Lightspeed Leapfrog: The Ballad of Beta-2 has an anthropology student sent to investigate the culture of a fleet of Generation Ships which had arrived at their destination long after it had already been colonized by FTL.Instrumental Weapon: In The Einstein Intersection, Lo Lobey has a machete which has been modified to work as a flute.

Human Outside, Alien Inside: In City of a Thousand Suns, an alien is described as looking exactly like a human woman, but 'nternal examination and genetic analysis would prove her a bisexual species of moss.'.

Grossout Show: Hogg, an intentionally-offensive novel full of Gratuituous Rape, Gorn and overall depravity.

The procedure is called 'Radical Anxiety Termination', and the resulting slaves are therefore referred to as 'rats'. The downside is that they must volunteer for slavery as payment.

Getting Smilies Painted on Your Soul: In Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand, people can actually volunteer for this, and be guaranteed happiness for the rest of their lives.

Everyone Is Bi: In Triton, not everyone is bi but most people are.

Dilating Door: Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand had 'the door deliquesced'.

Artificial Meat: Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand has vat grown meat cultures from humans.

The kingdom of Toromon started on an island, and now controls many islands as well as a rare habitable chunk of the mainland.

After the End: In The Fall of the Towers trilogy, hundreds of years have passed since the legendary 'Great Fire', which left most of the world an uninhabitable radioactive wasteland.

Through The Valley Of The Nest Of Spiders (2012).

Stars In My Pockets Like Grains Of Sand (1984).

' Aye, and Gomorrah.' (1967) (can be found in Dangerous Visions).Captives Of The Flame (aka Out of the Dead City) (1963).His best known novels include Babel-17 and The Einstein Intersection (both Nebula winners), Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand, Nova, and Dhalgren. Today, he is a professor of English and Creative Writing at Temple University in Philadelphia. His interest in the literary ideals of the New Wave movement led him to academia, and made him one of the first writers to really cross the bridge between SF and Lit Fic. He was one of the first openly gay SF writers, one of the first really successful African-American SF writers, and almost certainly the first to be both-though the former has had more of an impact on his writing. Generally associated with the New Wave Science Fiction movement of the 1960's, he is often considered a prodigy, since his well-received first novel, The Jewels of Aptor, was written when he was only nineteen, and only a few years later, he was winning Nebula Awards. (born April 1, 1942), 'Chip' to his friends, is an American Science Fiction writer, critic, and academic.

Trouble on Triton by Samuel R. Delany