- Fiction, Interplanetary voyages, American Science fiction, Fiction in English
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…
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Epic, grave, contemporary and richly built.
- intimateepic
- gravecomic
- contemporarynostalgic
- sparerichly built
- resolvedopen-ended
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About the book
- Author
- Samuel R. Delany
- First published
- 1968
- Pages
- 224
- Publisher
- Bantam, 1975, Minotauro, LGF
- Editions
- 31
- Language
- English, French, heb
- ISBN
- 9781857987423
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