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Author: S.K. Vaughn Publisher: Skybound Books ISBN: 1501181343 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 384
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A visceral space thriller—perfect for fans of Arrival and The Martian—following the sole survivor of a catastrophic accident in space that leaves her drifting in the void with only the voice of her estranged husband, a NASA scientist, to guide her back to Earth. Commander Maryam “May” Knox awakes from a medically induced coma alone, adrift in space on a rapidly failing ship, with little to no memory of who she is or why she’s there. Slowly, she pieces together that she’s the captain of the ship, Hawking II; that she was bound for Europa—one of Jupiter’s moons—on a research mission; and that she’s the only survivor of either an accident—or worse, a deliberate massacre—that has decimated her entire crew. With resources running low, and her physical strength severely compromised, May must rely on someone back home to help her. The problem is: everyone thinks she’s dead. Back on Earth, it’s been weeks since Hawking II has communicated with NASA, and Dr. Stephen Knox is on bereavement leave to deal with the apparent death of his estranged wife, whose decision to participate in the Europa mission strained their marriage past the point of no return. But when he gets word that NASA has received a transmission from May, Stephen comes rushing to her aid. What he doesn’t know is that not everyone wants May to make it back alive. Even more terrifying: she might not be alone on that ship. Featuring a twisting and suspenseful plot and compelling characters, Across the Void is a moving and evocative thriller that you won’t be able to put down.
Author: S.K. Vaughn Publisher: Skybound Books ISBN: 1501181343 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 384
Book Description
A visceral space thriller—perfect for fans of Arrival and The Martian—following the sole survivor of a catastrophic accident in space that leaves her drifting in the void with only the voice of her estranged husband, a NASA scientist, to guide her back to Earth. Commander Maryam “May” Knox awakes from a medically induced coma alone, adrift in space on a rapidly failing ship, with little to no memory of who she is or why she’s there. Slowly, she pieces together that she’s the captain of the ship, Hawking II; that she was bound for Europa—one of Jupiter’s moons—on a research mission; and that she’s the only survivor of either an accident—or worse, a deliberate massacre—that has decimated her entire crew. With resources running low, and her physical strength severely compromised, May must rely on someone back home to help her. The problem is: everyone thinks she’s dead. Back on Earth, it’s been weeks since Hawking II has communicated with NASA, and Dr. Stephen Knox is on bereavement leave to deal with the apparent death of his estranged wife, whose decision to participate in the Europa mission strained their marriage past the point of no return. But when he gets word that NASA has received a transmission from May, Stephen comes rushing to her aid. What he doesn’t know is that not everyone wants May to make it back alive. Even more terrifying: she might not be alone on that ship. Featuring a twisting and suspenseful plot and compelling characters, Across the Void is a moving and evocative thriller that you won’t be able to put down.
Author: Joe Simpson Publisher: Direct Authors ISBN: 0957519303 Category : Sports & Recreation Languages : en Pages : 346
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The 25th Anniversary ebook, now with more than 50 images. 'Touching the Void' is the tale of two mountaineer’s harrowing ordeal in the Peruvian Andes. In the summer of 1985, two young, headstrong mountaineers set off to conquer an unclimbed route. They had triumphantly reached the summit, when a horrific accident mid-descent forced one friend to leave another for dead. Ambition, morality, fear and camaraderie are explored in this electronic edition of the mountaineering classic, with never before seen colour photographs taken during the trip itself.
Author: Neal Turner Publisher: Page Publishing Inc ISBN: 1645447073 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 236
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The year is 2213, and the Earth is on the road to recovery from two centuries of neglect, climate change, and political strife. Billions are dead because of global warming, war, famine, and the chaos associated with them. With the reduced population and the help of AI, the Earth has finally begun to heal from the ecological devastation brought upon it in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. A new mind-set has taken hold, and society is being transformed. With this transformation, the world's governments and multinational corporations have been working together and man has reached into space in a more permanent sense. Man is colonizing the solar system and utilizing its vast resources. Jason Tanner is a professor of history and has become dissatisfied with his life and some of the choices he's made. He's found himself in a rut and doesn't quite know what to do about it. He also doesn't know that fate will shortly intervene and change his life forever. Victoria Hughes is the woman Jason once loved and still loves, although she never really knew how he felt. Victoria fell in love with industrialist Trevor Hughes, married him, and went away with him to Jupiter Station. When Jason learns from Victoria's daughters that she's gone missing and they are pleading for his help, he will set off on a journey to find her. His search will take him to the Moon, Jupiter, and beyond. Along the way Jason will learn more than Victoria's whereabouts. Much more. For there is a dark secret that could hold dire consequences for all of humanity, and Jason may be the only one who can reveal it in time. Across the Void Eternal is a story of love, hate, greed, and redemption. It is a story that will inspire and entertain. It will take the reader on a journey of discovery, and hopefully restore their faith in humankind and its limitless potential.
Author: Don Walker Publisher: Xlibris Corporation ISBN: 1462864287 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 452
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The Earth is almost dead. The only hope humanity has rests with two giant starships that are speeding across the galaxy. The starships are captained by two captains that have had a dislike for each other since their first encounter. They are headed to the only planet found that would support life as we know it: a planet found by a recon drone and known only as LK80. On board the two ships is the TRANSCON, an interdimensional portal that can teleport the people of Earth to the new planet, if they can reach it in time. Something has happened on Earth, for they have had no communications since a frantic call for help was heard. Was Earth still there? What will they find at the end of their journey? What news if any will they hear from Earth? Find out as The Saga Begins. PART 2 will be out in late 2012 or early 2013. Thanks, Don Walker
Author: Natalie J. Damschroder Publisher: Natalie J. Damschroder ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 51
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When Vix discovers the secret life that has led to her husband’s coma, the only thing she can do is make that life hers. It takes her into a world of unimaginable pain and astounding gratification for lives saved. Training to go battle an insidious enemy helps her process her grief and shock. When she goes on her first mission through the void, she finds not only a new self-purpose, but her lost husband, as well. She did the impossible once. Can she do it again, and bring him home? NOTE: This story was first published as part of The First Sentence Anthology. It has not been changed.
Author: Georges Perec Publisher: David R. Godine Publisher ISBN: 9781567922967 Category : Comics & Graphic Novels Languages : en Pages : 316
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"...a daunting triumph of will pushing its way through imposing roadblocks to a magical country, an absurdist nirvana of humor, pathos, and loss."--Time magazine A Void is a metaphysical whodunit, a story chock-full of plots and subplots, of trails in pursuit of trails, all of which afford Perec occasion to display his virtuosity as a verbal magician. It is also an outrageous verbal stunt: a 300-page novel that never once employs the letter E. The year is 1968, and as France is torn apart by social and political anarchy, the noted eccentric and insomniac Anton Vowl goes missing. Ransacking his Paris flat, his best friends scour his diary for clues to his whereabouts. At first glance these pages reveal nothing but Vowl's penchant for word games, especially for "lipograms," compositions in which the use of a particular letter is suppressed. But as the friends work out Vowl's verbal puzzles, and as they investigate various leads discovered among the entries, they too disappear, one by one by one, and under the most mysterious circumstances . . .
Author: Peter Mair Publisher: Verso Books ISBN: 1839767898 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 209
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A classic account of democracy's crisis of legitimacy The age of party democracy has passed, argues Peter Mair in Ruling the Void. The major parties have become so disconnected from society that they no longer seem capable of sustaining democracy in its present form. First published in 2013, Ruling the Void presciently observed that the widening gap between citizens and their political leaders posed a crisis of legitimacy for the governing class, and was fuelling populist mobilizations against it. Europe’s political elites had remodelled themselves as a homogeneous professional class, withdrawing into state institutions that offer relative stability in a world of fickle voters. Meanwhile, non-democratic agencies and practices proliferated – not least among them the European Union itself. Mair weighs the impact of these changes, and offers an authoritative assessment of the prospects for popular political representation today, not only in the varied democracies of Britain and the EU but throughout the developed world. With a new Introduction by Chris Bickerton, author of The European Union: A Citizen’s Guide.
Author: Paul Thomas Kingsbury Publisher: U of Nebraska Press ISBN: 1496224353 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 397
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A Place More Void takes its name from a scene in William Shakespeare's The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, wherein an elderly soothsayer has a final chance to warn Caesar about the Ides of March. Worried that he won't be able to deliver his message because of the crowded alleyways, the soothsayer devises a plan to find and intercept Caesar in "a place more void." It is precisely such an elusive place that this volume makes space for by theorizing and empirically exploring the many yet widely neglected ways in which the void permeates geographical thinking. This collection presents geography's most in-depth and sustained engagements with the void to date, demonstrating the extent to which related themes such as gaps, cracks, lacks, and emptiness perforate geography's fundamental concepts, practices, and passions. Arranged in four parts around the themes of Holes, Absences, Edges, and Voids, the contributions demonstrate the fecundity of the void for thinking across a wide range of phenomena: from archives to alien abductions, caves to cryptids, and vortexes to vanishing points. A Place More Void gathers established and emerging scholars who engage a wide range of geographical issues and who express themselves not only through archival, literary, and socio-scientific investigations, but also through social and spatial theory, political manifesto, poetry, and performance art.
Author: David Greig Publisher: Faber & Faber ISBN: 0571352251 Category : Drama Languages : en Pages : 132
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In 1928 a journalist asked George Mallory why he wanted to climb Everest. Mallory said, 'Because it's there.' Joe Simpson's memoir Touching the Void, international bestseller and BAFTA-winning film, charts his struggle for survival on the perilous Siula Grande mountain in the Peruvian Andes aged twenty-five. Adapted for the stage by David Greig, Joe's story explodes into a bold theatrical fantasia. We discover the counter-cultural world of Alpine climbing and the sensual joy of the mountains; we bear witness to the appalling moment when Joe's climbing partner Simon Yates, battered by freezing winds and tethered to the injured Simpson, makes the critical decision to cut the rope. Tense, funny and inquisitive, Touching the Void explores the mind's extraordinarily rich reservoirs of strength and imagination when teetering on the edge of death. David Greig's Touching the Void premiered at Bristol Old Vic, Bristol in September 2018.
Author: S.K. Vaughn
Author: S.K. Vaughn
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Author: Natalie J. Damschroder
Author: Georges Perec
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Author: David Greig