The Void Captain's Tale

Norman Spinrad

ISBN 10: 0671434837 / ISBN 13: 9780671434830

Edité par Timescape Books / Simon & Schuster, New York, 1983

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ISBN 0-671-43483-7 and full printing line with "1" on its copyright page. This book is in near fine condition, marred only by light bumps on its spine ends. Its binding is tight and square, with no spine crease. Covers are unmarked and otherwise unworn, with bright silver titles on its spine. Pages are unmarked and unworn. Its dust jacket, now protected by a removable mylar cover, is in fine condition: whole, bright, unmarked, and unworn. I will ship this book in a moisture proof zip-loc bag, padded in bubble wrap, inside a sturdy box to assure it reaches its new owner in the same condition as my description.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: The Void Captain's Tale
• Éditeur: Timescape Books / Simon & Schuster, New York
• Date de parution: 1983
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0671434837
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780671434830
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: 1st Edition
• Impression: 1st Printing
• État de l'article: Near Fine
• État de la jaquette: Fine
• Poids: 1,03 livre
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • SF & Fantasy Novels & Chapbooks

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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."