“The Hermit of Houston”

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Title“The Hermit of Houston”
Year for Search2017
AuthorsDelany, Samuel R[ay](b. 1942)
Secondary TitleThe Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction
Volume / Edition133.3/4 (733)
Pagination105-33
Date PublishedSeptember/October 2017
ISBN Number978-1-328-83456-0 978-1-78108-573-8 978-1-60701-5260
ISSN Number00024-984X
KeywordsAfrican American author, Male author
Annotation

A same-sex love story told by one of the individuals after the other has died, although the man’s memory is not reliable. It is set in an overpopulated future where same-sex relationships are encouraged, men and women are, to some degree, kept separate, and, as the story puts it, “mixed up the genders,” although the story does not include any of the last. 
Additional Publishers

Rpt. in The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy™ 2018. Ed. N[ora] K. Jemisin (Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt/Mariner, 2018), 63-91; in The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year: Volume Twelve. Ed. Jonathan Strahan (Oxford, Eng.: Solaris, 2018), 591-619; and in The Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy: 2018 Edition. Ed. Rich Horton ([New York]: Prime Books, 2018), 62-85. 
Holding Institutions

Merril, PSt
Author Note

African American author (b. 1942)
Full Text

2017 Delany, Samuel R. (b. 1942). “The Hermit of Houston.” The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 133.3/4 (733) (September/October 2017): 105-33. Rpt. in The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy™ 2018. Ed. N[ora] K. Jemisin (Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt/Mariner, 2018), 63-91; in The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year: Volume Twelve. Ed. Jonathan Strahan (Oxford, Eng.: Solaris, 2018), 591-619; and in The Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy: 2018 Edition. Ed. Rich Horton ([New York]: Prime Books, 2018), 62-85. Merril, PSt

A same-sex love story told by one of the individuals after the other has died, although the man’s memory is not reliable. It is set in an overpopulated future where same-sex relationships are encouraged, men and women are, to some degree, kept separate, and, as the story puts it, “mixed up the genders,” although the story does not include any of the last. African American author.