The Einstein intersection

About “The Einstein intersection”

The Einstein Intersection by Samuel Delany won the Nebula Award for best science fiction novel of 1967. The story follows Lo Lobey, a member of an alien race that has settled among human artifacts. He struggles to assimilate human mythology. The novel also explores how those who are "different" navigate dominant cultural ideologies. Lobey embarks on a mythic quest to find his lost love, Friza. Written in luminous and hallucinated language, the novel examines how new myths can arise from the remnants of human culture as outsiders seek to claim their place in history.