Author: R. Buckminster Fuller Publisher: Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller ISBN: Category : Architecture Languages : en Pages : 225
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Utopia or Oblivion is a provocative blueprint for the future. This comprehensive volume is composed of essays derived from the lectures he gave all over the world during the 1960’s. Fuller’s thesis is that humanity – for the first time in its history – has the opportunity to create a world where the needs of 100% of humanity are met. “This is what man tends to call utopia. It’s a fairly small word, but inadequate to describe the extraordinary new freedom of man in a new relationship to universe — the alternative of which is oblivion.” R. Buckminster Fuller. Description by Lars Muller Publishers, courtesy of The Estate of Buckminster Fuller
Author: Dean Wesley Smith Publisher: Del Rey ISBN: 9780345421401 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 276
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2017: NEAR THE PLANET URANUS After a deep-space satellite mysteriously stops transmitting, the Hubble III telescope picks up a startling image. Astronomers don't know what the strange object is--only that it orbits past Earth every two millennia. Meanwhile, archaeologist Leo Cross has discovered peculiar layers of black residue at dig sites around the globe. Stranger still, these thin bands occur like clockwork every 2,006 years, coinciding with some of the world's darkest moments in history. We have six months to prepare for the next arrival. This time we know something is coming. This time we have weapons to defend us. This time we'll be wrong . . . again. A science fiction saga set on near-future Earth, THE TENTH PLANET challenges our basic beliefs about the solar system and ultimately our place in the universe. With cutting-edge astronomy, blockbuster action, and high drama, the mystery is revealed in a trilogy of adventures.
Author: Ross E. Goodrich Publisher: Hillcrest Publishing Group ISBN: 0988255901 Category : Nature Languages : en Pages : 346
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An account that describes "the ultimate human predicament" And exposes its inevitable outcome In From Earth to Oblivion: The Passing of Humankind, Dr. Ross E. Goodrich, a geographer, gives a startling picture of the greatest of all threats to humanity: The predicament of humankind. Our population is growing and we cannot stop the growth; our habitat has a limited amount of living space that soon will not meet our needs; and our habitat has a limited supply of life-support that is about to fail us. These facts foretell what many privately ponder but fear to explore--the economic and social collapse of human society. In this bold treatise, Dr. Goodrich explains why, contrary to our deepest hopes, grandest dreams, and despite our space age technology, we cannot eliminate poverty, achieve world peace, or turn back the degradation of the ecosystems that provide our food, water, energy, and a healthy environment. This informed account reveals what is about to happen to our society, why and how the world is about to change to the detriment of our children and grandchildren, and what will become of us. Finally, the author gives some advice on how to respond to what is to come.
Author: Christopher Hopper Publisher: Somnium Publishing ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 582
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You've made the greatest discovery in human history. Now all you have to do is stay alive. The legacy hab Astraea orbits high above the Earth in 2251 as a testament to human ingenuity and the enduring mission to settle space. But when researchers in the station's celestial exploration laboratory think they've discovered a signal from an alien species, Astraea suffers a devastating failure. In response to the growing emergency, the scientific leaders on Earth send one of their best engineers to investigate the explosion. However, the specialist is forced to face old demons as he fights to verify his hypothesis: Astraea Station is under attack. But can he prove it before he runs out of time? Tensions rise when the growing body of evidence suggests sabotage from within. Motives are questioned, loyalties tested, and friendships strained to the breaking point. Before long, destinies spin out of control as the situation escalates to flat-out survival. No one is safe, including those on Earth below. Journey into the mind that brought you the #1 best-selling hit Ruins of the Earth and Ruins of the Galaxy in this hard sci-fi thriller, set in an epic space-settlement landscape filled with factions, betrayal, adventure, and intrigue. Christopher Hopper's Oblivion Awaits, first book in the Infinita series, is bound to keep you breathless. Read it today! Available in trade and mass market paperback, hardcover, Kindle eBook, Kindle Unlimited, and Audible audiobook.
Author: Marcus Alexander Hart Publisher: Permuted Press ISBN: 0976555956 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 325
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After an accidental nuclear war, Vivian Gray joins a comically inept goup of fellow twentysomething survivors. She and her new friends embark on a cross-country road trip seeking sanctuary from the menagerie of deadly atomic mutants unleased by the contaminated atmosphere.
Author: Harry J. Maihafer Publisher: Potomac Books ISBN: Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 264
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"On Saturday, January 14, 1950, at 6:18 P.M., Cadet Richard Cox left his room at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point to go to dinner with an unidentified visitor. The man was supposedly someone Cox had known when they served in an intelligence unit in Germany. Cox never returned. In 1957, Richard Cox was declared legally dead, and the files were closed. It was as if he had vanished off the face of the earth." "Then in 1985, thirty-five years after Cox's disappearance, a retired history teacher named Marshall Jacobs decided to pursue the mystery as a research project. Through the Freedom of Information Act, he obtained voluminous once-secret files from the Army and FBI. Jacobs plunged into a labyrinthine search - and what began as a hobby became an obsession. He traveled the country interviewing witnesses from the Florida Keys to the Pacific Northwest. What he discovered were tales of murder, intrigue, and cover-up. It took more than seven years, but Jacobs eventually found the one witness who enabled him to bring the case to closure." "In Oblivion, Harry J. Maihafer tell the enthralling story of Jacob's search for Richard Cox. Its startling climax is one that readers will long remember."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Author: Dean Wesley Smith Publisher: Del Rey ISBN: 9780345421418 Category : Astronomy Languages : en Pages : 0
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2017: BACK FROM THE SUN For aeons, Earth has been ravaged by so-called natural disasters. Now we know the primary cause: overharvesting of our limited resources--not by humans, but by the residents of our solar system's tenth planet. Since before the birth of humanity, every two thousand years, this dark planet has plundered our world. But in 2017, Earth fought back. Now thousands of aliens face starvation. To survive, they must harvest Earth when their orbit brings them back from behind the sun. But the humans are not waiting for Earth to become as parched and barren as Mars. Every nuclear weapon has been aimed at the Tenth Planet. Their ultimate goal--to blow the Tenth Planet to oblivion. In part two of the Tenth Planet saga, cutting-edge science and high drama combine in an adventure that questions humanity's history, our place in the universe . . . and our very right to exist.
Author: Kumar L Publisher: Earth to Centauri ISBN: 9789353822408 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 296
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One Ship. One Crew. No Escape. Captain Anara and her spaceship Antariksh, face off the most powerful entity in the entire Universe - a black hole! She saved the mega-city from the alien killers, but one alien escaped and headed back to his home planet. He sets off a gigantic explosion in space while travelling at the speed of light, putting in motion a chain of events which result in the formation of a naked singularity - a black hole. It will swallow Earth in less than a year, yet Antariksh is helpless, caught in the event horizon of the black hole from where nothing, not even light can escape. Inexorably drawn towards their doom, the crew desperately try to breakout. Will Anara save her ship or perish in her efforts to safeguard Earth? She must face her deepest fears and insecurities to answer the final question - what is her own life worth against that of eight billion people? "If you liked Star Trek Voyager, you'll love this book,"- Amazon reviewer (The First Journey) "Earth To Centauri: Alien Hunt is a craftily written sci-fi that opens the doors to a whole new world of thrill and enigma,"- Amazon reviewer
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