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Author
Index
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Sharon
Baker |
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Title
Index
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Burning
Tears of Sassurum |
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| Year |
1988 |
| Publisher |
Avon
Books |
| ISBN |
0380751135 |
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Synopsis
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The
Battle for Naphar.
The Dark Time
had returned to
Naphar: As the
black moon held
its chaotic sway
in the Heavens,
the land trembled
and the evil
priest Salimar
called forth his
legions and
launched a savage
plot to seize the
planet and
proclaim himself
God.
All he needed
was the fabled
Mindstone.
But the coveted
key to power lay
in the unlikely
hands of three
fugitives: the
tender and
towering Cassia
... her
mannequinlike
master, Jarell ...
and the tiny
troublemaker,
Tadge. Bound
by love, broken by
betrayal, they
knew that the
painful secrets of
their past might
be the only hope
for the future ... |
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Review
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"It
ought to be
impossible for a
new writer to
write as well as
Sharon Baker
does. Her
prose is full of
flair, her world
is both
deceptively alien
and profoundly
real, and her
characters come
off the page with
compelling
urgency. She
is incomparable in
the best sense of
the term: like all
the most valuable
writers, she is
entirely
herself."
Stephen R
Donaldson
"An
original mind at
work on an
ingenious
world"
Brian Aldiss |
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Credit:
NASA
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The
Sun's
Surface in
3D
How
smooth is
the Sun?
The new
Swedish
1-m Solar
Telescope,
deployed
in the
Canary
Islands,
allows
imaging of
objects
less than
100-km
across on
the Sun's
surface.
When
pointed
toward the
Sun's
edge,
surface
objects
now begin
to block
each
other,
indicating
true
three-dimensional
information.
Close
inspection
of the
image
reveals
much
vertical
information,
including
spectacular
light-bridges
rising
nearly
500-km
above the
floor of
sunspots
near the
top of the
image.
Also
visible in
the above
false-color
image are
hundreds
of
bubbling
granules,
each about
1000-km
across,
and small
bright
regions
known as
faculas.
Photo
Credit: G.
Scharmer
(ISP, RSAS)
et al.,
Lockheed-Martin
Solar
&
Astrophysics
Lab.
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