Light Minutes

Light Minutes
Author: Angel Torres, Jr.
Publisher:
Total Pages: 229
Release: 2019-08-24
Genre:
ISBN: 9781686363276

Do you want to know what may happen in our future generations? Travel through the flowing words in time and space to get familiar with the possible trajectory of the human species with inspirational characters and motivated beings. I bring to you an astronomically imaginative story which can be manifested in the mind of a diligent reader. If you are seeking a Science Fiction Thriller entailing realism, this is the novel for you. If you are seeking to imagine something greater than yourself, this is the novel for you. If you are seeking to let your imagination soar while learning from living testimonies to everyday life, this is the novel for you. Here's a quote from Rodman Edward Serling that I would love to leave with you: "It's been said that Science Fiction and Fantasy are two different things. Science Fiction the improbable made possible, Fantasy the impossible made probable. What would you have if you put these two different things together?" Join the world of imagination on a vortex in space travel from one planet to the other. Join the thrilling sequence of a man who has found his celestial house but misses his home after the element of nostalgia. With him, here in this story, we have a community destined to reach and connect with their destiny; their wishes; their reason for living.

Book

Book
Author:
Publisher: Ednil Publishing
Total Pages: 668
Release: 2013-01-01
Genre:
ISBN: 1909569062

Scrapbook containing letters, souvenir programmes and various news cuttings.

Two Minutes of Light

Two Minutes of Light
Author: Nancy K. Pearson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 78
Release: 2008
Genre: Poetry
ISBN:

While describing a descent into addiction, suicide attempts, and self-mutilation, Nancy K. Pearson is a foil to her own self-harm through the very act of writing. In her debut poetry collection TWO MINUTES OF LIGHT, creativity becomes an antidote to destructiveness. IN TWO MINUTES OF LIGHT, Nancy K. Pearson writes about a descent into the madness of addiction and suicide attempts, and the foil to self-destruction is art itself--finding small beauty in unlikely places and transforming it into poetry. With stunning imagination, acute mindfulness, spunk, and not an ounce of sentimentality or gratuitousness, Pearson mines her despair for "minutes of light" that provide rungs toward a more livable life. While immersed in the bleak world of psychiatric wards and crack motels, the poet, almost unnervingly, writes about sea grass, milkweed, ghost crabs, and wild lilies in a way that lifts the reader back to a place of connection, like holding hands with a stranger. Pearson's genius is her ironic voice, the immediacy of her images, and her fearless attitude. What is creativity if not the antidote to destructiveness? "These poems remind me of collecting stones while walking, each one leading the way to a house in the forest. I want to say they spell redemption, but the forest has its own kind of talking and what's extraordinary about this extraordinary book is how that world -- tree, insect, rain, fish, flower, bird -- has its saying and song too. I've never seen the world of human trauma and recovery set in what we call 'the natural world, ' mediated by the human gaze, yes, and so blessedly indifferent to us. I read this book over and over again."--Marie Howe "Nancy Pearson's poems are rife with the urgencies of constructing a self. It is a harrowing, hard-fought project. As one poem asks, 'By what small margins do we survive?' This is a book fiercely in love with the world, a book that unflinchingly examines what can keep someone from inhabiting that world, whole. Two Minutes of Light is a startling, luminous, and moving first collection."--Kim Addonizio "In Two Minutes of Light, Nancy K. Pearson invents visceral, exciting language to enact redemption with stunning clarity. In Pearson's world, there is no sentimentality to redemption, no fear of the negative. She doesn't let absolutes do the work. As with Dante, the voice changes as it travels from hell to the scary possibility of happiness. But there's no urge to create a model, a template for behavior. Pearson works in the moment, with a keen ear and a live, fluid line. I think of the Arab poet who said he would not trade his moment of mortality for God's omniscience. Two Minutes of Light is a dazzling voyage."--D. Nurske Poetry. LGBTQ+ Studies. Women's Studies.

Ashes Of Victory

Ashes Of Victory
Author: David Weber
Publisher: Baen Books
Total Pages: 425
Release: 2000-03
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0671578545

Although The People's Republic of Haven believed Honor Harrington to be already dead and announced her execution, she returned from the prison planet called Hell, ready to aid the Allies' cause in the war.

Confed: 2721

Confed: 2721
Author: Xenocide War
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 435
Release: 2012-10-19
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1477157972

In Confed: 2721, Mr. Moores premier novel, Moore creates a vision of the not very distant future. Heroes and villains, human and alien take the reader on an exciting interstellar jaunt. The foundation for Moores twenty eighth century technologies currently exists. Rik Hunter, a nanotech enhanced Sentinel of the Confederation, uncovers an interstellar plot to exterminate mankind and all its allies. Devious and genocidal, the duplicitous alien species turns the Confederations own interstellar gate system into the ultimate weapon of mass destruction. The alien menace plans the complete destruction of six sentient races and hundreds of worlds. Rik discovers evidence of multiple genocides perpetrated by this newest member of the Confederation and precipitates an interstellar war. Like a marshal of the old west, Rik Hunter polices the frontier of mankinds expansion into the galaxy. Piracy, smuggling, drugs, alien monsters, invading aliens, and romance are all part of his story.

Journal

Journal
Author: National Cancer Institute (U.S.)
Publisher:
Total Pages: 480
Release: 1965
Genre: Cancer
ISBN:

Your Place in the Universe

Your Place in the Universe
Author: Jason Chin
Publisher: Holiday House
Total Pages: 42
Release: 2020-09-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0823446239

Explore the known Universe and consider its mind-boggling scale in this crisply illustrated, well-researched picture book from Caldecott Medalist Jason Chin. Winner of the Cook Prize! Most eight-year-olds are about five times as tall as this book . . . but only half as tall as an ostrich, which is half as tall as a giraffe . . . twenty times smaller than a California Redwood! How do they compare to the tallest buildings? To Mt. Everest? To stars, galaxy clusters, and . . . the universe? Jason Chin, the award-winning author and illustrator of Grand Canyon has once again found a way to make a complex subject--size, scale and almost unimaginable distance--accessible and understandable to readers of all ages. Meticulously researched and featuring the highly detailed artwork for which he is renowned, this is How Much is a Million for the new millenium, sure to be an immediate hit with kids looking for an engaging way to delve into perspective, astronomy, and astrophysics. Curious readers will love the extensive supplementary material included in the back of the back of the book An American Library Association Notable Children’s Book A New England Book Award Finalist A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year A School Library Journal Best Book of the Year A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection A Horn Book Fanfare Best Book of the Year A Bank Street Best Children's Book of the Year!

Three Steps to the Universe

Three Steps to the Universe
Author: David Garfinkle
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 274
Release: 2009-05-15
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0226283496

If scientists can’t touch the Sun, how do they know what it’s made of? And if we can’t see black holes, how can we be confident they exist? Gravitational physicist David Garfinkle and his brother, science fiction writer Richard Garfinkle, tackle these questions and more in Three Steps to the Universe, a tour through some of the most complex phenomena in the cosmos and an accessible exploration of how scientists acquire knowledge about the universe through observation, indirect detection, and theory. The authors begin by inviting readers to step away from the Earth and reconsider our Sun. What we can directly observe of this star is limited to its surface, but with the advent of telescopes and spectroscopy, scientists know more than ever about its physical characteristics, origins, and projected lifetime. From the Sun, the authors journey further out into space to explore black holes. The Garfinkle brothers explain that our understanding of these astronomical oddities began in theory, and growing mathematical and physical evidence has unexpectedly supported it. From black holes, the authors lead us further into the unknown, to the dark matter and energy that pervade our universe, where science teeters on the edge of theory and discovery. Returning from the depths of space, the final section of the book brings the reader back down to Earth for a final look at the practice of science, ending with a practical guide to discerning real science from pseudoscience among the cacophony of print and online scientific sources. Three Steps to the Universe will reward anyone interested in learning more about the universe around us and shows how scientists uncover its mysteries.

Crusade

Crusade
Author: Glynn Stewart
Publisher: Faolan's Pen Publishing
Total Pages: 559
Release: 2023-08-03
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1988035953

A newborn Alliance, forged to stop the destroyers of worlds A potential ally, with secrets hidden by a thousand lies A long-doomed star, whose ruins hold a vital answer Isaac Lestroud, Admiral of the Exilium Space Fleet, has spent the last three years working with Ambassador Amelie Lestroud to build an alliance against the Rogue Matrices, AIs bent on converting every world into a paradise—regardless of whether anyone lives on it. As Isaac hunts the Rogue that destroyed one of their allies’ homeworlds, Amelie begins negotiations with a potential new ally that could tip the balance. The Governance is a power to rival the human homeworlds the Lestrouds were exiled from—but like those homeworlds, not all is as it seems. And far from the war, Octavio Catalan leads an expedition into the shattered wreckage of the home system of the Matrices’ builders. Among those dead worlds, he hopes to find the answer to the question that haunts the survivors of that race: why did their AIs go genocidally insane?