The Motion of Light in Water: East Village Sex and Science Fiction Writing: 1960-1965

Overview:

• Title: The Motion of Light in Water: East Village Sex and Science Fiction Writing: 1960-1965
• Author: Samuel R. Delany
• Year: 1990
• ISBN-10: 0586089101
• Publisher: Paladin / Grafton Books
• Price: £6.99
• Pages: xxii+581
• Binding: Trade Paperback
• Type: Non-fiction
• Title Reference: The Motion of Light in Water: East Village Sex and Science Fiction Writing: 1960-1965
• Notes:
  • "A Paladin UK Paperback Original 1990" stated on the copyright page.
  • "FIRST BRITISH PUBLICATION" printed on the back cover.
  • Publisher is given as "Paladin" (over) "Grafton Books" (over) "A Division of the Collins Publishing Group" on the title page, and simply "Paladin" on the book's spine.
  • "Front cover photograph of Samuel R. Delany, 1961 by Bernard Kay" printed on the back cover.
  • Other prices: New Zealand $19.95 and Australia $16.95 printed on the back cover.
  • Expanded edition (not stated), includes "The Column at the Market's Edge" (stated on the title page).
  • Month of publication from Locus1, which states that this edition is "greatly expanded and revised".
  • The contents page and the first page of the 532-page memoir gives the title as "The Peripheries of Love".
  • "The Column at the Market's Edge" began as a written interview between Delany and the editors of Camera Obscura in 1988, but this is its first publication.