Since then, every two or three years, WBAI’s Jim Freund has found a post-midnight slot for it on one holiday or another, when someone working at the station wanted to take a night off. That year I came in when they ran it, to reminisce about it for the listeners, before and after it aired. There was another year break then it ran for three more years.īy the show’s tenth anniversary, WBAI had relocated in a large church basement on East 58th Street. The main characters of this science fiction, fiction story are. The book was published in multiple languages including English, consists of 311 pages and is available in Paperback format. The first edition of the novel was published in December 2001, and was written by Samuel R.
THE STAR PIT SAMUEL R DELANY PDF
I stayed up (or got up) to hear it twice in that time. Free download or read online Babel-17/Empire Star pdf (ePUB) book. For a while it was something of a New York autumn tradition. It's also quite long, which means that for logistical reasons, they can play it when the staff need time off, notably not just at Thanksgiving.Īfter skipping a year, for the next six years The Star-Pit played annually over WBAI, usually around Thanksgiving-running from four to six in the morning, or sometimes from three till five a.m. Primarily for New Yorkers treated to this Thanksgiving tradition, was there any special reason why this was played at Thanksgiving?Īccording to Delaney it simply became a tradition, presumably because having played it at Thanksgiving once (and it being well received), they decided to do it again.ĭELANY: Did you ever hear of the radio play made out of The Star-Pit? For a decade it was played over WBAI once a year as a Thanksgiving tradition. WBAI-FM would go on to present Delany’s The Star-Pit at Thanksgiving over the next ten years.
I responded immediately: “Why not simply do ‘The Star-Pit’ itself?”
“I was wondering whether you might like to write something on that order as, say, a radio play.” “I really enjoyed that story of yours in Worlds of Tomorrow this last winter-‘The Star-Pit.’” Mr. In the year of his death, it had been my father’s favorite radio station. His name was unfamiliar, but I knew of WBAI and had listened to it on and off. In early spring of ’67, when I was living intermittently with Marilyn on East 10th Street, I received a phone call from someone who said he was Baird Searles-Drama and Literature Director for WBAI-FM. And Richard Lupoff chose it for What If? Volume 3.ĭelany himself collected “The Star Pit” in his great first collection Driftglass, and in a later collection, Aye, and Gomorrah. Gardner Dozois put it in his anthology with a similar title (and ambition) to Silverberg’s: Modern Classic Short Novels of Science Fiction. Robert Silverberg anthologized it twice – not just in Alpha 5 but in the Arbor House Treasury of Great Science Fiction Short Novels. It was in Judith Merril’s SF 12, the very last outing for her seminal series. The Star Pit was a finalist for the 1968 Hugo for Best Novella, which went in a tie to “Riders of the Purple Wage” by Philip Jose Farmer and “Weyr Search” by Anne McCaffrey. (Our thanks to Tom Whitmore, who retyped and edited a transcription of the 1968 Hugo Awards Ceremony made by Alva Rogers for a planned “Proceedings of Baycon (1968 Worldcon).” See Tom’s notes within the document regarding the history of the transcription and his work on it.Samuel Delany’s first published short story was The Star-Pit and ran in the February 1967 issue of Worlds of Tomorrow.Īrguably considered the best science fiction story of 1967, Black Gate noted the accolades this story received: Transcript of 1968 Hugo Awards Ceremony (PDF) ( DOCX)
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