“I read The Jewels of Aptor in 1962, when I was fourteen. Samuel Delany had written it when he was nineteen, and I totally got that, the fantastic youth of the thing, but I was also blown away by what I didn’t yet understand was the style. It induced one of the most persistent and global somatic memories of reading I’ve ever had, to the point that I can actually use it as a sort of time-travel device. And yes, I know he’s written many novels since then, includingDhalgren, but I’ve always wanted a chance to say that about The Jewels of Aptor!”—William Gibson, author of Pattern Recognition

• 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 inScience 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 - "<>"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"

“I read The Jewels of Aptor in 1962, when I was fourteen. Samuel Delany had written it when he was nineteen, and I totally got that, the fantastic youth of the thing, but I was also blown away by what I didn’t yet understand was the style. It induced one of the most persistent and global somatic memories of reading I’ve ever had, to the point that I can actually use it as a sort of time-travel device. And yes, I know he’s written many novels since then, includingDhalgren, but I’ve always wanted a chance to say that about The Jewels of Aptor!”—William Gibson, author of Pattern Recognition

• 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 inScience 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 - "<>"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"

“I read The Jewels of Aptor in 1962, when I was fourteen. Samuel Delany had written it when he was nineteen, and I totally got that, the fantastic youth of the thing, but I was also blown away by what I didn’t yet understand was the style. It induced one of the most persistent and global somatic memories of reading I’ve ever had, to the point that I can actually use it as a sort of time-travel device. And yes, I know he’s written many novels since then, includingDhalgren, but I’ve always wanted a chance to say that about The Jewels of Aptor!”—William Gibson, author of Pattern Recognition

• 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 inScience 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 - "<>"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"