Let's make this birthday one to remember.

83 years old (Born on April 01, 1942)

Happy Birthday to the legendary Samuel R. Delany! Your brilliant mind has taken us on journeys through galaxies, languages, and societies—making Babel-17 a linguistic adventure we still puzzle over today (and secretly wish we'd written ourselves). With The Einstein Intersection you bent reality so skillfully that even Einstein himself would have paused for applause.

Beyond your Nebula Awards stacked neatly beside those shiny Hugos, you've boldly explored sexuality and society with essays as groundbreaking as your fiction. Here's hoping this birthday brings joy brighter than any starship warp drive—and may it be filled with laughter stranger yet more delightful than alien encounters in distant worlds!