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Author : Jules Verne
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780803296343
When a meteor of pure gold heads toward Earth, it generates competitive greed among amateur astronomers and havoc among nations fixated on the golden object's path.
Author : Jules Verne
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1970-12-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0685065626
Author : Jules Verne
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015053591791
A witty novel about a golden meteor crashing into the earth.
Author : Jules Verne
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0803296193
The announcement that a solid gold asteroid has fallen to earth creates a worldwide sensation. The discovery of this falling golden meteor and the race to find it form the core of this exciting tale from the grandfather of science fiction, Jules Verne. 23 illustrations.
Author : Jules Verne,Frederick Paul Walter
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0803246773
When a meteor of pure gold heads toward Earth, it generates competitive greed among amateur astronomers and havoc among nations fixated on the golden object's path.
Author : Geoffrey Notkin
Publisher : Aerolite Meteorites, LLC
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2011-02-01
Category : Meteorites
ISBN : 0984754806
"This is the definitive guide to finding meteorites, written by one of the best-known personalities in the field and co-host of the award-winning hit television series Meteorite Men. It includes detailed information on how to locate, excavate, and identify rocks from space, and is filled with photographs and insider information from an internationally recognized meteorite specialist." --Back cover.
Author : Carrie Nugent
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-14
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781501120091
For the first time, scientists could have the knowledge to prevent a natural disaster epic in scale—an asteroid hitting the earth and in this exciting, adventuresome book, Carrie Nugent explains how. What are asteroids, and where do they come from? And, most urgently: Are they going to hit the Earth? What would happen if one was on its way? Carrie Nugent is an asteroid hunter—part of a group of scientists working to map our cosmic neighborhood. For the first time ever, we are reaching the point where we may be able to prevent the horrible natural disaster that would result from an asteroid collision. In Asteroid Hunters, Nugent reveals what known impact asteroids have had: the extinction of the dinosaurs, the earth-sized hole Shoemaker Levy 9 left in Jupiter just a few decades ago, how the meteorite that bursted over Chelyabinsk in Russia could have started a war, and unlucky Ms. Anne Hodges—the only person (that we know of) in US history to be the victim of a direct hit. Nugent also introduces the telescope she uses to detect near-Earth asteroids. Ultimately, detection is the key to preventing asteroid impact, and these specialized scientists are working to prevent the unthinkable from happening. If successful, asteroid hunting will lead to the first natural disaster humans have the know-how and the technology to prevent. The successful hunt and mapping of asteroids could mean nothing less than saving life on earth.
Author : Roy A. Gallant
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Companies
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015054121366
The "Indiana Jones of Astronomy" takes readers on a fascinating hunt for scientific treasures at the major meteorite sites of the wild and desolate Russian interior. 16-page insert.
Author : J. Verne,Frederick Paul Walter
Publisher : Turtleback Books
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2006-10-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1417762780
When a meteor of pure gold heads toward Earth, it generates competitive greed among amateur astronomers and havoc among nations fixated on the golden object's path.
Author : Samantha Hunt
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2016-01-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780544526723
The strange odysseys of two young women animate this “hypnotic and glowing” American gothic novel that blurs the line between the real and the supernatural (Gregory Maguire, The New York Times Book Review). A New York Times Editors’ Choice A Paris Review Staff Pick Ruth and Nat are seventeen. They are orphans living at The Love of Christ! Foster Home in upstate New York. And they may be able to talk to the dead. Enter Mr. Bell, a con man with mystical interests who knows an opportunity when he sees one. Together they embark on an unexpected journey that connects meteor sites, utopian communities, lost mothers, and a scar that maps its way across Ruth’s face. Decades later, Ruth visits her niece, Cora. But while Ruth used to speak to the dead, she now doesn’t speak at all. Even so, she leads Cora on a mysterious mission that involves crossing the entire state of New York on foot. Where is she taking them? And who—or what—is hidden in the woods at the end of the road? “[A] gripping novel…The narratives, which twist together into a shocking dénouement, are marked by ghost stories.”—The New Yorker
Author : Miles John Breuer
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780803219311
Gathered here for the first time are Miles J. Breuer s first publication, The Man with the Strange Head ; his neglected dystopian novel Paradise and Iron (appearing here in book form for the first time); stories such as Gostak and the Doshes and Mechanocracy ; and Breuer s essay The Future of Scientifiction, one of the early critical statements of the genre. Also included are some of the author s letters from the Discussions column of Amazing Stories. Much of what we know as science fiction saw the light and found its themes, styles, and modes in the science fiction magazines of the early twentieth century. It was in these magazines of the 1920s and 1930s that Breuer often led the way. Breuer himself found his inspiration in the work of H. G. Wells and in turn influenced science fiction masters from Jack Williamson to Robert A. Heinlein. The Man with the Strange Head and Other Early Science Fiction Stories collects the best work of this pioneer of the genre.
Author : Philip Wylie
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2009-05-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781605432113
Author : Jules Verne
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2015-07-01
Category : FICTION
ISBN : 9780803274884
The Self-Propelled Island is the first unabridged English translation of Jules Verne’s original story featuring a famous French string quartet that is abducted by an American businessman and taken to Standard Island to perform for its millionaire inhabitants. The quartet soon discovers that Standard Island is not an island at all, but an immense, futuristic ship possessing all the features of an idyllic haven. Equipped with the most opulent amenities, Standard Island travels the Pacific Ocean, traversing the south archipelagos and stopping at many “sister” islands for the pleasure of its well-heeled inhabitants. These inhabitants soon meet with the danger, in its various forms, that is inherent in ocean travel. Meanwhile, the French quartet is witness to the rivalry that exists between the two most powerful families onboard, a rivalry that keeps the future of the island balancing on the edge of a knife. First published in English in 1896, the novel was originally censored in translation. Dozens of pages were cut from the story because English translators felt they were too critical of Americans as well as the British. Here, for the first time, readers have the pleasure of reading The Self-Propelled Island as Verne intended it.
Author : Jon Larsen
Publisher : Voyageur Press (MN)
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2017-08
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780760352649
In Search of Stardust is the first comprehensive popular science book about micrometeorites. It's illustrated with 1,500 previously unpublished images from high-resolution color microscopes and scanning electron microscopes.
Author : John Wyndham
Publisher : Modern Library
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2022-04-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780593450093
The influential masterpiece of one of the twentieth century’s most brilliant—and neglected—science fiction and horror writers, whom Stephen King called “the best writer of science fiction that England has ever produced.” “[Wyndham] avoids easy allegories and instead questions the relative values of the civilisation that has been lost, the literally blind terror of humanity in the face of dominant nature. . . . Frightening and powerful, Wyndham’s vision remains an important allegory and a gripping story.”—The Guardian What if a meteor shower left most of the world blind—and humanity at the mercy of mysterious carnivorous plants? Bill Masen undergoes eye surgery and awakes the next morning in his hospital bed to find civilization collapsing. Wandering the city, he quickly realizes that surviving in this strange new world requires evading strangers and the seven-foot-tall plants known as triffids—plants that can walk and can kill a man with one quick lash of their poisonous stingers.
