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Author
Index
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Clifford
D Simak |
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Title
Index
T |
Time
is the Simplest
Thing |
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| Year |
1961 |
| Publisher |
Pan
(Methuen, Victor
Gollancz) |
| ISBN |
0413369501 |
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Synopsis
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Finally
came the time when
Earth's astronauts
were forced to
abandon all
attempts to probe
the stars.
It was then that
telepathic
exploration was
developed, and
eventually men
could project
their minds into
the farthest
reaches of
space. With
numerous missions
behind him,
Shepherd Blaine
ranked high among
the
'Telepaths'.
Until in one
terrifying moment
he found his mind
invaded by an
alien creature. |
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Review
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Time
is the Simplest
Thing by
Clifford Simak,
has been my
favorite science
fiction novel
since I first read
it in high school
many, many, many
years ago. Simak
writes soft
sci-fi, rather
than hard, and
does a darn good
job of it. Reading
about technology
and how it works
has always been a
turn-off for me.
I'd much rather
read about how
people interact
with each other,
and the philosophy
of life, and the
social structures
of Earth and other
planets. This book
definitely fits
the bill.
C. Morse |
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Credit:
NASA
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Hubble
Spies
Jupiter
Eclipses
At
first
glance,
Jupiter
looks like
it has a
mild case
of the
measles.
Five spots
-- one
colored
white, one
blue, and
three
black --
are
scattered
across the
upper half
of the
planet.
Closer
inspection
by NASA's
Hubble
Space
Telescope
reveals
that these
spots are
actually a
rare
alignment
of three
of
Jupiter's
moons --
Io,
Ganymede,
and
Callisto
-- across
the
planet's
face.
In this
composite
image from
near-infrared
light, the
telltale
signatures
of this
alignment
are the
shadows
(the three
black
circles)
cast by
the moons.
Io's
shadow is
located
just above
center and
to the
left;
Ganymede's
on the
planet's
left edge;
and
Callisto's
near the
right
edge. Only
two of the
moons,
however,
are
visible in
this
image. Io
is the
white
circle in
the center
of the
image, and
Ganymede
is the
blue
circle at
upper
right.
Callisto
is out of
the image
and to the
right. |
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NASA
Image of
the day
archive |
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