Nova

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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Jun 11, 2002 - Fiction - 272 pages
Given that the suns of Draco stretch almost sixteen light years from end to end, it stands to reason that the cost of transportation is the most important factor of the 32nd century. And since Illyrion is the element most needed for space travel, Lorq von Ray is plenty willing to fly through the core of a recently imploded sun in order to obtain seven tons of it. The potential for profit is so great that Lorq has little difficulty cobbling together an alluring crew that includes a gypsy musician and a moon-obsessed scholar interested in the ancient art of writing a novel. What the crew doesn’t know, though, is that Lorq’s quest is actually fueled by a private revenge so consuming that he’ll stop at nothing to achieve it. In the grandest manner of speculative fiction, Nova is a wise and witty classic that casts a fascinating new light on some of humanity’s oldest truths and enduring myths.
 

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Section 1
3
Section 2
15
Section 3
16
Section 4
25
Section 5
49
Section 6
58
Section 7
64
Section 8
101
Section 14
174
Section 15
176
Section 16
182
Section 17
184
Section 18
201
Section 19
214
Section 20
216
Section 21
225

Section 9
122
Section 10
127
Section 11
131
Section 12
134
Section 13
168
Section 22
232
Section 23
234
Section 24
239
Section 25
243
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Samuel R. Delany lives in Harlem, New York.

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