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Author: Arthur Charles Clarke Publisher: ISBN: Category : Science fiction Languages : en Pages : 264
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A story of the future, about a specially designed air vessel that sinks with its human cargo into a sea of dust in one of the craters of the moon.
Author: Arthur Charles Clarke Publisher: ISBN: Category : Science fiction Languages : en Pages : 264
Book Description
A story of the future, about a specially designed air vessel that sinks with its human cargo into a sea of dust in one of the craters of the moon.
Author: Andrew Smith Publisher: A&C Black ISBN: 0747588147 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 484
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In 1999, Andrew Smith was interviewing Charlie Duke, astronaut and moon walker, for the Sunday Times. During the course of the interview, which took place at Duke's Texan home, the telephone rang and Charlie left the room to answer it. When he returned, some twenty minutes later, he seemed visibly upset. It seemed that he'd just heard that, the previous day, one of his fellow moon walkers, the astronaut Pete Conrad, had died. The more Charlie spoke the more Andrew realised that his grief was something more than the mere fact of losing a friend. 'Now theres only nine of us,' he said. Only nine. Which meant that, one day not long from now, there would be none, and when that day came, no one on earth would have known the giddy thrill of gazing back at us from the surface of the moon. The thought shocked Andrew, and still does. Moondust is his attempt to understand why. The Apollo moon programme has been called the last optimistic act of the 20th Century. Over a strange three year period between 1969 and 1972, twelve men made the longest and most eccentric of all journeys, and all were indelibly marked by it. In Moondust Andrew sets out to interview all the remaining astronauts who walked on the moon, and to find out how their lives were changed for ever by what had happened. 'Where do you go after you've been to the moon?' In addition to this question that would prove hugely troubling to many of the returned astronauts, they also had to deal with the fantasies of faceless millions at their backs, for this was the first truly global media event. The walkers would forever be caught between the gravitational pull of the moon and the earth's collective dreaming.
Author: Arthur Charles Clarke Publisher: Spectra ISBN: 0553287893 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 290
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During the twenty-second century, a space probe's investigation of a mysterious, cylindrical asteroid brings man into contact with an extra-galactic civilization
Author: Arthur C. Clarke Publisher: Rosetta Books ISBN: 0795325398 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 317
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A “superbly ingenious” classic of space survival from the author of 2001: A Space Odyssey—one of science fiction’s most influential grandmasters (Daily Express). Expanding the Moon’s population hinges on building a thriving tourist industry. But when a prototype tourist craft called the Selene encounters a moonquake, the ship plummets under a vast body of liquid-fine moondust called the Sea of Thirst. While time runs out for the passengers and crew, rescuers find their resources stretched to the limit by the unpredictable conditions of the lunar environment. Nominated for the Hugo Award in 1963, this brilliantly imagined story of human ingenuity and survival is a tour-de-force of psychological suspense and sustained dramatic tension sure to appeal to fans of Andy Weir’s The Martian. “The best book yet about man’s most dramatic journey, the most exciting science fiction novel for years.” —Evening Standard “Expertly told and cruelly exciting to the end.” —The Sunday Times “Extremely good . . . with some superbly ingenious and exciting new twists.” —Daily Express
Author: Arthur C. Clarke Publisher: Rosetta Books ISBN: 0795325150 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 203
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This “marvelous lunar espionage thriller” by the science fiction grandmaster and author of 2001: A Space Odyssey “packs plenty of punch” (SFReviews.net). Two hundred years after landing on the Moon, mankind has moved further out into the solar system. With permanent settlements now established on the Moon, Venus, and Mars, the inhabitants of these colonies have formed a political alliance called the Federation. On the Moon, a government agent from Earth is tracking a suspected spy at a prominent observatory. His mission is complicated by the rise in tensions between Earth’s government and the Federation over access to rare heavy metals. As the agent finds himself locked in a battle for life and death on the eerie, lunar landscape, the larger conflict explodes across space, leaving mankind’s future in doubt. First published in 1955, this suspense-filled space opera by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame inductee was a significant forerunner of television hits like Star Trek and The Expanse.
Author: Janelle Taylor Publisher: Pinnacle Books ISBN: 1420127527 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 554
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An ordinary Texas girl finds herself in a place she never dreamed of in this science fiction romance by New York Times–bestselling author Janelle Taylor. Abducted by Commander Varian Saar of the starship Wanderlust, lovely Jana Greyson found herself high above her native Texas in a world beyond her imagination. A helpless pawn in an intergalactic struggle, Jana knew her handsome captor held her fate in his powerful grasp. And now he was stealing her heart as well . . . Their passion is forbidden, their desire undeniable—and their love will soon blaze as brightly as the stars, in this thrilling tale by the multimillion-selling author of the popular Gray Eagle series.
Author: Arthur Charles Clarke Publisher: ISBN: 9780175552634 Category : English language Languages : en Pages : 116
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This story is about a "ship" that sank deep in the dust of one of the "seas" of the Moon, and how passengers and crew were rescued just in time.
Author: Thomas Burnett Swann Publisher: ISBN: 9781479409037 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 134
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Thomas Burnett Swann won a special place in the world of fantasy and science fiction for his marvelous evocations of forgotten ages and lost peoples. For he has taken the infinite range of the past for his province, and, bringing toit the learning of a scholar and the talent of a poet, he wove wonders. In MOONDUST, he takes as his setting the city of Jericho under the siege; yet it is not a Biblical story nor a tale of warfare, but rather a marvelous science-fiction novel about a non-human intelligent species hidden from the world's eye, a mesmerizing narrative about their human and humanoid subjects, wrapped in the wizardry of a science older than humanity.
Author: Arthur Charles Clarke
Author: Arthur Charles Clarke
Author: Andrew Smith
Author: Arthur Charles Clarke
Author: Arthur C. Clarke
Author: Arthur C. Clarke
Author: Arthur Charles Clarke
Author: Janelle Taylor
Author: Arthur Charles Clarke
Author: Arthur Charles Clarke
Author: Thomas Burnett Swann