The Motion of Light in Water: Sex and Science Fiction Writing in the East Village, 1957-1965 by Samuel R. Delany
The Motion of Light in Water: Sex and Science Fiction Writing in the East Village, 1957-1965
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Samuel R. Delany
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The Motion of Light in Water: Sex and Science Fiction Writing in the East Village, 1957-1965

Samuel R. Delany

302 pages • first pub 1988 (editions)

nonfiction lgbtqia+ memoir challenging informative reflective slow-paced

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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 t...

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Moods

emotional 66%
informative 66%
reflective 66%
challenging 50%
adventurous 33%
inspiring 33%
dark 16%
hopeful 16%
tense 16%

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slow 40%

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