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| | | | Edwin A. Abbott - Flatland
Classic of science (and mathematical) fiction this book describes the journeys of a Square, a resident of Flatland, and his adventures in Spaceland (three dimensions), Lineland (one dimension) and Pointland (no dimensions). A Square also entertains thoughts of visiting a land of four dimensions — a revolutionary idea for which he is banished from Flatland...Browse this book on line or download it in HTML, PDF, RTF, ASCII, TXT, DOC or XML format |
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| | | | Herbert G. Wells - The Time Machine
The Time Traveller was expounding a recondite matter to us. His grey eyes shone and twinkled, and his usually pale face was flushed and animated. The fire burned brightly, and the soft radiance of the incandescent lights in the lilies of silver caught the bubbles that flashed and passed in our glasses. Our chairs, being his patents, embraced and caressed us rather than submitted to be sat upon, and there was that luxurious after-dinner atmosphere when thought roams gracefully free of the trammels of precision. And he put it to us in this way - marking the points with a lean forefinger - as we sat and lazily admired his earnestness over this new paradox and his fecundity...Browse this book on line or download it in HTML, PDF, RTF, ASCII, TXT, DOC or XML format |
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| | | | Isaac Asimov & Robert Silverberg - Nightfall
The lonely planet Kalgash roams the heavens in orbit around six suns, resulting in the odd situation of perpetual daylight all over the globe. No one on Kalgash has ever seen nightfall, even has any concept of what 'night' is, and darkness, one of the most primal fears of even our own half-and-half world, is enough to drive a person mad if exposed to it for too long. Slowly, groups of scientists across Kalgash begin to conclude, through evidence both anthropological, mathematical and astronomical, that Kalgash has a satellite of its own that it never sees, and that satellite lines up just properly with the suns every 2049 years to create a total eclipse, plunging the planet into darkness for hours...Browse this book on line or download it in HTML, PDF, RTF, ASCII, TXT, DOC or XML format |
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| | | | Kim S. Robinson - Red Mars
For eons, sandstorms have swept the barren desolate landscape of the red planet. For centuries, Mars has beckoned to mankind to come and conquer its hostile climate. Now, in the year 2026, a group of one hundred colonists is about to fulfill that destiny. John Boone, Maya Toitavna, Frank Chalmers, and Arkady Bogdanov lead a mission whose ultimate goal is the terraforming of Mars. For some, Mars will become a passion driving them to daring acts of courage and madness; for others it offers and opportunity to strip the planet of its riches...Browse this book on line or download it in HTML, PDF, RTF, ASCII, TXT, DOC or XML format |
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