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

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  • Publication: The Motion of Light in Water: Sex and Science Fiction Writing in the East Village, 1957-1965Publication Record # 44390
  • Author: Samuel R. Delany
  • Date: 1988-03-00
  • ISBN: 0-87795-947-1 [978-0-87795-947-2]
  • Publisher: Arbor House / William Morrow
  • Price:
    $18.95?$: US dollar
  • Pages: xviii+302
  • Format:
    hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
  • Type: NONFICTION
  • Cover: The Motion of Light in Water: Sex and Science Fiction Writing in the East Village, 1957-1965 by Thomas Canty and Jack Gaughan
  • 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 Rigrous 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.
  • External IDs:
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Nonfiction Title: The Motion of Light in Water: Sex and Science Fiction Writing in the East Village, 1957-1965 • nonfiction by Samuel R. Delany (variant of The Motion of Light in Water)

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