Delany the star pit images3/13/2024 ![]() So that music is what I listened to when I first read Nova. Nova came out around the time of The White Album by The Beatles, Crown of Creation by the Jefferson Airplane, Wheels on Fire by Cream and Electric Ladyland by Jimi Hendrix. It’s very hard to separate my memories of Nova from the times when I first read it, the 1960s. Nova in 1968 was to science fiction what The Jefferson Airplane was to the Frank Sinatra and Judy Garland generation at the time. Delany was the same generation as The Beatles, the generation before the Baby Boomers, and the generation we grew up admiring, the one that made the 1960s. Heinlein was 44 years older than me, so Delany was an exciting young writer that spoke to my generation. Heinlein, my favorite science fiction writer at the time. Is the magic being 17, or 1968? Delany was only 25 when he completed Nova, so he was much closer to my age than than Robert A. I’d be awful curious to know how 17-year-olds today reading Nova feel about the book. Delany was a novel that dazzled my teenage self in 1968, but has lost its sense of wonder for my older self in 2014. Rereading a novel I loved reading almost a half-century ago is an interesting experience.
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