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Hot Sky At Midnight
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Author : Robert Silverberg
language : en
Publisher: Open Road Media
Release Date : 2014-04-01
Hot Sky At Midnight written by Robert Silverberg and has been published by Open Road Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-04-01 with Fiction categories.
“Intelligent and engaging science fiction” set against the backdrop of an environmental apocalypse from the SF Grand Master (The Washington Post). Not so very far in the future, the icecaps have melted and many coastal communities have been flooded out. The ozone layer is destroyed. Some areas are livable with breathing masks and injections that protect the skin from the now-deadly rays of the sun, but the only real refuge—for those who can afford it—has become the near-space orbital colonies built and run by private companies. Valparaiso Nuevo is one of these colonies—a haven and a center of action for hustlers, conspirators, and people looking for an edge. It is also the target of a disillusioned group of humans who become embroiled in a scheme to overthrow it. Their goals are individually motivated but the deadly combination of ambition, distrust, greed, stupidity, and lust leads to a dramatic conclusion that replicates in miniature the history of man’s destruction of his own living space on the planet. A bleak picture of future Earth and a complex plot peopled with dark, rich characters, comes together as one of Silverberg’s finer novels. “Silverberg focuses on his characters and their ruined world, providing a convincing portrayal of life in a greenhouse effect-cursed future. . . . [He] delivers powerful images of a world blighted by ecological abuse, and a satisfying novel as well.” —Publishers Weekly “It’s definitely major Silverberg and as such deserves all the readers it will undoubtedly get.” —Booklist
Scores
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Author : John Clute
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2016-11-24
Scores written by John Clute and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-11-24 with Literary Criticism categories.
For more than 50 years John Clute has been reviewing science fiction and fantasy. As Scores demonstrates, his devotion to the task of understanding the central literatures of our era has not slackened. There are jokes in Scores, and curses, and tirades, and apologies, and riffs; but every word of every review, in the end, is about how we understand the stories we tell about the world. Following on from his two previous books of collected reviews (Strokes and Look at the Evidence) this book collects reviews from a wide variety of sources, but mostly from Interzone, the New York Review of Science Fiction, and Science Fiction Weekly. Where it has seemed possible to do so without distorting contemporary responses to books, these reviews have been revised, sometimes extensively. 125 review articles, over 200 books reviewed in more than 214,000 words.
Good Morning Midnight
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Author : Lily Brooks-Dalton
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2016-08-11
Good Morning Midnight written by Lily Brooks-Dalton and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-08-11 with Fiction categories.
NOW A MAJOR NETFLIX FILM 'THE MIDNIGHT SKY', DIRECTED BY GEORGE CLOONEY, STARRING FELICITY JONES AND GEORGE CLOONEY 'A remarkable and gifted debut' Colson Whitehead, author of The Underground Railroad 'Fans of Emily St. John Mandel's Station Eleven and Kim Stanley Robinson's Aurora will appreciate the Brooks-Dalton's exquisite exploration of relationships' Washington Post There is a particular beauty in silence, in being cut off from the world. Augustine, a brilliant, ageing scientist, is consumed by the stars. He has spent his entire life searching for the origins of time itself. He has now been left alone on a remote research base in the Arctic circle, all communication with the outside world broken down. But then he discovers a mysterious child, Iris, who must have hidden herself away when the last of his colleagues departed. Sully is a divorced mother. She is also an astronaut, currently aboard The Aether on a return flight from Jupiter. This is the culmination of her career, the very reason for all the sacrifices she has made - the daughter she left behind, the marriage she couldn't save. When all communication goes silent, she is left wondering what she will be returning to. Marooned in the vast silence of space and the achingly beautiful sweep of the Arctic, both Augustine and Sully begin to understand their place in the world, and what gives their life meaning. For only in the silence can we find out who we truly are.
Hot Times In Magma City
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Author : Robert Silverberg
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2013-10-31
Hot Times In Magma City written by Robert Silverberg and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-31 with Fiction categories.
The Collected Stories Volume 8: Hot Times in Magma City (1990 - 1995) Winner of multiple Hugo and Nebula Awards, Robert Silverberg is one of the all time greats of science fiction. A professional writer for more than half a century, his short story output has been prolific and exceptional in quality. This series of nine volumes will collect all of the short stories and novella-length that SF Grand Master Silverberg wants to take their place on the permanent shelf. Each volume will be roughly 150,000-200,000 words, with classics and lesser known gems alike. The author has also graced us with a lengthy introduction and extensive story notes for each tale. Contents: In the Clone Zone Hunters in the Forest A Long Night's Vigil at the Temple Thebes of the Hundred Gates It Comes and Goes Looking for the Fountain The Way to Spook City The Red Blaze is the Morning Death Do Us Part The Martian Invasion Journals of Henry James Crossing into the Empire The Second Shield Hot Times in Magma City
The Land Of Midian Revisited
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Author : Sir Richard Francis Burton
language : en
Publisher: London : C. K. Paul & Company
Release Date : 1879
The Land Of Midian Revisited written by Sir Richard Francis Burton and has been published by London : C. K. Paul & Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1879 with Arabian Peninsula categories.
Seven Bells After Midnight
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Author : Robert Bofshever
language : en
Publisher: iUniverse
Release Date : 2005-08
Seven Bells After Midnight written by Robert Bofshever and has been published by iUniverse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-08 with Fiction categories.
All at once the bright new red and yellow flames ghastly illuminated the interior of the room. He saw the bed was ablaze; he bent down and aimed his flashlight underneath the bed. Horrified he saw a women's foot, her red nail polish reflected back in the flashlight's beam. This story takes place on New Years Eve 1948 during a blizzard in Brooklyn, New York at Hook and Ladder 112. It is the love of adventure, the intrigue of a fireman's life, the spirit of patriotism and heroism. These things make a timely tale special, but it is the passion of the story told through years of experience. I was only two years old when my father was accepted into the Fire Academy and became one of New York's City's Firemen. I still can remember how I felt waiting for him to come home from the firehouse, especially when he was late. On those days I would go to my bedroom window and watch for his green Chrysler. I checked every car looking for the shadow of the tell-tale pipe in the drivers mouth, anticipating the smoke smelling hug that awaited me as he walked through the door. It is this and many other beloved memories of my father 'The Fireman' that are the heart and sole of this book. back and enabled me to visualize a bygone era. - Sal Moglen Hon. Battalion Chief Fire Department City of New York.
Into The Night Sky
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Author : Caroline Finnerty
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015-02-26
Into The Night Sky written by Caroline Finnerty and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-02-26 with categories.
The Face Of The Waters
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Author : Robert Silverberg
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2011-09-29
The Face Of The Waters written by Robert Silverberg and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-09-29 with Fiction categories.
It is the year 2450. Humanity is scattered among the stars, which teem with intelligent life, while the home world has been destroyed by an inadvertent catastrophe two hundred years before. Thus all Earthmen are exiles, and Earth itself is only a memory. Hydros is a world of great complexity. It has almost no landmass, only a great globe-encompassing ocean with occasional tiny islands. Its seas swarm with apparently intelligent life-forms of a hundred kinds, and one - a bipedal humanoid form - has created a kind of land for itself: floating islands, woven from sea-borne materials, buffered by elaborate barricades against the ceaseless tidal surges that circle the planet. To Hydros have come an assortment of Earthmen. For them it's a world of no return: having no form of outbound space transportation. This brilliantly inventive novel tells their story, as they travel across the planet's endless ocean in search of the mysterious area from which no human has ever returned - the Face of the Waters. (First published 1991)
The Longest Way Home
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Author : Robert Silverberg
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2013-05-31
The Longest Way Home written by Robert Silverberg and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-05-31 with Fiction categories.
For more than a thousand years, Homeworld has been unchanged: the Great Houses rule and peace between them is enforced by unbreakable webs of kinship. The Folk accept what the system offers them - stability, prosperity and peace - and the Indigenes are placid. Then, on one night of rebellion everything changes, as the Folk overthrow the Great Houses. Joseph, the young son of one Great House is visiting another and survives the violence, but his home is ten thousand miles away and communications and transport have been destroyed. For all he knows his family may have been wiped out but his only hope lies in making that ten thousand mile trek across a world turned strange and hostile. To succeed, he must set aside all his old beliefs and assumptions and learn the truth about the world he lives in.
Across A Billion Years
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Author : Robert Silverberg
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2011-09-29
Across A Billion Years written by Robert Silverberg and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-09-29 with Fiction categories.
Scattered throughout the globe of human-occupied space is evidence of a civilisation that bestrode the galaxy before humanity was born. Now, a strange device has been discovered that shows the details of that great civilisation. The details include a star map and hints that the High Ones are not extinct after all. The map beckons, and humans, being what they are, will follow. To the next great step in human destiny - or ultimate disaster. (First published 1969)