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Samuel R. Delany

Samuel R. Delany is a renowned novelist and critic, whose award-winning fiction includes Dhalgren, Babel-17, The Mad Men, Dark Reflections, and Through the Valley of the Nest of Spiders. He now lives with his partner in Philadelphia.

The Wyrm

Understand, it had far more neurological matter (you’d call it “brain tissue”) than a whale, a dolphin, a pig, or a human, but that material was put together in a very different way from yours, mine, a dog’s, an arthropod’s, arachnid’s, mouse’s, elephant’s, ...