Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
The Speed of Light. The Speed of Light (originally published in Spanish as La velocidad de la luz) is the fifth book of narrative Spanish writer Javier Cercas. The novel was first published in March 2005 by Tusquets Editores. [1] [2] The book was translated into English by Anne McLean, then published by Bloomsbury in 2006.
Elizabeth Rosner is an American novelist, nonfiction author, essayist, and poet. She is author of three novels and a poetry collection. The Speed of Light was translated into nine languages and won several awards in the US and in Europe, including being shortlisted for the Prix Femina. Blue Nude was named among the best books of 2006 by the San ...
Extended series. Ball Lightning, a 2004 novel by Liu Cixin, set earlier in the same universe.; The Redemption of Time (观想之宙), originally posted to an internet forum as fan fiction in 2010 by Li Jun writing as Baoshu, that was later published by Chongqing Press, the original trilogy publisher, with the permission of Liu Cixin in 2011, as Three-Body X: Aeon of Contemplation (Chinese ...
978-0-31-646870-1. May I Trade with These True Friends! (この真の仲間達とトレードを！. , Kono Shin no Nakama-tachi to Torēdo o!) May There Be Peace for the Master of This Maze! (この迷宮の主に安らぎを！. , Kono Meikyū no Nushi ni Yasuragi o!) May Love Reach Out to This Ghost Girl! (この幽霊少女に愛の手を！.
The velocity time dilation is explained by Anderson in terms of the tau factor which decreases closer and closer to zero as the ship approaches the speed of light—hence the title of the novel. Due to an accident, the crew is unable to stop accelerating the spacecraft, causing such extreme time dilation that the crew experiences the Big Crunch ...
Speed of Dark. Speed of Dark (released in some markets as The Speed of Dark) is a near-future science fiction novel by American author Elizabeth Moon. [1] The story is told from the first person viewpoint of an autistic person. [2] It won the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 2003, [3] and was also an Arthur C. Clarke Award finalist.
Citizen of the Galaxy. Time for the Stars is a juvenile science fiction novel by American writer Robert A. Heinlein, published by Scribner's in 1956 as one of the Heinlein juveniles. The basic plot line is derived from a 1911 thought experiment in special relativity, commonly called the twin paradox, proposed by French physicist Paul Langevin .
Deucalion joint won along with Garth Nix's Sabriel the 1995 Aurealis Award for best young-adult novel and was a short-list nominee for the 1996 Children's Book Council of Australia: Book of the Year, Older Readers award. Setting. The novel opens in the late 23rd century AD, by which time, humanity has explored light years out into space.