Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The Ganymede Club is a 1995 science fiction novel by American writer Charles Sheffield. A mystery and a thriller, [1] the story unravels in the same universe that Sheffield imagined in Cold as Ice. [2] Shortly after humanity begins colonisation of the Solar System, a trade war sets off vicious civil war that kills billions. [3]
The 1981 Tor Books edition of The Psychotechnic League.. The Psychotechnic League is a future history created by American science fiction writer Poul Anderson.The name "Psychotechnic League" was invented by Sandra Miesel during the early 1980s, to capitalize on Anderson's better-known Polesotechnic League future history.
Gone Tomorrow has the switchback plotting and frictionless prose that are Child's trademarks. Unlike most of the series, though, it's narrated by Reacher himself. His lone-wolf habits and brusque, technophobic decodings of the world are always a pleasure, though how he maintains fighting fitness on a diet of pancakes, bacon and coffee is one of the world's great mysteries.
The book describes Ganymede as having about 1 ⁄ 3 Earth gravity but in reality it is only about 1 ⁄ 7. Heinlein also postulated that the surface of Ganymede was volcanic rock like the Moon. Subsequent discoveries have shown that Ganymede's crust is actually almost 90 percent ice or frost, covering a subsurface ocean.
"Christmas on Ganymede" is a science fiction short story by American writer Isaac Asimov. It was written in December 1940, first published in the January 1942 issue of Startling Stories , and reprinted in the 1972 collection The Early Asimov and the anthology Christmas on Ganymede and Other Stories , edited by Martin H. Greenberg .
The oldest known fictional account of immortality is also the oldest surviving work of fiction: the Epic of Gilgamesh, an ancient Sumerian tale from c. 2100 BCE. [1] [2] [3] Several Greek myths of antiquity depict mortals such as Ganymede and Tithonus being granted everlasting life by the gods.
Natural satellites that host life are common in (science-fictional) written works, films, television shows, video games, and other popular media. factual satellite, fictional life Europa, Callisto, Ganymede, Io and Titan in "Cowboy Bebop" (1998) The Moon in A Trip to the Moon (1903) and many other films; Europa in Europa Report (2013) and ...
Ganymede, the third Galilean satellite, has a subarctic climate, large bodies of water, and a six-month rotation period. Due to Jupiter's tidal pull, every spot on Ganymede's surface is inundated with water every three months except a small area of the south pole where the human settlement of Hydropole is located.