NovaGiven 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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... there . He crossed after her , plunged into the same crowd , only realizing halfway down the block that he was ... There's been so much movement from world to world that we have no real art anymore , just a pseudo - interplanetary ...
... there . He crossed after her , plunged into the same crowd , only realizing halfway down the block that he was ... There's been so much movement from world to world that we have no real art anymore , just a pseudo - interplanetary ...
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... there have been such movements of peoples from world to world in the past dozen gen- erations that society has wholly fragmented around itself . There's only a gaudy , meretricious interplanetary society , which has no real tradition ...
... there have been such movements of peoples from world to world in the past dozen gen- erations that society has wholly fragmented around itself . There's only a gaudy , meretricious interplanetary society , which has no real tradition ...
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... There's my social signifi- cance , my historical sweep , the spark among the links that illumi- nates the breadth of the net— ” " Katin , you're crazy ! " " No , I'm not . I've finally seen what I've— ” " Hey , there ! Keep your vanes ...
... There's my social signifi- cance , my historical sweep , the spark among the links that illumi- nates the breadth of the net— ” " Katin , you're crazy ! " " No , I'm not . I've finally seen what I've— ” " Hey , there ! Keep your vanes ...
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