A dealer's room is a dangerous place

[fivemack]

I know Stars in my Pockets ... is the first half of an unfinished duology; is it a sane second Delaney to read, after Triton long ago?

The first half of the Peter F Hamilton I have on (DRMed) disc, but the e-publisher hasn't released the second half in that format.

Several people pointed out even at the con that you can read award shortlists much more cheaply, in shoulder-strain and wallet-ache and waste of bookcase alike, if you wait a year ... but having obtained this pile, where should I start?

Comments

[dd-b.livejournal.com]

Delany was one of my favorite authors -- until Dhalgren. Triton was a *little* better, but I haven't read any fiction of his since then; I gave up.

I'd suggest that somebody interested in Delany should read his Driftglass collection, whether or not they also like his later work.

I have a strange or at least rare fondness for Donald Moffitt, so The Jupiter Theft should get read eventually (I don't like his "Crescent in the Sky" books so much, but they might make interesting reading against today's geopolitics).

[beamjockey.livejournal.com]

I'd suggest that somebody interested in Delany should read his Driftglass collection, whether or not they also like his later work.

Second the motion. Emphatically.

If you don't have Driftglass, but you do have an Ipod, here is the radio production of "The Star Pit," starring Delany himself, at an age when he was a blazing young star in the SF firmament.

I haven't listened to it yet myself.