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Book Synopsis The Venus Collection by : Pamela Sargent
Download or read book The Venus Collection written by Pamela Sargent and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2018-06-05 with total page 1878 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Nebula Award–winning author’s “masterful SF trilogy” is a multigenerational epic of human colonists terraforming the second planet from the sun (Publishers Weekly). Often compared to Kim Stanley Robinson’s acclaimed Mars trilogy, the three novels gathered here comprise the complete Venus saga by the author of The Shore of Women, “one of the genre’s best writers” (The Washington Post). The Venus Project—making the planet’s atmosphere habitable for humans—spans centuries and determines the fates of multiple generations. Venus of Dreams: Iris Angharads, a determined, independent woman, sets herself one massive goal: to make the poison-filled atmosphere of Venus hospitable to humans. She works day and night to realize her dream, with only one person sharing her passion, Liang Chen. It seems impossible to make Venus, with its intolerable air and waterless environment, into a paradise, but Iris succeeds. And in doing so, she also creates a powerful dynasty, beginning with her first born, Benzi Liangharad. Venus of Shadows: The Venus Project calls upon the strongest and most courageous to create a prosperous world in the dismal wilderness of Venus. Those who demonstrate the skill and passion to embark on this adventure must transform the barren planet in the midst of political and cultural unrest. When Risa and Benzi, children of Iris, find themselves in opposing forces on the battlefield, it is their love and perseverance that will determine the destiny of the new world. Child of Venus: Mahala Liangharad, a true child of Venus, conceived from the genetic material of the rebels and brought to birth only after their deaths, is seen as a beacon of hope in a colony still ravaged by the aftereffects of civil war. But her world is being torn apart by a drive for independence from Earth by the Venus colonists and rumors of a secret plan developed by the “Habbers,” cybernetically enhanced human dwellers of a mobile asteroid. A mysterious call from deep space offers Mahala a chance to fulfill her own destiny, along with the terrifying possibility of losing touch with everything she has ever known and loved.
Download or read book Old Venus written by George R. R. Martin and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2015-03-03 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sixteen all-new stories by science fiction’s top talents, collected by bestselling author George R. R. Martin and multiple-award-winning editor Gardner Dozois From pulp adventures such as Edgar Rice Burroughs’s Carson of Venus to classic short stories such as Ray Bradbury’s “The Long Rain” to visionary novels such as C. S. Lewis’s Perelandra, the planet Venus has loomed almost as large in the imaginations of science fiction writers as Earth’s next-nearest neighbor, Mars. But while the Red Planet conjured up in Golden Age science fiction stories was a place of vast deserts and ruined cities, bright blue Venus was its polar opposite: a steamy, swampy jungle world with strange creatures lurking amidst the dripping vegetation. Alas, just as the last century’s space probes exploded our dreams of Mars, so, too, did they shatter our romantic visions of Venus, revealing, instead of a lush paradise, a hellish world inimical to all life. But don’t despair! This new anthology of sixteen original stories by some of science fiction’s best writers—edited by #1 New York Times bestselling author George R. R. Martin and award-winning editor Gardner Dozois—turns back the clock to that more innocent time, before the hard-won knowledge of science vanquished the infinite possibilities of the imagination. Join our cast of award-winning contributors—including Elizabeth Bear, David Brin, Joe Haldeman, Gwyneth Jones, Mike Resnick, Eleanor Arnason, Allen M. Steele, and more—as we travel back in time to a planet that never was but should have been: a young, rain-drenched world of fabulous monsters and seductive mysteries. FEATURING ALL-NEW STORIES BY Eleanor Arnason • Elizabeth Bear • David Brin • Tobias S. Buckell • Michael Cassutt • Joe Haldeman • Matthew Hughes • Gwyneth Jones • Joe R. Lansdale • Stephen Leigh • Paul McAuley • Ian McDonald • Garth Nix • Mike Resnick • Allen M. Steele • Lavie Tidhar And an Introduction by Gardner Dozois
Book Synopsis Voyage of the Sable Venus by : Robin Coste Lewis
Download or read book Voyage of the Sable Venus written by Robin Coste Lewis and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2017-11-21 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This National Book Award-winning debut poetry collection is a "powerfully evocative" (The New York Review of Books) meditation on the black female figure through time. Robin Coste Lewis's electrifying collection is a triptych that begins and ends with lyric poems meditating on the roles desire and race play in the construction of the self. In the center of the collection is the title poem, "Voyage of the Sable Venus," an amazing narrative made up entirely of titles of artworks from ancient times to the present—titles that feature or in some way comment on the black female figure in Western art. Bracketed by Lewis's own autobiographical poems, "Voyage" is a tender and shocking meditation on the fragmentary mysteries of stereotype, juxtaposing our names for things with what we actually see and know. A new understanding of biography and the self, this collection questions just where, historically, do ideas about the black female figure truly begin—five hundred years ago, five thousand, or even longer? And what role did art play in this ancient, often heinous story? Here we meet a poet who adores her culture and the beauty to be found within it. Yet she is also a cultural critic alert to the nuances of race and desire—how they define us all, including her own sometimes painful history. Lewis's book is a thrilling aesthetic anthem to the complexity of race—a full embrace of its pleasure and horror, in equal parts.
Download or read book Agents Of Atlas written by Jeff Parker and published by Marvel Entertainment. This book was released on 2020-01-22 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Venus III written by Bruno Bézard and published by Springer. This book was released on 2020-01-22 with total page 533 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Venus Express spacecraft, which was launched in November 2005 and ceased activity in December 2014, has brought about a new wealth of data on Venus’s atmosphere, surface, and space environment. Following the completion of this landmark mission, an overview of the current state of scientific understanding of Venus has been assembled into a single collection. The ten papers in this book, written by an international team of specialists, are the products of this effort. They review our knowledge of Venus’s interior structure, surface composition, and atmosphere in terms of thermal structure, dynamics, composition, chemistry, clouds, aeronomy, and interaction with the solar wind. Additionally, they identify the questions and measurements that remain open for study in ongoing and future research and exploration efforts. The resulting volume is primarily intended for students and researchers of planetary science. This book is a follow-up to the pioneering book Venus, published in 1983, and its successor volume Venus II, published in 1997, stood at their respective times as the most authoritative single-volume works available on the planet. Originally published in Space Science Reviews in the Topical Collection "Venus III"
Book Synopsis Collecting and the Internet by : Susan Koppelman
Download or read book Collecting and the Internet written by Susan Koppelman and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2008-09-16 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Internet has had a profound effect on collecting—because of the Web, collectibles are now more readily available, collections more easily displayed for a wider audience, and collectors’ online communities are larger and often quite intimate. In addition, the Web has added new items to the pantheon of collectibles, including digital bits that, whether considered virtual or material, are nevertheless collectible. In this work, essays discuss the age-old habit of collecting and its modern relationship with the Internet. Topics include individually authored websites, online auctions, watches, eyewear, Kelly dolls, the gambler’s rush of online acquisition, mp3s, collecting friends via online social networking sites, and online museums, among others.
Book Synopsis A Historical Catalogue of the Pictures in the Royal Collection at Hampton Court by : Ernest Law
Download or read book A Historical Catalogue of the Pictures in the Royal Collection at Hampton Court written by Ernest Law and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Catalogue of the Oil Paintings and Water Colours in the Wallace Collection with Short Notices of the Painters by : Wallace Collection (London, England)
Download or read book Catalogue of the Oil Paintings and Water Colours in the Wallace Collection with Short Notices of the Painters written by Wallace Collection (London, England) and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Henry Morse Stephens Collection by :
Download or read book Henry Morse Stephens Collection written by and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 1160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Catalogue of the Corbett Collection of Casts from Greek and Roman Sculpture by : Portland Art Association
Download or read book Catalogue of the Corbett Collection of Casts from Greek and Roman Sculpture written by Portland Art Association and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Collected Papers by : William Healey Dall
Download or read book Collected Papers written by William Healey Dall and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 998 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Venus of Dreams written by Pamela Sargent and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 567 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first adventure in the Nebula Award–winning author’s “masterful SF trilogy” about the attempted colonization and terraforming of the planet Venus (Publishers Weekly). Iris Angharads, a determined, independent woman, sets herself one massive goal: to make the poison‐filled atmosphere of Venus hospitable to humans. She works day and night to realize her dream, with only one person sharing her passion, Liang Chen. It seems impossible to make Venus, with its intolerable air and waterless environment, into a paradise, but Iris succeeds. And in doing so, she also creates a powerful dynasty, beginning with her first born, Benzi Liangharad.
Book Synopsis Catalogue of the Oil Paintings and Water Colours in the Wallace Collection by : Wallace Collection (London, England).
Download or read book Catalogue of the Oil Paintings and Water Colours in the Wallace Collection written by Wallace Collection (London, England). and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Catalogue of the Permanent Collection of Sculpture and Paintings, with Some Additions by : Buffalo Fine Arts Academy
Download or read book Catalogue of the Permanent Collection of Sculpture and Paintings, with Some Additions written by Buffalo Fine Arts Academy and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The History of the Collections Contained in the Natural History Departments of the British Museum by : British Museum (Natural History).
Download or read book The History of the Collections Contained in the Natural History Departments of the British Museum written by British Museum (Natural History). and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The History of the Collections Contained in the Natural History Departments of the British Museum: appendix. General history of the Department of Zoology from 1856 to 1895 by : British Museum (Natural History)
Download or read book The History of the Collections Contained in the Natural History Departments of the British Museum: appendix. General history of the Department of Zoology from 1856 to 1895 written by British Museum (Natural History) and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Venus Fixers by : Ilaria Dagnini Brey
Download or read book The Venus Fixers written by Ilaria Dagnini Brey and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2010-06-22 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1943, while the world was convulsed by war, a few visionaries -- in the private sector and in the military -- committed to protect Europe's cultural heritage from the indiscriminate ravages of World War II. In the midst of the conflict, the Allied Forces appointed the monuments officers—a motley group of art historians, curators, architects, and artists—to ensure that the great masterworks of European art and architecture were not looted or bombed into oblivion. The journalist Ilaria Dagnini Brey focuses her spellbinding account on the monuments officers of Italy, quickly dubbed "the Venus Fixers" by bemused troops. Working on the front lines in conditions of great deprivation and danger, these unlikely soldiers stripped the great galleries of their incomparable holdings and sent them into safety by any means they could. They worked with skeptical army strategists to make sure air raids didn't take out the heart of an ancient city, and patched up Renaissance palazzi and ancient churches whose lead roofs were sometimes melted away by the savagery of the attacks. Sometimes they failed. But to an astonishing degree, they succeeded, and anyone who marvels at Italy's artistic riches today is witnessing their handiwork. In the course of her research, Brey gained unprecedented access to private archives and primary sources, and the result is a book at once thorough and grandly entertaining—a revelatory take on a little-known chapter of World War II history. The Venus Fixers is an adventure story with the gorgeous tints of a Botticelli landscape as its backdrop.
