Distant Stars is a 1981 collection of science fiction and fantasy short stories by American writer Samuel R. Delany. Many of the stories originally appeared in the magazines The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Algol and New Worlds, while the novella Empire Star was originally published as an Ace Double with Tree Lord of Imeten by Tom Purdom.

• Of Doubts and Dreams
• "Prismatica"
• "Corona"
• "Empire Star"
• "Time Considered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Stones"
• "Omegahelm"
• "Ruins"
• "We, in Some Strange Power’s Employ, Move on a Rigorous Line"

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