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neil-gaiman: “ Yesterday was the birthday of one of my favorite living writers. He’s someone whose words have made a huge impression on me, whose stories made me dream and want to be a writer myself. He’s Samuel R. Delany, Chip to his friends. This...

neil-gaiman:

Yesterday was the birthday of one of my favorite living writers. He’s someone whose words have made a huge impression on me, whose stories made me dream and want to be a writer myself.

He’s Samuel R. Delany, Chip to his friends. This is a photo taken of him yesterday afternoon, on his 70th birthday, by Kyle Cassidy.

I don’t have many heroes left.

Happy Birthday for yesterday, Chip.

Four things:

  1. Swoon. Aye, and Gomorrah: And Other Stories is a magnificent collection and About Writing is one of the best texts on writing I’ve ever read.
  2. I’d love to know Samuel R. Delany well enough to call him “Chip.”
  3. You can usually tell if someone knows their chops in SF&F circles if they spell Delany’s name correctly (not Delaney).
  4. [Turns out] we had an amusing conversation with the photographer who took this shot while we waited for our car after the Gene Wolfe event (yes I am still talking about that incessantly).

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