Contents

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

Acknowledgments

About the Authors

About the Editors