Theodore Sturgeon and Alfred Bester are the science fiction writers to whom Delany owes most in themes and style, especially evident is the debt of Dhalgren to Sturgeon's More Than Human (1953) and Bester's "Fondly Fahrenheit." Outside of the field, he is indebted to the French Symbolists, especially Arthur Rimbaud, and he is very aware of the Modernists, such as T. S......
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