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Empire Star

by Samuel R. Delany · 1966

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On a habitable moon near Tau Ceti, a young man named Comet Jo encounters a devil-kitten and sees a spaceship crash land. One of the people in the spaceship tells Jo that he has to take an urgent message to Empire Star, and dies. Another collapses to form Jewel, a compact, multicolored, multiplexed crystalline entity. Empire Staris the story of Comet Jo's journey to deliver the message, as narrated by Jewel.

Genre
aliens and first contactaliens and first contactMore like thisLess of thisscience fictionscience fictionMore like thisLess of thisspace operaspace operaMore like thisLess of thistime traveltime travelMore like thisLess of this
Audience
adult
Length
short · 132 pages
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