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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... stopped . Someone was sitting on the railing playing a senso- ry - syrynx . Several people had stopped to watch . Colors sluiced the air with fugal patterns as a shape sub- sumed the breeze and fell , to form further on , a brighter ...
... stopped . Someone was sitting on the railing playing a senso- ry - syrynx . Several people had stopped to watch . Colors sluiced the air with fugal patterns as a shape sub- sumed the breeze and fell , to form further on , a brighter ...
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... stopped and got my fortune read . " He laughed ; the Mouse , who had not judged the gathering expression right , had expected anger . " When I did get home and told my mother , she grew very upset and told me I mustn't do it again ...
... stopped and got my fortune read . " He laughed ; the Mouse , who had not judged the gathering expression right , had expected anger . " When I did get home and told my mother , she grew very upset and told me I mustn't do it again ...
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... stopped by a fence . Lorq crossed the street . " That's the other end of Gold down there . " Below the ragged slope , bright rock wound into the night . One couple turned away hand in hand , with burnished faces . Flashing from his hair ...
... stopped by a fence . Lorq crossed the street . " That's the other end of Gold down there . " Below the ragged slope , bright rock wound into the night . One couple turned away hand in hand , with burnished faces . Flashing from his hair ...
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Aaron Alkane Ashton Clark beneath blue breath Brian Caliban Captain Von Ray cards caught crew Cyana cyborg stud dark door Draco Earth eyes face father fell fingers floor frowned galaxy glass gold grinned gypsies hair hand hundred Idas Illyrion Katin asked Katin looked laughed leaned light Lorq looked Lorq Von Ray Lorq's Lynceos moon Mouse asked Mouse looked Mouse's night Nine of Wands nodded nova Outer Colonies Page of Cups Page of Swords play Pleiades Federation plugged Prince and Ruby Prince's projection chamber psychorama pulled pushed puzzle ring Queen of Swords rail Red-shift rock sack Sebastian shadow ship shook his head shoulder shrugged smiled socket star steps stone stood stopped struck swung syrynx talk Tarot Tarot reading Tavo tell There's thing Three of Wands took twins Tyÿ vanes voice wall watch Yeah