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

This Hugo Award–winning memoir is "a very moving, intensely fascinating literary autobiography from an extraordinary writer" (William Gibson, Nebula and Hugo Award–winning author of Neuromancer).

With the poet Marilyn Hacker, Delany moves into a tenement on a dead-end street that the landlord reserves for interracial couples. Between playing folk music in the evenings at the same Greenwich Village coffee shop as Bob Dylan and preparing shrimp curry for W. H. Auden and Chester Khalman, ...