<P>Samuel R. Delany, whose theoretically sophisticated science fiction and fantasy has won him a broad audience among academics and fans of postmodernist fiction, offers insights into and explorations of his own experience as writer, critic, theorist, and gay black man in his new collection of written interviews, a form he describes as a type of "guided essay." Gathered from sources as diverse as Diacritics and Comics Journal, these interviews reveal the broad range of his thought and interests.</P>

Samuel R. Delany's many prizes include the Hugo Award, the Nebula Award, and the William Whitehead Memorial Award for a lifetime's contribution to gay and lesbian literature. Wesleyan has published both his fiction and nonfiction, including Atlantis: three tales (1995), Longer Views: Extended Essays (1996), and Shorter Views: Queer Thoughts& the Politics of the Paraliterary. The press has also reissued his classic science fiction and fantasy novels Dhalgren (1996), Trouble on Triton (1996, originally published as Triton), The Einstein Intersection (1998) and the four-volume Return to Nevèrÿon series.

Introduction: Reading and the Written InterviewPart I: The Semiology of Science: The Science Fiction Studies InterviewToto, We're Back! The Cottonwood Review InterviewRefractions of Empire: The Comics Journal InterviewSword& Sorcery, S/M, and the Economics of Inadequation: The Camera Obscura InterviewSome Real Mothers… The SF Eye InterviewScience Fiction and Criticism: The Diacritics InterviewSex, Race and Science Ficiton: The Callaloo InterviewPart II: The Kenneth James InterviewThe Susan Grossman InterviewThe K. Leslie Steinier InterviewAppendix: Anthony Davis: A ConversationIndex