Dhalgren by Samuel R. DelanyA Joycean masterpiece, a metaphysical metanarrational modernist mindjob. Delany's poetic prose and unflinching look at polyamory, violence, race, materialism, memory, identity, and survival in a city that has undergone a minor apocalypse is an elegant feat not to be matched elsewhere in American letters. A tour-de-force, and one of the greatest novels of the fantastic ever written.