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selected this title as a pick for the "Best LGBTQ Books of All Time", describing it as "a textbook in observing the self, thinking about sex and love, and the best writing manual I know".
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serves to explain how the future, as a form of utopia, can be "glimpsed" in the present through what Delany employed as "the massed bodies" of sexual dissidence.
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edition, he describes the event and its venue, and speculates on its artistic significance. The introduction puts an emphasis on the idea of the
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called it one of two contemporary autobiographies that are "absolutely central to any consideration of black manhood" (the other being that of
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The first edition is subtitled "1957–1965", the revised 1993 edition is subtitled "1960–1965".
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The Motion of Light in Water: Sex and Science Fiction Writing in the East Village
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Samuel R. Delany
Autobiography
Arbor House
Hardcover
Paperback
ISBN
0-87795-947-1
OCLC
16833709
autobiography
science fiction
Samuel R. Delany
gay
African American
open marriage
Marilyn Hacker
Albert Einstein
Bob Dylan
Stokely Carmichael
Stormé DeLarverie
W. H. Auden
James Baldwin
Allan Kaprow
18 Happenings in 6 Parts
modernism
postmodernism
University of Minnesota Press
unreliable narrator
Hugo Award

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