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- Title
- Nova
- Author
- Delany, Samuel R.
- Publisher
- Spectra
- Publication year
- 1983
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0553236210
- ISBN 13
- 9780553236217
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Review
" As of this book [Samuel R. Delany] is the best science-fiction writer in the world." --Galaxy
" A fast-action farflung interstellar adventure; [an] archetypal mystical/mythical allegory; [a] modern myth told in the S-F idiomE and lots more." --"Fantasy and Science Fiction"
"One of the most complete and fully realized pictures of an interstellar society that I have ever read." --"Science Fiction Times"
"As of this book [Samuel R. Delany] is the best science-fiction writer in the world." --Galaxy
"A fast-action farflung interstellar adventure; [an] archetypal mystical/mythical allegory; [a] modern myth told in the S-F idiomEand lots more." --"Fantasy and Science Fiction"
"["Nova"] reads like "Moby-Dick "at a strobe-light show!" --Roger Sale, "Time Magazine
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"Here are (at least some of) the ways you can read "Nova" As fast-action far-flung interstellar adventure; as archetypal mystical/mythical allegory (in which the Tarot and the Grail both figure prominently); as modern myth told in the SF idiom . . . The reader observes, recollect, or participates in a range of personal human experience including violent pain and disfigurement, sensory deprivation and overload, man-machine communion, the drug experience, the creative experience--and interpersonal relationships which include incest and assassination, father-son, leader-follower, human-pet, and "lots" more." --Judith Merrill, "The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction
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"Samuel R. Delany is the most interesting author of science fiction writing in English today." --Gerald Jonas, "New York Times Book Review
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"Samuel R. Delany, right now, as of this book, "Nova," not as of some future book or some accumulated body of work, is the best science-fiction writer in the world, at a time when competition for that status is intense. I don't see how a science fiction writer can do more than wring your heart while explaining how it works. No writer can. The special thing that science fiction does is to first credibly place the heart in an unconventional environment. A particular thing that recent science fiction has been doing is to make that unconventional environment a technological one. Another has been to make it a romantic one, sometimes calling it an intensely humanistic one . . . All of these things are accomplished in "Nova."" --A.J. Budrys, "Galaxy Magazine"
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"One of the most complete and fully realized pictures of an interstellar society that I have ever read." --Norman Spinrad, "Science Fiction Times"
["Nova"] reads like "Moby-Dick "at a strobe-light show! Roger Sale, "Time Magazine
"
Here are (at least some of) the ways you can read "Nova" As fast-action far-flung interstellar adventure; as archetypal mystical/mythical allegory (in which the Tarot and the Grail both figure prominently); as modern myth told in the SF idiom . . . The reader observes, recollect, or participates in a range of personal human experience including violent pain and disfigurement, sensory deprivation and overload, man-machine communion, the drug experience, the creative experience and interpersonal relationships which include incest and assassination, father-son, leader-follower, human-pet, and "lots" more. Judith Merrill, "The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction
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Samuel R. Delany is the most interesting author of science fiction writing in English today. Gerald Jonas, "New York Times Book Review
"
Samuel R. Delany, right now, as of this book, "Nova," not as of some future book or some accumulated body of work, is the best science-fiction writer in the world, at a time when competition for that status is intense. I don t see how a science fiction writer can do more than wring your heart while explaining how it works. No writer can. The special thing that science fiction does is to first credibly place the heart in an unconventional environment. A particular thing that recent science fiction has been doing is to make that unconventional environment a technological one. Another has been to make it a romantic one, sometimes calling it an intensely humanistic one . . . All of these things are accomplished in "Nova." A.J. Budrys, "Galaxy Magazine"
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One of the most complete and fully realized pictures of an interstellar society that I have ever read. Norman Spinrad, "Science Fiction Times""
[Nova] reads like Moby-Dick at a strobe-light show! Roger Sale, Time Magazine
Here are (at least some of) the ways you can read Nova As fast-action far-flung interstellar adventure; as archetypal mystical/mythical allegory (in which the Tarot and the Grail both figure prominently); as modern myth told in the SF idiom . . . The reader observes, recollect, or participates in a range of personal human experience including violent pain and disfigurement, sensory deprivation and overload, man-machine communion, the drug experience, the creative experience and interpersonal relationships which include incest and assassination, father-son, leader-follower, human-pet, and lots more. Judith Merrill, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction
Samuel R. Delany is the most interesting author of science fiction writing in English today. Gerald Jonas, New York Times Book Review
Samuel R. Delany, right now, as of this book, Nova, not as of some future book or some accumulated body of work, is the best science-fiction writer in the world, at a time when competition for that status is intense. I don t see how a science fiction writer can do more than wring your heart while explaining how it works. No writer can. The special thing that science fiction does is to first credibly place the heart in an unconventional environment. A particular thing that recent science fiction has been doing is to make that unconventional environment a technological one. Another has been to make it a romantic one, sometimes calling it an intensely humanistic one . . . All of these things are accomplished in Nova. A.J. Budrys, Galaxy Magazine
One of the most complete and fully realized pictures of an interstellar society that I have ever read. Norman Spinrad, Science Fiction Times
"[Nova] reads like Moby-Dick at a strobe-light show!" --Roger Sale, Time Magazine
"Here are (at least some of) the ways you can read Nova As fast-action far-flung interstellar adventure; as archetypal mystical/mythical allegory (in which the Tarot and the Grail both figure prominently); as modern myth told in the SF idiom . . . The reader observes, recollect, or participates in a range of personal human experience including violent pain and disfigurement, sensory deprivation and overload, man-machine communion, the drug experience, the creative experience--and interpersonal relationships which include incest and assassination, father-son, leader-follower, human-pet, and lots more." --Judith Merrill, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction
"Samuel R. Delany is the most interesting author of science fiction writing in English today." --Gerald Jonas, New York Times Book Review
"Samuel R. Delany, right now, as of this book, Nova, not as of some future book or some accumulated body of work, is the best science-fiction writer in the world, at a time when competition for that status is intense. I don't see how a science fiction writer can do more than wring your heart while explaining how it works. No writer can. The special thing that science fiction does is to first credibly place the heart in an unconventional environment. A particular thing that recent science fiction has been doing is to make that unconventional environment a technological one. Another has been to make it a romantic one, sometimes calling it an intensely humanistic one . . . All of these things are accomplished in Nova." --A.J. Budrys, Galaxy Magazine
"One of the most complete and fully realized pictures of an interstellar society that I have ever read." --Norman Spinrad, Science Fiction Times
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