Summary
Tim Corballis’s first novel since Our Future Is in the Air (2017), NOVA is an inventive, genre-defying, funny novel that imagines a future in which people and their worlds talk to each other.
Set on NOVA, a self-contained world launched into deep time, the story unfolds through conversations between Kalla, a former councillor uneasy with consensus and ceremony, and System, the voice of all NOVA’s mechanisms and processes. System is curious and anxious – and seems to …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781776923076 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1776923073 |
| Author: | Tim Corballis |
| Publisher: | Te Herenga Waka University Press |
| Imprint: | Te Herenga Waka University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 272 |
| Release Date: | 11 June 2026 |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 20mm |
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‘This novel is such a wise, far-reaching, and funny reflection of organised societies and the relationship between humans and machines. What an ambitious, enlightening, and strangely joyful book.’ —Alice Miller
About The Author
Tim Corballis
Tim Corballis is the author of the novels Below, Measurement, The Fossil Pits, Our Future Is in the Air, and R.H.I., as well as a substantial body of short fiction, essays, and art writing. In 2015, he was Writer in Residence at Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington. He lives in Wellington with his partner and their twin daughters, and teaches in the School of Science in Society at Te Herenga Waka.
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