award — for best critical book, to 2001; since 2008, for lifetime achievement, juried
— lifetime achievement in science fiction — winner
— special achievement — winner
Lambda Award — for gay and lesbian literature, juried
— lifetime award — winner
Pilgrim Award — for lifetime contribution to SF and fantasy scholarship
— winner
Hugo Awards — for SF/F works, voted by members of annual World Science Fiction Convention
(11 nominations; 2 wins)
About Writing: Seven Essays, Four Letters, and Five Interviews (Wesleyan University Press) — related book — nomination
Silent Interviews: On Language, Race, Sex, Science Fiction, and Some Comics (University Press of New England/Wesleyan) — nonfiction book — nomination
The Motion of Light In Water: Sex and Science Fiction Writing in the East Village 1957-1965 (Arbor House/Morrow) — nonfiction book — winner
“Prismatica” (F&SF Oct 1977) — novelette — nomination
“Time Considered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Stones” (World's Best Science Fiction: 1969; New Worlds Dec 1968) — short story — winner
Nova (Doubleday) — novel — nomination
“Lines of Power” (F&SF May 1968) — novella — nomination
The Einstein Intersection (Ace) — novel — nomination
“The Star Pit” (Worlds of Tomorrow Feb 1967) — novella — nomination
“Aye, and Gomorrah...” (Dangerous Visions) — short story — nomination
Babel-17 (Ace) — novel — nomination
Nebula Awards — for SF/F works, voted by SF & Fantasy Writers of America professional membership
(10 nominations; 4 wins)
“The Tale of Gorgik” (Asimov's SF Adventure Summer 1979) — novella — nomination
Triton (Bantam) — novel — nomination
Dhalgren (Bantam) — novel — nomination
“Time Considered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Stones” (World's Best Science Fiction: 1969) — novelette — winner
“Lines of Power” (F&SF May 1968) — novella — nomination
The Einstein Intersection (Ace) — novel — winner
“Aye, and Gomorrah...” (Dangerous Visions) — short story — winner
“Driftglass” (If Jun 1967) — short story — nomination
Babel-17 (Ace) — novel — winner (tie)
The Ballad of Beta-2 (Ace) — novella — nomination
(1 nomination)
Stars In My Pocket Like Grains of Sand (Grafton) — shortlist
(4 nominations)
Stars In My Pocket Like Grains of Sand (Wesleyan University Press) — special mention
“The Splendor and the Misery of Bodies, of Cities (excerpt)” (The Review of Contemporary Fiction Fall 1996) — long list
Babel-17 (Ace) — retrospective Tiptree short list
Triton (Bantam) — retrospective Tiptree short list
Locus Awards — for SF/F/H works, polled by readers of Locus Magazine
(27 nominations; 1 win)
“The Hermit of Houston” (F&SF Sep/Oct 2017) — novelette — winner
In Search of Silence: The Journals of Samuel R. Delany, Volume 1, 1957-1969 (Wesleyan University Press) — non-fiction — 5th place
About Writing: Seven Essays, Four Letters, and Five Interviews (Wesleyan) — non-fiction — 2nd place
Aye, and Gomorrah: Stories (Vintage) — collection — 9th place
Silent Interviews: On Language, Race, Sex, Science Fiction, and Some Comics (University Press of New England/Wesleyan) — nonfiction — 2nd place
Driftglass/Starshards (Grafton) — collection — 20th place
The Motion of Light In Water: Sex and Science Fiction Writing in the East Village 1957-1965 (Arbor House/Morrow) — related nonfiction — 2nd place
The Bridge of Lost Desire (Arbor House) — collection — 13th place
The Complete Nebula Award-Winning Fiction (Bantam Spectra) — collection — 20th place
Flight from Nevèrÿon (Bantam) — collection — 14th place
Stars In My Pocket Like Grains of Sand (Bantam) — sf novel — 4th place
Starboard Wine (Dragon Press) — nonfiction/reference — 10th place
Neveryóna (Bantam) — fantasy novel — 10th place
Distant Stars (Bantam) — single author collection — 11th place
Nebula Winners Thirteen (Harper & Row) — anthology — 16th place
Tales of Nevèrÿon (Bantam) — fantasy novel — 3rd place
“The Tale of Gorgik” (Asimov's SF Adventure Summer 1979) — novella — 6th place
The American Shore (Dragon Press) — reference book — 10th place
Empire (by SRD, illustrated by Howard Chaykin) (Berkley) — art or illustrated book — 8th place
“Prismatica” (F&SF Oct 1977) — short fiction — 15th place
Triton (Bantam) — novel — 14th place
Dhalgren (Bantam) — novel — 5th place
QUARK/2 (SRD & Marilyn Hacker, eds.) (Paperback Library) — original anthology — 12th place
QUARK/3 (SRD & Marilyn Hacker, eds.) (Paperback Library) — original anthology — 10th place (tie)
QUARK/4 (SRD & Marilyn Hacker, eds.) (Paperback Library) — original anthology — 8th place
Driftglass (Science Fiction Book Club; Signet) — reprint anth/collection — 3rd place
QUARK/1 (SRD & Marilyn Hacker, eds.) (Paperback Library) — anthology/collection — 6th place
Ditmar Awards — for Australian SF/F, voted by members of Australian National SF Convention
(1 nomination)
— contemporary writer — nomination
(2 nominations; 2 wins)
Dhalgren — hall of fame — winner
(1 nomination)
— all-time best sf author — 24th place
Lambda Award — for gay and lesbian literature, juried
(3 nominations; 2 wins)
— Pioneer Award — winner
Atlantis: Three Tales (Incunabula; Wesleyan University Press) — sf/fantasy — nomination
Prometheus Awards — for SF works on libertarian themes, voted by members of the Libertarian Futurist Society
(1 nomination)
Tales of Nevèrÿon — novel — nomination
(1 nomination)
“The Tale of Rumor and Desire” (The Bridge of Lost Desire) — novella — 3rd place
Seiun Awards — for SF/F works published in Japan, voted by members of annual Japanese SF Con
(2 nominations)
Dhalgren — translated novel — nomination
The Einstein Intersection — overseas novel — nomination
(1 nomination)
Tales of Nevèrÿon (Bantam) — sf paperback — nomination