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