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Richard Garfinkle

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All of an Instant
Year 1999
Publisher Tor Books
ISBN 0312866178
 

 

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All of an Instant is a ground-breaking science fiction novel that chronicles the discovery of a medium of existence outside time - the Instant - from which one can influence all past and future history.  War dominates this strange, abstract place - war among forces contending for control of all time and place.  From the opening pages, which range from the distant past to the far future, with constant and unremitting distorting effects on our world in time, transforming it beyond recognition, the war in the Instant is mind-stretching science fiction.
 

 

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"This is hard science fiction with a difference, the difference being that the hard sciences are Ptolemaic astronomy and Aristotelian physics and biology.  Richard Garfinkle works out the implications inherent in them as rigorously as any writer has done with the implications of, say, quantum mechanics.  He also works out those implications most entertainingly, setting them in a fast-paced adventure plot with lively, well-differentiated characters.  You won't find anything like this one any time soon."
Harry Turtledove
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Credit: NASA

SpaceShipOne
Slung below its equally innovative mothership dubbed White Knight, SpaceShipOne rides above planet Earth, photographed during a recent flight test. SpaceShipOne was designed and built by cutting-edge aeronautical engineer Burt Rutan and his company Scaled Composites to compete for the X Prize. The 10 million dollar X prize is open to private companies and requires the successful launch of a spaceship which carries three people on short sub-orbital flights to an altitude of 100 kilometers -- a scenario similar to the early manned spaceflights of NASA's Mercury Program. Unlike more conventional rocket flights to space, SpaceShipOne will first be carried to an altitude of 50,000 feet by the twin turbojet White Knight and then released before igniting its own hybrid solid fuel rocket engine. After the climb to space, the craft will convert to a stable high drag configuration for re-entry, ultimately landing like a conventional glider at light plane speeds. Photo Credit: Scaled Composites

NASA Image of the day archive

 

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