Nova

A quest for a priceless elementand revengefuels this far-future interstellar adventure that ';reads like Moby-Dick at a strobe-light show' (Time).

In 3172, the universe is divided between three political units: the stars and worlds of Draco, with Earth as its power center; the Pleiades Federation, on whose capital world, New Ark, lives the incredibly wealthy Von Ray family, descended from well-heeled merchants whose ancestors made their fortune as pirates; and the Outer Colonies, where, in their underwater mines, tiny quantities of the fabulously valuable Illyrion have been discovered.

Lorq Von Ray was a playboy and young space-yacht-racing captain who, at a party at Earth's Paris, clashed with Draco's Prince Red.

This sets Lorq on a demonic quest, through which he hopes to find vengeance.

When a star goes nova and implodes, in the seething stellar wreckage for a few dayseven hourslie tons of Illyrion, the element that makes interstellar travel possible.

To help him secure the priceless fuel, Lorq recruits a gypsy musician, a would-be novelist, and some other ragtag misfits.

But an even more dangerous fuel than Illyrion is revenge . . . This ebook features an illustrated biography of Samuel R.

Delany including rare images from his early career.