Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Spaceships are often one of the key plot devices in science fiction. Numerous short stories and novels are built up around various ideas for spacecraft, and spacecraft have featured in many films and television series. Some hard science fiction books focus on the technical details of the craft.
Arriving at Earth, the Dancers land in Kansas, returning the body of an ancient deep space explorer whom they recovered. [8] Beyond the Frontier: Steadfast: After the events from the last book; where Geary and the crew of Dauntless escorted the Dancer ships back to old earth to return a human to Kansas. The book then starts with many of the old ...
Besides cylinders, space habitats in fiction also come in the shapes of spheres, wheels, and hollowed-out asteroids, among others. A more unusual depiction is seen in James Blish's 1955 book Earthman, Come Home—as well as the rest of his Cities in Flight series—where they are cities roaming through space. [1]
Originally, the Krsh had arrived at Earth on an exploratory mission. To study humans, the Krsh had offered to bring injured humans to their spaceship for medical treatment. Then, the ship was attacked by another alien species which is especially hostile and xenophobic. Even though the attack was repelled and the ship of the xenophobic aliens ...
A family attempts to repair their spaceship after being stranded in the past, or modern day, while maintaining the appearance of being normal people. 2005 2007 Time Warp Trio: Executive producer: Jim Rapsas: A children's cartoon where, using books, three children travel through time and space. Based on the books by Jon Scieszka. 2006 2011 Torchwood
He shows the captured Bill and Alan the long-abandoned command center and a view of the stars. Convinced, Bill then enlists the captain's aide, Phineas Narby, to Hugh's crusade. Inspired by one of Joe-Jim's favorite books, The Three Musketeers, they manufacture swords superior to the daggers that everyone else has. They overthrow the captain ...
Second Martian Expedition abandoned space taxis on Phobos after they mysteriously began leaking. Approximately 80 years later, Challenger, now a retired brigadier general, advises Jove 7 crew as they use the space taxis to rescue the crew of Mars-12-X, which has also begun leaking after landing in the Xanthus Desert. [66] Tigran Biryuzov
In book one, a 76-mile (122 km)-long asteroid is on a collision course with Earth, which will kill the vast majority of all living things.Eighty people – mostly top scientists and their families – have been chosen to make a desperate escape in the Mayflower, a converted space ship which will use solar sails and experimental suspended animation.