Author : John Boyd
Publisher : Pan
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1972-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0330231766
The Last Starship from Earth
John Boyd
The Last Starship From Earth
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The last starship from earth
John Boyd
Author : John Boyd
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:632281533
The last starship from earth by John Boyd Pdf
The Last Starship from Earth
John Boyd
Author : John Boyd
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : English fiction
ISBN : 0140048758
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Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth
R. Buckminster Fuller
Author : R. Buckminster Fuller
Publisher : Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2008-07-15
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth by R. Buckminster Fuller Pdf
One of Fuller’s most popular works, Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth, is a brilliant synthesis of his world view. In this very accessible volume, Fuller investigates the great challenges facing humanity. How will humanity survive? How does automation influence individualization? How can we utilize our resources more effectively to realize our potential to end poverty in this generation? He questions the concept of specialization, calls for a design revolution of innovation, and offers advice on how to guide “spaceship earth” toward a sustainable future. Description by Lars Muller Publishers, courtesy of The Estate of Buckminster Fuller
Starship Troopers
Robert Anson Heinlein
Author : Robert Anson Heinlein
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780441783588
Starship Troopers by Robert Anson Heinlein Pdf
In a futuristic military adventure a recruit goes through the roughest boot camp in the universe and into battle with the Terran Mobile Infantry in what historians would come to call the First Interstellar War
Lords of the Starship
Mark S. Geston
Author : Mark S. Geston
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 109 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2011-09-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780575105171
Lords of the Starship by Mark S. Geston Pdf
The ship was to be seven miles long, a third of a mile in diameter and have a wing-spread of three and a half miles. It would take two and a half centuries to construct. Its announced purpose: to carry humanity away from its ruined world, from the world that had become a perpetual purgatory. To build this vast ship would require the undivided activity of an entire nation and would mean carrying out a ruthless program of war and conquest, of annihilation and reconstruction, and of education and rediscovery. But was this starship really what it was claimed to be? Or was there a greater secret behind its incredible cost - a secret so strange that no man dared reveal it?
Earth's Last Starship
Daniel Peyton
Author : Daniel Peyton
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1727806905
Earth's Last Starship by Daniel Peyton Pdf
ONE LAST STARSHIP IS EARTH'S LAST HOPEThe Earth had four fleets to fight the invading enemy. The first fleet valiantly protected earth, but it wasn't enough. Three fleets would arrive soon and end the threat...but they never came through the wormhole. One ship escaped the massacre, fleeing deep into space while the rest of Earth's defenses were destroyed. Only the barrier around the planet keeps the enemy from finishing what they started.Ten years have passed for the USS Orlando. Captain Brian Shepard and his dwindling crew are dedicated to saving their home. The mighty Tol'konian Empire is equally determined to capture them. Captain Shepard is certain there is a way to find those missing three fleets. The answer rests with a human scientist lost in the galaxy, but when the crew of the USS Orlando locates him, they encounter a strange alien who can help them find the answers they seek.Alone, hunted, and scared, Earth's last starship is Earth's last hope. The Tol'konian Empire controls most of the galaxy and will stop at nothing until they have a secret that Earth is protecting. Can the crew of The Orlando survive long enough to save their home planet? How did three thousand ships vanish in a blink of the eye? Can a crew of five change the course of history and save humankind from extinction?
Shards of Earth
Adrian Tchaikovsky
Author : Adrian Tchaikovsky
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781529051919
Shards of Earth by Adrian Tchaikovsky Pdf
From the author of the thrilling science-fiction epic Children of Time, winner of the prestigious Arthur C. Clarke Award. Shards of Earth is the first high-octane, far-future space adventure in Adrian Tchaikovsky's Final Architecture trilogy. 'One of the most interesting and accomplished writers in speculative fiction' – Christopher Paolini The war is over. Its heroes forgotten. Until one chance discovery . . . Idris has neither aged nor slept since they remade his mind in the war. And one of humanity’s heroes now scrapes by on a freelance salvage vessel, to avoid the attention of greater powers. Eighty years ago, Earth was destroyed by an alien enemy. Many escaped, but millions more died. So mankind created enhanced humans such as Idris - who could communicate mind-to-mind with our aggressors. Then these ‘Architects’ simply disappeared and Idris and his kind became obsolete. Now, Idris and his crew have something strange, abandoned in space. It’s clearly the work of the Architects – but are they really returning? And if so, why? Hunted by gangsters, cults and governments, Idris and his crew race across the galaxy as they search for answers. For they now possess something of incalculable value, and many would kill to obtain it. Praise for Adrian Tchaikovsky: 'Enthralling, epic, immersive and hugely intelligent' – Stephen Baxter on Shards of Earth 'He writes incredibly enjoyable sci-fi, full of life and ideas' – Patrick Ness ‘Brilliant science fiction’ – James McAvoy on Children of Time
Earth Strike
Ian Douglas
Author : Ian Douglas
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2010-02-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780061976445
Earth Strike by Ian Douglas Pdf
In the vein of the hit television show Battlestar Galactica comes Earth Strike—the first book in the action-packed Star Carrier science fiction series by Ian Douglas, author of the popular Inheritance, Heritage, and Legacy Trilogies and one of the most adept writers of military sf working today. Earth Strike rockets readers into a vast and deadly intergalactic battle, as humankind attempts to bring down an evil empire and establish itself as the new major power. Fans of Robert Heinlein’s Starship Troopers and Joe Haldeman’s The Forever War, welcome aboard the Star Carrier!
Children of Time
Adrian Tchaikovsky
Author : Adrian Tchaikovsky
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 609 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2015-06-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781447273318
Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky Pdf
Winner of the 30th anniversary Arthur C. Clarke Award for Best Novel. Adrian Tchaikovksy's critically acclaimed novel Children of Time, is the epic story of humanity's battle for survival on a terraformed planet. Who will inherit this new Earth? The last remnants of the human race left a dying Earth, desperate to find a new home among the stars. Following in the footsteps of their ancestors, they discover the greatest treasure of the past age – a world terraformed and prepared for human life. But all is not right in this new Eden. In the long years since the planet was abandoned, the work of its architects has borne disastrous fruit. The planet is not waiting for them, pristine and unoccupied. New masters have turned it from a refuge into mankind's worst nightmare. Now two civilizations are on a collision course, both testing the boundaries of what they will do to survive. As the fate of humanity hangs in the balance, who are the true heirs of this new Earth? Continue the far-reaching space opera with Children of Ruin and Children of Memory. 'Children of Time is a joy from start to finish. Entertaining, smart, surprising and unexpectedly human.' - Patrick Ness, author of A Monster Calls.
The Lost Earth
Vaughn Heppner
Author : Vaughn Heppner
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-27
Category : Human-alien encounters
ISBN : 1973956691
The Lost Earth by Vaughn Heppner Pdf
It finally happened. Commander Thrax Ti Ix created a hyper-spatial tube for the Swarm Imperium. Across thousands of light-years, a vast armada of warships is heading for Earth to burn the homeworld down to its bedrock as the Swarm begins its genocidal campaign against the human race. No one-not the New Men, the Spacers, the Wahhabi Caliphate or Star Watch-has faced such staggering odds. Alone or united, it makes no difference. Captain Maddox has a last-ditch plan. He's returning to the null region of last voyage to grab the ancient Destroyers hidden there. But an immortal entity of evil cunning haunts the vessels. If it escapes its prison...Maddox will have made things infinitely worse. This time, mankind needs a miracle. THE LOST EARTH is the seventh book in the LOST STARSHIP SERIES.
Project Hail Mary
Andy Weir
Author : Andy Weir
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2021-05-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780593135211
Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir Pdf
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the author of The Martian, a lone astronaut must save the earth from disaster in this “propulsive” (Entertainment Weekly), cinematic thriller full of suspense, humor, and fascinating science—in development as a major motion picture starring Ryan Gosling. HUGO AWARD FINALIST • ONE OF THE YEAR’S BEST BOOKS: Bill Gates, GatesNotes, New York Public Library, Parade, Newsweek, Polygon, Shelf Awareness, She Reads, Kirkus Reviews, Library Journal • “An epic story of redemption, discovery and cool speculative sci-fi.”—USA Today “If you loved The Martian, you’ll go crazy for Weir’s latest.”—The Washington Post Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission—and if he fails, humanity and the earth itself will perish. Except that right now, he doesn’t know that. He can’t even remember his own name, let alone the nature of his assignment or how to complete it. All he knows is that he’s been asleep for a very, very long time. And he’s just been awakened to find himself millions of miles from home, with nothing but two corpses for company. His crewmates dead, his memories fuzzily returning, Ryland realizes that an impossible task now confronts him. Hurtling through space on this tiny ship, it’s up to him to puzzle out an impossible scientific mystery—and conquer an extinction-level threat to our species. And with the clock ticking down and the nearest human being light-years away, he’s got to do it all alone. Or does he? An irresistible interstellar adventure as only Andy Weir could deliver, Project Hail Mary is a tale of discovery, speculation, and survival to rival The Martian—while taking us to places it never dreamed of going.
The Last Starship
Michael Carroll
Author : Michael Carroll
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2001-07-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781587153891
The Last Starship by Michael Carroll Pdf
It is the year 2365. On the distant planet of Pelicos, the only colony of the human race has learned of a devastating war on Earth. Now the small colony must learn to survive without Earth's help. The imminent arrival of the starship Constantine gives the colonists hope, but the starship's captain hides a secret that could destroy them all. Young Conner Hassan, whose father has been jailed for attempted murder on Pelicos, tries to come to terms with the changes the future will bring, but first he must discover the secret of the Constantine.
The Space-Born
E.C. Tubb
Author : E.C. Tubb
Publisher : Gateway
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2011-09-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780575107519
The Space-Born by E.C. Tubb Pdf
Far from Earth, on a ship carrying the 13th and 14th generations of descendants from the original crew, life is short. You are born, learn the tasks needed to keep the ship running, help breed and train the next crew - and your death is ordered by the computer in charge. Gregson, chief of the psych-police, makes sure the computer's death-sentences are carried out quickly and painlessly. His duty is a sacred trust. He knows the intricacies of the system, how it works . . . and how it can be subverted. He is growing old. Rebellious. He also knows his name will soon come up in the computer for elimination. And he has no intention of carrying out his own death-sentence!
The Long Cosmos
Terry Pratchett,Stephen Baxter
Author : Terry Pratchett,Stephen Baxter
Publisher : Random House
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2016-06-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781448167654
The Long Cosmos by Terry Pratchett,Stephen Baxter Pdf
From acclaimed authors Terry Prattchet and Stephen Baxter comes the last novel in the bestselling Long Earth series. 2070-71. Nearly six decades after Step Day and in the Long Earth, the new Next post-human society continues to evolve. For Joshua Valienté, now in his late sixties, it is time to take one last solo journey into the High Meggers: an adventure that turns into a disaster. Alone and facing death, his only hope of salvation lies with a group of trolls. But as Joshua confronts his mortality, the Long Earth receives a signal from the stars. A signal that is picked up by radio astronomers but also in more abstract ways – by the trolls and by the Great Traversers. Its message is simple but its implications are enormous: JOIN US. The super-smart Next realise that the Message contains instructions on how to develop an immense artificial intelligence but to build it they have to seek help from throughout the industrious worlds of mankind. Bit by bit, byte by byte, they assemble a computer the size of a continent – a device that will alter the Long Earth’s place within the cosmos and reveal the ultimate, life-affirming goal of those who sent the Message. Its impact will be felt by and resonate with all – mankind and other species, young and old, communities and individuals – who inhabit the Long Earths...