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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... talking about ? ” " Psychology . " Katin put the recorder back in his pocket . " Politics , and Physics . The three P's ... talk like he is . Sebastian and Ty˙ , I could guess from them . Are you sure ? " " His family holdings are there ...
... talking about ? ” " Psychology . " Katin put the recorder back in his pocket . " Politics , and Physics . The three P's ... talk like he is . Sebastian and Ty˙ , I could guess from them . Are you sure ? " " His family holdings are there ...
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... talk about the speed of light as the limiting velocity of an object is to talk about twelve or thirteen miles an hour as the limiting velocity of a swimmer in the sea . But as soon as one starts to employ the currents of the water ...
... talk about the speed of light as the limiting velocity of an object is to talk about twelve or thirteen miles an hour as the limiting velocity of a swimmer in the sea . But as soon as one starts to employ the currents of the water ...
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... talk to you " And Prince . In person . " ... 99 Lorq's voice faltered . " I'm not sure if Prince wants to talk to you . The time between your leaving us at the edge of Gold and our finally struggling to a medico is not one of my our ...
... talk to you " And Prince . In person . " ... 99 Lorq's voice faltered . " I'm not sure if Prince wants to talk to you . The time between your leaving us at the edge of Gold and our finally struggling to a medico is not one of my our ...
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