Author: John Glasby
Publisher: Gateway
ISBN: 1473210569
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 121
Book Description
All the known planets had been conquered and colonized. Pluto was the last - as far as man could go into space. Beyond the frozen planet lay an immeasurable gulf of light years which no man could cross in a single lifetime. But one man kept trying to find the answer.
No Dawn and No Horizon
Author: John Glasby
Publisher: Gateway
ISBN: 1473210569
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 121
Book Description
All the known planets had been conquered and colonized. Pluto was the last - as far as man could go into space. Beyond the frozen planet lay an immeasurable gulf of light years which no man could cross in a single lifetime. But one man kept trying to find the answer.
Publisher: Gateway
ISBN: 1473210569
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 121
Book Description
All the known planets had been conquered and colonized. Pluto was the last - as far as man could go into space. Beyond the frozen planet lay an immeasurable gulf of light years which no man could cross in a single lifetime. But one man kept trying to find the answer.
No Visible Horizon
Author: Joshua Cooper Ramo
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1416583165
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
The flying life has always demanded a passage across the razor's edge. At any moment you could slip to the other side: a gas leak, weather, fire in the cockpit. Sometimes what made the risks particularly horrible was that you could watch your mistakes play out in front of you, as a chorus of guilt followed you down. Usually you survived and could describe this music to others, but none of you -- not even with a long and growing trail of dead friends -- ever stopped flying. That was the truly unthinkable thing. In a good year aerobatics is one of the most beautiful sports imaginable. Pilots pull through impossibly elegant figures, twisting their planes at hundreds of miles an hour. The stress on their bodies reaches ten times the force of gravity, but this is nothing compared to the strain on their minds and the tension in their souls. In a bad year no sport kills more of its participants. To fly really well and to win you must depart the land of the possible and enter a place of pure faith. In this stunning literary debut, Joshua Cooper Ramo has crafted a meditation on the seduction of flight and a passionate love letter to a life of risk. It is partly the story of his own decision, after a decade of casual aerobatics, to transform himself into a serious competitive pilot aiming to finish high at the U.S. national competition. He introduces us to some of the greatest aerobatic pilots in the world: geniuses like Leo Loudenslager, a mild-mannered American Airlines pilot who spent his weekends redefining what it was possible to do in the air with a plane, flying figures so hard they made his eyes bleed as he whimpered with pain in the cockpit; or Kirby Chambliss, the Arizona pilot who performed figures just inches off the runway and sent his plane shooting through holes in cliffs. The classics of flight and extreme adventure, West With the Night; Wind, Sand, and Stars; and Into Thin Air have brought a poetic vision to their subjects. No Visible Horizon is an elegant and thrilling exploration, not simply of a pilot's physical battle against gravity, but of his dream of perfection and his quest for faith.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1416583165
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
The flying life has always demanded a passage across the razor's edge. At any moment you could slip to the other side: a gas leak, weather, fire in the cockpit. Sometimes what made the risks particularly horrible was that you could watch your mistakes play out in front of you, as a chorus of guilt followed you down. Usually you survived and could describe this music to others, but none of you -- not even with a long and growing trail of dead friends -- ever stopped flying. That was the truly unthinkable thing. In a good year aerobatics is one of the most beautiful sports imaginable. Pilots pull through impossibly elegant figures, twisting their planes at hundreds of miles an hour. The stress on their bodies reaches ten times the force of gravity, but this is nothing compared to the strain on their minds and the tension in their souls. In a bad year no sport kills more of its participants. To fly really well and to win you must depart the land of the possible and enter a place of pure faith. In this stunning literary debut, Joshua Cooper Ramo has crafted a meditation on the seduction of flight and a passionate love letter to a life of risk. It is partly the story of his own decision, after a decade of casual aerobatics, to transform himself into a serious competitive pilot aiming to finish high at the U.S. national competition. He introduces us to some of the greatest aerobatic pilots in the world: geniuses like Leo Loudenslager, a mild-mannered American Airlines pilot who spent his weekends redefining what it was possible to do in the air with a plane, flying figures so hard they made his eyes bleed as he whimpered with pain in the cockpit; or Kirby Chambliss, the Arizona pilot who performed figures just inches off the runway and sent his plane shooting through holes in cliffs. The classics of flight and extreme adventure, West With the Night; Wind, Sand, and Stars; and Into Thin Air have brought a poetic vision to their subjects. No Visible Horizon is an elegant and thrilling exploration, not simply of a pilot's physical battle against gravity, but of his dream of perfection and his quest for faith.
No Dawn and No Horizon
Author: A. J. Merak
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science fiction, English
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
Interplanetary travel was an established fact. Bases had been set up on the moon, Mars and even on faraway Pluto. But that was as far as man could go. Beyond the frozen planet lay an immeasurable gulf of light-years which it would take a lifetime to cross. Not until the interstellar drive was discovered was it possible for a ship to be sent to Alpha Centauri in the search for new planets suitable for colonization by the human race. This is an imaginative novel of the illy assorted crew of this first starship to land on a new planet in a new system. Leaving their parent ship in a closed orbit, they went down onto the planet, where their only pinnace cracked up on landing. Then a party of non-humans showed up, claiming to be the inhabitants of the planet. But it seemed apparent they were something more than that ...
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science fiction, English
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
Interplanetary travel was an established fact. Bases had been set up on the moon, Mars and even on faraway Pluto. But that was as far as man could go. Beyond the frozen planet lay an immeasurable gulf of light-years which it would take a lifetime to cross. Not until the interstellar drive was discovered was it possible for a ship to be sent to Alpha Centauri in the search for new planets suitable for colonization by the human race. This is an imaginative novel of the illy assorted crew of this first starship to land on a new planet in a new system. Leaving their parent ship in a closed orbit, they went down onto the planet, where their only pinnace cracked up on landing. Then a party of non-humans showed up, claiming to be the inhabitants of the planet. But it seemed apparent they were something more than that ...
Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature
Author: R. Reginald
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
ISBN: 0941028763
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 802
Book Description
Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature, A Checklist, 1700-1974, Volume one of Two, contains an Author Index, Title Index, Series Index, Awards Index, and the Ace and Belmont Doubles Index.
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
ISBN: 0941028763
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 802
Book Description
Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature, A Checklist, 1700-1974, Volume one of Two, contains an Author Index, Title Index, Series Index, Awards Index, and the Ace and Belmont Doubles Index.
Horizon Zero Dawn
Author: Bruce Byrne
Publisher: Bright Sparks
ISBN: 9783869930817
Category : Computer adventure games
Languages : en
Pages : 655
Book Description
Publisher: Bright Sparks
ISBN: 9783869930817
Category : Computer adventure games
Languages : en
Pages : 655
Book Description
My Granny Made Me an Anarchist
Author: Stuart Christie
Publisher: ChristieBooks.com
ISBN: 1873976143
Category : Anarchism
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Publisher: ChristieBooks.com
ISBN: 1873976143
Category : Anarchism
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Contemporary Science Fiction Authors
Author: Robert Reginald
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
ISBN: 1434478580
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
This bio-bibliography of the golden age of the science fiction field includes 308 biographies compiled from questionnaires sent to the authors, and chronological lists of 483 writers' published works. This facsimile reprint of the 1975 edition includes a title index, introduction, and minor corrections. A now-classic guide to the major and minor SF writers active in the early 1970s.
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
ISBN: 1434478580
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
This bio-bibliography of the golden age of the science fiction field includes 308 biographies compiled from questionnaires sent to the authors, and chronological lists of 483 writers' published works. This facsimile reprint of the 1975 edition includes a title index, introduction, and minor corrections. A now-classic guide to the major and minor SF writers active in the early 1970s.
God's Story
Author: Anne Graham Lotz
Publisher: HarperChristian + ORM
ISBN: 1418555010
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 433
Book Description
God has told us His story. Do we know it? Anne Graham Lotz leads you through the first eleven chapters of Genesis, unlocking hidden messages in the familiar stories of Creation, Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel, Noah and the ark, the Tower of Babel, and others. She thoughtfully illuminates each moment of Creation with inspiring insights and probing reflections to better reveal God, the Creator of us all. In God's Story you will thrill to the beauty, majesty, and tenderness of God's personal involvement in creating the world, and you will come to recognize the Creator's infinite power at work in your life as well.
Publisher: HarperChristian + ORM
ISBN: 1418555010
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 433
Book Description
God has told us His story. Do we know it? Anne Graham Lotz leads you through the first eleven chapters of Genesis, unlocking hidden messages in the familiar stories of Creation, Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel, Noah and the ark, the Tower of Babel, and others. She thoughtfully illuminates each moment of Creation with inspiring insights and probing reflections to better reveal God, the Creator of us all. In God's Story you will thrill to the beauty, majesty, and tenderness of God's personal involvement in creating the world, and you will come to recognize the Creator's infinite power at work in your life as well.
The Dark Millenium
Author: John Glasby
Publisher: Gateway
ISBN: 1473210577
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 119
Book Description
Planet Earth was finished, its surface seared by nuclear heat, its great cities obliterated, its billions of inhabitants dying or dead. Only a few pockets of survivors remained. For all but a few it was only a matter of time. Then into the poisoned atmosphere of Earth there flashed a mysterious craft from somewhere deep in space. It landed, a small number of Earth people were taken aboard, then the craft disappeared into the great void. During the dark millennium which followed a strange experiment was conducted. When it was complete, another space craft took off for Earth...
Publisher: Gateway
ISBN: 1473210577
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 119
Book Description
Planet Earth was finished, its surface seared by nuclear heat, its great cities obliterated, its billions of inhabitants dying or dead. Only a few pockets of survivors remained. For all but a few it was only a matter of time. Then into the poisoned atmosphere of Earth there flashed a mysterious craft from somewhere deep in space. It landed, a small number of Earth people were taken aboard, then the craft disappeared into the great void. During the dark millennium which followed a strange experiment was conducted. When it was complete, another space craft took off for Earth...
Dark Andromeda
Author: John Glasby
Publisher: Gateway
ISBN: 1473210550
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 103
Book Description
Earth was threatened with attach from the huge space-fleets of the Hundred Suns of Andromeda - an attack that the Terran Fleet could not hope to defeat. Only one chance remained to prevent Earth's destruction, and that was the chance that a skilled and experienced saboteur might just have time strike his blow before the enemy could launch the attack. It was Captain Blair whose mission this became, and it was his ace-saboteur who raced against death in planet after planet, as the zero-hour approached when Earth would face the attacking fleets of DARK ANDROMEDA.
Publisher: Gateway
ISBN: 1473210550
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 103
Book Description
Earth was threatened with attach from the huge space-fleets of the Hundred Suns of Andromeda - an attack that the Terran Fleet could not hope to defeat. Only one chance remained to prevent Earth's destruction, and that was the chance that a skilled and experienced saboteur might just have time strike his blow before the enemy could launch the attack. It was Captain Blair whose mission this became, and it was his ace-saboteur who raced against death in planet after planet, as the zero-hour approached when Earth would face the attacking fleets of DARK ANDROMEDA.