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The Motion Of Light In Water: Sex And Science Fiction Writing In The East Village
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Winner of the Hugo Award for Nonfiction
The unexpurgated edition of the awardwinning autobiography
Born in New York City’s black ghetto Harlem at the start of World War II, Samuel R. Delany married white poet Marilyn Hacker right out of high school. The interracial couple moved into the city’s new bohemian quarter, the Lower East Side, in summer 1961. Through the decade’s opening years, new art, new sexual practices, new music, and new political awareness burgeoned among the crowded stree...
The unexpurgated edition of the awardwinning autobiography
Born in New York City’s black ghetto Harlem at the start of World War II, Samuel R. Delany married white poet Marilyn Hacker right out of high school. The interracial couple moved into the city’s new bohemian quarter, the Lower East Side, in summer 1961. Through the decade’s opening years, new art, new sexual practices, new music, and new political awareness burgeoned among the crowded stree...
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Samuel Delany, Science Fiction and Cultural Pioneer, Turns 75
Samuel R. Delany turned 75 on April 1. “Chip” to his friends (what I wouldn’t give to be part of that group!), Delany is one of the Science Fiction Writers of America Grandmasters. He has won four Nebula Awards and two Hugos (with 15 other nominations between the two awards). But he is much more than just […]
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