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''Equinox'' is a 1973 novel by Samuel R. Delany, and is Delany's first published foray into explicitly sexual material. It tells of a series of erotic and violent encounters in a small American seaport following the arrival of an African-American sea captain. It is a non science fiction work, though with fantastic elements.〔Nicholls 1979, pp. 162-163.〕〔Clute and Nicholls 1995, p. 316.〕 Peter Nicholls in ''The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction'' described the work as "serious in intent, though likely to be shocking to most readers in its evocation of the extremes of sadomasochism in imagery which is sometimes poetic and often disgusting -and so intended- perhaps as a Baudelairean ritual of passage".〔〔 ==Publication history== ''Equinox'' was written contemporaneously with ''Dhalgren''.〔Delaney 1999, p. ?〕 ''Equinox'' is Delany's preferred title, but the book was originally released under the title ''The Tides of Lust'', a compromise with the publisher, Lancer Books, who wanted to call it ''Tides of Eros''.〔 In 1975 a translation into the French came out, published by Champ Libre as ''Vice Versa''.〔Barbour 1979, p. 164.〕 The book was first published in the UK in 1980 by Savoy Books of Manchester. 2000 copies were seized by the police (along with 3000 copies of the Charles Platt novel ''The Gas'') and the rest of the printing withdrawn from booksellers. Following a prosecution one of Savoy's partners, David Britton, was sent to prison in May 1982. When republished in the early 1980s, all ages of underage people who performed sexual acts were increased by 100; e.g. there were 109 year old children in the prose. A new American paperback edition was published in January 1994 by Masquerade Books, under the RhinocEros label. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Equinox (novel)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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