DELANY, Samuel R.
Through the Valley of the Nest of Spiders

In 2007, days before his seventeenth birthday, Eric Jeffers meets nineteen-year-old Morgan Haskell, as well as half-a-dozen other gay men who live and work in Diamond Harbor. The boys become a couple, and for the next twenty years, labor as garbage men along the coast, sharing their lives and their lovers, learning to negotiate a committed open relationship. For a decade, they manage a rural movie theater that shows pornographic films and encourages gay activity among the audience. Finally, they become handymen for a burgeoning lesbian art colony on nearby Gilead Island, as the world moves twenty years, forty years, sixty years into a future that is fascinating, glorious, and—sometimes—terrifying. [publishers’ note]

First published in 2012, Through the Valley of the Nest of Spiders is Delany’s “other” monumental masterpiece. This new edition was revised and corrected by the author in 2019.

Cover painting by Mia Wolf.

Self-Published, 2020
Literature / Science/Fiction