Neverness, David Zindell
A story set in the far future about a world where pilots can travel between the stars if they can find the mathematical theory to describe there journey. Somewhere in the galaxy stars are going nova unexpectedly, a legandary race has left a message for someone to decode, and the moon-brained Solid State Entity may be able to help. I like the beginning and end of this book for it's ideas. The middle takes place planet-side and feels slow by comparison.
