<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>
