THE VOID CAPTAIN'S TALE

Spinrad, Norman

ISBN 10: 0671434837 / ISBN 13: 9780671434830

Edité par Timescape Books Distributed by Simon and Schuster, New York, 1983

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Octavo, cloth-backed boards. First edition. The first-person narrative of the captain of the 'void ship' Dragon Zephyr, which leaps the light years with ease by means of its special orgasmic drive. A science-fictional fantasy about the ultimate phallic spacecraft. As is usual with Spinrad, there's a great deal of floridly written sex -- but this is perhaps his best novel since BUG JACK BARRON." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 404. "Very clever and written with much verve." - Brian Stableford. 1983 Nebula nominee. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-1064. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. (#154020).

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: THE VOID CAPTAIN'S TALE
• Éditeur: Timescape Books Distributed by Simon and Schuster, New York
• Date de parution: 1983
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0671434837
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780671434830
• Reliure: Couverture rigide
• Édition: Edition originale
• État de la jaquette: Jaquette
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Space Opera

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Synopsis

Book by Spinrad Norman

Présentation de l'éditeur

In the Second Starfaring Age, humans travel the universe via a technology they barely understand, propelled by a space drive consisting of mysteriously complex mechanisms and, symbiotically linked to it, a living woman, the Void Pilot. Pilots are rare, and the ability to be a Pilot also entails physical wasting and a shortened life. But Pilots live only for the timeless moments of Transition, when their ships cross the emptiness of space in an instant. Now Void Pilot Dominique Alia Wu has begun to catch a glimpse of something more, something transcendent in that eternal moment . . . and she needs the cooperation of her Captain to achieve it permanently. Even at risk to the survival of the Ship. Norman Spinrad has been one of SF's most adventurous writers since the 1960s, an internationally praised peer of such writers as Harlan Ellison, Michael Moorcock, and Samuel R. Delany. His stories of the Second Starfaring Age, The Void Captain's Tale and the later novel Child of Fortune, form a single epic praised by the Encyclopedia of Science Fiction as "an eroticized vision of the Galaxy . . . an elated Wanderjahr among the sparkling worlds."