Stories for Chip explained

Stories for Chip: A Tribute to Samuel R. Delany
Subject:	festschrift
Editor:	Nisi Shawl and Bill Campbell
Country:	United States
Language:	English
Genre:	speculative fiction, literary fiction, postmodern lit, essays
Publisher:	Ingram distribution
Pub Date:	August 3, 2015 (U.S.)
Media Type:	Print (hardback & paperback)
Isbn:	9780990319177
Oclc:	893709976
Pages:	380^[1]

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

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

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

See also

• Nisi Shawl
• Samuel R. Delany
• Dark Matter anthology
• Geoff Ryman
• Nalo Hopkinson
• Anil Menon
• Kathryn Cramer
• Vincent Czyz
• Festschrift
• List of festschrifts

Notes and References

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