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Blurb: “Empire Star & The Ballad of Beta-2
are two of the finest short novels by one of the most talented writers in the Science Fiction field, a writer with a well-earned reputation for imagination and style.
In THE BALLAD OF BETA-2, Joneny, a student of galactic anthropology. is given the assignment of finding the meaning behind the ballad of a starship lost centuries before. In Delany's hands, Joneny's routine research project becomes a perilous quest of miraculous knowledge.
EMPIRE STAR is the story of Comet Jo the cat-bodied star-wanderer who meets, in his travels: the Lump, a half-alien, half-machine; Ni Ty Lee, the suicidal poet of the stars; the strange multiplex consciousness called Jewel...and the race of beings upon whose salvation rested the fate of civilization.”