Voyage to Alpha Centauri

Voyage to Alpha Centauri
Author: Michael D. O'Brien
Publisher: Ignatius Press
Total Pages: 765
Release: 2013-11-04
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1681496143

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Set eighty years in the future, this novel by the best-selling author Michael O'Brien is about an expedition sent from the planet Earth to Alpha Centauri, the star closest to our solar system. The Kosmos, a great ship that the central character Neil de Hoyos describes as a "flying city", is immense in size and capable of more than half light-speed. Hoyos is a Nobel Prize winning physicist who has played a major role in designing the ship. Hoyos has signed on as a passenger because he desires to escape the seemingly benign totalitarian government that controls everything on his home planet. He is a skeptical and quirky misanthropic humanist with old tragedies, loves, and hatreds that are secreted in his memory. The surprises that await him on the voyage-and its destination-will shatter all of his assumptions and point him to a true new horizon. Science fiction and fantasy literature are genres that have become dominant forces in contemporary worldwide culture. Our fascination with the near-angelic powers of new technology, its benefits and dangers, its potential for obsession and catastrophe, raises vital questions that this work explores about human nature and the cosmos, about man's image of himself and where he is going-and why he seeks to go there.

Journey to Alpha Centauri

Journey to Alpha Centauri
Author: John W. Macvey
Publisher: New York : Macmillan
Total Pages: 280
Release: 1965
Genre: Extraterrestrial anthropology
ISBN:

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Dangerous Voyage to Alpha Centauri

Dangerous Voyage to Alpha Centauri
Author: Fritz Reichert
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 136
Release: 2007-12
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0595423019

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In the year 2044, scientists have revealed new advances to extend the longevity of human life. Within the next years the world's population explodes by more than one billion people each year. Though millions live already deep under the moon's surface, it becomes necessary to search for planets outside our solar system. Tim Turner, a teacher and scientist, tackles this mission by traveling to the sun's next star, Alpha Centauri. The isolation of his task drives him to the edge of lunacy, but what he discovers could prevent the human race from destroying itself. When Turner returns to Earth thirty-six years later, he comes back to an unthinkable situation. What has happened during his absence-and what has become of the two women he loves most? A tantalizing mix of science fiction and love story, Dangerous Voyage to Alpha Centauri poses a fascinating question: Could this plot become a reality for the Earth and its residents in the not-so-distant future?

Alpha Centauri

Alpha Centauri
Author: William Barton
Publisher: Eos
Total Pages: 438
Release: 1998
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780380782055

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As the crew of the starship Mother Nightembarks on a colonizing mission to relieve Earth of the ever-growing population, a terrorist plague is unleashed on the ship, and as their journey ends, an ancient relic awaits them--one that can provide hope and redemption or cause the destruction of humankind. Reprint.

JOURNEY TO ALPHA CENTAURI

JOURNEY TO ALPHA CENTAURI
Author: KEN CROSWELL, PH. D.
Publisher:
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ISBN: 9781683291862

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Address Centauri

Address Centauri
Author: F.L. Wallace
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2019-03-17
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 035952057X

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In a future age of Inter-Planetary travel new world's and alien races are awaiting discovery and a decision must be made. Who will be the first Inter-Stellar explorers to make alien contact? On a tiny asteroid between Mars and Jupiter a tiny handful of people seek the honor. They are ""the accidentals."" They are pathetic, crippled, and deformed humans, half or quarter men and women, fractional organisms masquerading as people. To many they are just ""circus freaks"", but to them they are members of the human race and set out to change mankind forever.

Elijah in Jerusalem

Elijah in Jerusalem
Author: Michael D. O'Brien
Publisher: Ignatius Press
Total Pages: 284
Release: 2015-10-05
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1586179462

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Elijah in Jerusalem, the long awaited sequel to the acclaimed best-selling novel, Father Elijah: An Apocalypse , is the continuing story of the priest, Fr. Elijah. A convert from Judaism, and a survivor of the Holocaust, he has for decades been a Carmelite monk on the mountain of the prophet Elijah. In the events of the preceding novel, Father Elijah, the central character confronted the President of the European Union, a man rising toward global control as President of the soon to be realized World Government. The Pope recognized in the President certain qualities that are anti-Christ, and asked Fr. Elijah to call the man to repentance, though his attempts at this prove to be unsuccessful. In this sequel, now-Bishop Elijah, accompanied by his fellow monk Brother Enoch, enter Jerusalem just as the President arrives in the city to inaugurate a new stage of his rise to power. They hope to unmask him as the Antichrist prophesied by Scripture and to warn the world of the imminent spiritual danger to mankind. As the story unfolds, people of many kinds meet the undercover priest, and in the process their souls are revealed and tested, bringing about change for the good or for evil. Elijah perseveres in his mission even when all seems lost. The dramatic climax is surprising, yet it underlines that God works all things to the good for those who love Him, testifying to the truth that in the end Wisdom will be justified and Satan confounded.

My Alpha

My Alpha
Author: Toni Nowland
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 206
Release: 2021-06-22
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1664106189

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Venus Lee DeLorentez is almost 18, a werewolf and been having extreme outer body experiences, while she dreams. How would you feel if you find out your destiny has been pre-determined based on a prophecy almost a whole millennium before you are even born? Well as you can tell, Venus not for it. The fact that her future is not of my own design. So, what would you do give in because, you can’t fight fate. Or would you stand up and take the bull by the horns and take back your life, even if it ends in your own ultimate demise.

The Sparrow

The Sparrow
Author: Mary Doria Russell
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Total Pages: 450
Release: 2008-05-27
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0345510887

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A visionary work that combines speculative fiction with deep philosophical inquiry, The Sparrow tells the story of a charismatic Jesuit priest and linguist, Emilio Sandoz, who leads a scientific mission entrusted with a profound task: to make first contact with intelligent extraterrestrial life. The mission begins in faith, hope, and beauty, but a series of small misunderstandings brings it to a catastrophic end. Praise for The Sparrow “A startling, engrossing, and moral work of fiction.”—The New York Times Book Review “Important novels leave deep cracks in our beliefs, our prejudices, and our blinders. The Sparrow is one of them.”—Entertainment Weekly “Powerful . . . The Sparrow tackles a difficult subject with grace and intelligence.”—San Francisco Chronicle “Provocative, challenging . . . recalls both Arthur C. Clarke and H. G. Wells, with a dash of Ray Bradbury for good measure.”—The Dallas Morning News “[Mary Doria] Russell shows herself to be a skillful storyteller who subtly and expertly builds suspense.”—USA Today

Journey to Alpha Centauri

Journey to Alpha Centauri
Author: Sean Joseph Barry
Publisher:
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Release: 1996
Genre: Space ships
ISBN:

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