Eros at Nadir (Tales of the Velvet Comet) [Paperback]

Mike Resnick (Author)

Book Description

Series: Tales of the Velvet Comet | Publication Date: September 2, 1986

Book Four of the Velvet Comet--the enormous, exclusive, elaborate, and infamous orbiting brothel: Screenwriter and novelist Nate Page arrives aboard the empty Velvet Comet twenty-three years after it is decommissioned by the Vainmill Syndicate. The light-topic musical holographic production that Nate is writing is based on the Velvet Comet in its prime, and requires research available only through Cupid, the ship's still-functioning and nearly-self-aware onboard computer. As the cynical screenwriter and the unemotionally truthful computer struggle to create a work of fiction true to the reality of life aboard the Comet, Nate's agent makes it clear that prostituting your art is not any different from prostituting your body.

--This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition.

Product Details

• Paperback
• Publisher: Roc; Second Printing edition (September 2, 1986)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0451144481
• ISBN-13: 978-0451144485
• Product Dimensions: 6.8 x 4.2 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #779,725 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars A haunting, enigmatic ending to a brilliant series, October 4, 1999

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Matthew D. Hydeman "voyage" (Tucson, Arizona, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Eros at Nadir (Tales of the Velvet Comet) (Paperback)

Mike Resnick's "Tales of the Velvet Comet" books are some of the best science-fiction out there. The whole series is full of satire, love, sex, mystery and action.

So why is the final book so devoid of much of what made the series good? In Resnick's own tongue-in-cheek manner, he bids the whorehouse in space a fond farewell by imbuing the Comet's computer, the ironically-named Cupid, with the first inklings of an intelligence greater than its usual 1s and 0s. With the appearance of Nate Page, holomusical writer extraordinaire, commissioned to write a holo about the "life" of the Velvet Comet, the story is a look back at the Comet's history, a philosophical discussion of what life is -- and what it may become -- and the overarching framework of Page creating the Comet's final, and most shocking, story. Resnick's written some excellent books since then, but nothing I would consider as great as the Velvet Comet series.