Saturn's Race
Saturn's Race

Author: Larry Niven

Publisher: Macmillan + ORM

Published: 2007-04-01

Total Pages: 390

ISBN-13: 1429914041

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The future is a strange and dangerous place. Chaz Kato can testify to that. He is a citizen of Xanudu, a city-sized artificial island populated by some of the wealthiest men and women on future Earth. A place filled with hidden wonders and dark secrets of technology gone awry. Lenore Myles is a student when she travels to Xanadu and becomes involved with Chaz Kato. She is shocked when she uses Kato's access codes to uncover the grizzly truth behind Xandu's glittering facade. Not knowing who to trust, Lenore finds herself on the run. Saturn, a mysterious entity, moves aggressively to break the security breach. With interests of the world's wealthiest people at stake, and powerful technology at it's fingertips, Saturn, puts Lenore racing for her life, against a truly formidable foe. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Saturn Run
Saturn Run

Author: John Sandford

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2017-02-07

Total Pages: 594

ISBN-13: 1101987529

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Fans of The Martian will enjoy this extraordinary new thriller of the future from #1 New York Times bestselling and Pulitzer Prize–winning author John Sandford and internationally known photo-artist and science fiction aficionado Ctein. In 2066, a Caltech intern notices an anomaly from a space telescope—something is approaching Saturn, and decelerating. Space objects don’t decelerate. Spaceships do... A flurry of top-level government meetings produce the inescapable conclusion: Whatever built the ship is at least one hundred years ahead of our technology, and whoever can get their hands on it will have an advantage so large, no other nation can compete. The race is on, and a remarkable adventure begins. Soon a hastily thrown-together crew finds its strength and wits tested against adversaries of this earth and beyond. So buckle up, because two perfectly matched storytellers are about to take you for a ride...

Scatterbrain
Scatterbrain

Author: Larry Niven

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2004-07-11

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13: 9780765340474

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Another dazzling collection of fact, fiction, and wit from the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning master of hard science fiction! Larry Niven is the New York Times bestselling author of such classic science fiction novels as Ringworld and Destiny's Road. His previous collection, N-Space, was lauded by the Houston Post as "outstanding . . . hours of entertainment," while Publishers Weekly called it "a must for science fiction fans." A follow-up volume, Playgrounds of the Mind, was similarly praised by Kirkus Reviews: "An abundance of Niven's curious yet disciplined inventiveness and his fun-filled knack for turning seemingly absurd notions into credible, absorbing fiction. Grand entertainment." Now, ten years later, Scatterbrain collects an equally engaging assortment of Niven's latest work, all in one captivating volume. Here are choice excerpts from several of his most recent novels, including his upcoming Ringworld's Child and Rainbow Mars, as well as numerous short stories, nonfiction articles, interviews, editorials, collaborations, and correspondence. True to its title, Scatterbrain roams all over a wide variety of fascinating topics, featuring Niven's singular insights into everything from space stations to convention etiquette. So give yourself a treat, and feel free to pick the brain-or Scatterbrain-of one of modern science fiction's most fascinating thinkers.

Water and fire
Water and fire

Author: Daniel Anlezark

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 2021-06-15

Total Pages: 412

ISBN-13: 1526162652

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Noah’s Flood is one of the Bible’s most popular stories, and flood myths survive in many cultures today. This book presents the first comprehensive examination of the incorporation of the Flood myth into the Anglo-Saxon imagination. Focusing on literary representations, it contributes to our understanding of how Christian Anglo-Saxons perceived their place in the cosmos. For them, history unfolded between the primeval Deluge and a future – perhaps imminent – flood of fire, which would destroy the world. This study reveals both an imaginative diversity and shared interpretations of the Flood myth. Anglo-Saxons saw the Flood as a climactic event in God’s ongoing war with his more rebellious creatures, but they also perceived the mystery of redemption through baptism. Anlezark studies a range of texts against their historical background, and discusses shifting emphases in the way the Flood was interpreted for diverse audiences. The book concludes with a discussion of Beowulf, relating the epic poem’s presentation of the Flood myth to that of other Anglo-Saxon texts.

Popular Mechanics
Popular Mechanics

Author:

Publisher:

Published: 1991-12

Total Pages: 126

ISBN-13:

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Popular Mechanics inspires, instructs and influences readers to help them master the modern world. Whether it’s practical DIY home-improvement tips, gadgets and digital technology, information on the newest cars or the latest breakthroughs in science -- PM is the ultimate guide to our high-tech lifestyle.

Clothed in Purple Light
Clothed in Purple Light

Author: Frederick E. Brenk

Publisher: Franz Steiner Verlag

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 262

ISBN-13: 9783515074223

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"In sum, an uneven collection (as would be and are most volumes of this sort), but this reader readily concurs with the judgment in the prefatory statement to this volume by Charles Segal - itself a model of how to phrase cautiously-restrained enthusiasm: there is something rewarding for every interested reader in each of these papers." Bryn Mawr Classical Review Another book of Frederick E. Brenk: Relighting the Souls. (Franz Steiner 1999)

Constructing Communities in Vergil's Aeneid
Constructing Communities in Vergil's Aeneid

Author: TEDD. WIMPERIS

Publisher: University of Michigan Press

Published: 2024-01-03

Total Pages: 243

ISBN-13: 0472133497

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A new take on the Aeneid, drawing previously unexplored connections between Vergil's fictional world and its political context

The Poetry of Dante's Paradiso
The Poetry of Dante's Paradiso

Author: Jeremy Tambling

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2021-03-08

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 3030656284

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This book argues that Paradiso – Dante’s vision of Heaven – is not simply affirmative. It posits that Paradiso compensates for disappointment rather than fulfils hopes, and where it moves into joy and vision, this also rationalises the experience of exile and the failure of all Dante’s political hopes. The book highlights and addresses a fundamental problem in reading Dante: the assumption that he writes as a Catholic Christian, which can be off-putting and induces an overly theological and partisan reading in some commentary. Accordingly, the study argues that Dante must be read now in a post-Christian modernity. It discusses Dante's Christianity fully, and takes its details as a source of wonder and beauty which need communicating to a modern reader. Yet, the study also argues that we must read for the alterity of Dante’s world from ours.

Saturn's Rings Episode One
Saturn's Rings Episode One

Author: Odette C. Bell

Publisher: Odette C. Bell

Published:

Total Pages: 155

ISBN-13:

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Lisa’s spent her life looking at the stars. An astrophysicist, she’s always felt pulled toward space. It’s about to become more than a feeling. When a Supreme Outer Guardian comes crashing through her roof and crushes her telescope, she can’t get away. Not when he claims only she can help him save the universe. J’nar Mackay is a new Guardian. He only got his stripes yesterday. An issue, because he’s about to be thrown into the greatest fight of his life. A mission gone awry sees him finding an ancient force in the ring of a seemingly normal woman. But he’ll quickly learn that nothing is as it seems when it comes to Lisa Snow. All her life, her hand has been guided toward one purpose – opening up the stars to get to what’s beyond. In a tale that spans universes and blasts past the stars and back again, Lisa and J’nar must learn to wield the greatest of all powers. And no. It isn’t love – yet. … Saturn’s Rings follows a starry-eyed astrophysicist and a newly-minted lieutenant fighting destiny to save life itself. If you love your space operas with action, heart, and a splash of romance, grab Saturn’s Rings Episode One today and soar free with an Odette C. Bell series. Saturn’s Rings is the 2nd Supreme Outer Guardian series. A massive, exciting, and heroic sci-fi world where the day is always saved and hearts are always won, each series can be read separately, so plunge in today.