Nova - Mass Market Paperback

Samuel R. Delany

Bantam Books

1975

216 páginas

7h 12m

ISBN-10: 8085601826

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.

Resenhas (29)

4 (Muito bom)

Achei o início um pouco confuso, por isso demorei pra me conectar. Mas do meio para o final comecei a me envolver muito com a história, tanto que as últimas 130 páginas li em uma pegada só. Que space opera raiz essa, deu pra perceber por que o autor foi incluído no hall da fama da ficção científica! O defeito pra mim foi que eu queria que houvesse mais páginas expandindo e explicando melhor os cenários e a criação de mundo como um todo, pois fiquei sem conseguir imaginar com clareza algumas situações. Mesmo assim, o saldo final foi muito positivo.