Alistair and Outer Space

Alistair and Outer Space PDF 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.

Alistair and Outer Space

Alistair and Outer Space PDF 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.

Alistair in Outer Space

Alistair in Outer Space PDF Author: Marilyn Sadler
Publisher: Macmillan Children's Books
ISBN: 9780333567265
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 40

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Alistair and the Alien Invasion

Alistair and the Alien Invasion PDF 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

Astronomy and Space

Astronomy and Space PDF 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.

Alistair's Time Machine

Alistair's Time Machine PDF 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.

Redemption Ark

Redemption Ark PDF 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...

Pushing Ice

Pushing Ice PDF 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.

Zima Blue

Zima Blue PDF Author: Alastair Reynolds
Publisher: Gollancz
ISBN: 0575086106
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 502

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A fabulous collection spanning the galaxies and career of SF superstar Alastair Reynolds Reynolds' pursuit of truth is not limited to wide-angle star smashing - not that stars don't get pulverised when one character is gifted (or cursed) with an awful weapon by the legendary Merlin. Reynolds' protagonists find themselves in situations of betrayal, whether by a loved one's accidental death, as in 'Signal to Noise', or by a trusted wartime authority, in 'Spirey and the Queen'. His fertile imagination can resurrect Elton John on Mars in 'Understanding Space and Time' or make prophets of the human condition out of pool-cleaning robots in the title story. But overall, the stories in ZIMA BLUE represent a more optimistic take on humanity's future, a view that says there may be wars, there may be catastrophes and cosmic errors, but something human will still survive.

Absolution Gap

Absolution Gap PDF Author: Alastair Reynolds
Publisher: Orbit
ISBN: 0316462659
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 807

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In the third book of the legendary Revelation Space trilogy, the last remnants of humanity realize that forging an alliance with a greater and even more mysterious alien force may be their only chance for survival. The Inhibitors were designed to eliminate any life form reaching a certain level of intelligence -- and they've targeted Humanity. War veteran Clavain and a ragtag group of refugees have fled into hiding. Their leadership is faltering, and their situation is growing more desperate. But their little colony has just received an unexpected visitor: an avenging angel with the power to lead mankind to safety -- or draw down its darkest enemy. And as she leads them to an apparently insignificant moon light-years away, it begins to dawn on Clavain and his companions that to beat one enemy, it may be necessary to forge an alliance with something much worse . . . "Absolution Gap is a good as it gets, and should solidify Alastair Reynolds' reputation as one of the best hard SF writers in the field." -- SF Site

Poacher's Pilgrimage

Poacher's Pilgrimage PDF 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.