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Jewel the Tritovian crystallizes, and then Norn tells Comet Jo to take a message to Empire Star.
Chapter 1Comet Jo returns home then runs off because his Uncle Clemence is angry at him.
Chapter 3In Transport Area, Comet Jo tells Charona about his mission and shows her the crystallized Jewel.
Chapter 3Comet Jo meets San Severina and departs Rhys on her transport ship, bringing along D'ik and Jewel.
Chapter 4San Severina gives Comet Jo diction lessons and explains why she owns seven enslaved Lll.
Chapter 5The ship stops off at Ratshole, and San Severina buys Comet Jo new clothes and has him groomed.
Chapter 6San Severina and Comet Jo go to Earth, where she leaves Jo and tells him to find someone named Lump.
Chapter 6Comet Jo meets a man called Oscar, who takes Jo to the moon and there reveals that he is Lump.
Chapter 6After an encounter with a crazed researcher, Comet Jo meets Lump in orbit around planet Tantamount.
Chapter 8Poet Ni Ty Lee visits Comet Jo and Lump. The three have a multiplex conversation about literature.
Chapter 8Jo is conscripted in the Empire Army, and Lump puts Jewel in Jo's eye, widening Jo's perception.
Chapter 9Because Comet Jo refuses to go to Empire Star, Lump says they must go see San Severina.
Chapter 9Comet Jo and Lump visit San Severina and discover that owning seven Lll has driven her insane.
Chapter 10After reporting for duty, Jo meets a princess of the empire, who is hiding in a storage room.
Chapter 11Comet Jo agrees to help the princess assume rule over the empire and free the Lll.
Chapter 11Narrator Jewel gives the reader clues for piecing together Empire Star's mosaiclike narrative.
Chapter 12| Chapter | Summary |
|---|---|
| Chapter 1 | Delany quotes 20th-century British poet W.H. Auden and French author Marcel Proust before the first chapter. The Proust ... Read More |
| Chapter 2 | Chapter 2's events happen concurrently with the events in Chapter 1, recounting the spaceship crash on Rhys that Comet J... Read More |
| Chapter 3 | Comet Jo walks home from the spaceship crash, playing his ocarina, which is a wind instrument. Jewel is in a pouch on hi... Read More |
| Chapter 4 | Charona walks Comet Jo through the gates of the Transport Area. Once there, she leaves him to find a spaceship on which ... Read More |
| Chapter 5 | During San Severina's study session with Comet Jo, she senses his confusion over how she can bring herself to enslave se... Read More |
| Chapter 6 | Apart from the sadness he feels playing his ocarina for the enslaved Lll, Comet Jo finds his routine as a spaceship's sh... Read More |
| Chapter 7 | Comet Jo has been on Earth's moon with Lump—a linguistic ubiquitous multiplex—for three weeks. He is frustrated because ... Read More |
| Chapter 8 | On his way to meet Lump at planet Tantamount, Comet Jo's spaceship collides with the Geodesic Survey Station. Its occupa... Read More |
| Chapter 9 | Comet Jo, Lump, D'ik, and Jewel are in Lump's organiform spaceship, drifting about 170 miles away from Prince Nactor at ... Read More |
| Chapter 10 | Lump, in this chapter, without explanation, reassumes the form of Oscar, the shape he had when he and Comet Jo first met... Read More |
| Chapter 11 | Comet Jo takes an immediate dislike to being in the Empire Army. Shortly after boarding the military spaceship with the ... Read More |
| Chapter 12 | In this final chapter of Empire Star the narrator Jewel—a Tritovian in crystallized form—directly addresses "the multipl... Read More |
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