 As well, a set of appendices and an over-all introduction are fixed to the project, all of which have elements that make them part of the fiction.The introduction to the first volume of stories, "Tales of Nevèrÿon", is presumably written by a young black woman academic, "K. Leslie Steiner", for example, who turns out to be a character in the ninth tale, "The Tale of Plagues and Carnivals".The first appendix to the novel "Neveryóna" is an exchange of letters between a fictive character, S. L. Kermit (who also appears in "Plagues and Carnivals" and is the "author" of the appendix to the first volume, "Tales of Nevèrÿon") and one Charles Hoequist, Jr., who, unlike the fictitious Steiner and Kermit, is an actual person—a graduate student in linguistics at Yale University during the early eighties when Delany was first writing the stories.