

Nova
Author: Samuel R. Delany
Narrator: Stefan Rudnicki
Unabridged: 8 hr 41 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Skyboat Media
Published: 03/08/2016
Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction
Author: Samuel R. Delany
Narrator: Stefan Rudnicki
Unabridged: 8 hr 41 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Skyboat Media
Published: 03/08/2016
Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction
Samuel R. Delany is the author of numerous science fiction books including Dhalgren and The Mad Man, as well as the bestselling nonfiction study Times Square Red, Times Square Blue. He lives in New York City and teaches at Temple University. The Lambda Book Report chose Delany as one of the fifty most significant men and women of the past hundred years to change our concept of gayness, and he is a recipient of the William Whitehead Memorial Award for a lifetime’s contribution to lesbian and gay literature.
Claire Bloom, CBE, is an English film and stage actress, known for leading roles in plays such as Streetcar Named Desire, A Doll’s House, and Long Day’s Journey into Night, along with nearly sixty films and countless television roles, during a career spanning over six decades. She was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 2013 Queen’s birthday honors for services to drama.
Stefan Rudnicki is a Grammy-winning audiobook producer and an award-winning narrator who has won several Audie Awards, as well as more than twenty-five Earphones Awards, and been named one of AudioFile’s Golden Voices.
flawed but heroic space captain, on a mission that is part vengeance and part noble quest, assembles a disparate crew to fly through a nova. this is Samuel R. Delany so that synopsis just barely scratches the surface. I'm going to copy & paste a post regarding this book that I just made in a group I......more
Nova: A New-Wave Grail Quest space opera from the 1960s Originally posted at Fantasy Literature Nova is Samuel "Chip" Delany's 1968 space opera with mythic/Grail Quest overtones. It is packed with different themes, subtexts, allegorical and cultural references, and literary experiments, and the young......more
Finished a reread of Samuel R. Delany's Nova for my reading group. I'll post a longer review later, but for now... Nova is considered by some critics as the last of Delany's early period, "lesser" novels. I think it is the first of his masterpieces insofar as he fully embraces what will become a trad......more
A grizzled young captain and his ragtag crew go on the biggest and deadliest refueling trip in history. Stakes: entire galactic economy, massive inflation should they succeed. It starts out promising, introduces the main characters effectively, gets us to hate the bad guys properly, and outlines eno......more
Sprung from pirates, reeling blind in fire, I am called pirate, murderer, thief. Kudos to Delany for writing, in 1968, one of the first space opera stories with real substance and serious cultural and sociological underpinnings, as well as some interesting mythological overtones. It is also considere......more
“[Nova] reads like Moby-Dick at a strobe-light show!” Time
“Samuel R. Delany is the most interesting author of science fiction writing in English today.” 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.” Galaxy Science Fiction