Journey To Alpha Centauri

Author : Michael D. O'Brien
Publisher : Ignatius Press
ISBN 13 : 1681496143
Total Pages : 765 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Voyage to Alpha Centauri written by Michael D. O'Brien and published by Ignatius Press. This book was released on 2013-11-04 with total page 765 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set eighty years in the future, this novel by the best-selling author Michael O'Brien is about an expedition sent from the planet Earth to Alpha Centauri, the star closest to our solar system. The Kosmos, a great ship that the central character Neil de Hoyos describes as a "flying city", is immense in size and capable of more than half light-speed. Hoyos is a Nobel Prize winning physicist who has played a major role in designing the ship. Hoyos has signed on as a passenger because he desires to escape the seemingly benign totalitarian government that controls everything on his home planet. He is a skeptical and quirky misanthropic humanist with old tragedies, loves, and hatreds that are secreted in his memory. The surprises that await him on the voyage-and its destination-will shatter all of his assumptions and point him to a true new horizon. Science fiction and fantasy literature are genres that have become dominant forces in contemporary worldwide culture. Our fascination with the near-angelic powers of new technology, its benefits and dangers, its potential for obsession and catastrophe, raises vital questions that this work explores about human nature and the cosmos, about man's image of himself and where he is going-and why he seeks to go there.

Author : John W. Macvey
Publisher : New York : Macmillan
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Journey to Alpha Centauri written by John W. Macvey and published by New York : Macmillan. This book was released on 1965 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Michael Ely
Publisher : Pocket Books/Star Trek
ISBN 13 : 9780671040772
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Centauri Dawn written by Michael Ely and published by Pocket Books/Star Trek. This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After a ship malfunction leads to the death of the captain, members of the starship Unity break into factions, hindering plans for building peaceful human civilization on their new planet.

Author : A. Ahad
Publisher : Publishamerica Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9781424138333
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book First Ark to Alpha Centauri 2 written by A. Ahad and published by Publishamerica Incorporated. This book was released on 2006 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Itas been two years since the Centauri Princess was plagued by a series of attacks from mysterious, winged wolf-like creatures arriving from the interstellar night. Having eliminated the threat, the lonely ark is again cruising on her silent voyage towards a near-infinitely far destination. In the midst of this sereneness, what could possibly go wrong? In the immense ocean of darkness beyond our solar system, a mining expedition is dispatched to an ice world found drifting in the Oort cloud to replenish the ark shipas uranium reserves. There, the expedition encounters mysterious revelations inside a acity of lights.a They discover something seductively beautiful yet viciously deadly. At the same time, the secret offers a solution that proves priceless to the multi-generational colony crew, eager to reach their unreachable destination in a single generation. In the end, a deadly struggle ensues amongst the arkas own crew in their quest for immortalitya]

Author : Paul Gilster
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1475738943
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Centauri Dreams written by Paul Gilster and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-04-18 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I wrote this book because I wanted to learn more about interstel lar flight. Not the Star Trek notion of tearing around the Galaxy in a huge spaceship-that was obviously beyond existing tech nology-but a more realistic mission. In 1989 I had videotaped Voyager 2's encounter with Neptune and watched the drama of robotic exploration over and over again. I started to wonder whether we could do something similar with Alpha Centauri, the nearest star to the Sun. Everyone seemed to agree that manned flight to the stars was out of the question, if not permanently then for the indefinitely foreseeable future. But surely we could do something with robotics. And if we could figure out a theoretical way to do it, how far were we from the actual technology that would make it happen? In other words, what was the state of our interstellar technology today, those concepts and systems that might translate into a Voyager to the stars? Finding answers meant talking to people inside and outside of NASA. I was surprised to learn that there is a large literature of interstellar flight. Nobody knows for sure how to propel a space craft fast enough to make the interstellar crossing within a time scale that would fit the conventional idea of a mission, but there are candidate systems that are under active investigation. Some of this effort begins with small systems that we'll use near the Earth and later hope to extend to deep space missions.

Author : Terry Pratchett
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061975249
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Only You Can Save Mankind written by Terry Pratchett and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-06 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The alien spaceship is in his sights. His finger is on the Fire button. Johnny Maxwell is about to set the new high score on the computer game Only You Can Save Mankind. Suddenly: We wish to talk. Huh? We surrender. The aliens aren't supposed to surrender -- they're supposed to die! Now what is Johnny going to do with a fleet of alien prisoners who know their rights under the international rules of war and are demanding safe-conduct? It's hard enough trying to save Mankind from the Galactic Hordes. It's even harder trying to save the Galactic Hordes from Mankind. But it's just a game, isn't it? Isn't it? Master storyteller Terry Pratchett leaves readers breathless -- with laughter, and with suspense -- in a reality-bending tale of virtual heroism.

Author : Michael Ely
Publisher : Pocket Books/Star Trek
ISBN 13 : 9780671040796
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Twilight of the Mind written by Michael Ely and published by Pocket Books/Star Trek. This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A century has passed since events of "Alpha Centauri #2: Dragon Sun." Civilization is braced for final reckoning. Science and faith collide as the fanatical Believers of Sister Miriam vie with the technological might of Prokhor Zakharov in a merciless war of destruction. Five besieged factions join the battle against Miriam's zealots as the planet Chiron prepares itself for a new era.

Author : Fritz Reichert
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595423019
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dangerous Voyage to Alpha Centauri written by Fritz Reichert and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2007-12 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the year 2044, scientists have revealed new advances to extend the longevity of human life. Within the next years the world's population explodes by more than one billion people each year. Though millions live already deep under the moon's surface, it becomes necessary to search for planets outside our solar system. Tim Turner, a teacher and scientist, tackles this mission by traveling to the sun's next star, Alpha Centauri. The isolation of his task drives him to the edge of lunacy, but what he discovers could prevent the human race from destroying itself. When Turner returns to Earth thirty-six years later, he comes back to an unthinkable situation. What has happened during his absence-and what has become of the two women he loves most? A tantalizing mix of science fiction and love story, Dangerous Voyage to Alpha Centauri poses a fascinating question: Could this plot become a reality for the Earth and its residents in the not-so-distant future?

Author : Hiyashi Jain
Publisher : BooksClub
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 115 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Into the Stars written by Hiyashi Jain and published by BooksClub. This book was released on 2024-01-30 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Author of this book is Hiyashi Jain

Author : Alastair Mayer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781539132295
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Alpha Centauri written by Alastair Mayer and published by . This book was released on 2016-10-18 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A robot probe using newly developed Alcubierre warp drive technology has returned from the Alpha Centauri system, revealing the existence of two Earthlike planets. A multinational expedition is launched to land on and explore these worlds, but political intrigue and natural disasters threaten the mission . . . and what they find may threaten Earth itself.