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Author | : Allen Steele |
Publisher | : Open Road Media |
Total Pages | : 382 |
Release | : 2013-09-03 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1480439932 |
DIVDIVOn mankind’s last mission to the moon, a killer comes along for the ride/divDIV/divDIV Since the first manned spaceflight in 1944, NASA has conquered the outer atmosphere, explored Mars, and placed nuclear missiles on the moon. But funding for interstellar adventures—military or otherwise—has dried up. Now, NASA is planning a final lunar mission to pack up the remnants of man’s first extraterrestrial colony. The nuclear missiles are meant to be shot into the sun, but someone onboard the USS Conestoga would prefer to see them fired toward Earth./div The night before the mission launch, one of the astronauts is kidnapped from his hotel room and replaced with a surgically altered body double. By the time the other astronauts uncover the deception, the Conestoga is too far from home for NASA to help. On the surface of the Moon, a decades-old conspiracy has reached its final stage, and Earth’s fate hangs in the balance. /div
Author | : Allen Steele |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Lunar bases |
ISBN | : 9780441004331 |
On the dark side of the moon, six missile silos stand in silence. Today, they will be taken over by corporate interests. Tomorrow, they will be activated.
Author | : Allen Steele |
Publisher | : Open Road Media |
Total Pages | : 457 |
Release | : 2013-09-03 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1480439924 |
Winner of the Locus Award: Space-station workers discover a shocking global surveillance plot in this novel from “the master of science-fiction intrigue” (The Washington Post). Popeye Hooker knows that space isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. A former fisherman who takes a job building low orbital stations to escape a failed relationship, he finds that in space, construction work is still a grind. And when they aren’t building the space stations that will usher humanity into the stars, Sam Sloane and the rest of the beamjacks get high, blast the Grateful Dead, and stare through telescopes at the world they left behind. But life in orbit is about to get much more interesting. Nestled among the life support equipment that keeps them alive and the entertainment systems that keep them happy, the beamjacks find something astonishing. Turns out, their home isn’t just a space station—it’s a giant antenna designed to spy on every inhabitant of Earth. It’s the greatest privacy invasion ever perpetrated, and the beamjacks won’t stand for it. They may not be pioneers, but these roughnecks are about to become revolutionaries. Timely—and with Orwellian undertones, Allen Steele’s debut won the Locus Award for Best First Novel. Perfect for fans of Robert Heinlein, Robert J. Sawyer, and Greg Bear, Orbital Decay blends fantasy and science fiction with a prescient attention paid to the dangers of government surveillance.
Author | : Allen M. Steele |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Science fiction, American |
ISBN | : 9780441992997 |
Author | : Allen Steele |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 311 |
Release | : 2002-01-29 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1101208015 |
More information to be announced soon on this forthcoming title from Penguin USA
Author | : Allen Steele |
Publisher | : Open Road Media |
Total Pages | : 255 |
Release | : 2015-05-19 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1480476323 |
Treachery, greed, and a gargantuan sea monster threaten the inhabitants of a high-tech, deep-water research station in this thrilling undersea science fiction adventure A three-time Hugo Award winner and modern master of hard science fiction now departs from outer space for a vast, unexplored realm that is equally perilous and mysterious. Allen Steele’s Oceanspace is a heart-racing near-future adventure of danger and discovery unfolding in the dark, cold, and merciless depths of the ocean. The undersea research facility Tethys is a technological wonder, self-sufficient and seemingly impervious to natural danger. Located off the coast of Florida deep beneath the surface of the water, the station supports a robotic mining operation on the ocean floor and facilitates the ongoing scientific exploration of Earth’s last frontier. But while on a routine assignment with his colleague Peter Lipscomb, submersible pilot Joe Niedzwiecki comes face to face with something incredible and alive, and only luck—and Peter’s quick actions—can save them. Peter’s wife, a marine biologist named Judith, is determined to uncover the secrets of the mysterious leviathan that destroyed Joe’s sub and nearly killed him. But the strange creature prowling the dark waters is only one of the dangers confronting Tethys.
Author | : Terence Irwin |
Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 1048 |
Release | : 2009-09-10 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0191571466 |
This book is a selective historical and critical study of moral philosophy in the Socratic tradition, with special attention to Aristotelian naturalism. It discusses the main topics of moral philosophy as they have developed historically, including: the human good, human nature, justice, friendship, and morality; the methods of moral inquiry; the virtues and their connexions; will, freedom, and responsibility; reason and emotion; relativism, subjectivism, and realism; the theological aspect of morality. The first volume discusses ancient and mediaeval moral philosophy. The second volume examines early modern moral philosophy from the 16th to the 18th century. This third volume continues the story up to Rawls's Theory of Justice. A comparison between the Kantian and the Aristotelian outlook is one central theme of the third volume. The chapters on Kant compare Kant both with his rationalist and empiricist predecessors and with the Aristotelian naturalist tradition. Reactions to Kant are traced through Hegel, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, and Kierkegaard. Utilitarian and idealist approaches to Kantian and Aristotelian views are traced through Sidgwick, Bradley, and Green. Mill and Sidgwick provide a link between 18th-century rationalism and sentimentalism and the 20th-century debates in the metaphysics and epistemology of morality. These debates are explored in Moore, Ross, Stevenson, Hare, C.I. Lewis, Heidegger, and in some more recent meta-ethical discussion. This volume concludes with a discussion of Rawls, with special emphasis on a comparison of his position with utilitarianism, intuitionism, Kantianism, naturalism, and idealism. Since this book seeks to be not only descriptive and exegetical, but also philosophical, it discusses the comparative merits of different views, the difficulties that they raise, and how some of the difficulties might be resolved. It presents the leading moral philosophers of the past as participants in a rational discussion in which the contemporary reader can participate.
Author | : Mark Haddon |
Publisher | : HarperCollins UK |
Total Pages | : 32 |
Release | : 2020-01-09 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 0008343101 |
A magical celebration of the 50th anniversary of the moon landing from the bestselling author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time.
Author | : Daniel Goleman |
Publisher | : Ardent Media |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780891976486 |
Author | : Augustus BERGH |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 62 |
Release | : 1860 |
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