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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)
"Ganymede" – A classical scholar becoming besotted with a young waiter in Piazza San Marco whilst holidaying in Venice, with tragic results. " The Pool " – A girl escapes from her younger brother and is enticed via an overgrown garden pool into a secret magical world.
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]
The largest, Ganymede, is the largest moon in the Solar System and surpasses the planet Mercury in size (though not mass). Callisto is only slightly smaller than Mercury in size; the smaller ones, Io and Europa, are about the size of the Moon. The three inner moons — Io, Europa, and Ganymede — are in a 4:2:1 orbital resonance with
Giovanni Boccaccio Genealogia deorum gentilium, 1532. Genealogia deorum gentilium, known in English as On the Genealogy of the Gods of the Gentiles, is a mythography or encyclopedic compilation of the tangled family relationships of the classical pantheons of Ancient Greece and Rome, written in Latin prose from 1360 onwards by the Italian author and poet Giovanni Boccaccio.
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."
The Ganymede Takeover is a 1967 science fiction novel by American writers Philip K. Dick and Ray Nelson. [1] It is an alien invasion novel, and similar to Dick's earlier solo novel The Game-Players of Titan .