Author: Harry Harrison
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780905310121
Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 109

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Author: Andri Snaer Magnason
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
ISBN: 1609804295
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 132

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Brimir and Hulda are best friends who live on a small island on a beautiful blue planet where there are only children and no adults. Their planet is wild and at times dangerous, but everything is free, everyone is their friend, and each day is more exciting than the last. One day a rocket ship piloted by a strange-looking adult named Gleesome Goodday crashes on the beach. His business card claims he is a “Dream.ComeTrueMaker and joybringer,” and he promises to make life a hundred times more fun with sun-activated flying powder and magic-coated skin so that no one ever has to bathe again. Goodday even nails the sun in the sky and creates a giant wolf to chase away the clouds so it can be playtime all the time. In exchange for these wonderful things, Goodday asks only for a little bit of the children’s youth—but what is youth compared to a lot more fun? The children are so enamored with their new games that they forget all the simple activities they used to love. During Goodday’s great flying competition, Hulda and Brimir fly too high to the sun and soar to the other side of planet, where they discover it is dark all the time and the children are sickly and pale. Hulda and Brimir know that without their help, the pale children will die, but first they need to get back to their island and convince their friends that Gleesome Goodday is not all that he seems. A fantastical adventure, beautifully told, unfolds in a deceptively simple tale. The Story of the Blue Planet will delight and challenge readers of all ages.

Author:
Publisher: Dorrance Publishing
ISBN: 1434946568
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 148

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Author: Caroline Glicksman
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780099456407
Category : Bears
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Eric is a very unusual bear. He's red and he's very, very clever, especially with numbers. He loves them so much that when he wins a tour of the Mars rocket, he just can't resist pressing the flashing numbers on the control panel.

Author: Michael Ashley
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN: 9780853238553
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 316

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This is the first of three volumes that chart the history of the science fiction magazine from the earliest days to the present. This first volume looks at the exuberant years of the pulp magazines. It traces the growth and development of the science fiction magazines from when Hugo Gernsback launched the very first, Amazing Stories, in 1926 through to the birth of the atomic age and the death of the pulps in the early 1950s. These were the days of the youth of science fiction, when it was brash, raw and exciting: the days of the first great space operas by Edward Elmer Smith and Edmond Hamilton, through the cosmic thought variants by Murray Leinster, Jack Williamson and others to the early 1940s when John W. Campbell at Astounding did his best to nurture the infant genre into adulthood. Under him such major names as Robert A. Heinlein, Isaac Asimov, A. E. van Vogt and Theodore Sturgeon emerged who, along with other such new talents as Ray Bradbury and Arthur C. Clarke, helped create modern science fiction. For over forty years magazines were at the heart of science fiction and this book considers how the magazines, and their publishers, editors and authors influenced the growth and perception of this fascinating genre.

Author: Raymond Van Houten
Publisher: Edizioni Savine
ISBN: 8899914516
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 215

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STRANGE ADVENTURES ON OTHER WORLDS – THE UNIVERSE OF FUTURE CENTURIES BLACK AMAZON OF MARS - (Planet Stories March 1951) THE DRAGON-QUEEN OF JUPITER – (Planet Stories Summer 1941) CHILD OF THE SUN – (Planet Stories Spring 1942) THE LAST MARTIAN – (Planet Stories Spring 1942)

Author: Vandana Singh
Publisher: Penguin Books India
ISBN: 9788189884048
Category : Short stories, Indic (English)
Languages : en
Pages : 220

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Already A Name In The World Of Science Fiction And Fantasy Writing, Vandana Singh Brings Her Unique Imagination To A Wider Audience With Her First Collection Of Stories. In The Title Story, A Woman Tells Her Husband Of Her Curious Discovery: That She Is Inhabited By Small Alien Creatures. In Another, A Young Girl, Making Her Way To College Through The Streets Of Delhi Comes Across A Mysterious Tetrahedron: Is It A Spaceship? Or A Secret Weapon? Each Story In This Fabulous Collection Opens Up New Vistas &Mdash; From Outer Space To The Inner World&Mdash;And Takes The Reader On An Incredible Journey To Both. The Book Also Includes The Author&Rsquo;S Own Critical Essay On The Future And Importance Of Speculative Fiction As A Genre.

Author: Sue Ganz-Schmitt
Publisher: Chronicle Books
ISBN: 1452144605
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 37

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A young child imagines going off to Kindergarten as a journey to another planet.

Author: Edwin L. Graber
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0359271685
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 124

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Journey Across the stars and universe with four classical science fiction tales to excite and inspire your Imagination. 1.....Flame-Jewel of the Ancients. The tiny golden sphere, blazed with terrible energy, and spelled doom for the Galactic Empire. 2.....The Rebel of Valkyr. From the dark ages of space emerged the second Empire ruled by a child, a usurper, and a fool. 3.....The Rocketeers have Shaggy Ears. Someday there will be a Legend, from steamy Venus or arid Mars, building a great glory the men of Terra will choke with pride. 4.....Witch of the Demon Seas. A black Galleon is guided back to the lost Citadel of Xanthi, A tale of Corun the condemned pirate of Conahur and his lover, the Demon Witch! Classical science fiction from the masters of the genre!

Author: Richard Storey
Publisher: Edizioni Savine
ISBN: 883584942X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 233

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A THRILLING PLANET NOVEL ALCATRAZ OF THE STARWAYS (by Albert dePina and Henry Hasse) Venus was a world enslaved. And then, like an avenging angel bringing knowledge of a weapon so terrible it had been used but once in the history of the universe, came a Warrior-Princess to strike the shackles from people who wanted only to live in peace. STIRRING NOVELETS OF ALIEN WORLDS THE BLUE BEHEMOTH (by Leigh Brackett) Shannon’s Imperial Circus was broke—and jinxed. Its biggest asset was a blue Venusian cansin. And then, in a grey Venusian swamp, the asset became a liability which had to be paid for in human lives. THREE PLANET SHORT STORIES STRANGER FROM SPACE (by Hannes Bok) He was a god from space—and strangely inhuman. GRIFTERS’ ASTEROID (by H. L. Gold) It was a special con men’s free-for-all—three slickers outgyping each other. MENACE OF THE MISTS (by Richard Storey) A mindless horror poured from the sea-bottoms of Venus.