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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.
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 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.
Articles relating to Ganymede and his depictions. He is a divine hero whose homeland was Troy . Homer describes Ganymede as the most beautiful of mortals, abducted by the gods, to serve as Zeus's cup-bearer in Olympus .
Ganymede rolling a hoop and bearing aloft a cockerel, a love-gift [36] from Zeus, who is pictured in pursuit on the obverse of a vase by the Berlin Painter (Attic red-figure krater, 500–490 B.C.E.) Zeus carrying away Ganymede (Late Archaic terracotta, 480–470 BC)
"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 .
Cupid and Ganymede or Venus Finds Cupid Playing Dice with Ganymede is a 1782 painting by Angelica Kauffman, one of four works commissioned from her by George Bowles [1] It is now in a private collection.
Ganymede Abducted by the Eagle (c. 1531–1532) is a painting by the Italian late Renaissance artist Antonio da Correggio. It is housed in the Kunsthistorisches Museum , Vienna , Austria . The work was part of a series executed by Correggio for Federico II Gonzaga in Mantua , about the loves of Jupiter .