To the Stars


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Space is deep, Man is small and Time is his relentless enemy.... How far is too far? Alan Corday is about to find out. Corday is shanghaied aboard a futuristic starship bound on an interstellar journey. . . on a trek at the speed of light, the world he leaves behind fast vanishing into the past through unexpected time travel. And nothing in the dark, forbidding reaches of space can prepare him for the astounding discovery he will make upon his return from the stars. “Remarkably powerful novel.” —John W. Campbell, Jr., Astounding Science Fiction




The Past Through Tomorrow


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Time Enough for Love


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The capstone and crowning achievement of the Future History series, from the New York Times bestselling Grand Master of Science Fiction... Time Enough for Love follows Lazarus Long through a vast and magnificent timescape of centuries and worlds. Heinlein's longest and most ambitious work, it is the story of a man so in love with Life that he refused to stop living it; and so in love with Time that he became his own ancestor.




Terran Tomorrow


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Nancy Kress returns with Terran Tomorrow, the final book in the thrilling hard science fiction trilogy based on the Nebula Award–winning novella Yesterday's Kin. io9—New Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books You Need to Put on Your Radar for Fall The diplomatic mission from Earth to World ended in disaster, as the Earth scientists discovered that the Worlders were not the scientifically advanced culture they believed. Though they brought a limited quantity of the vaccine against the deadly spore cloud, there was no way to make enough to vaccinate more than a few dozen. The Earth scientists, and surviving diplomats, fled back to Earth. But once home, after the twenty-eight-year gap caused by the space ship transit, they find an Earth changed almost beyond recognition. In the aftermath of the spore cloud plague, the human race has been reduced to only a few million isolated survivors. The knowledge brought back by Marianne Jenner and her staff may not be enough to turn the tide of ongoing biological warfare. The Yesterday's Kin Trilogy #1 Tomorrow's Kin #2 If Tomorrow Comes #3 Terran Tomorrow




The NBA


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Basketball may be a team sport, but one extraordinary player like Michael Jordan or Shaquille O'Neal can make a team. This volume focuses on the new breed of young and up-and-coming superstars who enliven the court with their brilliance and whose promising careers will bring this sport new glory into the next century. A profile is given for each star, with key statistics, biographical tidbits, and at least one action photo. With so many cutting edge faces to join legendary veteran stars like David Robinson and John Stockton, this book is the perfect companion to the NBA, the sport of the 1990's.




The Stars My Destination


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One of the very best must-read SF novels of all time.




Tomorrow's Star


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Scouting


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Published by the Boy Scouts of America for all BSA registered adult volunteers and professionals, Scouting magazine offers editorial content that is a mixture of information, instruction, and inspiration, designed to strengthen readers' abilities to better perform their leadership roles in Scouting and also to assist them as parents in strengthening families.




In the Light of Contradiction


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In 1926, as a young man of 28 with a growing reputation as an oral poet, Federico Garcia Lorca (1898-1936) toyed with the idea of proving his worth in writing by bringing out a boxed set of three volumes of his verse. Because the Suites , Canciones , and the Poema del cante jondo eventually came out singly (in the case of the Suites , posthumously), readers have not always realised that they formed a single body of work -- one which, Lorca himself was surprised to note, has 'una rarisima unidad', an odd unity of aims and accomplishment. This is poetry which takes up the question of desire in progressively depersonalizing ways, and shows modernism coming into being. Through renunciation, by cutting away the personal and the taboo, Lorca created a poetry that, like no other in Europe, stood between the avant-garde and oral traditions, making their contradictions his truth. Roberta Ann Quance is Senior Lecturer in Spanish at Queen's University, Belfast.