Source: Wikipedia. Commentary (novels not included). Pages: 41. Chapters: Dhalgren, Our Lady of the Assassins, The Man Who Fell in Love with the Moon, Death in Venice, The Line of Beauty, The Man from C.A.M.P., At Swim, Two Boys, Kiss of the Spider Woman, Gay male pulp fiction, The Front Runner, Strange Brother, Hero, The Wanting Seed, Reflections in a Golden Eye, The Talented Mr. Ripley, Gay novel, The Cronnex, The Immoralist, Death of a Monk, City of Night, Havemercy, Confessions of a Mask, Joseph and His Friend: A Story of Pennsylvania, Queens, An Arrow's Flight, Dream Boy, Wings, Edinburgh, The Boys on the Rock, The Romanian: Story of an Obsession, A Visitation of Spirits, The Season of the Witch, Frisk, Imre: A Memorandum, Pilcrow, Autobiography of Red, Midnight Cowboy, Peculiar Chris, The Lazarus Heart, Embrace, Venus Plus X, Small g: a Summer Idyll. Excerpt: Dhalgren is a science fiction novel by Samuel R. Delany. The story begins with a cryptic passage: to wound the autumnal city.So howled out for the world to give him a name.The in-dark answered with wind. What follows is an extended trip to and through Bellona, a fictional city in the American Midwest cut off from the rest of the world by some unknown catastrophe. William Gibson has referred to Dhalgren as "A riddle that was never meant to be solved." An event horizon, enveloping Bellona, prevents all radio and television signals, even phone messages, from entering or leaving the city. A rift may have been created in space-time. One night the perpetual cloud cover parts to reveal two moons in the darkness. One day a red sun swollen to hundreds of times the size it ordinarily appears rises to terrify the populace, then sets¿and the same featureless cloud cover returns, with no hint that it was ever otherwise. Street signs and landmarks shift constantly, while time appears to contract and dilate. Buildings burn for days, but are never consumed, while others burn and later show no signs of damage. Gangs roam the nighttime streets, their members hidden within holographic projections of gigantic insects or mythological creatures. The few people left in Bellona struggle with survival, boredom, and each other. It is their reactions to (and dealings with) the strange happenings and isolation in the city that are the focus of the novel, rather than the happenings themselves. The novel's protagonist is a drifter who suffers from partial amnesia: he can remember neither his own name nor the names of his parents, though he knows his mother was an American Indian. He wears only one sandal, shoe, or boot. (Characters in two other Delany novels and one short story dress the same way: Mouse in Nova , Hogg in Hogg , and Roger in "We, in Some Strange Power's Employ Move on a Rigorous Line" ). Possibly he is intermittently schizophrenic. Not only does the novel end in schizoid babble (