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Stories for Chip, a tribute to Samuel R. Delany, edited by Nisi Shawl and Bill Campbell

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Stories for Chip, a tribute to Samuel R. Delany, edited by Nisi Shawl and Bill Campbell
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references
Index
no index present
Literary Form
fiction
Main title
Stories for Chip
Medium
electronic resource eBookAxis 360 electronic resource
Nature of contents
dictionariesbibliography
Responsibility statement
edited by Nisi Shawl and Bill Campbell
Sub title
a tribute to Samuel R. Delany
Summary
Stories for Chip brings together outstanding authors inspired by a brilliant writer and critic, Science Fiction Writers of America Grandmaster Samuel R. "Chip" Delany. Award-winning SF luminaries such as Michael Swanwick, Nalo Hopkinson, and Eileen Gunn contribute original fiction and creative nonfiction. From surrealistic visions of bucolic road trips to erotic transgressions to mind-expanding analyses of Delany's influence on the genre-as an out gay man, an African American, and possessor of a startlingly acute intellect-this book conveys the scope of the subject's sometimes troubling, alwayA collection of essays and science fiction tales celebrates the works of Samuel R. Delaney
Table Of Contents
Michael Swanwick and Samuel R. Delany at the Joyce Kilmer service area, March 2005 / Eileen Gunn -- Billy Tumult / Nick Harkaway -- Voice prints / devorah major -- Delany encounters: Or, another reason why I study race and racism in science fiction / Isiah Lavender, III -- Clarity / Anil Menon -- When two swordsmen meet / Ellen Kushner -- For sale: Fantasy coffins (Ababuo need not apply) / Chesya Burke -- Holding hands with monsters / Haralambi Markov -- Song for the asking / Carmelo Rafala -- Kickenders / Kit Reed --Walking science fiction: Samuel Delany and visionary fiction / Walidah Imarisha -- Heart of brass / Alex Jennings -- Empathy evolving as a quantum of eight-dimensional perception / Claude Lalumière -- Be three / Jewelle Gomez -- Guerilla mural of a siren's song / Ernest Hogan -- An idyll in Erewhyna / Hal Duncan -- Real mothers, a faggot uncle, and the name of the father: Samuel R. Delany's feminist revisions of the story of SF / L. Timmel Duchamp -- Nilda / Junot Díaz -- The first gate of logic / Benjamin Rosenbaum -- The master of the Milford altarpiece / Thomas M. Disch -- River, clap your hands / Sheree Renée Thomas -- Haunt-type experience / Roz Clarke -- Eleven stations / Fábio Fernandes -- <<Légendaire.>> / Kai Ashante Wilson -- On my first reading of The Einstein Intersection / Michael Swanwick -- Characters in the margins of a lost notebook / Kathryn Cramer -- Hamlet's ghost sighted in Frontenac, KS / Vincent Czyz -- Each star a sun to invisible planets / Tenea D. Johnson -- Clones / Alex Smith -- The last dying man / Geetanjali Dighe -- Capitalism in the 22nd century / Geoff Ryman -- Jamaica ginger / Nalo Hopkinson & Nisi Shawl -- Festival / Christopher Brown
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