• Preface: On Creativity and Academic Writing
• I. Part One: Some Queer Thoughts: The Rhetoric of Sex/ The Discourse of Desire
• 1. Street Talk/ Straight Talk
• 2. On the Unspeakable
• 3. Coming/ Out
• 4. A Bend in the Road
• 5. The “Gay” Writer/ “Gay Writing”…?
• 6. The Black Leather in Color Interview
• 7. The Thomas L. Long Interciew
• 8. Part Two: The Politics of the Paraliterary: Neither the First Word nor the Last on Deconstruction, Structuralism, Poststructuralism, and Semiotics for SF Readers
• 1. The Para•doxa Interview: Inside and Outside the Canon
• 2. The Politics of Paraliterary Criticism
• 3. Zalazny/ Varley Gibson- and Quality
• 4. Pornography and Censorship
• 5. The Making of Hogg
• 6. The Phil Leggiere Interview :Reading The Mad Man
• 7. The Second Science-Fiction Studies Interview: Of Trouble on Triton and Other Matters
• 8. Part Three: Some Writing/Some Writers : Antonia Byatt’s Possession: A Romance
• 1. Neil Gaiman, I, II, and III
• 2. A Tribute to Judith Merril
• 3. Michael Perkins’s Evil Companions
• 4. Now It’s Time for Dale Peck
• 5. Othello in Brooklyn
• 6. A Prefatory Notice to Vincent Czyz’s Adrift in a Vanishing City
• 7. Under the Volcano with Susan Sontag
• 8. Some Remarks on Narrative and Technology or: Poetry and Truth