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The Book of Healing (Arabic: کتاب الشفاء, romanized: Kitāb al-Shifāʾ; Latin: Sufficientia; also known as The Cure or Assepha) is a scientific and philosophical encyclopedia written by Abu Ali ibn Sīna (also known as Avicenna) from medieval Persia, near Bukhara in Maverounnahr.
Ark is a 2009 hard science fiction novel by English author Stephen Baxter. It is a sequel to his 2008 novel Flood. Ark deals with the journey of the starship Ark One, and the continuing human struggle for survival on Earth after the catastrophic events of Flood. The series continues in three pendant stories, which are described in the plot ...
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.
Ark: Survival Evolved is an action-adventure survival game set in an open world environment with a dynamic day-night cycle and played either from a third-person or first-person perspective. To survive, players must establish a base, with a fire and weapons; additional activities, such as taming and feeding dinosaurs, require more resources. [ 4 ]
The Book of Swords series is also linked to the Empire of the East series, which is set in the same universe and presents the backstory to the series. [3] The first three works in the Empire of the East series predate the Book of Swords series (The Broken Lands (1968), The Black Mountains (1971), and Changeling Earth (1973), also titled Ardneh's World), with the fourth Empire of the East book ...
Sekhmet, goddess of healing and medicine of Upper Egypt; Heka, deification of magic, through which Egyptians believed they could gain protection, healing and support; Serket, goddess of healing stings and bites; Ta-Bitjet, a scorpion goddess whose blood is a panacea for all poisons; Isis, goddess of healing, magic, marriage and protection
The Art of Game Design: A Book of Lenses. CRC Press. ISBN 978-0123694966. Schwab, Brian (2009). AI Game Engine Programming. Course Technology. ISBN 978-1584506287. Tresca, Michael (2010). The Evolution of Fantasy Role-Playing Games. McFarland & Company. ISBN 978-0786460090.
Chapter 4, "The Survivor", is set in a world in which the Chernobyl disaster was "the first big accident". Journalists report that the world is on the brink of nuclear war. The protagonist escapes by boat to avoid the assumed inevitability of a nuclear holocaust. Whether this occurred or is merely a result of the protagonist's paranoia is left ...