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

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  • Publication: The Motion of Light in Water: East Village Sex and Science Fiction Writing: 1960-1965Publication Record # 204397
  • Author: Samuel R. Delany
  • Date: 1990-05-00
  • ISBN: 0-586-08910-1 [978-0-586-08910-1]
  • Publisher: Paladin / Grafton Books
  • Price:
    £6.99?£: UK pound
  • Pages: xxii+581
  • Format:
    tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
  • Type: NONFICTION
  • Cover: The Motion of Light in Water: East Village Sex and Science Fiction Writing: 1960-1965 (1990) • by Bernard Kay (variant of The Motion of Light in Water: Sex and Science Fiction Writing in the East Village 1957-1965 1989)
  • 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 titled 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.
  • External IDs:
    • OCLC/WorldCat: 21408374
    • Reginald-3: 21532
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Nonfiction Title: The Motion of Light in Water: East Village Sex and Science Fiction Writing: 1960-1965 • nonfiction by Samuel R. Delany (variant of The Motion of Light in Water 1988)

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