novae

These assumptions would rule out some of the prime suspects in the mystery: comets, brightening stars known as novae, and exploding stars known as supernovae.

msnbc.com: Top msnbc.com headlines 2010

These assumptions would rule out some of the prime suspects in the mystery: comets, brightening stars known as novae, and exploding stars known as supernovae.

msnbc.com: Top msnbc.com headlines 2010

In the conventional view of sf/fantasy, a distinction is usually made between the two forms as fictions of the possible and the impossible respectively, but this is a distinction which glosses over the temporal (technological and historical) impossibilities of "novae" (Darko Suvin's term for the hypothetical novelties of sf) and "errata" (my own term for the counterfactual alterations of alt-history).

Notes on Strange Fiction: Seams Hal Duncan 2008

In the conventional view of sf/fantasy, a distinction is usually made between the two forms as fictions of the possible and the impossible respectively, but this is a distinction which glosses over the temporal (technological and historical) impossibilities of "novae" (Darko Suvin's term for the hypothetical novelties of sf) and "errata" (my own term for the counterfactual alterations of alt-history).

Archive 2008-08-01 Hal Duncan 2008

Astronomers commonly observe intense flashes of light from a variety of stellar explosions and outbursts, such as novae and supernovae.

innovations-report 2009

Astronomers commonly observe intense flashes of light from a variety of stellar explosions and outbursts, such as novae and supernovae.

innovations-report 2009

The occurrence of phenomena such as novae within the astronomer's universe, such as that Crab Nebula which does much, periodically, to combat the radiation of the Sun in shaping some of the leading effects experienced in our own Earth, presents us with evidence of the "mortality" of both Solar systems and the galaxies which they inhabit.

LaRouche's Latest 2009

All the quirks of strange fiction, to put it in a pertinent perspective, all the counterfactual errata, the hypothetical novae, the metaphysical chimerae — Nazi presidents and robot stormtroopers and butterfly-winged faeries — these are not pure invention.

Creative Control - Part 4 Hal Duncan 2009

All the quirks of strange fiction, to put it in a pertinent perspective, all the counterfactual errata, the hypothetical novae, the metaphysical chimerae — Nazi presidents and robot stormtroopers and butterfly-winged faeries — these are not pure invention.

Archive 2009-02-01 Hal Duncan 2009

While concretised metaphors may be written into the strange fiction of novae, errata and chimerae, and this sort of fantastication therefore quite familiar, the pataphor is noticeably distinct in the fact that it concretises the metaphor, in this example, as it occurs, violating convention in the most fundamental way, rendering the whole narrative as unpredictable and metamorphic as a dream.

Notes on Strange Fiction: The Pataphysical Quirk Hal Duncan 2008

One idea is that this might come from novae, a special class of cosmic explosion not to be confused with supernovae.

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