Nova

Name: Nova
Brand: Blackstone Audiobooks
Availability: InStock
Rating: 4 (1 reviews)
Author: Samuel R. Delany
ISBN: 9781504686204

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

Synopsis

Given that the suns of Draco stretch almost sixteen light years from end to end, it stands to reason that the cost of transportation is the most important factor driving the thirty-second century. And since Illyrion is the element most needed for space travel, Lorq von Ray is plenty willing to fly through the core of a recently imploded sun in order to obtain seven tons of it. The potential for profit is so great that Lorq has little difficulty cobbling together an alluring crew, including a gypsy musician and a moon-obsessed scholar interested in the ancient art of writing a novel. What the crew doesn’t know is that Lorq’s quest is actually fueled by a private revenge so consuming that he’ll stop at nothing to achieve it.In the grandest manner of speculative fiction, Nova is a wise and witty classic that casts a fascinating new light on some of humanity’s oldest truths and enduring myths.

About Samuel R. Delany

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.

About Claire Bloom

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.

About Stefan Rudnicki

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.

Reviews

Goodreads review by mark on February 07, 2016

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

Goodreads review by Stuart on July 10, 2015

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

Goodreads review by Mark on March 09, 2017

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

Goodreads review by Juho on February 28, 2020

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

Goodreads review by Jamie on November 14, 2019

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

Quotes

“[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

Awards

Hugo Award