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Tunnel in the Sky is a juvenile science fiction novel by American writer Robert A. Heinlein, published in 1955 by Scribner's as one of the Heinlein juveniles.The story describes a group of students sent on a survival test to an uninhabited planet, who soon realise they are stranded there.
The Looking Glass, or Voyage of the Space Bubble, [citation needed] series is a military novel series created by author John Ringo and centering on the creation of trans-space portals known as "looking glasses" (due to their mirror-like appearance) and the effect their discovery and the discovery of things via the portals have on life on Earth and off it. [1]
This is one of the thirty-five juvenile novels that make up the Winston Science Fiction series that was published in the 1950s for a readership of teenagers. The typical protagonist in these books was a boy in his late teens who was proficient in the art of electronics, a hobby that was easily available to the readers. In this case, though, Roy ...
The book won the 2013 Nebula Award for Best Novel, [1] was nominated for the 2013 Hugo Award for Best Novel, [9] was shortlisted for the 2012 BSFA Award for Best Novel [10] and the 2013 Arthur C. Clarke Award, [11] and was honor listed for the 2012 James Tiptree, Jr. Award. [12] It was nominated for the 2012 Goodreads Choice Award for science ...
Axis takes place on the new planet introduced at the end of Spin, a world the Hypotheticals engineered to support human life and connected to Earth by way of the Arch that towers hundreds of miles over the Indian Ocean. Humans are colonizing this new world — and, predictably, fiercely exploiting its resources, chiefly large deposits of oil in ...
A classic, defining trope of the science fiction genre is that the action takes place in space, either aboard a spaceship or on another planet. [ 3 ] : 511–512 [ 4 ] Early works of science fiction, termed " proto SF " – such as novels by 17th-century writers Francis Godwin and Cyrano de Bergerac , and by astronomer Johannes Kepler ...
(The Big Crunch was a leading theory of the fate of the universe at the time this book was written.) The universe collapses (a process the starship survives because there is still enough uncondensed hydrogen for maneuvering outside the growing singularity) and then explodes in a new Big Bang. The voyagers then decelerate and finally disembark ...
Orphans of the Sky is a science fiction novel by American writer Robert A. Heinlein (1907–1988), consisting of two parts: "Universe" (Astounding Science Fiction, May 1941) and its sequel, "Common Sense" (Astounding Science Fiction, October 1941). The two novellas were first published together in book form in 1963.