Empire: A Visual Novel
by: Delany, Samuel R./Chaykin, Howard V.

Softcover. NY, Berkley Windhover , 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, pictorial wraps, 112 pages, over 300 full-color panel illustrations by Howard Chaykin. On a habitable moon near Tau Ceti, a young man named Comet Jo encounters a devil-kitten and sees a spaceship crash land. One of the people in the spaceship tells Jo that he has to take an urgent message to Empire Star, and dies. Another collapses to form Jewel, a compact, multicolored, multiplexed crystalline entity. Empire Star is the story of Comet Jo's journey to deliver the message, as narrated by Jewel. Minor shelf wear, clean copy.