![]() Joneny’s initial impression of the Star Folk was based on one superficial study by a scholar who considerately “corrected” some results when the data didn’t line up with expectations. So it is that Joneny is sent off to take a closer look at the Star Folk. ![]() His mentor disagrees, if only because no other culture has ever experienced the depths of interstellar space. Isolationist and backward, the Star Folk seem content to remain in the orbiting reservation the Federation granted them.Īs far as ambitious anthropology student Joneny is concerned, being assigned to study the Star Folk is not an opportunity but a punishment, a task that offers no chance of professional glory. ![]() The Star Folk! What a glorious name! What a deplorable reality! Their flotilla of star ships spent twelve generations traveling from Sol to the Leffer system, only to arrive in a system that has already been settled by humans, thanks to the much faster, much safer hyper-drive. These two books are also very, very short. Expectations based on later works like Dhalgren, Triton, or Through the Valley of the Nest of Spiders may well be misleading. ![]() It’s not quite my first pick for a Delany review for my Because My Tears are Delicious to You series (more on that later), but it is as close as I can come with my current library. ![]() Delany’s 1965 novel The Ballad of Beta‑ 2and his 1966 novel Empire Star. The Ballad of Beta‑ 2 and Empire Star is a 1976 omnibus of Samuel R. ![]()
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