The Motion of Light in Water: Sex and Science Fiction Writing in the East Village
"A very moving, intensely fascinating literary biography from an extraordinary writer. Thoroughly admirable candor and luminous stylistic precision; the artist as a young man and a memorable picture of an age." -William Gibson"Absolutely central to any consideration of black manhood. . . . Delany's vision of the necessity for total social and political transformation is revolutionary." -Hazel Carby "The prose of The Motion of Light in Water often has the shimmering beauty of the title itself....
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Samuel Delany is a science fiction writer, teacher and recipient of the William Whitehead Memorial Award for a lifetime's contribution to lesbian and gay culture. His autobiography focuses on his life in New York's lower east side in the 1960s and his development as a black gay writer in an open interracial marriage. The original edition, published in 1988 by Arbor House, won a Hugo Award for nonfiction. This paperbound edition is a reprint of the revised 1993 edition published by Richard Kasak. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
