“All Is Always Now”: Slavery, Retrocausality, and Recidivistic Progress in Samuel R. Delany’s Empire Star (1966)

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Research Article| July 01 2019 “All Is Always Now”: Slavery, Retrocausality, and Recidivistic Progress in Samuel R. Delany’s Empire Star (1966) W. Andrew Shephard W. Andrew Shephard Stanford University, California W. Andrew Shephard is a PhD candidate in English literature at Stanford University. He will begin a position as Assistant Professor in African American Literature at the University of Utah in the fall of 2019. His current research project focuses on African American speculative fiction authors and their engagements with history. He is also the author of the chapter “Afrofuturism of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries” in the recently published Cambridge History of Science Fiction (Cambridge University Press, 2019). Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google CR: The New Centennial Review (2019) 19 (2): 1–20. https://doi.org/10.14321/crnewcentrevi.19.2.0001 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation W. Andrew Shephard; “All Is Always Now”: Slavery, Retrocausality, and Recidivistic Progress in Samuel R. Delany’s Empire Star (1966). CR: The New Centennial Review 1 July 2019; 19 (2): 1–20. doi: https://doi.org/10.14321/crnewcentrevi.19.2.0001 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All Scholarly Publishing CollectiveMichigan State University PressCR: The New Centennial Review Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. © Michigan State University Board of Trustees Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.