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      The Void Captain's Tale

      by Norman Spinrad
      Published
      Dec 1982
      Main Genre
      Fantasy Fantasy
      Pages
      250
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      Welcome aboard the sex-drive void ship . . .

      Captain Genro commands the giant spaceship Dragon Zephyr - on board are ten thousand passengers in electrocoma, a smaller number of conscious passengers eagerly utilising the ship's dream chambers - and a Pilot.

      In the context of space travel, the Pilot is merely a biological component in the machine. Always a woman, her function is to launch the ship into the Jump by means of a cosmic orgasm. She is a pariah, shunned by all.

      Void Captain Genro should never even have spoken to his Pilot, let alone tried to embark on a relationship with her. When he did so, the result was every space traveller's nightmare.

      A Blind Jump into the Void . . .

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      Speculative Fiction

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      Fantasy

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      Jun 2013 Createspace ISBN13 9781490447940 ISBN10 1490447946
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      Jul 1986 Bantam ISBN13 9780553259957 ISBN10 0553259954
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      Sep 2001 Orb (UK) ISBN13 9780312868253 ISBN10 0312868251
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      First Edition Dec 1982 Simon & Schuster ISBN13 9780671434830 ISBN10 0671434837
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      Sep 2011 Gateway ISBN10 B00GVFPEUY
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      Oct 2011 Orion (UK) ISBN13 9780575117259 ISBN10 0575117257
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      Oct 2011 Gateway ISBN10 B005HRT7KU
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