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Eros at Nadir

Mike Resnick (1986)

SubgenreSpace Opera
Age groupAdult 18+
Content ratingR
Pages ()
SeriesTales of the Velvet Comet #4
Setting
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Sexual contentNot rated
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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.