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The Giants Novels: Inherit the Stars, The Gentle Giants of Ganymede, and Giants' Star (ISBN 978-0-345-38885-8) – March 1994 (republication of The Minervan Experiment) The Two Moons (ISBN 978-1-4165-0936-3) - April 2006 (omnibus of the first two books) The Two Worlds (ISBN 978-1-4165-3725-0) - September 2007 (omnibus of the third and fourth books)
The Minervan Experiment (ISBN 978-1-125-44892-2) – November 1982 (an omnibus edition of the first three books of the Giants series) The Giants Novels: Inherit the Stars, The Gentle Giants of Ganymede, and Giants' Star (ISBN 978-0-345-38885-8) – March 1994 (republication of The Minervan Experiment)
In Greek mythology, Ganymede is the son of Tros of Dardania, [7] [8] [9] from whose name "Troy" is supposedly derived, either by his wife Callirrhoe, daughter of the river god Scamander, [10] [11] or Acallaris, daughter of Eumedes. [12] Depending on the author, he is the brother of either Ilus, Assaracus, Cleopatra, or Cleomestra. [13]
A Book of Giants; Brobdingnag, fictional land of giants from Jonathan Swift's, Gulliver's Travels; Ent; Gargantua and Pantagruel. Hurtaly, fictional giant from François Rabelais' Gargantua and Pantagruel; The Selfish Giant, a short story by Oscar Wilde; Nix Nought Nothing; Veli Jože; Young Ronald
When Laistrygonian giants attack in the guise of a dodgeball game, Tyson's powers as a Cyclops shield him from harm and level the playing field, allowing him to defeat several of the giants before Annabeth Chase intervenes to finish the job. Due to her own bad experiences with Cyclopes, Annabeth reluctantly takes Tyson with them to Camp Half ...
"The Alibi" was adapted for BBC Radio 4's Afternoon Play in 2007 by Vanessa Rosenthal, [5] starring Michael Maloney and Lia Williams [6] "Ganymede" was adapted for the BBC World Service in 1974 [7] starring John Le Mesurier, Anthony Daniels and David Gooderson; A reading of "The Blue Lenses" by Emma Fielding was broadcast on BBC Radio 7 in 2008 [8]
The two editions have slightly different endings. The book's American editor Peter Schwed changed the ending slightly and gave the US edition a new title. [1] In the British version, when Jeeves reveals he has destroyed Bertie's pages from the Junior Ganymede's book as Bertie wanted, Bertie merely says, "Much obliged, Jeeves."
An Asian Minor is a novel by Felice Picano in which he re-invents the myth of Ganymede. In Greek Mythology , Ganymede was the cup-bearer of Olympus and the beloved of Zeus , chief of the gods. In the novel, told in the first person from the viewpoint of Ganymede himself, he reveals that before Zeus became his lover Ganymede was erotically and ...