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.

Stories for Chip: A Tribute to Samuel R. Delany
EditorNisi Shawl and Bill Campbell
LanguageEnglish
Subjectfestschrift
Genrespeculative fiction, literary fiction, postmodern lit, essays
PublisherIngram distribution
Publication date
August 3, 2015 (U.S.)
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint (hardback & paperback)
Pages380[1]
ISBN9780990319177
OCLC893709976

Development and inspiration

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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

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The book includes:[4]

  1. "Introduction (Stories for Chip)", essay by Stanley Robinson
  2. "Michael Swanwick and Samuel R. Delany at the Joyce Kilmer Service Area" (2007) a short story by Eileen Gunn
  3. "Billy Tumult", short story by Nick Harkaway
  4. "Voice Prints", short story by Devorah Major
  5. "Delany Encounters: or, Another Reason Why I Study Race and Racism in Science Fiction", essay by Isiah Lavender, III of Extrapolation" (journal)
  6. "Clarity", short story by Anil Menon
  7. "When Two Swordsmen Meet", short story by Ellen Kushner
  8. "For Sale: Fantasy Coffins (Ababuo Need Not Apply)", short story by Chesya Burke
  9. "Holding Hands with Monsters", short story by Haralambi Markov
  10. "Song for the Asking", short story by Carmelo Rafala
  11. "Kickenders", short story by Kit Reed
  12. "Walking Science Fiction: Samuel Delany and Visionary Fiction", essay by Walidah Imarisha
  13. "Heart of Brass", short fiction by poet Alex Jennings
  14. "Empathy Evolving As a Quantum of Eight-Dimensional Perception", 2013 short story by Claude Lalumière
  15. "Be Three", short story by Jewelle Gomez
  16. "Guerrilla Mural of a Siren's Song", 1989 short story by Ernest Hogan
  17. "An Idyll in Erewhyna", short story by Hal Duncan
  18. "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
  19. "Nilda ", short story by Junot Díaz
  20. "The First Gate of Logic", short story by Benjamin Rosenbaum
  21. "The Master of the Milford Altarpiece", 1968 short story by Thomas M. Disch
  22. "River, Clap Your Hands ", short story by Sheree Renée Thomas
  23. "Haunt-Type Experience", 2009 short story by Roz Clarke
  24. "Eleven Stations", short story by Fábio Fernandes
  25. "Légendaire", 2013 novelette by Kai Ashante Wilson
  26. "On My First Reading of The Einstein Intersection", essay by Michael Swanwick
  27. "Characters in the Margins of a Lost Notebook", short story by Kathryn Cramer
  28. "Hamlet's Ghost Sighted in Frontenac, KS", short story by Vincent Czyz
  29. "Each Star a Sun to Invisible Plane", short story by Tenea D. Johnson
  30. "Clones", short story by Alex Smith (II)
  31. "The Last Dying Man", short story by Geetanjali Dighe
  32. "Capitalism in the 22nd Century or A.I.r.", short story by Geoff Ryman
  33. "Jamaica Ginger", novelette by Nalo Hopkinson and Nisi Shawl
  34. "Festival", novelette by Chris Nakashima-Brown as by Christopher Brown (I)

Themes

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Reception

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See also

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References

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  1. ^ "library". University of Texas Libraries. 2015. Retrieved 27 July 2022.
  2. ^ "StoriesforChip". Publishers Weekly. August 2015. Retrieved 27 July 2022.
  3. ^ Glyer, Mike (January 30, 2015). "What Stories Are In "Stories for Chip"?". File 770. Retrieved July 27, 2022.
  4. ^ "Publication: Stories for Chip: A Tribute to Samuel R. Delany". The Internet Speculative Fiction Database isfdb.org. September 20, 2015. Retrieved February 1, 2022.