Author: Harcourt School Publishers Staff
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin School
ISBN: 9780153143083
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 39
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When Alistair is kidnapped by a spaceship full of Goots from Gootula, his main concern is for his overdue library books.
Author: Marilyn Sadler
Publisher: Macmillan Children's Books
ISBN: 9780333567265
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 40
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Author: Marilyn Sadler
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780140553352
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 48
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When Mr. Fudwinkle tells Alistair's class to bring in the most unusual plant they can find, Alistair decides to cruise the galaxies for the most unusual plant in the entire universe. But Alistair doesn't count on aliens invading Earth
Author: Marilyn Sadler
Publisher: Aladdin Paperbacks
ISBN: 9780671684938
Category : Science fiction.
Languages : en
Pages : 40
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Alistair's entry in a science competition takes him to many places and time periods, but unfortunately he can't prove this to the judges.
Author: Lisa Miles
Publisher: E.D.C. Publishing
ISBN: 9780746031049
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 100
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Introduces our universe, our solar system, its planets, moons, asteroids, comets, the stars, constellations, and astronomy facts.
Author: Alastair Reynolds
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101568852
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 576
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The first novel in the Poseidon's Children series from the acclaimed author of the Revelation Space series. One hundred and fifty years from now, Africa has become the world’s dominant technological and economic power. Crime, war, disease and poverty have been practically eliminated. The Moon and Mars are settled, and colonies stretch all the way out to the edge of the solar system. And Ocular, the largest scientific instrument in history, is about to make an epochal discovery... Geoffrey Akinya wants only one thing: to be left in peace, so that he can continue his long-running studies into the elephants of the Amboseli basin. But Geoffrey’s family, which controls the vast Akinya business empire, has other plans for him. After the death of his grandmother Eunice—the erstwhile space explorer and entrepreneur—something awkward has come to light on the Moon, so Geoffrey is dispatched there to ensure the family name remains untarnished. But the secrets Eunice died with are about to be revealed—secrets that could change everything...or tear this near utopia apart.
Author: Alastair Reynolds
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 0316462691
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 602
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Pushing Ice is the brilliant tale of extraordinary aliens, glittering technologies, and sweeping space opera from award-winning science fiction author Alastair Reynolds. 2057. Humanity has raised exploiting the solar system to an art form. Bella Lind and the crew of her nuclear-powered ship, the Rockhopper, push ice. They mine comets. And they're good at it. The Rockhopper is nearing the end of its current mission cycle, and everyone is desperate for some much-needed R & R, when startling news arrives from Saturn: Janus, one of Saturn's ice moons, has inexplicably left its natural orbit and is now heading out of the solar system at high speed. As layers of camouflage fall away, it becomes clear that Janus was never a moon in the first place. It's some kind of machine -- and it is now headed toward a fuzzily glimpsed artifact 260 light-years away. The Rockhopper is the only ship anywhere near Janus, and Bella Lind is ordered to shadow it for the few vital days before it falls forever out of reach. In accepting this mission, she sets her ship and her crew on a collision course with destiny -- for Janus has more surprises in store, and not all of them are welcome.
Author: Alastair Reynolds
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1440622817
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 708
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Alastair Reynolds pushes the boundaries of science fiction and “confirms his place among the leaders of the hard-science space-opera renaissance” (Publishers Weekly) in this novel in his Revelation Space universe. Late in the twenty-sixth century, the human race has advanced enough to accidentally trigger the Inhibitors—alien killing machines designed to detect intelligent life and destroy it. The only hope for humanity lies in the recovery of a secret cache of doomsday weapons—and a renegade named Clavain who is determined to find them. But other factions want the weapons for their own purposes—and the weapons themselves have another agenda altogether...
Author: Alastair McIntosh
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1532634455
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 470
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The islands of the Outer Hebrides are home to some of the most remote and spectacular scenery in the world. They host an astonishing range of mysterious structures - stone circles, beehive dwellings, holy wells and 'temples' from the Celtic era. Over a twelve-day pilgrimage, often in appalling conditions, Alastair McIntosh returns to the islands of his childhood and explores the meaning of these places. Traversing moors and mountains, struggling through torrential rivers, he walks from the most southerly tip of Harris to the northerly Butt of Lewis. The book is a walk through space and time, across a physical landscape and into a spiritual one. As he battled with his own ability to endure some of the toughest terrain in Britain, he met with the healing power of the land and its communities. This is a moving book, a powerful reflection not simply of this extraordinary place and its people met along the way, but of imaginative hope for humankind.
Author: Alastair Reynolds
Publisher: Orbit
ISBN: 0316462543
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 229
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Alastair Reynolds returns to his bestselling Revelation Space universe with two novellas of interstellar exploration. "Diamond Dogs"The planet Golgotha -- supposedly lifeless -- resides in a remote star system, far from those inhabited by human colonists. It is home to an enigmatic machine-like structure called the Blood Spire, which has already brutally and systematically claimed the lives of one starship crew that attempted to uncover its secrets. But nothing will deter Richard Swift from exploring this object of alien origin... "Turquoise Days"In the seas of Turquoise live the Pattern Jugglers, the amorphous, aquatic organisms capable of preserving the memories of any human swimmer who joins their collective consciousness. Naqi Okpik devoted her life to studying these creatures -- and paid a high price for swimming among them. Now, she may be the only hope for the survival of the species -- and of every person living on Turquoise...
