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This Hugo Award-winning disaster epic from the Science Fiction Grand Master "ranks among [his] most ambitious works" (SFSite). The Wanderer inspires feelings of pure terror in the hearts of the five billion human beings inhabiting Planet Earth. The presence of an alien planet causes increasingly severe tragedies and chaos. However, one man stands apart from the mass of frightened humanity. For him, the legendary Wanderer is a mere tale of bizarre alien domination and human submission. His conception of the Wanderer bleeds into unrequited love for the mysterious "she" who owns him.… (más)
¿Qué sucedería si un planeta errante se aproximase a la Tierra, y los hombres supiesen que ésta se halla irremisiblemente condenada? ¿Cómo reaccionarían las personas corrientes ante la perspectiva espantosa de una colisión cósmica que destruiría nuestro mundo?. No se trata aquí de héroes ni de superhombres enfrentados con situaciones difíciles; no se trata de hombres sin nervios, de una sangre fría a toda prueba, de un temple de acero. Se trata del hombre de la calle, los políticos, los hombres de negocios, los científicos y los militares.
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"How about a hyperspatial tube?" "Um ... m. Distinctly a possibility..." One instant space was empty; the next it was full of warships... Planets. Seven of them. Armed and powered as only a planet can be armed and powered. —Edward E. Smith, Ph.D., in Second Stage Lensmen
Tyger, tyger, burning bright In the forests of the night, What immortal hand or eye Could frame thy fearful symmetry?
In what distant deeps or skies Burnt the fire of thine eyes? ...
In what furnace was thy brain? ... —William Blake
And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood; And the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind. And the heavens departed as a scroll when it is rolled together; and every mountain and island were moved out of their places... And the third angel sounded, and there fell a great star from heaven, burning as it were a lamp, and it fell upon the third part of the rivers, and upon the fountains of waters. —The Revelation of Saint John the Divine
Actual interstellar voyaging was first effected by detaching a planet from its natural orbit by a series of well-timed and well-placed rocket impulsions, and thus projecting it into outer space at a speed far greater than the normal planetary and stellar speeds... Then followed wars such as had never before occurred in our galaxy. Fleets of worlds, natural and artificial, maneuvered among the stars to outwit one another, and destroyed one another with long-range jets of sub-atomic energy. As the tides of battle swept hither and thither through space, whole planetary systems were annihilated. —Olaf Stapledon in The Star Maker
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Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
Some stories of terror and the supernormal start with a moonlit face at a diamond-paned window, or an old document in spidery handwriting, or the baying of a hound across lonely moors.
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Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
The Baba Yaga touched down, its yellow jets dying, to a perfect landing.
This Hugo Award-winning disaster epic from the Science Fiction Grand Master "ranks among [his] most ambitious works" (SFSite). The Wanderer inspires feelings of pure terror in the hearts of the five billion human beings inhabiting Planet Earth. The presence of an alien planet causes increasingly severe tragedies and chaos. However, one man stands apart from the mass of frightened humanity. For him, the legendary Wanderer is a mere tale of bizarre alien domination and human submission. His conception of the Wanderer bleeds into unrequited love for the mysterious "she" who owns him.