Time Considered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Stones (1968) [Short Story]
by Samuel R. Delany
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Summary
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A chameleon-like future petty criminal has hopes to make it to the big time.
First published in New Worlds, December 1968. Reprinted in:
- World's Best Science Fiction: 1969 (1969)
- Driftglass (1971)
- The Complete Nebula Award-Winning Fiction (1986)
- Worlds Apart (1986)
- The Best of the Nebulas (1989)
- Driftglass/Starshards (1993)
- Aye, And Gomorrah: And Other Stories (2003)
Original title: Time Considered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Stones
Original languages:
English
Quotes:
Genre: Fiction→ Science Fiction→ Social Criticism
Fiction→ Science Fiction→ Planets & Societies→ Future Earths
This work is a subwork of the following works :
World's Best Science Fiction: 1969 (1969) [Anthology]
Authors: Kurt Vonnegut
, Brian W. Aldiss
, Samuel R. Delany
, Poul Anderson
, Fred Saberhagen
, Fritz Leiber
, Damon Knight
, Robert Sheckley
, Robert Silverberg
, Terry Carr
, R. A. Lafferty
, Laurence Yep
, Sydney J. Van Scyoc
, Katherine MacLean
, Colin Kapp
, Burt K. Filer
, H.H. Hollis
, E.G. Von Wald
Nebula Award Stories 5 (1970) [Anthology]
Authors: Ursula K. Le Guin
, Harlan Ellison
, Samuel R. Delany
, Larry Niven
, Robert Silverberg
, Theodore Sturgeon
, Alexei Panshin
, Darko Suvin
Driftglass (1971) [Collection]
Author: Samuel R. Delany
Popular Fiction: An Anthology (1997) [Anthology]
Authors: Bram Stoker
, Edgar Allan Poe
, Ursula K. Le Guin
, Rudyard Kipling
, Stephen King
, Agatha Christie
, H. P. Lovecraft
, Louisa May Alcott
, Isaac Asimov
, Ambrose Bierce
, Ray Bradbury
, Edgar Rice Burroughs
, Arthur Conan Doyle
, Robert A. Heinlein
, Dorothy L. Sayers
, Mary Shelley
, Jules Verne
, H. G. Wells
, William Gibson
, Harlan Ellison
, Clive Barker
, Jack London
, Tanith Lee
, Octavia E. Butler
, Samuel R. Delany
, Dashiell Hammett
, Raymond Chandler
, Catherine Lucille (C.L.) Moore
, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
, Ian Fleming
, Rosamunde Pilcher
, Louis L'Amour
, Marcia Muller
, Mary Roberts Rinehart
, Max Brand
, Walter Mosley
, Tony Hillerman
, Janet Dailey
, Rafael Sabatini
, Baroness Orczy
, H. Rider Haggard
, Jayne Ann Krentz
, Horace Walpole
, Elizabeth Gaskell
, Kathleen E. Woodiwiss
, Zane Grey
, Ray B. Browne
, John G. Cawelti
, Arthur Asa Berger
, Linda Barlow Krentz
, Gail Landsman
, Ernest Mandel
, Jane Tompkins
Aye, and Gomorrah: And Other Stories (2003) [Collection]
Author: Samuel R. Delany
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