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Book Synopsis The Martians Strike Back! by : Robert Reginald
Download or read book The Martians Strike Back! written by Robert Reginald and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2013-08-05 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the war between Earth and Mars heats up, threatening the potential destruction of both parties, Alex Smith and his Martian friend, Big Guy, are caught right in the middle--between the humans and the aliens, between various factions of their own people, between the inherent difficulty of establishing communication between two such dissimilar intelligences. Unless Alex can find some way of bridging the gulf between the worlds, both sides will be left vulnerable to the threat posed by a third, much more dangerous alien race that's targeting both worlds. The stunning conclusion to the War of Two Worlds Trilogy!
Book Synopsis The Making of Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back by : J. W. Rinzler
Download or read book The Making of Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back written by J. W. Rinzler and published by Random House Worlds. This book was released on 2010-10-12 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this lavish fortieth-anniversary tribute to the blockbuster film Star Wars: Episode V The Empire Strikes Back, New York Times bestselling author J. W. Rinzler draws back the curtain to reveal the intense drama and magnificent wizardry behind the hit movie—arguably the fan favorite of the Star Wars Saga. Following his The Making of Star Wars, the author has once again made use of his unlimited access to the Lucasfilm Archives and its hidden treasures of previously unpublished interviews, photos, artwork, and production mementos. The result is a comprehensive behind-the-scenes, up-close-and-personal look at the trials and triumphs, risks and close calls, inspiration, perspiration, and imagination that went into every facet of this cinematic masterpiece. Here’s the inside scoop on: • the evolution of the script, from story conference and treatment to fifth draft, as conceived, written, and rewritten by George Lucas, famed science-fiction author Leigh Brackett, and screenwriter Lawrence Kasdan • the development of new key characters, including roguish hero Lando Calrissian, sinister bounty hunter Boba Fett, and iconic Jedi Master Yoda • the challenges of shooting the epic ice planet battle in the frozen reaches of Norway and of conjuring up convincing creatures and craft—from tauntauns and snowspeeders to Imperial walkers • the construction of a life-sized Millennium Falcon and the swamp planet Dagobah inside a specially built soundstage in Elstree Studios • the technique behind master Muppeteer Frank Oz’s breathing life into the breakthrough character Yoda • the creation of the new, improved Industrial Light & Magic visual effects facility and the founding of the now-legendary Skywalker Ranch In addition, of course, are rare on-the-scene interviews with all the major players: actors Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Billy Dee Williams, Anthony Daniels, Peter Mayhew, and David Prowse; director Irvin Kershner; producer Gary Kurtz; effects specialists Richard Edlund, Dennis Muren, Ken Ralston, and Phil Tippett; composer John Williams; and many others. Punctuating the epic account is a bounty of drawings, storyboards, and paintings by Ralph McQuarrie, Joe Johnston, and Ivor Beddoes, along with classic and rare production photos. An added bonus is a Foreword by acclaimed director Ridley Scott. The Making of Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back is a fittingly glorious celebration of an undisputed space-fantasy movie milestone. Search your feelings, you know it to be true.
Book Synopsis Poetic Retribution From Mars by : Sylvester Abanteriba
Download or read book Poetic Retribution From Mars written by Sylvester Abanteriba and published by Austin Macauley Publishers. This book was released on 2022-09-30 with total page 881 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The leadership of a country under an immense pressure from the world community to reform its atrocious political system, decided to send a spaceship loaded with world-renowned scientists to undertake a make believe research programme on the moon for a period of one year. This decoy did not go as planned and the spaceship, which was largely controlled by computers from Earth, could not land on the moon. Unfortunately, an attempt to bring it back to Earth failed when it bounced off the Earth’s atmosphere and proceeded to fly away at an ever-increasing speed. The marooned scientists developed various means of passing the time while they awaited the inevitable death. However, after nearly a year of wandering through the universe the spaceship landed on a planet, which turned out to be Mars but with conditions completely at variance with what is known on Earth about this planet. What the Martians learnt about the socio-political conditions on Earth displeased them enormously. They therefore sent the scientists back with an ultimatum for the world’s leadership, asking Earth to change its ways so that an acceptable interplanetary discourse could be established. The leadership of the world threw down the gauntlet and embarked upon a secret mission to bomb Mars out of existence. This was detected by the Martians and set the two planets on a collision course, with the winner of the encounter not much in doubt.
Book Synopsis Russian Planetary Exploration by : Brian Harvey
Download or read book Russian Planetary Exploration written by Brian Harvey and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-01-24 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illustrated with photographs from Soviet Venus and Mars probes, images of spacecraft, diagrams of flight paths and maps of landing sites, this book draws on published scientific papers, archives, memoirs and other material. The text reviews Soviet engineering techniques and science packages, as well the difficulties which ruined several missions. The program’s scientific and engineering legacy is also addressed, within the Soviet space effort as a whole.
Book Synopsis Invasion: Earth vs. the Aliens by : Robert Reginald
Download or read book Invasion: Earth vs. the Aliens written by Robert Reginald and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2013-07-19 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the first Martian capsule lands, Alex Smith is drawn to the scene out of curiosity and wonder. But soon he must flee, when the great alien striders begin devastating the countryside and harvesting the living bodies of men and women to drain their blood. Smith wanders south, being drafted into the Army, witnessing major battles between the Martians and the American troops, and following the trail of destruction all the way to San Francisco. There he finds a city deserted of human life. Mankind seems doomed, unless... A grand science-fiction adventure, inspired by H. G. Wells's War of the Worlds. War of Two Worlds, Book One.
Book Synopsis Queen of the Martian Catacombs by : Leigh Brackett
Download or read book Queen of the Martian Catacombs written by Leigh Brackett and published by eStar Books. This book was released on 2011-12-10 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Erik John Stark is sent on a perilous mission into the Valkis and encounters the Queen of the Martian Catacombs.ExcerptThe leader of the four men rode slowly toward the tor, his right arm raised.His voice carried clearly on the wind. "Eric John Stark!" he called, and the dark man tensed in the shadows.The rider stopped. He spoke again, but this time in a different tongue. It was no dialect of Earth, Mars or Venus, but a strange speech, as harsh and vital as the blazing Mercurian valleys that bred it."Oh N'Chaka, oh Man-without-a-tribe, I call you!"There was a long silence. The rider and his mount were motionless under the low moons, waiting.Eric John Stark stepped slowly out from the pool of blackness under the tor."Who calls me N'Chaka?"The rider relaxed somewhat. He answered in English, "You know perfectly well who I am, Eric. May we meet in peace?" Stark shrugged. "Of course."He walked on to meet the rider, who had dismounted, leaving his beast behind. He was a slight, wiry man, this EPC officer, with the rawhide look of the frontiers still on him. His hair was grizzled and his sun-blackened skin was deeply lined, but there was nothing in the least aged about his hard good-humored face nor his remarkably keen dark eyes."It's been a long time, Eric," he said.Stark nodded. "Sixteen years." The two men studied each other for a moment, and then Stark said, "I thought you were still on Mercury, Ashton.""They've called all us experienced hands in to Mars." He held out cigarettes. "Smoke?"Stark took one. They bent over Ashton's lighter, and then stood there smoking while the wind blew red dust over their feet and the three men of the patrol waited quietly beside the Banning. Ashton was taking no chances. The electro-beam could stun without injury.Presently Ashton said, "I'm going to be crude, Eric. I'm going to remind you of some things.""Save it," Stark retorted. "You've got me. There's no need to talk about it.""Yes," said Ashton, "I've got you, and a damned hard time I've had doing it. That's why I'm going to talk about it."His dark eyes met Stark's cold stare and held it.
Book Synopsis I The Martian by : Dana George Dunsieth
Download or read book I The Martian written by Dana George Dunsieth and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-03-30 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sixty years in the future, the planet Mars is, for the most part, ruled by a powerful supercomputer network called the Instrumentality. The Instrumentality knows no fear. However, it will know fear because the Quakers are coming! The Quakers are coming! The future is elusive. Nevertheless, this book is based on the real numbers whose pattern has been set over the last hundred and twenty in science and technology. So the future depicted here is a very real possibility. The Religious Society of Friends (aka Quakers) was founded in the seventeenth century; however, its ideas are very easily applied to the twenty-first century.
Book Synopsis The Return of the Martians by : Mark Hood
Download or read book The Return of the Martians written by Mark Hood and published by Mark Hood. This book was released on 2022-03-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They’re coming back. It’s been two years since the events chronicled in “The War of the Worlds”. Humanity has moved on, the rebuilding efforts continue, and no-one really wants to think about Martians any longer. But one man can’t let go. George is still traumatised by the events of the first invasion, and is terrified that it’s only a matter of time before they will return with greater force. He knows that we’re not ready, but his efforts to warn everyone are rebuffed. Even his wife Amy is losing patience with him. Until the first flashes are seen on the surface of Mars. When the cylinders land, better defended and in larger numbers than before, George’s prior experience is needed on the front lines of humanity’s resistance. But the long-awaited return has reawakened his terror, and his insistence on making a difference is dragging him down a dark path. Can George overcome his demons and join the fight against the invaders? Will they triumph over us this time? The first in a trilogy of unofficial sequels to “The War of the Worlds” has mankind on the run once more. Buy it today to join the resistance.
Book Synopsis The Beast-Jewel of Mars by : Leigh Brackett
Download or read book The Beast-Jewel of Mars written by Leigh Brackett and published by eStar Books. This book was released on 2011-06-10 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The wise men of Caer Dhu were not so wise. They found the secret of Shanga, and they escaped their wars and their troubles by fleeing backward along the path of evolution.Excerpt Burk Winters remained in the passenger section while the Starflight made her landing at Kahora Port. He did not think that he could bear to see another man, not even one he liked as much as he did Johnny Niles, handle the controls of the ship that had been his for so long.He did not wish even to say goodbye to Johnny, but there was no avoiding it. The young officer was waiting for him as he came down the ramp, and the deep concern he felt was not hidden in the least by his casually hearty grin.Johnny held out his hand. "So long, Burk. You've earned this leave. Have fun with it."Burk Winters looked out over the vast tarmac that spread for miles across the ochre desert. An orderly, roaring confusion of trucks and flatcars and men and ships-ore ships, freighters, tramps, sleek liners like the Starflight, bearing the colors of three planets and a dozen colonies, but still arrogantly and predominantly Terran.Johnny followed his gaze and said softly, "It always gives you a thrill, doesn't it?"Winters did not answer. Miles away, safe from the thundering rocket blasts, the glassite dome of Kahora, Trade City for Mars, rose jewel-like out of the red sand. The little sun stared wearily down and the ancient hills considered it, and the old, old wandering wind passed over it, and it seemed as though the planet bore Kahora and its spaceport with patience, as though it were a small local infection that would soon be gone.He had forgotten Johnny Niles. He had forgotten everything but his own dark thoughts. The young officer studied him with covert pity, and he did not know it.Burk Winters was a big man, and a tough man, tempered by years of deep-space flying. The same glare of naked light that had burned his skin so dark had bleached his hair until it was almost white, and just in the last few months his gray eyes seemed to have caught and held a spark of that pitiless radiance. The easy good nature was gone out of them, and the lines that laughter had shaped around his mouth had deepened now into bitter scars.
Book Synopsis The Islands of Akamula by : Joe Conceicao
Download or read book The Islands of Akamula written by Joe Conceicao and published by Partridge Publishing Singapore. This book was released on 2014-10-30 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Islands of Akamula is a story about how a distant primitive tribe is forced by war to sail across the sea to found a new home. They arrive at a little archipelago, a group of five small islands dominated by a volcanic isle. Satirical hints about the exiles adventure, relating to an out-of-this-world influence, are present early in the story. But these end up in the discovery that an alien presence has actually taken up residence in the volcanic isle. Akamula develops into a well-guarded and prosperous trading enclave. A small elite band is drawn into contact with the aliens. But the newcomers on Earth not only bring power to the Akamula community but also evil intention. Another band of Akamulans are determined to fight the aliens who have already killed some Akamulans who defied them. Desperate, despite their growing supporters worldwide, the fighters on behalf of Earths safety find that good Aliens make it known they are ready to come to the aid of the world threatened by evil aliens. The crisis that occurs ends in the destruction of the aliens. But elsewhere on Earth, the aliens are tempting a certain intellectual human being in a prolonged dream. Baileys dream or dreams has an apocalyptic element of prophecy. A wise woman from Akamula attempts to interpret what Baileys dreams may portend.
Book Synopsis Cosmo: The Mighty Martian by : Ian Flynn
Download or read book Cosmo: The Mighty Martian written by Ian Flynn and published by Archie Comic Publications (Trade). This book was released on 2020-08-18 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writer Ian Flynn (Sonic the Hedgehog, Mega Man, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles) reunites with artist Tracy Yardley (Sonic Universe, Hero Cats) on the second arc of the revitalized COSMO! Cosmo is the adventurous, quick-witted leader of his Martian crew. Together, they travel space in search of adventure and to seek those in need! Cosmo's strength and leadership is tested as the villainous forces of Venus threaten the universe, as well as the thing Cosmo treasures most: his friends!
Book Synopsis Ray Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles by : Walter James Miller
Download or read book Ray Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles written by Walter James Miller and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Tarzan, Conqueror of Mars by : Will Murray
Download or read book Tarzan, Conqueror of Mars written by Will Murray and published by Altus Press. This book was released on 2020-01-02 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stranded on the Red Planet, Tarzan of the Apes searches for the one man who could show him the path home-John Carter, Warlord of Mars!
Download or read book Story Engineering written by Larry Brooks and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-01-27 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What makes a good story or a screenplay great? The vast majority of writers begin the storytelling process with only a partial understanding where to begin. Some labor their entire lives without ever learning that successful stories are as dependent upon good engineering as they are artistry. But the truth is, unless you are master of the form, function and criteria of successful storytelling, sitting down and pounding out a first draft without planning is an ineffective way to begin. Story Engineering starts with the criteria and the architecture of storytelling, the engineering and design of a story--and uses it as the basis for narrative. The greatest potential of any story is found in the way six specific aspects of storytelling combine and empower each other on the page. When rendered artfully, they become a sum in excess of their parts. You'll learn to wrap your head around the big pictures of storytelling at a professional level through a new approach that shows how to combine these six core competencies which include: • Four elemental competencies of concept, character, theme, and story structure (plot) • Two executional competencies of scene construction and writing voice The true magic of storytelling happens when these six core competencies work together in perfect harmony. And the best part? Anyone can do it!
Book Synopsis Collectible Magazines by : David K. Henkel
Download or read book Collectible Magazines written by David K. Henkel and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 748 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Essential Guide to American Magazines Here is the only guide on the market to all major categories of general circulation American magazines from 1880 to 1999. With up- to values on thousands of magazines, plus more than 550 new photos of collectible magazine covers, this book is a must for every collector. It includes: Current values for popular magazines, from National Geographic to Life, Rolling Stone, a and Tiger Beat Coverage of all movie, TV, and entertainment magazines, with extensive listings for TV/Guide and People Complete listings for every monster, science fiction, and horror magazine, from Famous Monsters of Filmland and Horror Tales to Starlog Values for adult magazines, including Playboy, High Society, and Penthouse, along with Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Special Editions, plus a list of the most collectible females, such as Samantha Fox and Cindy Crawford A new chapter on Karate and Wrestling magazines Dozens of recent magazines with collectible celebrity covers, including Xena and TheX-Files Tips on buying, selling, and starting a collection Grading information Advice for buying and selling over the Internet
Download or read book Nuclear Movies written by Mick Broderick and published by McFarland. This book was released on 1991 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Science-fiction Studies written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
