Samuel Delany is the brightest star of science fiction of the 20th century, one of the symbols of the American “new wave” along with Ursula Le Guin and Roger Zelazny and one of its finest stylists, winner of a bountiful harvest of major genre awards: four Nebulas and a Hugo. - and all this when he was not yet 27 years old. This book contains the most striking novel of his classical period - "Nova", which laid one of the building blocks of what a decade and a half later became cyberpunk, as well as an almost complete collection of the master's short form - the latest, expanded version of the author's collection "Yes, and Gomorrah"; the novel is presented in a new translation, many stories and novellas are published in Russian for the first time, the rest - in a new edition. Together with Lork von Ray and the cyber pins of the Roc Bird, you will dive into the heart of a collapsing star, spend the golden children in the endless night at the Star Station at the edge of the galaxy, and, having acquired gills and membranes, plunge into the ocean depths, and feel time as a spiral of semi-precious stones... “Delaney is not just one of the best science fiction writers of our time, but also an outstanding writer in general, the inventor of his own unique style” (Umberto Eco).