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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.
Book Synopsis Alpha Centauri, the Nearest Star by : Isaac Asimov
Download or read book Alpha Centauri, the Nearest Star written by Isaac Asimov and published by Lothrop, Lee and Shepard Books. This book was released on 1976 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the constellations and stars, their distance, luminosity, and size, steller astronomy, starlight, and life on other planetary systems, with special reference to the third brightest and also the nearest star, Alpha Centauri.
Download or read book Alpha Centauri written by Martin Beech and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-10-15 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As our closest stellar companion and composed of two Sun-like stars and a third small dwarf star, Alpha Centauri is an ideal testing ground of astrophysical models and has played a central role in the history and development of modern astronomy—from the first guesses at stellar distances to understanding how our own star, the Sun, might have evolved. It is also the host of the nearest known exoplanet, an ultra-hot, Earth-like planet recently discovered. Just 4.4 light years away Alpha Centauri is also the most obvious target for humanity’s first directed interstellar space probe. Such a mission could reveal the small-scale structure of a new planetary system and also represent the first step in what must surely be humanity’s greatest future adventure—exploration of the Milky Way Galaxy itself. For all of its closeness, α Centauri continues to tantalize astronomers with many unresolved mysteries, such as how did it form, how many planets does it contain and where are they, and how might we view its extensive panorama directly? In this book we move from the study of individual stars to the study of our Solar System and our nearby galactic neighborhood. On the way we will review the rapidly developing fields of exoplanet formation and detection.
Book Synopsis Voyage to Alpha Centauri by : Michael D. O'Brien
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.
Book Synopsis Twilight of the Mind by : Michael Ely
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.
Download or read book Dragon Sun written by Michael Ely and published by Pocket Books/Star Trek. This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A growing rebellion beneath the surface of the planet Chiron threatens Sheng-ji Yang's dreams of immortality. Meanwhile, Lady Deirdre Skye's life is in jeopardy as the Planetary Council withholds vital supplies, and orders her to turn over research data on the life force awakening on Chiron's surface. Though an ocean apart, Yang and Skye seek an alliance to overcome the forces arrayed against them.
Book Synopsis Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri by : Rafael Kayanan
Download or read book Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri written by Rafael Kayanan and published by Nantier Beall Minoustchine Publishing. This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on the best-selling computer game, this is a,story-rich, fascinating world filled with the,tension of geo-political forces in confrontation.,For thsoe who play the game, here is the chanve to,get on Planet and witness it on a flesh and bone,level. Earth has self destructed. Only one ship,escapes with a selection of people from around the,world to colonize a new planet. Upon their,arrival, the captain is mysteriously murdered and,the colonizers disperse, forming factions, each,with distinct philosophies on how to prosper in,their new home.
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.
Book Synopsis First Ark to Alpha Centauri 2 by : A. Ahad
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]
Download or read book Alpha Centauri written by William Barton and published by Eos. This book was released on 1998 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the crew of the starship Mother Nightembarks on a colonizing mission to relieve Earth of the ever-growing population, a terrorist plague is unleashed on the ship, and as their journey ends, an ancient relic awaits them--one that can provide hope and redemption or cause the destruction of humankind. Reprint.
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.
Book Synopsis Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri by : Chris McCubbin
Download or read book Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri written by Chris McCubbin and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This strategy game comes through with brand new decisions to make, new technologies, and new elements that subtly enhance the basic premise of the Civilization genre. The new features include custom military units, terraforming, a new government model, and the alien landscape itself.
Download or read book The Ark written by Ricardo Gonzalez and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-01-17 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In "The Ark", Ricardo Gonz�lez shares attractive and extraordinary information that was revealed by beings from other worlds: Humankind is preparing to leave the Earth and look for a new home in space. These human astronauts will travel to the region of Alpha Centauri and in the future, their descendants will come back. These are the "extraterrestrials" who visit us today.”” The timelines of both stories are intertwining, and it is from there that an urgent message emerges: we are "them," and we have to work together to modify critical events of the future. This fantastic book presents this warning and the evidence that a project to go to Alpha Centauri has already begun.
Book Synopsis Akiko and the Alpha Centauri 5000 by : Mark Crilley
Download or read book Akiko and the Alpha Centauri 5000 written by Mark Crilley and published by Yearling. This book was released on 2004-05-25 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Akiko and her crew-Spuckler Boach, Mr. Beeba, Poog, and Gax-are competing in an intergalactic race from one side of the universe to the other. Along the way they have to make it through the narrow passages of the Labyrinth of Lulla-ma-Waygo, the notorious Almost Black Hole of Luzbert-7, and the deadly Jaws of McVluddapuck. All Akiko wants to do is make it back to Earth in one piece! But when Spuckler discovers that his old rival Bluggamin Streed is also in the race, winning becomes the most important thing. And Akiko quickly finds herself caught up in the competition. Who will go home with the celebrated Centauri Cup? "From the Hardcover edition."
Book Synopsis Gurps Alpha Centauri by : Steve Jackson Games
Download or read book Gurps Alpha Centauri written by Steve Jackson Games and published by Steve Jackson Games. This book was released on 2002-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Revolt on Alpha C by : Robert Silverberg
Download or read book Revolt on Alpha C written by Robert Silverberg and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2011-09-29 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Silverberg's debut novel, first published in 1955.
Author :M. Cooper Publisher :Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN 13 :9781719489256 Total Pages :258 pages Book Rating :4.4/5 (892 download)
Download or read book Alpha Centauri written by M. Cooper and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-05-21 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sentience Wars may be won, but the battle is not over... The Sentience Wars in Sol have come to an end. In the wake of war, refugees still flee to nearby stars, but there are sinister forces at work in Alpha Centauri who would turn their plight into profit. None of this is apparent to an easygoing, self assured pilot-for-hire named Jason Andrews. Recently arrived from Proxima Centauri to visit his sister, he is sucked into a covert operation by a brother-in-law who is not who he seems. But then again, neither is Jason.... But the enemy they face has grown more powerful than any had expected, and the fate of the star systems' humans and AIs are at stake. Jason must engage in an all-out bid to save a world he's just getting to know, in a war he only just learned about.
