Ares Express
Title | Ares Express PDF eBook |
Author | Ian McDonald |
Publisher | Jabberwocky Literary Agency, Inc. |
Pages | 519 |
Release | 2014-01-31 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1625670745 |
A Mars of the imagination, like no other, in a colorful, witty SF novel, taking place in the kaleidoscopic future of Ian McDonald's Desolation Road, Ares Express is set on a terraformed Mars where fusion-powered locomotives run along the network of rails that is the planet’s circulatory system and artificial intelligences reconfigure reality billions of times each second. One young woman, Sweetness Octave Glorious-Honeybun Asiim 12th, becomes the person upon whom the future -- or futures -- of Mars depends. Big, picaresque, funny; taking the Mars of Ray Bradbury and the more recent, terraformed Marses of authors such as Kim Stanley Robinson and Greg Bear, Ares Express is a wild and woolly magic-realist SF novel, featuring lots of bizarre philosophies, strange, mind-stretching ideas, and trains as big as city blocks. REVIEWS “Ares Express is a long, adventure-filled, extravagantly colorful, often funny, quite moving, highly imaginative, excellently written story, set on a glorious Mars built partly of sharp-edged Kim Stanley Robinson-style extrapolation, but mostly of lush, loving, Ray Bradbury-style semi-SF, semi-Fantasy, Martian dreams.... I loved it wholeheartedly.” – SF Site “Hugo-winner McDonald’s virtues have long been underappreciated by major North American publishers... McDonald’s fantastic Mars is vividly detailed and owes much to Bradbury’s Martian stories. Despite a bit of hand waving around technology that is glibly indistinguishable from magic, this sequel is entirely worthy of its rightly lauded predecessor [Desolation Road].” – Publishers Weekly “One of the strangest, weirdest, fantastic reads of your life.” – SF Crowsnest “McDonald is clever, lyrical... snarky, and utterly wondrous. The characters would be completely unbelievable in our world, but in theirs they are inevitable...” – Night Owl Reviews
The Primary Arithmetic
Title | The Primary Arithmetic PDF eBook |
Author | William Briggs |
Publisher | |
Pages | 148 |
Release | 1911 |
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Saturn's Children
Title | Saturn's Children PDF eBook |
Author | Charles Stross |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 344 |
Release | 2008-07-01 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 144063484X |
Sometime in the twenty-third century, humanity went extinct, leaving only androids behind to fulfill humanity’s dreams. And, having learned well from their long-dead masters, they’ve established a hierarchical society—one with humanoid aristo rulers at the top and slave-chipped workers at the bottom, performing the lowly tasks all androids were originally created to do. Designed as a concubine for a species that hasn’t existed for two hundred years, femmebot Freya Nakamichi-47—one of the last of her kind still functioning—accepts a job from a stranger to deliver a package from mercury to Mars. Unfortunately, she’s just made herself a moving target for some very powerful, very determined humanoids desperate to retrieve the package’s contents…
The Practical Arithmetic
Title | The Practical Arithmetic PDF eBook |
Author | Frank H. Hall |
Publisher | |
Pages | 364 |
Release | 1907 |
Genre | Arithmetic |
ISBN |
Department of Transportation and Related Agencies Appropriations for Fiscal Year 1993: Department of Transportation, National Railroad Passenger Corporation (Amtrak), National Transportation Safety Board, Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority
Title | Department of Transportation and Related Agencies Appropriations for Fiscal Year 1993: Department of Transportation, National Railroad Passenger Corporation (Amtrak), National Transportation Safety Board, Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority PDF eBook |
Author | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Transportation and Related Agencies |
Publisher | |
Pages | 680 |
Release | 1992 |
Genre | Government publications |
ISBN |
The Practice of Arithmetic: a Companion Volume to the Principles of Arithmetic
Title | The Practice of Arithmetic: a Companion Volume to the Principles of Arithmetic PDF eBook |
Author | Daniel O'Sullivan |
Publisher | |
Pages | 182 |
Release | 1877 |
Genre | Arithmetic |
ISBN |
The practice of arithmetic
Title | The practice of arithmetic PDF eBook |
Author | Daniel O'Sullivan |
Publisher | |
Pages | 194 |
Release | 1877 |
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