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Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus (1996) is a science fiction novel by American writer Orson Scott Card, the first in a proposed Pastwatch series. The book's focus is the life and activities of explorer Christopher Columbus. Much of the action deals with a group of scientists from the future who travel back to the 15th century ...
Christopher Columbus is a 1949 British film starring Fredric March as Columbus. Dawn of America, a 1951 Spanish film with António Vilar as Columbus; The 1985 TV mini-series Christopher Columbus features Gabriel Byrne as Columbus. Columbus was portrayed by Gérard Depardieu in the 1992 film by Ridley Scott, 1492: Conquest of Paradise. Scott ...
Childhood's End is a 1953 science fiction novel by the British author Arthur C. Clarke.The story follows the peaceful alien invasion [1] of Earth by the mysterious Overlords, whose arrival begins decades of apparent utopia under indirect alien rule, at the cost of human identity and culture.
Starship Troupers is a series of science fiction novels by American author Christopher Stasheff. It includes three books: A Company Of Stars , We Open On Venus , and A Slight Detour . [ 1 ] It also occupies the same continuity as Stasheff's Warlock of Gramarye and Rogue Wizard series.
Children of Time is a 2015 science fiction novel by author Adrian Tchaikovsky. The novel follows the evolution of a civilization of genetically modified Portia labiata (arachnoid) on a terraformed exoplanet , guided by an artificial intelligence based on the personality of one of the human terraformers of the planet.
Historians have noted Irving's "active imagination" [3] and called some aspects of his work "fanciful and sentimental". [1] Literary critics have noted that Irving "saw American history as a useful means of establishing patriotism in his readers, and while his language tended to be more general, his avowed intention toward Columbus was thoroughly nationalist". [4]
Final warning about A Good Girl's Guide to Murder spoilers ahead. The big reveal that Andie's sister Becca (Carla Woodcock) is responsible for her death is included both on the page and on screen ...
The Kemlo books are a series of children's science fiction novels written by Reginald Alec Martin, under the pseudonym of E. C. Eliott. [1] The first book, Kemlo and the Crazy Planet was published in 1954; the fifteenth and final book in the series, Kemlo and the Masters of Space, was published in 1963.