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Author
Index
P |
Paul
Park |
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Title
Index
C |
Coelestis |
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Celestis
- US Market |
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| Year |
1993 |
| Publisher |
HarperCollins
Publishers |
| ISBN |
0586215263 |
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Synopsis
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Katharine
looks like a
perfect American
teenager.
She's got the
clothes, the face,
the hair, the
body: but it's
taken about a
million dollars'
worth of surgery
and mind-changing
chemicals to
effect the
transformation
from alien to
something almost
human.
Simon Mayaram,
local consular
official from
Earth, thinks
she's the most
beautiful thing
he's ever
seen. Until,
that is, they are
both taken hostage
by alien
guerillas.
They take away
Katharine's
drugs. And
as the days and
weeks pass, Simon
has the disturbing
experience of
seeing his perfect
woman reverting,
weirdly and
affectingly, to
another form of
existence entirely
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Review
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'Coelestis
is a third world
science fiction
novel: it could be
the first ever
written ...
superb'
Interzone
'A brilliant,
stunning,
frightening
writer'
Gene Wolfe
'Compulsive
reading'
Kim Stanley
Robinson |
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Credit:
NASA
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Orion
of a
Different
Color
Even
with a
good
telescope
you won't
come
across a
sight
quite like
this one.
It is a
familiar
object
though,
the grand
stellar
nursery
known as
the Orion
Nebula.
But the
striking
picture
combines
images
taken
through
three
separate
filters,
each
designed
to record
different
emission
lines --
light from
sulfur,
oxygen,
and
hydrogen
atoms
glowing in
the
tenuous
nebular
gas.
In this
image,
sulfur is
red,
hydrogen
is green,
and oxygen
is blue, a
color
scheme
used in
images of
other
astronomical
nebulae as
well.
While very
different
from what
the eye
sees, the
image is
still both
beautiful
and
scientifically
valuable,
tracing
elements
and
conditions
within the
nearby
star
forming
region. |
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NASA
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the day
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