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Bezig met laden... The Science Fictional Solar Systemdoor Isaac Asimov (Redacteur), Martin H. Greenberg (Redacteur), Charles G. Waugh (Redacteur)
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. A nice selection of stories written from the early '50s till the early '70s. The theme is simple: 13 stories - One about each of the nine (as we used to say) planets, plus the Sun, the asteroids and comets. Actually, that would be 12 stories, but Pluto gets two short pieces. The earliest story, "Brightside Crossing" by Alan E. Nourse (1951), is about an expedition to cross the sunward side of Mercury at perihelion... on foot... Back when Mercury was believed to be tidally locked. The most recent story, "The Comet, the Cairn and the Capsule" by Duncan Lunan (1972), is about a manned mission to examine an unusual comet close-up. They find evidence of intelligence from outside the solar system. Each story is introduced with up-to-date scientific information (circa 1979). geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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Asimov, Greenberg, and Waugh bring together their favorite stories about the sun, the moon, and the planets and preface each with a discussion of what is known now and what was known when the story was originally written Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)813.0876Literature English (North America) American fiction By type Genre fiction Adventure fiction Speculative fictionLC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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My favourites were: Brightside Crossing (of Mercury) by Alan E. Nourse for its evocation of the bloody-mindedness of human explorers; Waterclap (Earth) by Isaac Asimov for the intriguing idea of boiling high presssure water out of a deep sea space instead of forcing it out with even higher pressure air; The Snowbank Orbit (Uranus) by Fritz Leiber about a desparate orbital manouvre. However all of them were of interest to me. ( )