NovaThese are [at least some of] the ways you can read NOVA: as a fast-action farflung interstellar adventure; as archetypal mystical/mythical allegory (in which the Tarot and the Grail both figure prominently); as modern myth told in the S-F idiom ... the reader observes, recollects, or participates in a range of personal experience including violent pain and disfigurement, sensory deprivation and overload, man-machine communion, the drug experience, the creative experience - and inter-personal relationships which include incest and assassination, father-son, leader-follower, human-pet, and lots more!The balance of galactic power in the 31st century revolves around Illyrion, the most precious energy source in the universe. The varied and exotic crew who sign up with Captain Lorq van Ray know their mission is dangerous, and they soon learn that they are involved in a deadly race with the charismatic but vicious leader of an opposing space federation. But they have no idea of Lorq's secret obsession: to gather Illyrion at the source by flying through the very heart of an imploding star. |
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... Prince's voice , cutting through the others . " I'm going to get him ! ” Prince raced down the steps , reflections glancing from the rocks . He balanced at the bottom , squinting by the floodlit river . His vest had been pulled from one ...
... Prince's voice , cutting through the others . " I'm going to get him ! ” Prince raced down the steps , reflections glancing from the rocks . He balanced at the bottom , squinting by the floodlit river . His vest had been pulled from one ...
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... Prince Red can call us pirates ? " " A couple of times Aaron Red the first - Prince's father is the third - sent one of his more uppity nephews to head his expeditions into the Pleiades . Three of them , I believe . They never got back ...
... Prince Red can call us pirates ? " " A couple of times Aaron Red the first - Prince's father is the third - sent one of his more uppity nephews to head his expeditions into the Pleiades . Three of them , I believe . They never got back ...
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... Prince , still smiling , stepped away . Then Lorq struck the tuning haft . A flash . It was reflection from Prince's vest ; the beam was tight . Prince flung his hand up to his eyes . Then he shook his head , blinking . Lorq struck the ...
... Prince , still smiling , stepped away . Then Lorq struck the tuning haft . A flash . It was reflection from Prince's vest ; the beam was tight . Prince flung his hand up to his eyes . Then he shook his head , blinking . Lorq struck the ...
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