Under The Crimson Sun

Author : Keith R.A. DeCandido
Publisher : Wizards of the Coast
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2011-06-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780786959181

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Under the Crimson Sun by Keith R.A. DeCandido Pdf

Tharizdun, the Chanied God, has released the Voidharrow--a liquid crystal imbued with his will and all the chaos of the Abyss--into the universe, and with it comes a transformative engine of pestilence. When exposed to the Voidharrow, individuals look as though they've been stricken by disease as the Abyssal liquid twists and deforms them into chaotic demonlike creatures. Behold the Abyssal Plague! When a trading caravan manned by grafters and con men comes across a dead man in the desert they open the door to an Abyssal realm long since destroyed. As the Voidharrow takes hold of one of their companions, he begins to morph into a beast like none they have ever seen. When the stakes are raised in an attempt to defraud some of the more unsavory rulers of this cruel world, the Voidharrow comes to play a role in a move that could transform our heroes forever.

Author : David S. Stevenson
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2013-08-13
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781461481331

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Under a Crimson Sun by David S. Stevenson Pdf

Gliese 581 is a red dwarf star some 20.3 light years from Earth. Red dwarfs are among the most numerous stars in the galaxy, and they sport diverse planetary systems. At magnitude 10, Gliese 581 is visible to amateur observers but does not stand out. So what makes this star so important? It is that professional observers have confirmed that it has at least four planets orbiting it, and in 2009, Planet d was described in the letters of The Astrophysical Journal as “the first confirmed exoplanet that could support Earth-like life.” Under a Crimson Sun looks at the nature of red dwarf systems such as Gliese as potential homes for life. Realistically, what are prospects for life on these distant worlds? Could life evolve and survive there? How do these planetary surfaces and geology evolve? How would life on a red dwarf planet differ from life on Earth? And what are the implications for finding further habitable worlds in our galaxy? Stevenson provides readers with insight into the habitability of planets and how this changes as time progresses and the central star evolves. Explore with him in this engaging, fascinating book the possibilities for finding life, from bacteria to more complex and even intelligent organisms, on red dwarf system planets.

Author : Ranzzith Chava
Publisher : Blue Rose Publishers
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2024-03-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Beneath the Crimson Sun - A Tale of Revolution and Retribution by Ranzzith Chava Pdf

Author : Julia Lin
Publisher : Mawenzi House Publishers Limited
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1988449170

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Shadows of the Crimson Sun by Julia Lin Pdf

Literary Nonfiction. Asian & Asian American Studies. Biography. Eight- year-old Akihisa Takayama escapes from Japanese-ruled Manchuria, after the Russian invasion of 1945, to Chinese Taiwan. But life in Taiwan is as repressive under the brutal dictatorship of the Kuomintang as it was in Japanese Manchuria. In the 1960s, now a physician, and named Charles Yang, he ultimately escapes the White Terror of Taiwan for the United States, and from there goes on to Canada to become one of the first Taiwanese Canadians in Vancouver. His experiences illuminate the repression in Taiwan, and the ongoing dispute between Communist China and Taiwan over the meaning of "One China." This is a rare personal account of the little known histories of Manchukuo and Taiwanese immigration to North America.

Author : Robert J. Schwalb
Publisher : Wizards of the Coast
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2011-12-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780786959402

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Death Mark by Robert J. Schwalb Pdf

In the aftermath of revolution, King Kalak of Tyr is dead and all eyes fall on the lucrative iron mines of his once mighty city-state. Merchant houses scramble to seize what scraps they can while King Hamanu of Urik, the Lion of the Desert, rallies his armies to crush the Tyr rebellion underfoot. He cannot allow this insurrection to succeed and intends to seize the city’s precious resources for himself. The hope of the Tyr revolution seems destined to fail as the tyrannical specter of Hamanu’s war machine looms large on the horizon. But fate chooses the most unlikely heroes. Loren, a gladiator pressed into service by a corrupt merchant prince; the ambitious Alaeda Stel who hopes to secure her family’s future by exploiting Tyr’s sudden weakness; a street thief named Melech; and Korvak the disgraced templar are Tyr’s best and only hope. The promise of freedom rests on their ability to overcome the greed and lust for power that threatens to undermine the principles of Tyr’s revolution.

Author : Colby Dunn
Publisher : Colby Dunn
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2015-07-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9798592517075

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Crimson Sun (Book 1 of the Eyes of Fate) by Colby Dunn Pdf

A long-lasting treaty is shattered. The horns of war echo from the eastern shores. A conflict is triggered that will determine the outcome of all life in the Hidden Lands. None can know the will of Fate. His watchful eye governs the flow of history and the sister blades He crafted triggers the rise and fall of nations. Caleb Rambrant is the son of the famed hero of the west, the man who slew the dark sage. As captain in the forces of Tritus, his duty is to defend the homeland from the onslaught of Talgoth, the rising kingdom led by the Lioness – the merciless Queen Tamara. Joined by a blacksmith’s daughter, hex-casting wardens, and a mysterious shape shifter from across the sea, Caleb sets off on a quest of retribution for the wrongs done to his country…but forces more hostile than foreign steel await them on the road. The struggle of power kindled by the sister blades begins a new cycle…and Fate is watching.

Author : Tom LaFarge
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Bears
ISBN : STANFORD:36105017037370

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The Crimson Bears: A hundred doors by Tom LaFarge Pdf

Two young bears, Alice and Edgar, travel to their Uncle Claudio's kingdom, which is threatened by attack from Crimson Bears, never previously seen in the city. The young bears evade their uncle's protection and begin a series of fabulous adventures.

Author : S. K. Prince
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2023-11-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1644514540

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Crimson Sun by S. K. Prince Pdf

Author : Michel Faber
Publisher : HarperCollins Canada
Page : 1049 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2010-08-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781443401586

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Crimson Petal And The White by Michel Faber Pdf

One of the most talked-about novels of the year, this international bestseller gives new meaning to the term “unputdownable.” Reviewers and readers everywhere have been eagerly abandoning their everyday lives for days and even weeks on end, refusing to leave Michel Faber’s vividly realized fictional world. They are captivated by Sugar, an enigmatic nineteen-year-old prostitute whose story begins in a hellish nineteenth-century London brothel. Struggling to lift her body and soul out of the gutter, Sugar claws her way up the social ladder to gain refuge in the wealthy family of her besotted lover, William Rackham, unwilling heir to a perfumery. Now in the popular Perennial format, The Crimson Petal and the White is a gripping tale, extraordinarily rich, intricate and intoxicating to the final page.

Author : David S. Stevenson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2017-05-25
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319529110

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The Nature of Life and Its Potential to Survive by David S. Stevenson Pdf

This book looks at the persistence of life and how difficult it would be to annihilate life, especially a species as successful as humanity. The idea that life in general is fragile is challenged by the hardiness of microbes, which shows that astrobiology on exoplanets and other satellites must be robust and plentiful. Microbes have adapted to virtually every niche on the planet, from the deep, hot biosphere, to the frigid heights of the upper troposphere. Life, it seems, is almost indestructible. The chapters in this work examine the various scenarios that might lead to the extermination of life, and why they will almost always fail. Life's highly adaptive nature ensures that it will cling on no matter how difficult the circumstances. Scientists are increasingly probing and questioning life's true limits in, on and above the Earth, and how these limits could be pushed elsewhere in the universe. This investigation puts life in its true astronomical context, with the reader taken on a journey to illustrate life's potential and perseverance.

Author : Mark Sullivan
Publisher : Lake Union Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Germany
ISBN : 1503902374

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Beneath a Scarlet Sky by Mark Sullivan Pdf

A teenage boy in 1940s Italy becomes part of an underground railroad that helps Jews escape through the Alps, but when he is recruited to be the personal driver for a powerful Third Reich commander, he begins to spy for the Allies.

Author : Jeannette Ng
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2017-10-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780857667274

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Under the Pendulum Sun by Jeannette Ng Pdf

Winner of the John W Campbell Award for Best New Writer, Jeannette Ng brings a stunningly different Victorian fantasy that mixes Crimson Peak with Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell. Victorian missionaries travel into the heart of the newly discovered lands of the Fae, in a stunningly different fantasy that mixes Crimson Peak with Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell. Catherine Helstone’s brother, Laon, has disappeared in Arcadia, legendary land of the magical fae. Desperate for news of him, she makes the perilous journey, but once there, she finds herself alone and isolated in the sinister house of Gethsemane. At last there comes news: her beloved brother is riding to be reunited with her soon but the Queen of the Fae and her insane court are hard on his heels. File Under: Fantasy [ In Arcadia | Seek and Hide | The Queen of Moths | Lands of the Damned ]

Author : David S. Stevenson
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2019-09-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783030255503

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Red Dwarfs by David S. Stevenson Pdf

This thought-provoking book looks at the nature of red dwarf systems as potential homes for life. Realistically, what are the prospects for life on these distant worlds? Could life evolve and survive there? How do these planetary surfaces and geologies evolve? How would life on a planet orbiting a red dwarf differ from life on Earth? And what are the implications for finding further habitable worlds in our galaxy? The author provides readers with insight into the habitability of planets and how this changes as time progresses and the central star evolves. Since the previous 2013 edition Under a Crimson Sun, there has been a rise in newly discovered planets orbiting red dwarfs, accompanied by controversial areas of research that test what we think we know about these systems. This revised edition delves into the wealth of new material uncovered since that date. It explains the often conflicting results and analyses put forward and clarifies our understanding of these exciting new worlds. The chapters explore the full width of relevant scientific discovery and speculation on the potential for red dwarf planets to host life. New content includes improved atmospheric models, new understandings of the impact of stellar radiation on the atmosphere of red dwarf worlds, tidal-locking, and comparisons with terrestrial geology and climate.

Author : Alex Marshall
Publisher : Orbit
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2017-12-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780316340748

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A War in Crimson Embers by Alex Marshall Pdf

The final book in the Crimson Empire trilogy, a game-changing fantasy epic featuring an unforgettable warrior. Former warrior queen and now pariah, Cold Zosia wakes in the ashes of a burning city. Her vengeance has brought her to this - her heroic reputation in tatters, her allies scattered far and wide, and her world on the cusp of ruin. General Ji-Hyeon has vanished into the legendary First Dark, leaving her lover Sullen alone to carry out the grim commands of a dead goddess. The barbarian Maroto is held captive by a demonic army hell-bent on the extermination of the Crimson Empire, and only his protégé Purna believes he can be saved. Zosia must rally her comrades and old enemies one last time, for what will prove the greatest battle of her many legends...if anyone lives to tell it. FIVE HEROES. NO HOPE. A WAR AGAINST DEVILS. The Crimson Empire Trilogy: A Crown for Cold SilverA Blade of Black SteelA War in Crimson Embers By the same author, writing as Jesse Bullington: The Sad Tale of the Brothers Grossbart The Enterprise of Death The Folly of the World

Author : John D. MacDonald
Publisher : Random House
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2013-01-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307826800

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Free Fall in Crimson by John D. MacDonald Pdf

From a beloved master of crime fiction, Free Fall in Crimson is one of many classic novels featuring Travis McGee, the hard-boiled detective who lives on a houseboat. He was rich, mean, and slowly succumbing to cancer—until someone hastened the inevitable by beating him to death at a Florida truck stop. Now Ellis Esterland’s son wants Travis McGee to find out who killed his estranged father. The why seems obvious: Esterland’s multimillion-dollar estate. “The Travis McGee novels are among the finest works of fiction ever penned by an American author.”—Jonathan Kellerman Though he had been reassured that he would receive a substantial inheritance, Ron Esterland was disowned by his wealthy father years ago. But upon dear old Dad’s conveniently timed murder, the family fortune winds up in the hands of Ellis’s ex-wife instead. The quest to recover Ron’s money takes McGee from Hollywood to the Midwest, where he confronts prostitution rings and drug deals gone wrong. In the haze of violence surrounding him, McGee starts to lose sight of who he really is. But one thing remains crystal clear: McGee is on the trail of a killer conjured from his worst nightmares. Features a new Introduction by Lee Child