Samuel R. Delany

A young man arrives in the anarchic city of Bellona, in a near future USA. This world has two moons but could otherwise be our own. The man, known only as 'the Kid' begins to write a novel called Dhalgren that begins where it ends. Dhalgren is about the possibilites of fiction and aboout the special demands and pleasures of youth culture.

Dhalgren

Journeying to the central United States city of Bellona, where all have fled save madmen and criminals, a poet and adventurer known only as the Kid wonders at the strange portents that appear in the city's cloud-covered sky.

Edward Steel

Shea Newton

A hard book to recommend or to explain what, if anything happens over the course of 801 pages. But it was a fantastic, brutal, visceral, and disorienting read. I gave five stars, it was written in the 70's and all the post apocalyptic, punk, bizarro, etc., sci-fi that I've read before owes this book so so much. It is hard to even call it sci-fi. It seems something like stream of unstable consciousness magical realism, but that doesn't quite do it...

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