Loved itThis is a stylish and experimental, energetic even, space opera of the new wave packed with symbolism and mythic undertones and left me wanting more by ending on an unfinished sentence.
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Nova (1968)
Others: Overwhelmingly positive These 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.
- ISBN:
- 9780375706707
- Length:
- 220 pages
Genres: science fiction
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Loved it
Loved itprobably the best single Space Opera I've ever read full of light and color and glitter is just impeccable
Loved itis a standalone Space Opera that's relatively short and relatively very experimental and strange ... I found it Just a Touch academic and just a touch self-consciously literary but I thought that it was a really unique book
Loved ita novel that is pure linguistic fireworks and that stretched my understanding not just of what the potential of science fiction is but what the potential of the english language really is