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 and Ruby will be here . Don't you want to play with Prince and Ruby at the party ? " She carried him around the nursery , stopping to push the wall switch by the door . The ceiling began to rotate till the polarized pane was ...
... Prince and Ruby will be here . Don't you want to play with Prince and Ruby at the party ? " She carried him around the nursery , stopping to push the wall switch by the door . The ceiling began to rotate till the polarized pane was ...
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... Prince , and Ruby - playing together the next afternoon in the garden . He showed them the place behind the bamboo where you could climb up into the carved stone mouths . " What are those ? " Prince asked . " Those are the dragons ...
... Prince , and Ruby - playing together the next afternoon in the garden . He showed them the place behind the bamboo where you could climb up into the carved stone mouths . " What are those ? " Prince asked . " Those are the dragons ...
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... Prince's arm , Lorq jumped . " We are going now . " But Prince and Ruby didn't understand . " We're going , " Lorq explained . " Up to Alonza's . " " What's Alonza's ? " " Is that like the places Aaron is always taking those pretty ...
... Prince's arm , Lorq jumped . " We are going now . " But Prince and Ruby didn't understand . " We're going , " Lorq explained . " Up to Alonza's . " " What's Alonza's ? " " Is that like the places Aaron is always taking those pretty ...
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