Free Stories for Chip by Nisi Shawl

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Shorter Views: Queer Thoughts & The Politics of the Paraliterary
. Hanover: Wesleyan UP, 1999. Print.
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Silent Interviews: On Language, Race, Sex, Science Fiction, and Some Comics
. Hanover: Wesleyan UP, 1994. Print.
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Starboard Wine: More Notes on the Language of Science Fiction
. Pleasantville: Dragon Press, 1984. Print.
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Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand
. New York: Bantam, 1984. Print.
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Trouble on Triton: An Ambiguous Heterotopia
. 1976. Hannover: Wesleyan UP, 1996. Print
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Flame Wars: The Discourse of Cyberculture
. Ed. Mark Dery. Durham: Duke UP, 1994. 179-222. Print.
    Douglass, Frederick.
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
. 1845. New York: Signet Classic, 1997. Print.
    Dreiser, Theodore.
An American Tragedy
. 1925. New York: Signet Classic, 2000. Print.
    Fitzgerald, F. S.
The Great Gatsby
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Critical Theory and Science Fiction
. Hanover: Wesleyan UP, 2000. Print.
    Gibson, William.
Neuromancer
. New York: Ace, 1984. Print.
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Black American Literature Forum
18.2 (1984): 43-8.
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The Oxford Handbook of Science Fiction
. Ed. Rob Latham. New York: Oxford UP, 2014. 561-572. Print.
    Lavender, Isiah, III. “Black Grit: or, Why I Study Race and Racism in Science Fiction.”
Deletion: The Open Access Online Forum in Science Fiction Studies
7 (2014): n. pag. Web. 6 October 2014.
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Dark Matter
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Science Fiction Studies
28.2 (2001): 140-3. Print.
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Black and Brown Planets: The Politics of Race in Science Fiction
. Ed. Isiah Lavender, III. Jackson: UP of Mississippi, 2014. 3-11. Print.
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Race in American Science Fiction
. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 2011. Print.
    Nelson, Alondra. “AfroFuturism: Past-Future Visions.”
Color Lines
(Spring 2000): 34-37. Print.
    Pfeiffer, John. “Black American Speculative Literature: A Checklist.”
Extrapolation
17.1 (1975): 35-43.
    Tatsumi, Takayuki. “The Decomposition of Rock and Roll: Samuel Delany’s
The Einstein Intersection
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Extrapolation
28.3 (1987): 269-80.
    Thomas, Sheree R.
Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora
. New York: Warner, 2000. Print.
    Tucker, Jeffrey A. “The Necesity of Models, of Alternatives: Samuel R. Delany’s
Stars in My Pockets like Grains of Sand
.” South Atlantic Quarterly 109.2 (2010): 249-78. Print.
    Weedman, Jane B.
Samuel R. Delany
. Mercer Island, Washington: Starmont House, 1982. Print.
    Westfahl, Gary. “‘Dictatorial, Authoritarian, Uncooperative’: The Case Against John W. Campbell, Jr.”
Foundation
56 (1992): 36-61. Print.
    Wright, Richard.
Black Boy
. 1945. New York: Harper Perennial, 1993. Print.
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Native Son
. 1940. New York: Harper Perennial, 2005. Print.
    Yaszek, Lisa. “An Afrofuturist Reading of Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man.”
Rethinking History
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A Virtual Introduction to Science Fiction
. Ed. Lars Schmeink. Web. 2013. 1-11.

Clarity
    Anil Menon
    After the untimely death of his wife, elder-brother sold his apartment, gave me the proceeds, handed his eleven-year-old Chandini to our safekeeping, and took off for Kampala, where he owned a modest sports store. He hadn’t been able to find a buyer for the glass desk and so that too had moved into our home, or rather, my bedroom, since it was too big for anywhere else. Three months passed and elder-brother hanged himself, may God rest his soul. It was