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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... stone . " You tell me ! " He shook the table again . The bartender was coming over . Dan stood , overturning his chair , and rubbed his knuckles on his eyes . He took two staggering steps through the sunburst that rayed the floor . Two ...
... stone . " You tell me ! " He shook the table again . The bartender was coming over . Dan stood , overturning his chair , and rubbed his knuckles on his eyes . He took two staggering steps through the sunburst that rayed the floor . Two ...
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... stone steps led to the river's walkway . He fled down , and heard others behind him as he reached the bottom . Then lights ground on his eyes , Lorq shook his head . Light across the wet pavement , the mossy stone wall beside him ...
... stone steps led to the river's walkway . He fled down , and heard others behind him as he reached the bottom . Then lights ground on his eyes , Lorq shook his head . Light across the wet pavement , the mossy stone wall beside him ...
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... stone , and the sound disappeared under an onslaught of applause . The Mouse looked at his hands . " This stuff makes my fingers itchy . " They started up the steps . " When I was a kid back on Earth , in Athens , there was a street ...
... stone , and the sound disappeared under an onslaught of applause . The Mouse looked at his hands . " This stuff makes my fingers itchy . " They started up the steps . " When I was a kid back on Earth , in Athens , there was a street ...
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