Stories for Chip
Editor | Nisi Shawl and Bill Campbell |
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Language | English |
Subject | festschrift |
Genre | speculative fiction, literary fiction, postmodern lit, essays |
Publisher | Ingram distribution |
Publication date | August 3, 2015 (U.S.) |
Publication place | United States |
Media type | Print (hardback & paperback) |
Pages | 380[1] |
ISBN | 9780990319177 |
OCLC | 893709976 |
Stories for Chip: A Tribute to Samuel R. Delany (2015) is a collection of 33 pieces of short fiction, essays, and creative non-fiction by a myriad group of global writers in honor of author Samuel R. "Chip" Delany, coinciding with his retirement from his career of university teaching.
Development and inspiration
[edit]The collection is compiled and edited by SF and fantastic fiction writer Nisi Shawl, and published by author and Rosarium Publishing founder, Bill Campbell.[2] Publication was the result of crowdfunding and donations coordinated at Wiscon's (SF)³ website and Indiegogo.[3]
Content
[edit]The book includes:[4]
- "Introduction (Stories for Chip)", essay by Stanley Robinson
- "Michael Swanwick and Samuel R. Delany at the Joyce Kilmer Service Area" (2007) a short story by Eileen Gunn
- "Billy Tumult", short story by Nick Harkaway
- "Voice Prints", short story by Devorah Major
- "Delany Encounters: or, Another Reason Why I Study Race and Racism in Science Fiction", essay by Isiah Lavender, III of Extrapolation" (journal)
- "Clarity", short story by Anil Menon
- "When Two Swordsmen Meet", short story by Ellen Kushner
- "For Sale: Fantasy Coffins (Ababuo Need Not Apply)", short story by Chesya Burke
- "Holding Hands with Monsters", short story by Haralambi Markov
- "Song for the Asking", short story by Carmelo Rafala
- "Kickenders", short story by Kit Reed
- "Walking Science Fiction: Samuel Delany and Visionary Fiction", essay by Walidah Imarisha
- "Heart of Brass", short fiction by poet Alex Jennings
- "Empathy Evolving As a Quantum of Eight-Dimensional Perception", 2013 short story by Claude Lalumière
- "Be Three", short story by Jewelle Gomez
- "Guerrilla Mural of a Siren's Song", 1989 short story by Ernest Hogan
- "An Idyll in Erewhyna", short story by Hal Duncan
- "Real Mothers, a Faggot Uncle, and the Name of the Father: Samuel R. Delany's Feminist Revisions of the Story of SF", essay by L. Timmel Duchamp
- "Nilda ", short story by Junot Díaz
- "The First Gate of Logic", short story by Benjamin Rosenbaum
- "The Master of the Milford Altarpiece", 1968 short story by Thomas M. Disch
- "River, Clap Your Hands ", short story by Sheree Renée Thomas
- "Haunt-Type Experience", 2009 short story by Roz Clarke
- "Eleven Stations", short story by Fábio Fernandes
- "Légendaire", 2013 novelette by Kai Ashante Wilson
- "On My First Reading of The Einstein Intersection", essay by Michael Swanwick
- "Characters in the Margins of a Lost Notebook", short story by Kathryn Cramer
- "Hamlet's Ghost Sighted in Frontenac, KS", short story by Vincent Czyz
- "Each Star a Sun to Invisible Plane", short story by Tenea D. Johnson
- "Clones", short story by Alex Smith (II)
- "The Last Dying Man", short story by Geetanjali Dighe
- "Capitalism in the 22nd Century or A.I.r.", short story by Geoff Ryman
- "Jamaica Ginger", novelette by Nalo Hopkinson and Nisi Shawl
- "Festival", novelette by Chris Nakashima-Brown as by Christopher Brown (I)
Themes
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Reception
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See also
[edit]- Nisi Shawl
- Samuel R. Delany
- Dark Matter anthology
- Geoff Ryman
- Nalo Hopkinson
- Anil Menon
- Kathryn Cramer
- Vincent Czyz
- Festschrift
- List of festschrifts
References
[edit]- ^ "library". University of Texas Libraries. 2015. Retrieved 27 July 2022.
- ^ "StoriesforChip". Publishers Weekly. August 2015. Retrieved 27 July 2022.
- ^ Glyer, Mike (January 30, 2015). "What Stories Are In "Stories for Chip"?". File 770. Retrieved July 27, 2022.
- ^ "Publication: Stories for Chip: A Tribute to Samuel R. Delany". The Internet Speculative Fiction Database isfdb.org. September 20, 2015. Retrieved February 1, 2022.