Orphans Of Earth

Author : Sean Williams,Shane Dix
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2014-04-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781480495487

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Orphans of Earth by Sean Williams,Shane Dix Pdf

The sole survivors of the human race... and their time is running out. In the wake of Earth’s fall, Peter Alander has just one choice: to use the alien Gifts left behind on his distant colony world to warn other missions of their impending demise, a second wave of alien ships, this time intent on destroying everything in their path. Without the Gifts, humanity would have no hope at all--although no one truly understands them, and it is becoming increasingly certain that the very use of them is what draws the enemy on. Out of the dark comes help from an entirely unexpected quarter. Peter Alander and his fellow survivors are not the only victims of the terrible Starfish. But what if the cost of that help is too high? What if the price is humanity itself? “This book shines” —Cinescape “High adventure in deep space for fans of far-future SF.” —Library Journal Nominated for the Aurealis and Ditmar Awards.

Author : Scott Cronin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2020-11-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798561417573

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The Orphans of Earth by Scott Cronin Pdf

Todd is an orphan who drifts through high school hardly saying anything to anyone. He has few friends, he feels no connection to anyone, and he's tormented daily by a bully. His small hometown of Kirkland has been hit hard by the 1980's recession, his adoptive father died a few years ago, and his family is broke. Despite being a whiz at computers, he doesn't feel he has any future until one day he speaks to an orphan from Chicago who had been born in Kirkland and adopted in unusual circumstances. He discovers he has a strange connection with other orphans who want to understand their past. When he and the other orphans search Kirkland for clues they make a discovery that changes their lives and could change the course of humanity... if they're not careful.

Author : Paul Yoon
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2020-01-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781501154041

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Run Me to Earth by Paul Yoon Pdf

From award-winning author Paul Yoon comes a beautiful, aching novel about three kids orphaned in 1960s Laos—and how their destinies are entwined across decades, anointed by Hernan Diaz as “one of those rare novels that stays with us to become a standard with which we measure other books.” Alisak, Prany, and Noi—three orphans united by devastating loss—must do what is necessary to survive the perilous landscape of 1960s Laos. When they take shelter in a bombed out field hospital, they meet Vang, a doctor dedicated to helping the wounded at all costs. Soon the teens are serving as motorcycle couriers, delicately navigating their bikes across the fields filled with unexploded bombs, beneath the indiscriminate barrage from the sky. In a world where the landscape and the roads have turned into an ocean of bombs, we follow their grueling days of rescuing civilians and searching for medical supplies, until Vang secures their evacuation on the last helicopters leaving the country. It’s a move with irrevocable consequences—and sets them on disparate and treacherous paths across the world. Spanning decades and magically weaving together storylines laced with beauty and cruelty, Paul Yoon crafts a gorgeous story that is a breathtaking historical feat and a fierce study of the powers of hope, perseverance, and grace.

Author : Sean Williams,Shane Dix
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2014-04-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781480495456

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Heirs of Earth by Sean Williams,Shane Dix Pdf

On the brink of extinction, a suicide mission is humanity’s last hope. The Gifts of an alien race called the Spinners gave Peter Alander hope for the future of humanity. All the Gifts did, though, was draw down the wrath of the Starfish, another alien race apparently intent on wiping out all forms of competition. Caught between the two, humanity faces the hard decision of evolving into something else entirely simply to survive. As their new alien allies prepare to leave human space forever, a handful of survivors band together to make one last attempt to communicate with their enemies. A single ship will leap into the very heart of the Starfish fleet, attempting to find reason where none exists… “Space opera can be a very comforting, cozy mode, with its interstellar empires and royalty and guilds. But when dramatic Darwinian forces are brought into play, as here, space opera can become a kind of bracing, near-apocalyptic tale.” —Paul di Filippo “A melodramatic (or space-operatic) take on Stapledon, a grittier, bleaker take on Clarke…. a vision very different from the triumphalism of traditional SF adventure, but its darkness seems entirely appropriate to the twenty-first century we actually inhabit.” —Locus Nominated for the Aurealis Award.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9385436872

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Weakest on Earth by Anonim Pdf

Author : Catherine Wells
Publisher : Del Rey
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0345374630

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Children of the Earth by Catherine Wells Pdf

Earth has kept its rebirth a secret for some time, but when colonists throughout the stars begin to long for contact with the mother world, violence and greed could once again threaten the planet. Original.

Author : E. M. Foner
Publisher : Foner Books
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2021-04-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781948691475

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Orphans on the Galactic Tunnel Network by E. M. Foner Pdf

Doing a favor for an alien can be a life-changing experience. EarthCent Intelligence assigns their roving troubleshooter to look into rumors of labor abuses in the Old Way movement. A hot tip to the Galactic Free Press turns the spotlight on Earth's children and puts Ellen's latest attempt at a vacation on hold.Orphans on the Galactic Tunnel Network is the third book of the EarthCent Auxiliaries series which I spun off from the eighteen book Union Station saga to focus on Earth.

Author : Sean Williams,Shane Dix
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2014-04-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781480495364

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Echoes of Earth by Sean Williams,Shane Dix Pdf

In this “dazzling adventure” from the New York Times–bestselling author, a man adrift in space finds himself facing the edge of madness (Jack McDevitt). The Frank Tipler is just one of a thousand survey vessels sent out into the bubble of space surrounding Earth, seeking habitable worlds and signs of advanced life. Its crew has stumbled across artifacts left behind by a benevolent trader species, but the decision to study them is fraught with danger and uncertainty. The Tipler's crew consists of forty flawed electronic copies of human beings, some of them profoundly damaged—and Earth stopped responding to signals over a century ago. Caught between madness and political machinations, Alander stands on the brink of what might be the greatest discovery humanity has ever made—and a gift that humanity can’t afford to accept. “ECHOES OF EARTH is a dazzling adventure, sweeping the reader along from marvel to wonder, and it includes one of the most heart-stopping moments I've encountered in a novel in years.” —Jack McDevitt “[The] book can't be discussed or even described without spoiling some of the surprises, which are mutually reinforcing as well as juicy in themselves. I will, however, give in to the temptation to drop a few more of the names that came to mind as I was reading: the Three Gregs (Bear, Benford, Egan), Linda Nagata, and Frederik Pohl…. As the first of a series... ECHOES promises to rev its Ideas right past the red-line and drive them hard.” —Locus “The science in Dix and Williams’s work shines, entrancing with its glitter and innovation… and you won’t find any of their novels without fully-fleshed out characters, complex plots, vivid settings and thoughtful exploration of issues.” —SF Site “The authors have already made a name for themselves as writers of intelligent space opera, and ECHOES OF EARTH is sure to further bolster that reputation. The book is chock full of marvelous events, cosmic significance, mysterious alien motivations, and the wonder of outer space.” —Science Fiction Chronicle Winner of the Ditmar Award.

Author : Timothy Ford Allen
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2013-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781475982657

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Apocalypse's Orphan by Timothy Ford Allen Pdf

Some two hundred miles above Earth, Commander Orlando Iron Wolf is ready to complete his final orbit of the day aboard the International Space Station. As he peers out the window and counts down the minutes until his shift ends, he suddenly sees a blinking light in the distance. Wolf has no idea that what he is seeing is a rogue comet headed straight on a collision course with Earth. Now it is up to him to try to stop it before the planet is destroyed. As NASA frantically moves the Hubble, Wolf is assigned to travel on the Atlantis shuttle to observe the comet. As the world prepares to save as many people as possible, Wolf ignores his foreboding feelings and heads toward the comet, where his mission inevitably fails and he is placed in suspended animation. Now cryogenically frozen, Wolf is watched through the centuries by an onboard computer. When Wolf is finally released from the comet's grip, thousands of years have passed, the earth has been fractured into two nearly identical planets, and humankind has reverted to living amid medieval times. In this exciting science fiction tale, a man must use his newly discovered superpowers and the female voice of a computer to stem the oppressive tide of those who want nothing more than to see him and the future annihilated forever.

Author : Jeremy Seabrook
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2018-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781787381155

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Orphans by Jeremy Seabrook Pdf

Orphans have often been beneficiaries of charity and compassion--but society has also punished, abused and ill-treated them. Attitudes behind this maltreatment are rooted in ideas that those without parents are disruptive, malevolent, and in need of discipline. Drawing on historic documents, interviews and memoirs, Jeremy Seabrook charts history's changing and often loose definitions of "orphans," and explores their many "makers"--from natural or man-made catastrophes to the State, charity, and other social forces that have separated children, especially the poor, from their close kin. But this history is not only one of suffering: Orphans also reveals the uncounted millions taken in and loved by relatives, neighbors or strangers. Freed from constraints and driven by insecurity, many orphans--including Nelson Mandela, Marilyn Monroe and Steve Jobs--have led remarkable lives.

Author : Robert A. Heinlein
Publisher : Baen Publishing Enterprises
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781625791900

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The Man Who Sold the Moon and Orphans of the Sky by Robert A. Heinlein Pdf

Two classic Robert A. Heinlein novels in one volume, with an all-new Afterword by Mark L. Van Name, author of the Jon and Lobo military SF series. The Man Who Sold the Moon: D. D. Harriman is a billionaire with a dream: the dream of space for all mankind. The method? Anything that works. Maybe, in fact, Harriman goes too far. But he will give us the starsã Orphans of the Sky: Hugh had been taught that, according to the ancient sacred writings, the Ship was on a voyage to faraway Centaurus. But he also understood that this must be allegory for a voyage to spiritual perfection. After all, the real world was only metal corridors and nothing else, right? And then Hugh begins to suspect the truth. . . Two all-time classics from seven-time Hugo winner and Dean of Science Fiction, Robert A. Heinlein. At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management).

Author : Craig Hole
Publisher : Craig Hole
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2024-05-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781311761125

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The Children of the Earth by Craig Hole Pdf

Humanity was on the brink, fighting a war they couldn't hope to win. Facing death they sacrificed everything to create the ultimate weapon. Now he’s one of the last ones left and he’s looking for a way to die, a way to repent for what he was made to do and a way to get revenge. Haunted by the war and the side effects of the horrific things done to him he remembers the Children of the Earth

Author : Daniel Arenson
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2017-12-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 198207180X

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A Memory of Earth by Daniel Arenson Pdf

The galaxy burns. The enemy, a race of alien scorpions, storms from star to star. Planets smolder in their wake. Across the galaxy, they hunt humans. Long ago, we humans had a planet of our own. Long ago, we could have resisted the scorpions. But today we are refugees. We are lost in darkness. We haven't seen Earth in two thousand years. We, the last humans, must band together. We must resist. We must fight the scorpions. And we must find Earth! Only Earth can unite us. Only Earth can kindle our hope. Only on Earth can we defend our species. Our homeworld calls us from beyond myth and shadow. We must find a way home. Or the scorpions will kill us all. Earth is but a memory. But we will not forget. Earth will rise again!

Author : Sean Williams
Publisher : Random House Worlds
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2009-08-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780345502858

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The Force Unleashed: Star Wars Legends by Sean Williams Pdf

“The Sith always betray one another. . . . I’m sure you’ll learn that soon enough.” The overthrow of the Republic is complete. Absolute power now rests in the iron fist of Darth Sidious–the cunning Sith Lord better known as Emperor Palpatine. But more remains to be done. Pockets of resistance in the galaxy must still be defeated and missing Jedi accounted for . . . and dealt with. These crucial tasks fall to the Emperor’s ruthless enforcer, Darth Vader, who in turn has groomed a lethal, nameless Sith apprentice to secretly dispatch the last of his masters’ enemies. This acolyte’s journey will take him across the far reaches of the galaxy and test him with shattering revelations that strike at the very heart of all he believes, stirring within him long-forgotten hopes of reclaiming his name . . . and changing his destiny.

Author : M. Itoh
Publisher : Springer
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2010-04-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230106369

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Japanese War Orphans in Manchuria by M. Itoh Pdf

Japanese war orphans in Manchuria are the forgotten victims of the Asia-Pacific War and Sino-Japanese relations, and this is an integral part of the Japanese government's 'postwar settlement' issues concerning its war responsibility and compensation.