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Author
Index
G |
Richard
Garfinkle |
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Title
Index
A |
All
of an Instant |
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| Year |
1999 |
| Publisher |
Tor
Books |
| ISBN |
0312866178 |
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Synopsis
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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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Review
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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
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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
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NASA
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