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Nisi Shawl is a writer whose work has been published at Strange Horizons, in Asimov’s SF Magazine, and in anthologies including Dark Faith 2, Dark Matter, The Moment of Change, and The Other Half of the Sky. Her story collection, Filter House, was one of two winners of the 2009 James Tiptree Jr. Award. She is a cofounder of the Carl Brandon Society and serves on the Board of Directors of the Clarion West Writers Workshop. She lives in Seattle.
Bill Campbell is the founder of Rosarium Publishing and the author the novels Koontown Killing Kaper, My Booty Novel, and Sunshine Patriots as well as the essay collection, Pop Culture: Politics, Puns, and “Poohbutt” from a Liberal Stay-at-Home Dad. He coedited, with Edward Austin Hall, the groundbreaking anthology Mothership: Tales from Afrofuturism and Beyond. He lives in Washington, DC.
“I read The Jewels of Aptor in 1962, when I was fourteen. Samuel Delany had written it when he was nineteen, and I totally got that, the fantastic youth of the thing, but I was also blown away by what I didn’t yet understand was the style. It induced one of the most persistent and global somatic memories of reading I’ve ever had, to the point that I can actually use it as a sort of time-travel device. And yes, I know he’s written many novels since then, including
Dhalgren, but I’ve always wanted a chance to say that about The Jewels of Aptor!”
—William Gibson, author of Pattern Recognition
Introduction by Kim Stanley Robinson
Eileen Gunn - "Michael Swanwick and Samuel R. Delany at the Joyce Kilmer Service Area, March 2005"
Nick Harkaway - "Billy Tumult"
devorah major - "Voice Prints"
Isiah Lavender, III - "Delany Encounters: Or, Another Reason Why I Study Race and Racism in
Science Fiction"
Anil Menon - "Clarity"
Ellen Kushner - "When Two Swordsmen Meet"
Chesya Burke - "For Sale: Fantasy Coffin (Ababuo Need Not Apply)"
Haralambi Markov - "Holding Hands with Monsters"
Carmelo Rafala - "Song for the Asking"
Kit Reed - "Kickenders"
Walidah Imarisha - "Walking Science Fiction: Samuel Delany and Visionary Fiction"
Alex Jennings - "Heart of Brass"
Claude Lalumière - "Empathy Evolving as a Quantum of Eight-Dimensional Perception"
Jewelle Gomez - "Be Three"
Ernest Hogan - "Guerilla Mural of a Siren’s Song"
Hal Duncan - "An Idyll in Erewhyna"
L. Timmel Duchamp - "Real Mothers, a Faggot Uncle, and the Name of the Father: Samuel R.
Delany’s Feminist Revisions of the Story of SF"
Junot Díaz - "Nilda"
Benjamin Rosenbaum - "The First Gate of Logic"
Thomas M. Disch - "The Master of the Milford Altarpiece"
Sheree Renée Thomas - "River Clap Your Hands"
Roz Clarke - "Haunt-type Experience"
Fábio Fernandes - "Eleven Stations"
Kai Ashante Wilson - "<<Légendaire.>>"
Michael Swanwick - "On My First Reading of The Einstein Intersection"
Kathryn Cramer - "Characters in the Margins of a Lost Notebook"
Vincent Czyz - "Hamlet’s Ghost Sighted in Frontenac, KS"
Tenea D. Johnson - "Each Star a Sun to Invisible Planets"
Alex Smith - "Clones"
Geetanjali Dighe - "The Last Dying Man"
Geoff Ryman - "Capitalism in the 22nd Century"
Nalo Hopkinson & Nisi Shawl - "Jamaica Ginger"
Chris Brown - "Festival"