'This book coincides with the completion of the Otolith Group's Otolith Trilogy, and the exhibition of the three films for the two-venue solo show A Long Time Between Suns, which took place in London at Gasworks (14 February - 5 April) and The Showroom (9 September - 24 October) in 2009. In addition to this, it looks forward to screenings and seminars conceived by the Otolith Group with If I Can't Dance, I Don't Want To Be Part of Your Revolution in late 2009, and at the Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA), Barcelona and Fondazione Galleria Civica - Centro di Ricerca sulla Contemporaneita di Trento in 2010. The four art centres, together with the Amsterdam-based curatorial platform If I Can't Dance, I Don't Want To Be Part of Your Revolution, which was responsible for commissioning Otolith II, have collaborated on the production of this book.

The process of the book's production has been closely linked with the formalisation of the two halves of the exhibition A Long Time Between Suns, both of which were situated in installations conceived by Will Holder, who has also designed the book. Responding to the invitation to conceptualise a means a public display for the Otolith Group's archives, Holder proposed five conversations — which were held around the kitchen table at the Otolith Group's home — involving himself, the Otolith Group, Anna Colin, Emily Pethick and Jean Matthee. Visual translations of the conversations were compiled using archival material and edited by Holder to fill five storyboards during Part I of the exhibition at Gasworks. Production for this project was completed during Part II of A Long Time Between Suns at The Showroom.' — excerpt from the back cover