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Detritus occurs in a variety of terrestrial habitats including forest, chaparral and grassland. In forests, the detritus is typically dominated by leaf, twig, and bacteria litter as measured by biomass dominance. This plant litter provides important cover for seedling protection as well as cover for a variety of arthropods, reptiles [4] and ...
Starsight is a 2019 young adult [a] science fiction novel written by American author Brandon Sanderson. It is the sequel to Skyward and second in a planned series of four books. It was published by Delacorte Press on November 26, 2019.
Detritus (/ d ə ˈ t r aɪ t ə s /; adj. detrital / d ə ˈ t r aɪ t əl /) is particles of rock derived from pre-existing rock through weathering and erosion. [1] A fragment of detritus is called a clast. [2] Detrital particles can consist of lithic fragments (particles of recognisable rock), or of monomineralic fragments (mineral grains).
Skyward is a 2018 young adult [a] science fiction novel written by American author Brandon Sanderson. It is the first in a series of four books. It was published by Delacorte Press on November 6, 2018. Skyward is set in the same universe as Sanderson's short story Defending Elysium, which details events hundreds of years before the events of ...
Detritus is dead or waste organic material. Detritus may also refer to: Detritus (geology), the particles of rock produced by weathering;
The Illuminatus! Trilogy is a series of three novels by American writers Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson, first published in 1975. [1] The trilogy is a satirical, postmodern, science fiction–influenced adventure story; a drug-, sex-, and magic-laden trek through a number of conspiracy theories, both historical and imaginary, related to the authors' version of the Illuminati.
"A science fiction story is a story built around human beings, with a human problem, and a human solution, which would not have happened at all without its scientific content." [13] Basil Davenport. 1955. "Science fiction is fiction based upon some imagined development of science, or upon the extrapolation of a tendency in society." [14] Edmund ...
The Discworld is the fictional world where English writer Sir Terry Pratchett's Discworld fantasy novels take place. It consists of an interstellar planet-sized disc, which sits on the backs of four huge elephants, themselves standing on the back of a world turtle, named Great A'Tuin, as it slowly swims through space.