Author: Vernor Vinge
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1429915099
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 802
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Tor Essentials presents new editions of science fiction and fantasy titles of proven merit and lasting value, each volume introduced by an appropriate literary figure. After thousands of years of searching, humans stand on the verge of first contact with an alien race. Two human groups: the Qeng Ho, a culture of free, innovative traders, and the Emergents, a ruthless society based on the technological enslavement of minds. The group that opens trade with the aliens will reap unimaginable riches. But first, both groups must wait at the aliens' very doorstep, for their strange star to relight and for the alien planet to reawaken, as it does every two hundred and fifteen years... Amidst terrible treachery, the Qeng Ho must fight for their freedom and for the lives of the unsuspecting innocents on the planet below, while the aliens themselves play a role unsuspected by Qeng Ho and Emergents alike. More than just a great science fiction adventure, A Deepness In the Sky is a universal drama of courage, self-discovery, and the redemptive power of love. This new Tor Essentials edition of Vernor Vinge's A Deepness In the Sky includes an introduction by the Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy Award-winning Jo Walton, author of Among Others. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Author: Jack L. Chalker
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 057509916X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 289
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Entered by a thousand unsuspected gateways - built by a race lost in the clouds of time - Well World transforms creatures of any sort into different forms. So, spacefarer Nathan Brazil is not surprised to find himself accompanied by a batman, an amorous female centaur and a mermaid as he sets out on his strange mission. Yet Nathan Brazil's own metamorphosis is more terrifying than any of the others - and with the gradual return of his memory comes the secret of the Well World.
Author: Ian Whates
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781907069772
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 269
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Author: Jack L. Chalker
Publisher: Baen Books
ISBN: 0743499018
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 198
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The Dreel was a hive-mind, composed of trillions upon trillions of virus-sized units, which infected intelligent beings like a disease and took over the mind of an occupied being, utterly.
Author: John Russell Hind
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Astrometry
Languages : en
Pages : 208
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Author: Henry William Elson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Comets
Languages : en
Pages : 80
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Author: Amédée Guillemin
Publisher: London : S. Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington
ISBN:
Category : Comets
Languages : en
Pages : 620
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Author: Raymond Arthur Lyttleton
Publisher: CUP Archive
ISBN:
Category : Comets
Languages : en
Pages : 208
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Author: Carl Sagan
Publisher: Ballantine Books
ISBN: 0307801055
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 434
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What are these graceful visitors to our skies? We now know that they bring both life and death and teach us about our origins. Comet begins with a breathtaking journey through space astride a comet. Pulitzer Prize-winning astronomer Carl Sagan, author of Cosmos and Contact, and writer Ann Druyan explore the origin, nature, and future of comets, and the exotic myths and portents attached to them. The authors show how comets have spurred some of the great discoveries in the history of science and raise intriguing questions about these brilliant visitors from the interstellar dark. Were the fates of the dinosaurs and the origins of humans tied to the wanderings of a comet? Are comets the building blocks from which worlds are formed? Lavishly illustrated with photographs and specially commissioned full-color paintings, Comet is an enthralling adventure, indispensable for anyone who has ever gazed up at the heavens and wondered why. Praise for Comet "Simply the best." —The Times of London "Fascinating, evocative, inspiring." —The Washington Post "Comet humanizes science. A beautiful, interesting book." —United Press International "Masterful . . . science, poetry, and imagination." —The Atlanta Journal & Constitution
Author: Fred Lawrence Whipple
Publisher: Smithsonian Books (DC)
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 300
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For better students, a history of our knowledge of comets with chapters on current theories about their existence.
