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Author | : Michael D. O'Brien |
Publisher | : Ignatius Press |
Total Pages | : 594 |
Release | : 2013-11-25 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1586178326 |
Set eighty years in the future, this novel by the best-selling author Michael O'Brien is about an expedition sent from the planet Earth to Alpha Centauri, the star closest to our solar system. The Kosmos, a great ship that the central character Neil de Hoyos describes as a "flying city", is immense in size and capable of more than half light-speed. Hoyos is a Nobel Prize winning physicist who has played a major role in designing the ship. Hoyos has signed on as a passenger because he desires to escape the seemingly benign totalitarian government that controls everything on his home planet. He is a skeptical and quirky misanthropic humanist with old tragedies, loves, and hatreds that are secreted in his memory. The surprises that await him on the voyage-and its destination-will shatter all of his assumptions and point him to a true new horizon. Science fiction and fantasy literature are genres that have become dominant forces in contemporary worldwide culture. Our fascination with the near-angelic powers of new technology, its benefits and dangers, its potential for obsession and catastrophe, raises vital questions that this work explores about human nature and the cosmos, about man's image of himself and where he is going-and why he seeks to go there.
Author | : John W. Macvey |
Publisher | : New York : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 1965 |
Genre | : Extraterrestrial anthropology |
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Author | : A. Ahad |
Publisher | : Publishamerica Incorporated |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781424138333 |
Itas been two years since the Centauri Princess was plagued by a series of attacks from mysterious, winged wolf-like creatures arriving from the interstellar night. Having eliminated the threat, the lonely ark is again cruising on her silent voyage towards a near-infinitely far destination. In the midst of this sereneness, what could possibly go wrong? In the immense ocean of darkness beyond our solar system, a mining expedition is dispatched to an ice world found drifting in the Oort cloud to replenish the ark shipas uranium reserves. There, the expedition encounters mysterious revelations inside a acity of lights.a They discover something seductively beautiful yet viciously deadly. At the same time, the secret offers a solution that proves priceless to the multi-generational colony crew, eager to reach their unreachable destination in a single generation. In the end, a deadly struggle ensues amongst the arkas own crew in their quest for immortalitya]
Author | : Michael D. O'Brien |
Publisher | : Ignatius Press |
Total Pages | : 765 |
Release | : 2013-11-04 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1681496143 |
Set eighty years in the future, this novel by the best-selling author Michael O'Brien is about an expedition sent from the planet Earth to Alpha Centauri, the star closest to our solar system. The Kosmos, a great ship that the central character Neil de Hoyos describes as a "flying city", is immense in size and capable of more than half light-speed. Hoyos is a Nobel Prize winning physicist who has played a major role in designing the ship. Hoyos has signed on as a passenger because he desires to escape the seemingly benign totalitarian government that controls everything on his home planet. He is a skeptical and quirky misanthropic humanist with old tragedies, loves, and hatreds that are secreted in his memory. The surprises that await him on the voyage-and its destination-will shatter all of his assumptions and point him to a true new horizon. Science fiction and fantasy literature are genres that have become dominant forces in contemporary worldwide culture. Our fascination with the near-angelic powers of new technology, its benefits and dangers, its potential for obsession and catastrophe, raises vital questions that this work explores about human nature and the cosmos, about man's image of himself and where he is going-and why he seeks to go there.
Author | : Fritz Reichert |
Publisher | : iUniverse |
Total Pages | : 136 |
Release | : 2007-12 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0595423019 |
In the year 2044, scientists have revealed new advances to extend the longevity of human life. Within the next years the world's population explodes by more than one billion people each year. Though millions live already deep under the moon's surface, it becomes necessary to search for planets outside our solar system. Tim Turner, a teacher and scientist, tackles this mission by traveling to the sun's next star, Alpha Centauri. The isolation of his task drives him to the edge of lunacy, but what he discovers could prevent the human race from destroying itself. When Turner returns to Earth thirty-six years later, he comes back to an unthinkable situation. What has happened during his absence-and what has become of the two women he loves most? A tantalizing mix of science fiction and love story, Dangerous Voyage to Alpha Centauri poses a fascinating question: Could this plot become a reality for the Earth and its residents in the not-so-distant future?
Author | : F. L. Wallace |
Publisher | : Wildside Press LLC |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2009-03-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1434450597 |
On a tiny asteroid between Mars and Jupiter, a handful of "Accidentals" -- patchwork humans, half or quarter men and women -- seek the honor of being the first to voyage beyond our solar system, discovering new worlds and alien races.
Author | : KEN CROSWELL, PH. D. |
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ISBN | : 9781683291862 |
Author | : Sean Joseph Barry |
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Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Space ships |
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Author | : John Wishart MACVEY |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 1969 |
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Author | : Alastair Mayer |
Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 2017-05-29 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781546913283 |
"Alpha Centauri: Sawyer's World" is the sequel to "Alpha Centauri: First Landing." When the exploration team discovers that the first of two Earth-like planets had been deliberately terraformed millions of years earlier, commander Elizabeth Sawyer takes a volunteer team down to the second planet. The catch is, they have no way to return to space until the other ships have returned to Earth and come back with a refueling system for their lander. As the weeks turn into months, Sawyer and her crew realize that they may be stuck on an alien world for a lot longer than they expected. And alien worlds, however Earth-like, come with their own set of challenges. Inspired by Verne's "The Mysterious Island" and Heinlein's "Tunnel In the Sky," this book is for readers who like their hard science fiction with a generous dose of action and adventure.