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Nоva is a science fiction novel by American writer Samuel R. Delany and published in 1968. The plot concerns the spaceship captain Lorq Von Ray's search for a nova, which will produce the essential power source Illyrion, and his vendetta with the Red family, who seek to kill him.
The book is about the author's then-10-year-old daughter, Annabel Beam, who was diagnosed with a rare terminal stomach disorder. During a visit home from the hospital, she fell; while climbing a tree with her older sister, a branch gave way, sending Annabel 30 feet headfirst into the hollow trunk of a cottonwood tree.
First read on air in 1994, many of the stories were eventually compiled in book form, followed by audio recording compilations from the program. Note that this list features only the stories that have been published in book form and on audio. Numerous other stories have been written and read out loud on the radio show, but are not currently listed.
Nova Express is a social commentary on human and machine control of life. The Nova Mob—Sammy the Butcher, Green Tony, Iron Claws, The Brown Artist, Jacky Blue Note, Limestone John, Izzy the Push, Hamburger Mary, Paddy The Sting, The Subliminal Kid, Blue Dinosaur, Mr. and Mrs. D —are viruses, "defined as the three-dimensional coordinate point of a controller" [2]... "which invade the human ...
It was founded in late 1999 by science fiction writer Eric Flint and publisher Jim Baen to determine whether the availability of books free of charge on the Internet encourages or discourages the sale of their paper books. [2] The Baen Free Library represents an experiment in the field of intellectual property and copyright. It appears that ...
The Ticket That Exploded is a 1962 novel by American author William S. Burroughs, published by Olympia Press and later by Grove Press in 1967. Together with The Soft Machine and Nova Express it is part of a trilogy, referred to as The Nova Trilogy, created using the cut-up technique, although for this book Burroughs used a variant called 'the fold-in' method.
Beowulf's Children (1995, UK: The Dragons of Heorot) (with Barnes and Pournelle) (book 2) The Dragons of Heorot (1996) (with Steven Barnes and Jerry Pournelle ) (UK version of book 2) Destiny's Road (1997) (by Niven alone; not precisely a continuation of the Heorot series: located in the same universe, events from the first two novels are ...
Black and white cats: The theme of cats was established in Light as the pair that Tate and Kearney had in their research lab.The cats reacted strongly to various on-screen images produced by the mathematics that Tate and Kearney were developing. in Nova Swing, cats appear in vast numbers running down the street to the Event Site — every dawn and dusk.