Stories for Chip: A Tribute to Samuel R. Delany

Stories for Chipbrings 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 Delanys influence on the genreas an out gay man, an African American, and possessor of a startlingly acute intellectthis book conveys the scope of the subjects sometimes troubling, always rewarding genius. Editors Nisi Shawl and Bill Campbell have given Delany and the world at large, a gorgeous, haunting, illuminating, and deeply satisfying gift of a book.Nisi Shawlis a writer whose work has been published atStrange Horizons, inAsimovs SF Magazine, and in anthologies includingDark Faith 2,Dark Matter,The Moment of Change, andThe 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 Campbellis the founder of Rosarium Publishing and the author the novelsKoontown Killing Kaper,My Booty Novel, andSunshine Patriotsas 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 anthologyMothership: Tales from Afrofuturism and Beyond. He lives in Washington, DC.