Author: Raul Cavazos
Publisher: RaulC Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 167
Book Description
ON A WORLD WITHOUT CRIME A young woman's body is discovered below the Comm-Relay Bluff. Was her death an accident or something more? This is the question Ian McConnell must answer, and quickly. Ian's journey into the role of police detective is going to be the greatest challenge he has ever faced. It will be a journey of discovery. It will be a journey that takes him where no one ever imagined it would, or could. But there is one thing the journey will not be, easy. This story takes place in the same location, and with some of the same characters introduced in Circle of Life: 2115. Unfortunately, over the course of the past year at the Mars Research Colony, the Martian surface has proven to be dangerous and deadly.
MARS RESEARCH COLONY MURDERS
Author: Raul Cavazos
Publisher: RaulC Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 167
Book Description
ON A WORLD WITHOUT CRIME A young woman's body is discovered below the Comm-Relay Bluff. Was her death an accident or something more? This is the question Ian McConnell must answer, and quickly. Ian's journey into the role of police detective is going to be the greatest challenge he has ever faced. It will be a journey of discovery. It will be a journey that takes him where no one ever imagined it would, or could. But there is one thing the journey will not be, easy. This story takes place in the same location, and with some of the same characters introduced in Circle of Life: 2115. Unfortunately, over the course of the past year at the Mars Research Colony, the Martian surface has proven to be dangerous and deadly.
Publisher: RaulC Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 167
Book Description
ON A WORLD WITHOUT CRIME A young woman's body is discovered below the Comm-Relay Bluff. Was her death an accident or something more? This is the question Ian McConnell must answer, and quickly. Ian's journey into the role of police detective is going to be the greatest challenge he has ever faced. It will be a journey of discovery. It will be a journey that takes him where no one ever imagined it would, or could. But there is one thing the journey will not be, easy. This story takes place in the same location, and with some of the same characters introduced in Circle of Life: 2115. Unfortunately, over the course of the past year at the Mars Research Colony, the Martian surface has proven to be dangerous and deadly.
Glory on Mars
Author: Kate Ranuer
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781519175441
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
A one-way journey to Mars may be a mistake. Welcome to the first book of the On Mars series, a story of our near-future. Before you volunteer to settle on Mars, read Emma's struggle to slip the bonds of Earth and survive on a hostile planet. There are eight settlers on Mars until the colony's psychologist walks out an airlock to die on the cold, airless sands. Emma and her crewmates, the next mission of settlers, launch from Spaceport America despite the tragedy and despite their own misgivings. They take a tabby kitten with them, as requested by the survivors on Mars, and hope to revive the shocked colony. Emma leaves everything she knows behind, including a sometimes-boyfriend who's dropped from the next mission - all for a chance to explore the Martian surface in her robotic walkabout suit. Her arrival on Mars isn't welcomed by all the colonists, and the mission loses more lives and vital supplies in a crash landing that may not be an accident. Crippled by an inexplicable sense of desolation, they face an unforgiving planet and even Earth may hold danger. The question isn't if the colonists will explore, but if they'll survive at all.
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781519175441
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
A one-way journey to Mars may be a mistake. Welcome to the first book of the On Mars series, a story of our near-future. Before you volunteer to settle on Mars, read Emma's struggle to slip the bonds of Earth and survive on a hostile planet. There are eight settlers on Mars until the colony's psychologist walks out an airlock to die on the cold, airless sands. Emma and her crewmates, the next mission of settlers, launch from Spaceport America despite the tragedy and despite their own misgivings. They take a tabby kitten with them, as requested by the survivors on Mars, and hope to revive the shocked colony. Emma leaves everything she knows behind, including a sometimes-boyfriend who's dropped from the next mission - all for a chance to explore the Martian surface in her robotic walkabout suit. Her arrival on Mars isn't welcomed by all the colonists, and the mission loses more lives and vital supplies in a crash landing that may not be an accident. Crippled by an inexplicable sense of desolation, they face an unforgiving planet and even Earth may hold danger. The question isn't if the colonists will explore, but if they'll survive at all.
Countdown to Creative Writing
Author: Stephen Bowkett
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135246556
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
Developing children's writing abilities boosts their confidence, creates enjoyment and relevance in the task and cultivates a range of decision-making and problem-solving skills that can then be applied across the curriculum. The Countdown series provides all the support you need in helping children to improve their prose, poetry and non-fiction writing. Countdown to Creative Writing is a comprehensive and flexible resource that you can use in different ways: 60 stand-alone modules that cover all the essential aspects of writing a story countdown flowchart providing an overview showing how modules are linked and how teachers can progress through them with the children photocopiable activity sheets for each module that show how to make the decisions and solve the problems that all writers face along the road from first idea to finished piece of work teachers' notes for each module with tips and guidance including how modules could be used as stand-alone units, but also with suggestions for useful links between modules, and curriculum links a self-study component so that children can make their own progress through the materials, giving young writers a sense of independence in thinking about their work 'headers' for each module showing where along the 'countdown path' you are at that point. In short Countdown to Creative Writing saves valuable planning time and gives you all the flexibility you need - teachers might want to utilise either the self-study or 'countdown' aspects of the book, or simply dip into it for individual lesson activities to fit in with their own programmes of work.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135246556
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
Developing children's writing abilities boosts their confidence, creates enjoyment and relevance in the task and cultivates a range of decision-making and problem-solving skills that can then be applied across the curriculum. The Countdown series provides all the support you need in helping children to improve their prose, poetry and non-fiction writing. Countdown to Creative Writing is a comprehensive and flexible resource that you can use in different ways: 60 stand-alone modules that cover all the essential aspects of writing a story countdown flowchart providing an overview showing how modules are linked and how teachers can progress through them with the children photocopiable activity sheets for each module that show how to make the decisions and solve the problems that all writers face along the road from first idea to finished piece of work teachers' notes for each module with tips and guidance including how modules could be used as stand-alone units, but also with suggestions for useful links between modules, and curriculum links a self-study component so that children can make their own progress through the materials, giving young writers a sense of independence in thinking about their work 'headers' for each module showing where along the 'countdown path' you are at that point. In short Countdown to Creative Writing saves valuable planning time and gives you all the flexibility you need - teachers might want to utilise either the self-study or 'countdown' aspects of the book, or simply dip into it for individual lesson activities to fit in with their own programmes of work.
Colony One Mars: A SciFi Thriller
Author: Gerald M. Kilby
Publisher: Colony Mars
ISBN: 9781999328603
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
How can a colony on Mars survive when the greatest danger on the planet is humanity itself? All contact is lost with the first human colony on Mars during a long and destructive sandstorm. Satellite imagery of the aftermath shows extensive damage to the facility, and the fifty-four colonists who called it home are presumed dead. Three years later, a new mission sets down on the planet surface to investigate what remains of the derelict site. But, it's not long before they realize the colony is not as lifeless as everyone thought. Someone is still alive -- hiding out somewhere. Yet, before they can find the elusive colonist a strange illness starts to affect the crew. Pressure now mounts on Biologist, Dr. Jann Malbec, to locate the source and find a way to fight it. However, as she investigates she begins to suspect a dark and deadly secret lurking within the facility. A secret that threatens not just the crew but the entire population of Earth. With limited resources and time running out, she must find some answers and find them fast. Because if she doesn't, none of them will be going home. About Colony One Mars: This is the first book in a Sci-Fi series set in a human colony on Mars. The science depicted is, for the most part, plausible. In other words, what's technically possible with either current technology or taking experimental research a step or two further. That said, you won't need a calculator or a slide-rule to enjoy the story.
Publisher: Colony Mars
ISBN: 9781999328603
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
How can a colony on Mars survive when the greatest danger on the planet is humanity itself? All contact is lost with the first human colony on Mars during a long and destructive sandstorm. Satellite imagery of the aftermath shows extensive damage to the facility, and the fifty-four colonists who called it home are presumed dead. Three years later, a new mission sets down on the planet surface to investigate what remains of the derelict site. But, it's not long before they realize the colony is not as lifeless as everyone thought. Someone is still alive -- hiding out somewhere. Yet, before they can find the elusive colonist a strange illness starts to affect the crew. Pressure now mounts on Biologist, Dr. Jann Malbec, to locate the source and find a way to fight it. However, as she investigates she begins to suspect a dark and deadly secret lurking within the facility. A secret that threatens not just the crew but the entire population of Earth. With limited resources and time running out, she must find some answers and find them fast. Because if she doesn't, none of them will be going home. About Colony One Mars: This is the first book in a Sci-Fi series set in a human colony on Mars. The science depicted is, for the most part, plausible. In other words, what's technically possible with either current technology or taking experimental research a step or two further. That said, you won't need a calculator or a slide-rule to enjoy the story.
Language Bound
Author: Alan Gaynor
Publisher: FriesenPress
ISBN: 177097914X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 187
Book Description
In 2063, the moon is the high ground in the struggle among the combative representatives of three societies. On the moon, the Chairman-an Ayn Rand libertarian and mutant-believes that genomic self-transformation is our destiny and demands that we abandon our language-based prejudices and embrace that destiny now! On Earth's surface, the USA has become a Christian nation and it vies for dominion over the crowded and resource-poor Earth. Hidden underground and undersea, Saul Baum and the leaderless members of the secular creed of Protagonism believe in the need to harness logic and mindfulness before changing our genome. When the Protagonist, Ner Nala, completes the experiments for a scientific proof of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, the Chairman arrests and imprisons her for a recent lunar murder. Her father-Dr. Frank Nala-hires the private detective Ben Song to travel to the moon to prove her innocence. This is the tale of Ben's quest and how it changes him-and us-forever.
Publisher: FriesenPress
ISBN: 177097914X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 187
Book Description
In 2063, the moon is the high ground in the struggle among the combative representatives of three societies. On the moon, the Chairman-an Ayn Rand libertarian and mutant-believes that genomic self-transformation is our destiny and demands that we abandon our language-based prejudices and embrace that destiny now! On Earth's surface, the USA has become a Christian nation and it vies for dominion over the crowded and resource-poor Earth. Hidden underground and undersea, Saul Baum and the leaderless members of the secular creed of Protagonism believe in the need to harness logic and mindfulness before changing our genome. When the Protagonist, Ner Nala, completes the experiments for a scientific proof of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, the Chairman arrests and imprisons her for a recent lunar murder. Her father-Dr. Frank Nala-hires the private detective Ben Song to travel to the moon to prove her innocence. This is the tale of Ben's quest and how it changes him-and us-forever.
The In Situ Murders
Author: Lynn Emery
Publisher: Lynn Emery
ISBN: 1737379201
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 307
Book Description
Solving a murder committed millions of miles from Earth has unique challenges… Dr. Zenobia Batiste has a Ph.D. in forensic sociology and a master’s degree in social work. Her specific field is human behavior and social structures in extraterrestrial colonies. A trained investigator, Dr. Zen is an agent with the Office of Special Investigations. NASA and the DOJ created the unit to conduct criminal investigations connected to and within the space program. The OSI is an agency so low-key most Americans don’t know it exists. And the White House would like to keep it that way. When a top scientist is found dead on the first space station to welcome tourists, Dr. Zen is headed for the stars. Once there, officials seem more intent on covering up problems than cooperating. Her new partner, only recently cleared of murder, has secrets that follow him. All of it crashes together to complicate Dr. Zen's case. But she's going to get to the truth; even if she has to turn Earth and space inside out.
Publisher: Lynn Emery
ISBN: 1737379201
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 307
Book Description
Solving a murder committed millions of miles from Earth has unique challenges… Dr. Zenobia Batiste has a Ph.D. in forensic sociology and a master’s degree in social work. Her specific field is human behavior and social structures in extraterrestrial colonies. A trained investigator, Dr. Zen is an agent with the Office of Special Investigations. NASA and the DOJ created the unit to conduct criminal investigations connected to and within the space program. The OSI is an agency so low-key most Americans don’t know it exists. And the White House would like to keep it that way. When a top scientist is found dead on the first space station to welcome tourists, Dr. Zen is headed for the stars. Once there, officials seem more intent on covering up problems than cooperating. Her new partner, only recently cleared of murder, has secrets that follow him. All of it crashes together to complicate Dr. Zen's case. But she's going to get to the truth; even if she has to turn Earth and space inside out.
Leadership for the Future
Author: Thomas Mengel
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1527571610
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
This volume explores various approaches to leadership from both the past and the present, critically analysing these in the light of possible future challenges and scenarios. In addition, by drawing from the field of future studies, it introduces the reader to concepts of leadership that are ‘future-ready’.
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1527571610
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
This volume explores various approaches to leadership from both the past and the present, critically analysing these in the light of possible future challenges and scenarios. In addition, by drawing from the field of future studies, it introduces the reader to concepts of leadership that are ‘future-ready’.
One Way
Author: S. J. Morden
Publisher: Orbit
ISBN: 0316522155
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
Stranded on Mars with seven other convicts, one man must fight for survival on a planet where everyone's a killer in this edge-of-your-seat science fiction thriller for fans of The Martian. Former architect Frank Kittridge is serving life for murdering his son's drug dealer, so when he's offered a deal by the corporation that owns the prison -- he takes it. He's been selected to help build the first permanent base on Mars. Unfortunately, his crewmates are just as guilty of their crimes as he is. As the convicts set to work on the frozen wastes of Mars, the accidents multiply. Until Frank begins to suspect they might not be accidents at all . . . Dr. S. J. Morden trained as a rocket scientist before becoming the author of razor-sharp, award-winning science fiction. Perfect for fans of Andy Weir's The Martian and Richard Morgan, One Way takes off like a rocket, pulling us along on a terrifying, epic ride with only one way out.
Publisher: Orbit
ISBN: 0316522155
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
Stranded on Mars with seven other convicts, one man must fight for survival on a planet where everyone's a killer in this edge-of-your-seat science fiction thriller for fans of The Martian. Former architect Frank Kittridge is serving life for murdering his son's drug dealer, so when he's offered a deal by the corporation that owns the prison -- he takes it. He's been selected to help build the first permanent base on Mars. Unfortunately, his crewmates are just as guilty of their crimes as he is. As the convicts set to work on the frozen wastes of Mars, the accidents multiply. Until Frank begins to suspect they might not be accidents at all . . . Dr. S. J. Morden trained as a rocket scientist before becoming the author of razor-sharp, award-winning science fiction. Perfect for fans of Andy Weir's The Martian and Richard Morgan, One Way takes off like a rocket, pulling us along on a terrifying, epic ride with only one way out.
The Mars Room
Author: Rachel Kushner
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1476756600
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
TIME’S #1 FICTION TITLE OF THE YEAR • NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2018 FINALIST for the MAN BOOKER PRIZE and the NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD LONGLISTED for the ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL An instant New York Times bestseller from two-time National Book Award finalist Rachel Kushner, The Mars Room earned tweets from Margaret Atwood—“gritty, empathic, finely rendered, no sugar toppings, and a lot of punches, none of them pulled”—and from Stephen King—“The Mars Room is the real deal, jarring, horrible, compassionate, funny.” It’s 2003 and Romy Hall, named after a German actress, is at the start of two consecutive life sentences at Stanville Women’s Correctional Facility, deep in California’s Central Valley. Outside is the world from which she has been severed: her young son, Jackson, and the San Francisco of her youth. Inside is a new reality: thousands of women hustling for the bare essentials needed to survive; the bluffing and pageantry and casual acts of violence by guards and prisoners alike; and the deadpan absurdities of institutional living, portrayed with great humor and precision. Stunning and unsentimental, The Mars Room is “wholly authentic…profound…luminous” (The Wall Street Journal), “one of those books that enrage you even as they break your heart” (The New York Times Book Review, cover review)—a spectacularly compelling, heart-stopping novel about a life gone off the rails in contemporary America. It is audacious and tragic, propulsive and yet beautifully refined and “affirms Rachel Kushner as one of our best novelists” (Entertainment Weekly).
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1476756600
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
TIME’S #1 FICTION TITLE OF THE YEAR • NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2018 FINALIST for the MAN BOOKER PRIZE and the NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD LONGLISTED for the ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL An instant New York Times bestseller from two-time National Book Award finalist Rachel Kushner, The Mars Room earned tweets from Margaret Atwood—“gritty, empathic, finely rendered, no sugar toppings, and a lot of punches, none of them pulled”—and from Stephen King—“The Mars Room is the real deal, jarring, horrible, compassionate, funny.” It’s 2003 and Romy Hall, named after a German actress, is at the start of two consecutive life sentences at Stanville Women’s Correctional Facility, deep in California’s Central Valley. Outside is the world from which she has been severed: her young son, Jackson, and the San Francisco of her youth. Inside is a new reality: thousands of women hustling for the bare essentials needed to survive; the bluffing and pageantry and casual acts of violence by guards and prisoners alike; and the deadpan absurdities of institutional living, portrayed with great humor and precision. Stunning and unsentimental, The Mars Room is “wholly authentic…profound…luminous” (The Wall Street Journal), “one of those books that enrage you even as they break your heart” (The New York Times Book Review, cover review)—a spectacularly compelling, heart-stopping novel about a life gone off the rails in contemporary America. It is audacious and tragic, propulsive and yet beautifully refined and “affirms Rachel Kushner as one of our best novelists” (Entertainment Weekly).
Plantanimus Reunion
Author: Joseph M. Armillas
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1532095295
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
In the year 3860, historian Sulana Kay, an Earth-born Gulax female, travels to Centralia, the capital of the Milky Way Galaxy to solve the disappearance of the Rogeston Clan, the celebrated descendants of Martian psychic and genius, Kelem Rogeston, the inventor of the n’time engine and hero of the Martian War of Independence. Seeking to discover why they vanished from the planet Plantanimus in 2695, her investigation leads her to Professor Zephron Artemus, dean of Antiquity Studies at Centralia University, the foremost authority on all things Rogeston. After meeting the professor and his young Tarsian female assistant Thula, her obsessive need for an answer to the enigma soon reveals an even deeper mystery, when she meets a strange group of people living together in a huge mansion owned by Professor Artemus. Her quest for an answer to the fate of the Rogeston clan eventually turns into a struggle to hold on to her sanity and sense of self, when memories of a previous life as a member of the Rogeston family threaten to cause a schism in her psyche that could end her life.
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1532095295
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
In the year 3860, historian Sulana Kay, an Earth-born Gulax female, travels to Centralia, the capital of the Milky Way Galaxy to solve the disappearance of the Rogeston Clan, the celebrated descendants of Martian psychic and genius, Kelem Rogeston, the inventor of the n’time engine and hero of the Martian War of Independence. Seeking to discover why they vanished from the planet Plantanimus in 2695, her investigation leads her to Professor Zephron Artemus, dean of Antiquity Studies at Centralia University, the foremost authority on all things Rogeston. After meeting the professor and his young Tarsian female assistant Thula, her obsessive need for an answer to the enigma soon reveals an even deeper mystery, when she meets a strange group of people living together in a huge mansion owned by Professor Artemus. Her quest for an answer to the fate of the Rogeston clan eventually turns into a struggle to hold on to her sanity and sense of self, when memories of a previous life as a member of the Rogeston family threaten to cause a schism in her psyche that could end her life.