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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... star a couple of solars away . Stars are mostly hydrogen , yeah , but there was a big buildup of heavy materials in the gases on the surface ; that means something odd . When they finally got them- selves found , they reported the ...
... star a couple of solars away . Stars are mostly hydrogen , yeah , but there was a big buildup of heavy materials in the gases on the surface ; that means something odd . When they finally got them- selves found , they reported the ...
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... star stays the same , only the organization of the matter within the star is disrupted by a process that is still not quite under- stood . It could be an effect of tidal harmonics . It could even be a prank of Maxwell's demon . The ...
... star stays the same , only the organization of the matter within the star is disrupted by a process that is still not quite under- stood . It could be an effect of tidal harmonics . It could even be a prank of Maxwell's demon . The ...
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... star to defract daytime through an Earth - type atmosphere . At such dis- tances , the brightest object in the night would still look like a star , not a sun - a very bright star . They were two billion miles , or a little over twenty ...
... star to defract daytime through an Earth - type atmosphere . At such dis- tances , the brightest object in the night would still look like a star , not a sun - a very bright star . They were two billion miles , or a little over twenty ...
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