Of Solids and SurdsIn the fourth volume in the Why I Write series, the iconic Samuel Delany remembers fifty years of writing and shaping the world of speculative fiction Science fiction dwells mostly in the realm of possibility, where mysteries proliferate nevertheless, meaning is never static, and time and history have convinced us that things are not as they seem. So too does all language, argues Samuel Delany, in his vigorous justification for the writing life.