The Motion of Light in Water: Sex and Science Fiction Writing in the East Village, 1957-1965

Overview:

• Title: The Motion of Light in Water: Sex and Science Fiction Writing in the East Village, 1957-1965
• Author: Samuel R. Delany
• Year: 1988
• ISBN-10: 0877959471
• Publisher: Arbor House / William Morrow
• Price: $18.95
• Pages: xviii+302
• Binding: Hardcover
• Type: Non-fiction
• Title Reference: The Motion of Light in Water: Sex and Science Fiction Writing in the East Village, 1957-1965
• Notes:
  • No statement of edition on the copyright page, but there is a complete number line: "10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1".
  • The copyright page contains the complete Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data including the year of publication (1988), the ISBN (0-87795-947-1), and the LCCN: 87-27205. There is no record for this LCCN on the LoC website, and this edition is not listed by LCCN. The LCCN number shown below is for the 1993 "Masquerade" edition.
  • Month of publication from the date code "388" printed on the back flap of the dustjacket.
  • "Jacket design by Thomas Canty" (over) "Painting for jacket illustration 'Samuel R. Delany Writing: "We, in Some Strange Power's Employ, Move on a Rigorous Line",' Rifton, NY, 1967, by Jack Gaughan" printed on the back flap of the dustjacket.
  • The uncredited photograph of the author on page x was the basis for the cover design of the expanded Paladin edition, where it is credited to photographer Bernard Kay.
  • "The Peripheries of Love" is a 300-page memoir, divided into 85 sections, most of which have been divided further into subsections. This numbering system has no correspondence with that used in the expanded 1990 Paladin edition.