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Abundant barchan dunes may merge into barchanoid ridges, which then grade into linear (or slightly sinuous) transverse dunes, so called because they lie transverse, or across, the wind direction, with the wind blowing perpendicular to the ridge crest. [26] [25]
Pages in category "Children's science fiction novels" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 327 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Reviews of the novel have been largely positive, and Dune is considered by some critics to be the best science fiction book ever written. [84] The novel has been translated into dozens of languages, and has sold almost 20 million copies. [85] Dune has been regularly cited as one of the world's best-selling science fiction novels. [86] [3]
Children of Dune is a 1976 science fiction novel by Frank Herbert, the third in his Dune series of six novels. Originally serialized in Analog Science Fiction and Fact in 1976, it was the last Dune novel to be serialized before book publication.
This is a collection of science fiction novels, comic books, films, television series and video games that take place either partially or primarily underwater. They prominently feature maritime and underwater environments , or other underwater aspects from the nautical fiction genre, as in Jules Verne 's classic 1870 novel Twenty Thousand ...
Apocalyptic fiction is a subgenre of science fiction that is concerned with the end of civilization due to a potentially existential catastrophe such as nuclear warfare, pandemic, extraterrestrial attack, impact event, cybernetic revolt, technological singularity, dysgenics, supernatural phenomena, divine judgment, climate change, resource depletion or some other general disaster.
The 5th Wave is a trilogy of young adult post-apocalyptic sci-fi novels written by American author Rick Yancey. The series started in May 2013 with the first book, The 5th Wave. A sequel titled The Infinite Sea was published in 2014. The trilogy concluded in 2016 with the final book, The Last Star. [1]
Dune has been regularly cited as one of the world's best-selling science fiction novels. [1] [2] A sequel, Dune Messiah, followed in 1969. [36] A third novel called Children of Dune was published in 1976, and was later nominated for a Hugo Award. [37] Children of Dune became the first hardcover best-seller ever in the science fiction field. [38]