Author: T. K. F. Weisskopf
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780743498876
Category : Interplanetary voyages
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The early days of space travel - the tragic deaths, the explorers who disappeared without a trace, the many heroisms- were now relegated to a few pages in history textbooks.
Cosmic Tales
Author: T. K. F. Weisskopf
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780743498876
Category : Interplanetary voyages
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The early days of space travel - the tragic deaths, the explorers who disappeared without a trace, the many heroisms- were now relegated to a few pages in history textbooks.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780743498876
Category : Interplanetary voyages
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The early days of space travel - the tragic deaths, the explorers who disappeared without a trace, the many heroisms- were now relegated to a few pages in history textbooks.
Far Futures
Author: Gregory Benford
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312863791
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Collection of five hard science fiction novellas, all set at least ten thousand years in the future that confront the issues of cosmology, astronomy, evolution, and biology.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312863791
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Collection of five hard science fiction novellas, all set at least ten thousand years in the future that confront the issues of cosmology, astronomy, evolution, and biology.
Wonders of the Galaxy
Author: T E Bradford
Publisher: Elk Lake Publishing Incorporated
ISBN: 9781649493309
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Inspired by biblical parables, these nine short stories set in the wonders of the galaxy are sure to delight and inspire ... ... When a mothership carrying the solar system's survivors malfunctions, teens from different factions must lead their people to their promised land, the planet Eden. ... After losing his fortune and his fleet, a renowned space pilot finds himself returning home to a planet run by the father he's disowned. Will the father choose mercy or justice for his son? ... When earth's greatest scientist pursues his dream of creating life on a new planet, he finds more than he could ever have dreamed of. ... Moena-P wants to uncover the truth--does the outer-galaxy planet called Kharis and its independence-granting king really exist ... or are they just rumors by the opposition? ... When a remote widow star system is threatened, only persistence and resilience can win over a wicked galactic arms dealer. ... Heartthrob Alex Powter trades in his superstar status for secret agent when an unlikely group of rebels recruit him to save the galaxy. ... As the sun enters its final phase, Garrett is faced with a choice-should he enter the portal and start over, or stay behind and join the resistance? ... Dax Mor, a poor Lezian farmer on a mission to provide for his family, will discover who his friends truly are in this journey among the stars. ... When an alien race arrives bent on using humans as reproductive hosts, Earth's only hope rests in a group of eight experimental heroes.
Publisher: Elk Lake Publishing Incorporated
ISBN: 9781649493309
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Inspired by biblical parables, these nine short stories set in the wonders of the galaxy are sure to delight and inspire ... ... When a mothership carrying the solar system's survivors malfunctions, teens from different factions must lead their people to their promised land, the planet Eden. ... After losing his fortune and his fleet, a renowned space pilot finds himself returning home to a planet run by the father he's disowned. Will the father choose mercy or justice for his son? ... When earth's greatest scientist pursues his dream of creating life on a new planet, he finds more than he could ever have dreamed of. ... Moena-P wants to uncover the truth--does the outer-galaxy planet called Kharis and its independence-granting king really exist ... or are they just rumors by the opposition? ... When a remote widow star system is threatened, only persistence and resilience can win over a wicked galactic arms dealer. ... Heartthrob Alex Powter trades in his superstar status for secret agent when an unlikely group of rebels recruit him to save the galaxy. ... As the sun enters its final phase, Garrett is faced with a choice-should he enter the portal and start over, or stay behind and join the resistance? ... Dax Mor, a poor Lezian farmer on a mission to provide for his family, will discover who his friends truly are in this journey among the stars. ... When an alien race arrives bent on using humans as reproductive hosts, Earth's only hope rests in a group of eight experimental heroes.
Cosmic
Author: Frank Cottrell Boyce
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0061998346
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Liam has always felt a bit like he's stuck between two worlds. This isprimarily because he's a twelve-year-old kid who looks like he's about thirty. Sometimes it's not so bad, like when his new principal mistakes him for a teacher on the first day of school or when he convinces a car dealer to let him take a Porsche out on a test drive. But mostly it's just frustrating, being a kid trapped in an adult world. And so he decides to flip things around. Liam cons his way onto the first spaceship to take civilians into space, a special flight for a group of kids and an adult chaperone, and he is going as the adult chaperone. It's not long before Liam, along with his friends, is stuck between two worlds again—only this time he's 239,000 miles from home. Frank Cottrell Boyce, author of Millions and Framed, brings us a funny and touching story of the many ways in which grown-upness is truly wasted on grown-ups.
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0061998346
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Liam has always felt a bit like he's stuck between two worlds. This isprimarily because he's a twelve-year-old kid who looks like he's about thirty. Sometimes it's not so bad, like when his new principal mistakes him for a teacher on the first day of school or when he convinces a car dealer to let him take a Porsche out on a test drive. But mostly it's just frustrating, being a kid trapped in an adult world. And so he decides to flip things around. Liam cons his way onto the first spaceship to take civilians into space, a special flight for a group of kids and an adult chaperone, and he is going as the adult chaperone. It's not long before Liam, along with his friends, is stuck between two worlds again—only this time he's 239,000 miles from home. Frank Cottrell Boyce, author of Millions and Framed, brings us a funny and touching story of the many ways in which grown-upness is truly wasted on grown-ups.
The Hunchback
Author: Regine Abel
Publisher: Regine Abel
ISBN: 1989761038
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 217
Book Description
Her heart’s desire would be her downfall. After spending her life in training, Esmeralda still can’t believe she’s been appointed to serve as the Vestal of Our Lady of Paris—the greatest temple on any planet in the Nine Circles. Her beauty and unrivaled ability to manipulate energy quickly catch the attention of Praetor Frollo, the grand magistrate of Paris, and High Seraph Phoebus, the greatest winged warrior in the solar system. But her dream of becoming the consort of one of those handsome, powerful males is forgotten the moment she lays eyes upon the hunchback secretly living in the temple. Kwazeem feels Esmeralda’s power as soon as she lands in his city. She awakens the primal energy that has lain dormant within him—and a possessive hunger that demands he claim her. But he’s a Fallen, a monster that would be destroyed on sight if the citizens of Paris discovered his existence. Worse still, Esmeralda’s Divine Light inflicts agony upon his already tortured body if he basks in it for too long. And yet… he cannot stay away from her. With Kwazeem’s mysterious condition and Esmeralda torn between her duties to the people and the sinful desires of her heart, is there any chance of them sharing a future?
Publisher: Regine Abel
ISBN: 1989761038
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 217
Book Description
Her heart’s desire would be her downfall. After spending her life in training, Esmeralda still can’t believe she’s been appointed to serve as the Vestal of Our Lady of Paris—the greatest temple on any planet in the Nine Circles. Her beauty and unrivaled ability to manipulate energy quickly catch the attention of Praetor Frollo, the grand magistrate of Paris, and High Seraph Phoebus, the greatest winged warrior in the solar system. But her dream of becoming the consort of one of those handsome, powerful males is forgotten the moment she lays eyes upon the hunchback secretly living in the temple. Kwazeem feels Esmeralda’s power as soon as she lands in his city. She awakens the primal energy that has lain dormant within him—and a possessive hunger that demands he claim her. But he’s a Fallen, a monster that would be destroyed on sight if the citizens of Paris discovered his existence. Worse still, Esmeralda’s Divine Light inflicts agony upon his already tortured body if he basks in it for too long. And yet… he cannot stay away from her. With Kwazeem’s mysterious condition and Esmeralda torn between her duties to the people and the sinful desires of her heart, is there any chance of them sharing a future?
Tales of a Cosmic Possum
Author: Sheila Ingle
Publisher: Ambassador International
ISBN: 1620206900
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 109
Book Description
Sheila Ingle’s husband John was brought up in Ingle Holler in Union, South Carolina, with eight other Ingle families. They worked together in the mills, shared their gardens, attended church, and enjoyed the playing and singing of the songs from the Grand Ole Opry. When five of the brothers went off to war, those who couldn’t fight took care of their families. The Ingles stuck together, just like they were taught in the Appalachian hills of Erwin, Tennessee. Love of God, love of family, and love of country were modelled in each home. In fact, one year Make Ingle put his sons and grandsons together to build Hillside Baptist Church. Adults kept up with the newspapers and the radios; world happenings were important. Any type of sickness brought a barrage of soup and cornbread, because children still had to eat. On those twenty acres, the children played in the creek, cowboys and Indians, and hide-and-seek. They built their own wagons and sleds to race down the hill on the dry, hickory leaves. All the boys learned to shoot a .22 caliber, and John’s mother Lois could light a match with her shots. Living in Ingle Holler was home, where each one was accepted.
Publisher: Ambassador International
ISBN: 1620206900
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 109
Book Description
Sheila Ingle’s husband John was brought up in Ingle Holler in Union, South Carolina, with eight other Ingle families. They worked together in the mills, shared their gardens, attended church, and enjoyed the playing and singing of the songs from the Grand Ole Opry. When five of the brothers went off to war, those who couldn’t fight took care of their families. The Ingles stuck together, just like they were taught in the Appalachian hills of Erwin, Tennessee. Love of God, love of family, and love of country were modelled in each home. In fact, one year Make Ingle put his sons and grandsons together to build Hillside Baptist Church. Adults kept up with the newspapers and the radios; world happenings were important. Any type of sickness brought a barrage of soup and cornbread, because children still had to eat. On those twenty acres, the children played in the creek, cowboys and Indians, and hide-and-seek. They built their own wagons and sleds to race down the hill on the dry, hickory leaves. All the boys learned to shoot a .22 caliber, and John’s mother Lois could light a match with her shots. Living in Ingle Holler was home, where each one was accepted.
Tetrascroll
Author: R. Buckminster Fuller
Publisher: Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller
ISBN: 0312793626
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 157
Book Description
A series of twenty-one original triangular lithographs (with narrative captions) which may be displayed in a helical scroll of linked tetrahedra. They were executed during the years 1975 and 1976 under the guiding light of Tatyana Grosman (to whom Fuller had been introduced by Edwin Schlossberg) at her ULAE print workshop in West Islip, Long Island. In something of a publishing innovation this trade book was brought out concurrently with a limited edition of the signed original lithographs. Michael Denneny was the editorial impresario at St. Martin's and Ronald Feldman Fine Arts handled the exhibition of the lithographs. Fuller composed the Tetrascroll between the publication of Synergetics in 1975 and Synergetics 2 in 1979. He had been frustrated by the rigid structure of the synergetics books which, despite certain advantages, he felt robbed the work of spontaneity and narrative force. To compensate for this Fuller worked feverishly on the Tetrascroll as a free-form obbligato to the synergetics books. He explained to me at the time, "The empirical, the scientific way to present the argument of synergetics is the way I am doing it in Goldilocks. Description by Ed Applewhite, courtesy of The Estate of Buckminster Fuller
Publisher: Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller
ISBN: 0312793626
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 157
Book Description
A series of twenty-one original triangular lithographs (with narrative captions) which may be displayed in a helical scroll of linked tetrahedra. They were executed during the years 1975 and 1976 under the guiding light of Tatyana Grosman (to whom Fuller had been introduced by Edwin Schlossberg) at her ULAE print workshop in West Islip, Long Island. In something of a publishing innovation this trade book was brought out concurrently with a limited edition of the signed original lithographs. Michael Denneny was the editorial impresario at St. Martin's and Ronald Feldman Fine Arts handled the exhibition of the lithographs. Fuller composed the Tetrascroll between the publication of Synergetics in 1975 and Synergetics 2 in 1979. He had been frustrated by the rigid structure of the synergetics books which, despite certain advantages, he felt robbed the work of spontaneity and narrative force. To compensate for this Fuller worked feverishly on the Tetrascroll as a free-form obbligato to the synergetics books. He explained to me at the time, "The empirical, the scientific way to present the argument of synergetics is the way I am doing it in Goldilocks. Description by Ed Applewhite, courtesy of The Estate of Buckminster Fuller
A Lush and Seething Hell
Author: John Hornor Jacobs
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0062880845
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 327
Book Description
A World Fantasy Award Nominee! The award-winning and critically-acclaimed master of horror returns with a pair of chilling tales that examine the violence and depravity of the human condition. Bringing together his acclaimed novella The Sea Dreams It Is the Sky and an all-new short novel My Heart Struck Sorrow, John Hornor Jacobs turns his fertile imagination to the evil that breeds within the human soul. A brilliant mix of the psychological and supernatural, blending the acute insight of Roberto Bolaño and the eerie imagination of H. P. Lovecraft, The Sea Dreams It Is the Sky examines life in a South American dictatorship. Centered on the journal of a poet-in-exile and his failed attempts at translating a maddening text, it is told by a young woman trying to come to grips with a country that nearly devoured itself. In My Heart Struck Sorrow, a librarian discovers a recording from the Deep South—which may be the musical stylings of the Devil himself. Breathtaking and haunting, A Lush and Seething Hell is a terrifying and exhilarating journey into the darkness, an odyssey into the deepest reaches of ourselves that compels us to confront secrets best left hidden.
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0062880845
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 327
Book Description
A World Fantasy Award Nominee! The award-winning and critically-acclaimed master of horror returns with a pair of chilling tales that examine the violence and depravity of the human condition. Bringing together his acclaimed novella The Sea Dreams It Is the Sky and an all-new short novel My Heart Struck Sorrow, John Hornor Jacobs turns his fertile imagination to the evil that breeds within the human soul. A brilliant mix of the psychological and supernatural, blending the acute insight of Roberto Bolaño and the eerie imagination of H. P. Lovecraft, The Sea Dreams It Is the Sky examines life in a South American dictatorship. Centered on the journal of a poet-in-exile and his failed attempts at translating a maddening text, it is told by a young woman trying to come to grips with a country that nearly devoured itself. In My Heart Struck Sorrow, a librarian discovers a recording from the Deep South—which may be the musical stylings of the Devil himself. Breathtaking and haunting, A Lush and Seething Hell is a terrifying and exhilarating journey into the darkness, an odyssey into the deepest reaches of ourselves that compels us to confront secrets best left hidden.
Escaping Wonderland
Author: Tiffany Roberts
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781699732335
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Alice knows Wonderland is just a virtual world operated inside an asylum to which she's been wrongfully committed, but she can't find her way out--can't find her way back to the life she lived before she woke beneath titanic trees and towering flowers. With the terrifying Red King searching for her and chaos all around, her only hope of escape lies in Shadow, a tall, mysterious being with glowing eyes, sharp claws, and a haunting grin who may be the maddest of them all.But even if Wonderland isn't real, her growing feelings for Shadow--and his desire for her--are. Can Alice and Shadow escape Wonderland together, or will she succumb to the madness like everyone else?------**Warning: This book has darker themes and contains sexual content, sexual violence, violence, and drug use.**------Cosmic Fairy TalesEscaping Wonderland is part of the Cosmic Fairy Tales collection, a collaboration of authors retelling beloved tales with a science fiction romance twist. Each book is a standalone, containing its own Happily Ever After, and they can be read in any order. Be sure to explore the other titles in the collection:The Frog Prince by Tracy LaurenThe Hunchback by Regine AbelThe Lion and the Mouse by Emmy ChandlerThe Ugly Dukeling by Bex MclynnContaminated by Amanda MiloJackie and the Giant by Honey PhillipsRampion by Susan Trombley
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781699732335
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Alice knows Wonderland is just a virtual world operated inside an asylum to which she's been wrongfully committed, but she can't find her way out--can't find her way back to the life she lived before she woke beneath titanic trees and towering flowers. With the terrifying Red King searching for her and chaos all around, her only hope of escape lies in Shadow, a tall, mysterious being with glowing eyes, sharp claws, and a haunting grin who may be the maddest of them all.But even if Wonderland isn't real, her growing feelings for Shadow--and his desire for her--are. Can Alice and Shadow escape Wonderland together, or will she succumb to the madness like everyone else?------**Warning: This book has darker themes and contains sexual content, sexual violence, violence, and drug use.**------Cosmic Fairy TalesEscaping Wonderland is part of the Cosmic Fairy Tales collection, a collaboration of authors retelling beloved tales with a science fiction romance twist. Each book is a standalone, containing its own Happily Ever After, and they can be read in any order. Be sure to explore the other titles in the collection:The Frog Prince by Tracy LaurenThe Hunchback by Regine AbelThe Lion and the Mouse by Emmy ChandlerThe Ugly Dukeling by Bex MclynnContaminated by Amanda MiloJackie and the Giant by Honey PhillipsRampion by Susan Trombley
BEDTIME STORIES
Author: R.H Rizvi
Publisher: R.H Rizvi
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 58
Book Description
Escape into a world of enchantment and imagination with our collection of captivating bedtime stories. From whimsical adventures to heartwarming tales, each story is carefully crafted to soothe the mind and inspire sweet dreams. Perfect for children and adults alike, these stories offer a magical journey to end the day on a peaceful note. Let the power of storytelling transport you to realms where anything is possible, making bedtime a cherished time of joy and wonder.
Publisher: R.H Rizvi
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 58
Book Description
Escape into a world of enchantment and imagination with our collection of captivating bedtime stories. From whimsical adventures to heartwarming tales, each story is carefully crafted to soothe the mind and inspire sweet dreams. Perfect for children and adults alike, these stories offer a magical journey to end the day on a peaceful note. Let the power of storytelling transport you to realms where anything is possible, making bedtime a cherished time of joy and wonder.