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Samuel R. Delany is the author of Through the Valley of the Nest of Vipers (Magnus, $21.95 pb). Through the Valley of the Nest of Spiders is an explicit, poetic, philosophical, and, yes, shocking novel that propels readers into a gay sexual culture unknown to most urban gay men and women, a network of rural gay relations--with the twist that this one is supported by the homophile Kyle Foundation, started in the early 1980s by a black multi-millionaire, Robert Kyle III, to improve the lives of black gay men.