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Author
Index
W |
Dave
Wolverton |
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Title
Index
O |
On
My Way to Paradise |
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| Year |
1989 |
| Publisher |
Bantam
Books |
| ISBN |
0553276107 |
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Synopsis
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In a
world of
ever-worsening
crisis, Angelo
Osic is an
anomaly: a man who
cares about
others. One
day he aids a
stranger ... and
calls down
disaster, for the
woman called
Tamara is also a
woman on the run,
the only human
with the knowledge
that will save
Earth from the
artificial
intelligences
plotting to
overthrow it.
Fleeing the
assassins who seek
him now as well as
Tamara, Angelo
seizes the only
route available:
to sign on as a
mercenary with the
Japanese Motoki
Corporation in its
genocidal war
against the
barbarian Yabajin.
Jacked into
training machines
that simulate
warfare, Angelo
"dies" a
hundred times ...
and is resurrected
to fight
again. In a
world of death, he
dreams only of
life - and the
freedom to love
once more. |
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Review
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This
is a powerful
first novel, at
once disturbing
and compelling -
the chronicle of
one man's odyssey
of self-discovery
within a world at
war.
'One of the
deepest and most
powerful science
fiction novels
ever written.'
Orson Scott Card |
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Credit:
NASA
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The
Last Moon
Shot
In
1865,
Jules
Verne
wrote a
science
fiction
story
entitled,
"From
the Earth
to the
Moon."
The story
outlined
the
author's
vision of
a cannon
in Florida
so
powerful
that it
could
shoot a
"Projectile-Vehicle"
carrying
three
adventurers
to the
moon. More
than 100
years
later NASA
produced
the Saturn
V rocket
and from a
spaceport
in
Florida,
this
rocket
turned
Verne's
fiction
into fact.
As
spotlights
play on
the rocket
and launch
pad at
dusk, the
last moon
shot,
Apollo 17,
is
pictured
here
awaiting
its
December
1972 night
launch. |
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NASA
Image of
the day
archive |
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