It took me a while (30+ years) to get to this 60/70's mash-up of drug culture literature with a flavoring of Eastern philosophy, stuffed into a science fiction casing. The drive on these 'Void' ships require a female pilot to be plugged into the mechanism. Still, the culture Spinrad creates has some interesting elements, though it's basically Andy Warhol's Factory, on a space ship. It was actually written in the early '80s, but it's dated pretty seriously, as you might expect. an elated Wanderjahr among the sparkling worlds.”Ģ.8⭐ It took me a while (30+ years) to get to this 60/70's mash-up of drug culture literature with a flavoring of Eastern philosophy, stuffed into a science fiction casing. 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. 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. Even at risk to the survival of the Ship. and she needs the cooperation of her Captain to achieve it permanently. Now Void Pilot Dominique Alia Wu has begun to catch a glimpse of something more, something transcendent in that eternal moment. Pilots are rare, and the ability to be a Pilot also entails physical wasting and a shortened life.īut Pilots live only for the timeless moments of Transition, when their ships cross the emptiness of space in an instant. But Pilots live only for the timeless mom 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. 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.

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