The Motion of Light in Water: Sex and Science Fiction Writing in the East Village

Samuel R. Delany

An autobiography by science fiction author Samuel R. Delany in which he recounts his experiences as growing up a gay African American, as well as some of his time in an interracial and open marriage.[citation needed] It describes encounters with Albert Einstein, Bob Dylan, and Stokely Carmichael, a dinner with W. H. Auden, and a phone call to James Baldwin.
Hazel Carby considers it “absolutely central to any consideration of black manhood… Delany’s vision of the necessity for total social and political change is revolutionary.”

status	Copy #1 (6891): in
genre	Sex & Gender » Gender Studies
publisher	University Of Minnesota Press
publish date	April 23, 2004
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