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Author: Pasi Ilmari Jääskeläinen Publisher: Tor Books ISBN: 1466883863 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 71
Book Description
Published here for the first time in English, "Where the Trains Turn" won first prize in the Finnish science-fiction magazine Portti's annual short story competition and then went on to win the Atorox Award for best Finnish science fiction or fantasy short story. I don't like to think about the past. But I cannot stop remembering my son. Emma Nightingale prefers to remain grounded in reality as much as possible. Yet she's willing to indulge her nine year-old son Rupert's fascination with trains, as it brings him closer to his father, Gunnar, from whom she is separated. Once a month, Gunnar and Rupert venture out to follow the rails and watch the trains pass. Their trips have been pleasant, if uneventful, until one afternoon Rupert returns in tears. "The train tried to kill us," he tells her. Rupert's terror strikes Emma as merely the product of an overactive imagination. After all, his fears could not be based in reality, could they? "In this long novella, the details are presented meticulously, building characters and atmosphere layer on layer."--Locus At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Author: Pasi Ilmari Jääskeläinen Publisher: Tor Books ISBN: 1466883863 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 71
Book Description
Published here for the first time in English, "Where the Trains Turn" won first prize in the Finnish science-fiction magazine Portti's annual short story competition and then went on to win the Atorox Award for best Finnish science fiction or fantasy short story. I don't like to think about the past. But I cannot stop remembering my son. Emma Nightingale prefers to remain grounded in reality as much as possible. Yet she's willing to indulge her nine year-old son Rupert's fascination with trains, as it brings him closer to his father, Gunnar, from whom she is separated. Once a month, Gunnar and Rupert venture out to follow the rails and watch the trains pass. Their trips have been pleasant, if uneventful, until one afternoon Rupert returns in tears. "The train tried to kill us," he tells her. Rupert's terror strikes Emma as merely the product of an overactive imagination. After all, his fears could not be based in reality, could they? "In this long novella, the details are presented meticulously, building characters and atmosphere layer on layer."--Locus At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Author: Baby Professor Publisher: Speedy Publishing LLC ISBN: 1541965701 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 237
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Look at all these cool vehicles parading on the pages of this ebook. The contents of this learning resource include the science and history behind trains, monster trucks, airplanes and super cars. This is a fitting reward to children who are interested in impressive things that go. So what are you waiting for? Secure a copy today.
Author: Baby Professor Publisher: Speedy Publishing LLC ISBN: 1541968565 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 105
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Read about the science behind trains, monster trucks and airplanes. Find out how they are made and the scientific explanations for why they work the way they do. This book is a reformatted edition of a well-loved Baby Professor classic. It was updated with improved visuals and a layout that’s easy on the eyes. Grab a copy today.
Author: Anthony J. Bianculli Publisher: University of Delaware Press ISBN: 9780874138030 Category : Technology & Engineering Languages : en Pages : 260
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This work presents a view of the history of American railroads in the nineteenth century from a somewhat different perspective. The maturation of the railroad is traced through an exposition of the railroad technology that was developed and applied during the period. Throughout the nineteenth century, a symbiotic relationship existed between railroading and technology, each dependent upon the state and progress of the other to a large degree. A great deal of new technology was created for the railroad, and the railroad, in turn, applied new technology as it became available. Volume four is about bridges and tunnels, and signals. An exposition of the various types of bridges, their foundations, and the materials of which they were made is included. Tunnels and marine railroad operations are treated also. The development of signal systems is an area that has been overlooked or neglected in the general literature but is fully covered here. The text of this volume is accompanied by 145 illustrations and accurate drawings of the equipment and appliances, many of which have not been published before outside of old technical journals. Anthony J. Bianculli is a mechanical engineer with extensive and varied experience in a Fortune 500 company.
Author: Derek Miller Publisher: Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC ISBN: 1502650231 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 32
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At top speeds of more than 250 miles per hour, high-speed trains are designed to carry passengers over long distances quickly and safely. Readers will explore how trains have evolved over time and how special tracks, powerful motors, and physics come together to get travelers where they want to go. Readers are encouraged to think critically about how trains stay on their tracks and how high-speed trains handle extreme friction. They'll be enthralled to learn about new advances like maglev trains, which use magnets to levitate.
Author: Benjamin Fraser Publisher: Lexington Books ISBN: 0739167499 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 323
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Trains, Culture and Mobility: Riding the Rails goes beyond textual representations of rail travel to engage an impressive range of political, sociological and urban theory. Taken together, these essays highlight the complexity of the modern experience of train mobility, and its salient relation to a number of cultural discourses. Incorporating traditionally marginal areas of cultural production such as graffiti, museums, architecture or even plunging into the social experience of travel inside the traincar itself, each essay constitutes an attempt to work from the act of riding the train toward questions of much larger significance. Crisscrossing cultures from the New World and Old, from East and West, these essays share a common preoccupation with the way in which trains and railway networks have mapped and re-mapped the contours of both cities and states in the modern period. Bringing together individual and large-scale social practices, this volume traces out the cultural implications of "Riding the Rails."
Author: Pasi Ilmari Jääskeläinen
Author: Pasi Ilmari Jääskeläinen
Author: Baby Professor
Author: Public Service Commission of Maryland
Author: Baby Professor
Author: Public Service Commission of Maryland
Author: United States. National Railroad Adjustment Board
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Author: Anthony J. Bianculli
Author: Derek Miller
Author: Benjamin Fraser