Description: John F. Szwed's Space is the Place is the definitive biography of Sun Ra--composer, keyboardist, bandleader, philosopher, entrepreneur, poet, self-proclaimed extraterrestrial from Saturn, and a founder of Afrofuturism.
Review Quotes: "A brilliant book, a sprawling, curlicued, swinging account of an extraordinary man's great adventure with a bunch of ideas that made sense to him out of a senseless world."--Nick Coleman "The Independent"