Samuel R. "Chip" Delany, widely recognized as an intellectually gifted autodidact, literary iconoclast, memoirist and very likely the finest science-fiction novelist of our time, has joined the University at Buffalo faculty as an adjunct professor in the Department of English in the College of Arts and Sciences, where he is expected to make a prominent contribution to the department's Poetics Program. He will become a full professor in the Spring 2000 semester.