Amazing Stories would like to congratulate author and icon Samuel R. Delaney for his selection as the latest SFWA Grandmaster.

By way of recognition, today we offer this excellent and striking portrait of the man by Duncan Long, and reprise an interview conducted by Joseph Zitt that was published in our semi-prozine – Contact:SF – in 1978.
Even 36 years ago it was very clear that Chip would be going places.







Steve Davidson is the publisher of Amazing Stories.
Steve has been a passionate fan of science fiction since the mid-60s, before he even knew what it was called.
