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iBlog: May 2014
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Monday, May 26, 2014. Stephen baxter - titan. 8220;titan” is the second book in stephen baxter’s nasa trilogy. despite being called a trilogy, each novel is a stand-alone alternate history narrative. How would it be enforced? The end of the novel takes place in the far future, when our sun is at the end of its life. i had greatly enjoyed this kind of grand, long timescale space opera in baxter’s other work (“vacuum diagrams” is still one of my favorite short story collections) it fe...
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iBlog: robert zubrin - the case for mars
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Wednesday, October 29, 2014. Robert zubrin - the case for mars. Where the book breaks down, for me, is when the author is trying to give reasons for the necessity of human presence on mars and the best he can come up with is wholeheartedly embracing jackson turner’s very flawed and. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Robert zubrin - the case for mars. Robert forward - dragons egg. View my complete profile.
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iBlog: robert forward - dragon's egg
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Tuesday, October 28, 2014. Robert forward - dragon's egg. I had finished this novel before going on holidays to romania, but i just couldn’t get around to writing a review at that time. this hard science fiction novel was published in the 80s and is now considered a classic (though perhaps not as popular as clarke’s or asimov’s works). The story revolves around the accidental discovery of an intelligent alien species living on the surface of a neutron star, with a surface gravity of 67 billion g!
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iBlog: September 2007
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Saturday, September 01, 2007. I am busy and tired, so you only get a "no post", my bro's invention. an image and a quote, totally unrelated (or maybe not). If that thing hits, do you think we'll have school tomorrow? Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). View my complete profile.
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iBlog: anthony williams - the foresight war
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Sunday, July 06, 2014. Anthony williams - the foresight war. An alternate ww2 novel with a very particular flavor. The author is a military technology historian and the novel focuses a great deal on the technological improvements of various weapon systems during the war. as with most alternate history novels, this book is more enjoyable if the reader is somewhat familiar with the real-world timeline and events. Then this book is for you. There is also a freely available sequel “ foresight america.
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iBlog: comet chasing
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014. Last week has been quite eventful for people following space vehicle launches: first there was the maiden flight of the russian angara 1.2. The member of a proposed modular launch system. That could replace most russian space vehicles - they've been working on this since the 90s), then the flawless launch of a cygnus. Resupply craft for the iss on top of an antares. Rocket and, last monday, another successful falcon 9. As been touring the nordic countries. As well as digital pre...
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iBlog: October 2014
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Wednesday, October 29, 2014. Robert zubrin - the case for mars. Where the book breaks down, for me, is when the author is trying to give reasons for the necessity of human presence on mars and the best he can come up with is wholeheartedly embracing jackson turner’s very flawed and. Tuesday, October 28, 2014. Robert forward - dragon's egg. I had finished this novel before going on holidays to romania, but i just couldn’t get around to writing a review at that time. this hard science fiction nov...In conc...
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iBlog: June 2014
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Monday, June 30, 2014. James cambias - a darkling sea. The debut novel of james cambias and a pleasant surprise. it's a well-paced and well thought-out first contact story set in an interesting environment. the novel reminded me very much of classics such as hal clement’s ". Mission of gravity", where aliens and humans have to cooperate in a hostile (to us) environment and part of the narrative is from an alien’s point of view. The setting is both alien and instantly recognizable:. The novel scores quite...
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iBlog: July 2014
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014. Stiennon et al. - the rocket company. This novel is classed as science fiction, but i am more inclined to call it non-fiction. the authors are an aerospace engineer (patrick stiennon) and an aerospace consultant (david hoerr), and they have patented some of the elements of the spaceship presented in the novel. The plot revolves around a group of seven million/billionaires (only one of whom is even given a name),. One serious beef that i had with the novel is the use of imperial ...
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iBlog: stiennon et al. - the rocket company
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014. Stiennon et al. - the rocket company. This novel is classed as science fiction, but i am more inclined to call it non-fiction. the authors are an aerospace engineer (patrick stiennon) and an aerospace consultant (david hoerr), and they have patented some of the elements of the spaceship presented in the novel. The plot revolves around a group of seven million/billionaires (only one of whom is even given a name),. One serious beef that i had with the novel is the use of imperial ...
