What is "nostromo"

Nostromo (full title Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard) is a 1904 novel by Joseph Conrad, set in the fictitious South American republic of "Costaguana". It was originally published serially in two volumes of T.P.'s Weekly.

In 1998, the Modern Library ranked Nostromo 47th on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. F. Scott Fitzgerald said, "I'd rather have written Nostromo than any other novel." Nostromo is often regarded as Conrad's best novel.

Nostromo is a 1904 novel by Joseph Conrad.

Nostromo may also refer to:

• Nostromo (TV serial), a 1997 British-Italian TV serial
• Nostromo, the fictional starship in the 1979 film Alien
• Nostromo (album), a dark ambient album by SleepResearch Facility, inspired by the fictional starship
• Nostromo (comics), a Marvel Comics character from their Marvel 2099 line.
• Nostromo SpeedPad n52, a gaming peripheral
• nhttpd, the Nostromo web server
• Nostromo (chasma), a chasma on Charon (moon)
• Nostromo Defensa, an Argentine defense contractor specializing in UAVs

Nostromo is the debut album by dark ambient artist SleepResearch Facility. The original release in 2001 was a limited edition (only 1000 copies were manufactured), and has now sold out. However, a re-issue was released on 5 December 2007, which includes a new bonus track called "Narcissus".

Nostromo is a 1997 British-Italian television drama miniseries directed by Alastair Reid and produced by Fernando Ghia of Pixit Productions, a co-production with Radiotelevisione Italiana, Televisión Española, and WGBH Boston. The music is composed by Ennio Morricone. It stars Claudio Amendola, Paul Brooke, Lothaire Bluteau, Claudia Cardinale, Colin Firth and Albert Finney. It is described as "an adaptation of Joseph Conrad's epic story Nostromo of political upheaval, greed and romance in turn-of-the-20th-century South America."