"[Samuel Delany] has not published a work that is clearly and inarguably science-fictional since Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand in 1984, or a work that is by any plausible construction science-fictional since the conclusion in 1987 of the Nevèrÿon sequence" (xv)
instead, he has written "brilliant novels in various genres like The Mad Man (1994), Phallos (2004), and Dark Reflections (2007) [...] nonfiction like the often highly personal urban sociology of Times Square Red, Times Square Blue (1999), the remarkable personal letters collected in 1984 (2000), and the acutre (and practically very useful) meditations on Delany's own craft found in About Writing (2005)"