Author : Jules Verne
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 16,99 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780803296190
The announcement that a solid gold asteroid has fallen to earth creates a worldwide sensation. The discovery of this falling golden meteor and the race to find it form the core of this exciting tale from the grandfather of science fiction, Jules Verne. 23 illustrations.
Author : Geoffrey Notkin
Publisher : Aerolite Meteorites, LLC
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 48,29 MB
Release : 2011-02-01
Category : Meteorites
ISBN : 9780984754809
"This is the definitive guide to finding meteorites, written by one of the best-known personalities in the field and co-host of the award-winning hit television series Meteorite Men. It includes detailed information on how to locate, excavate, and identify rocks from space, and is filled with photographs and insider information from an internationally recognized meteorite specialist." --Back cover.
Author : Jules Verne
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 48,91 MB
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0803296347
When a meteor of pure gold heads toward Earth, it generates competitive greed among amateur astronomers and havoc among nations fixated on the golden object's path.
Author : Carrie Nugent
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,69 MB
Release : 2017-03-14
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1501120085
One of the top scientists in the field of asteroid hunting explains how, for the first time, humanity could have the knowledge to prevent a devastating asteroid impact. --
Author : Roy A. Gallant
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Companies
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 46,86 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
The "Indiana Jones of Astronomy" takes readers on a fascinating hunt for scientific treasures at the major meteorite sites of the wild and desolate Russian interior. 16-page insert.
Author : Samantha Hunt
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 22,2 MB
Release : 2016-01-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0544526724
The strange odysseys of two young women animate this “hypnotic and glowing” American gothic novel that blurs the line between the real and the supernatural (Gregory Maguire, The New York Times Book Review). A New York Times Editors’ Choice A Paris Review Staff Pick Ruth and Nat are seventeen. They are orphans living at The Love of Christ! Foster Home in upstate New York. And they may be able to talk to the dead. Enter Mr. Bell, a con man with mystical interests who knows an opportunity when he sees one. Together they embark on an unexpected journey that connects meteor sites, utopian communities, lost mothers, and a scar that maps its way across Ruth’s face. Decades later, Ruth visits her niece, Cora. But while Ruth used to speak to the dead, she now doesn’t speak at all. Even so, she leads Cora on a mysterious mission that involves crossing the entire state of New York on foot. Where is she taking them? And who—or what—is hidden in the woods at the end of the road? “[A] gripping novel…The narratives, which twist together into a shocking dénouement, are marked by ghost stories.”—The New Yorker
Author : Miles John Breuer
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 18,85 MB
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0803219318
Gathered here for the first time are Miles J. Breuer s first publication, The Man with the Strange Head ; his neglected dystopian novel Paradise and Iron (appearing here in book form for the first time); stories such as Gostak and the Doshes and Mechanocracy ; and Breuer s essay The Future of Scientifiction, one of the early critical statements of the genre. Also included are some of the author s letters from the Discussions column of Amazing Stories. Much of what we know as science fiction saw the light and found its themes, styles, and modes in the science fiction magazines of the early twentieth century. It was in these magazines of the 1920s and 1930s that Breuer often led the way. Breuer himself found his inspiration in the work of H. G. Wells and in turn influenced science fiction masters from Jack Williamson to Robert A. Heinlein. The Man with the Strange Head and Other Early Science Fiction Stories collects the best work of this pioneer of the genre.
Author : Philip Wylie
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 29,88 MB
Release : 2009-05-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1605432113
Author : Geoffrey Notkin
Publisher :
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 30,1 MB
Release : 2012-06-01
Category :
ISBN : 9780984754823
The eagerly-awaited personal memoir by award-winning author Geoffrey Notkin, and star of the popular television adventure series, Meteorite Men. A science writer and television host with a rock ’n’ roll heart describes his exciting, and sometimes astonishing, quest for meaning and understanding in an unexplainable universe. From the smoking volcanoes of Iceland to the sunblasted wasteland of Chile’s Atacama Desert, and the Australian Outback to the Siberian Arctic, Geoffrey Notkin recounts a forty-year odyssey of adventure that takes him to some of the world’s strangest and wildest places—where music and meteorites are often the only sign posts. Fourteen years in the making, Rock Star, chronicles Geoff's incredible adventures across four continents in search of elusive space rocks, his career as a rock 'n' roll musician, and his childhood in an oppressive British public school. It is populated by a cast of fascinating, larger-than-life characters, and relates hilarious behind-the-scenes stories about the making of Geoff's numerous TV shows. A unique, unforgettable, and beautifully-told story of adventure, passion, determination, danger, frustration, and ultimate triumph.
Author : Brian Taves
Publisher :
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 49,19 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN :
This is a reference work on the novelist Jules Verne, one of the most important literary figures of all time. An in-depth listing of all English language versions of his novels is included.
