Download or read book The Glass Planet written by Christopher Zyck and published by . This book was released on 2022-09-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2352 AD, humankind has irresponsibly short-changed themselves as the destructive forces of greed-fascism exploit our home for its perceived riches at the sacrifice of the 'wellbeing' of the human condition. The battle to preserve THE GLASS PLANET from Minister Riverstrike and the human forces seeking dominance and wealth over the masses is on the shoulders of the two time-travelers from the 20th century who gain celebrity as the first time-travelers in history. They inspire the Zealot Sentinels, lead by the Commander Janalake, who is a trusted advisor to Minister Riverstrike, but she harbors a mysterious past with an affection for the proletariat. The future of the existence of the human race will forever change, if it is able to survive at all, by preserving THE GLASS PLANET!

Download or read book The Glass Planet written by Reed and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2024-03-10 with total page 700 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Young autistic Gwydion and his archeologist grandfather are reading ancient stories together and they take us through time in earth's history to thousands of years ago with the book of Moses, the Exodus, and more. But some one or some THING is trying to kill them and stop them from translating the oldest stories. Stories of ancient Gods arriving here, touching off beautiful new civilizations only to be thwarted by the arrival of others from far off worlds. Twisted remains of an unknown king are found in an impossible silver Sarcophagus, and more Scrolls are discovered, stunning young Gwydion into becoming a speaker for the long dead by destroying an ancient demon and gaining his own guardian angel. The old God's have gone home vacating this planet mysteriously leaving empty husks of civilization and confused aboriginal populations all over the world searching to regain the knowledge of their ancient Gods. Gwydion tries to help and pays the highest price.

Download or read book Little Glass Planet written by Dobby Gibson and published by Graywolf Press. This book was released on 2019-05-21 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The poems in Dobby Gibson’s new book transform the everyday into the revelatory Little Glass Planet exults in the strangeness of the known and unknowable world. In poems set as far afield as Mumbai and Marfa, Texas, Dobby Gibson maps disparate landscapes, both terrestrial and subliminal, to reveal the drama of the quotidian. Aphoristic, allusive, and collaged, these poems mine our various human languages to help us understand what we might mean when we speak to each other—as lovers, as family, as strangers. Little Glass Planet uses lyric broadcasts to foreshorten the perceived distances between us, opening borders and pointing toward a sense of collectivity. “This is my love letter to the world,” Gibson writes, “someone call us a sitter. / We’re going to be here a while.” Elegiac, funny, and candid, Little Glass Planet is a kind of manual for paying attention to a world that is increasingly engineered to distract us from our own humanity. It’s a book that points toward hope, offering the possibilities of a “we” that only the open frequency of poetry can create, possibilities that are indistinguishable from love.

Download or read book The Glass Planet written by Morgan Reed and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2012-06-01 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Indiginous people on a young planet find themselves thrust into a new world of thought and culture when accidently invaded by a deep-space research team from an alien world. Loosely retold stories of the Bible starting with the experience of Ezekiel and then the first book of Moses, this is an interesting history retold in novel form, that our world of belief might have started with the visitation of extra-terrestrial visitors. What if the miracles in the bible and even God himself were close encounters with extra-terrestrials? This premise is explored here in fiction, in the first book of the series, "The Glass Planet: The Clear Beings."

Download or read book The Glass Planet 1 2 3 written by N. Morgan Reed and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2013-04-01 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This volume includes all first 3 stories of the Glass Planet Series, The Clear Beings, Gabriel's Objective, and the Silver Sarcophagus (new 2013). An indiginous people on a young planet are accidently invaded by a deep space research team of aliens. And their lives are forever changed. The ancient god-father is displaced, then returns and effects great changes for the now nomadic peoples of his descent. He attempts to aid, but almost destroys them with his love, and then he dies despondantly deep in space. The mystery of his death is solved in the discovery of the Silver Sarcophagus five thousand years later. The ancient beacon is triggered. And these ancient children of the Clear Being await his return."Science-fiction Horror w/Biblical elements.This book seems to be the Atheist test: everyone that starts it gets angry for some reason, even when they claim that they are open-minded atheists. This book is a story of a possibility of the origins of the bible stories, where divine intervention is really ancient extraterrestrial intervention. This simple story carries the reader so convincingly for such a long time, then when you realize you are being re-told the bible stories of exodus, then I think people feel tricked. But if its so real and convincing, then maybe its time for this story. I think most people have been so deeply indoctrinated with God-created origins of life and the sacredness of the bible, that even seriously espoused atheists have trouble being open-minded about it. The Bible is a beautiful ancient work of poetry and story telling. I'm open to it being true history, then how are the miracles explained? By other than beings more experienced and more powerful than us, and we think them Gods; then we believe it's one God. How is God any different than an Alien? God's less real! People say they don't believe in aliens because they've never seen one; but I've never seen this God guy or Jesus, anymore than just in my mind's eye, and 3 billion people on this planet believe in Him. Which is what this book is: a new journey thru possibilities in your mind's eye. See if you can keep your mind open enough to read it all. You can skip the gory parts about aliens eating other aliens if you want; that's in there just for fun. So that is it: it's too similar the comparison: God and Extraterrestrials. Atheists want to try to believe that we are alone in this universe. Utterly alone. Except that science has told us the with the proliferation of planets in the millions of galaxies in this universe, the chances of other life forms is almost certain. Which is probably why some people are so adamant. Aliens might be scarier than God because see now that they might actually be real, flesh and blood kind of real. it is as good an argument as the god-created life explanation. Its almost the same argument in fact: superior beings intervened.. And that's why Christians and non-Christians become so upset when they read this book. They feel they're being tricked into a goofy fiction, just like the other one, and they feel they are being made fun of. And that's why its called fiction; because it probably all is. Aliens and God. The universe that we perceive is what I call "the amazing complexity of life we will never fully understand, and half of it is illusion anyway," just to keep it short, at least not until that last 'ah-hah' moment right before we burn up in the black hole that will then explode and become the new universe-reality starting with all new information. Maybe this time we can do without the gossipers? We have lived with this myth of god for so long without him actually showing up, that we have become inured from the fear of it, uh, Him. But then science has told us of the probability of other life, intelligent life, and then modern entertainment has brought aliens to life. And the fear of them actually showing up may be becoming more real for people than a vengeful god. NMR 2014

Download or read book Girl in the Glass Planet written by S. T. Cartledge and published by . This book was released on 2017-06-20 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Glass Planet II written by Morgan Reed and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2012-10-01 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What if the miracles in the Bible, and God Himself, were close encounters with extra-terrestrials and their artifacts? Starting with the craft crash in Ezekiel changing the genetics and lives of the aboriginals in Glass Planet 1. This premise is explored here in fiction, in the series that started with "The Glass Planet: The clear Beings," when the God Zapheth crash-lands on the young planet, and in trying to survive his off-world ordeal, he changes the culture and the future of this emerging civilization. "Gabriel's Objective" continues where "The Clear Beings" left off, and is spoken largely from the point of veiw of the extra terrestrials, Gabriel and others. With the death of the old God and his Queen Shabbeth, leaving a young culture wondering where to turn. Their children set out on a quest to discover their "father's" secrets and to learn how to survive with the changes his alien presence wraught...We also call this the Exodus in the bible, and this story is retold here from the point of view of Moses wife, Zaphora. And the Angel Gabriel is not what he seems either!

Download or read book The Green Book written by Jill Paton Walsh and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR). This book was released on 2012-03-13 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jill Paton Walsh's classic science fiction novel The Green Book is now available from Square Fish with a brand–new cover! Pattie and her family are among the last refugees to flee a dying Earth in an old spaceship. And when the group finally lands on the distant planet which is to be their new home, it seems that the four-year journey has been a success. But as they begin to settle this shiny new world, they discover that the colony is in serious jeopardy. Nothing on this planet is edible, and they may not be able to grow food. With supplies dwindling, Pattie and her sister decide to take the one chance that might make life possible on Shine.

Download or read book The Glass Planet written by N. M. Reed and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-05-07 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are our religious histories founded in experiences with extra-terrestrials? Gwydion Jacobs finds the connection by investigating the ancient scrolls that are now being translated. He is carried on a journey from childhood into young adulthood, across the globe, bearing these secrets of his origins and the origins of mankind. The Glass Planet: Series #5-9. The entire story of the Jacobs family, from the beginning of Professor Antony Jacobs career change. ArchaeoAntropology grips the family and takes them on a journey around the globe. From the forested ancient ruins of Costa Rica to the desert sands of Egypt. The discovery of ancient texts in the desert bring about shocking conflicts and social upheaval and sends this family around the globe. When Gwydion is born, the professor and his autistic grandson become close and the professor shares these ancient stories with him, Gwydion. The next discovery of biblical texts in an ancient jar buried on the banks of the Nile river, sets loose a demon that plagues Gwydion as he is growing up. Or is this an angel sent to take care of and protect the young boy? The secrets are not revealed until the very end, when a being from unknown origins visits and divulges some of these secrets to Gwydion and his strange little sister. Which threatens the entire globe and all of its inhabitants.`

Download or read book The Glass Planet written by Abigail Stolcenberg and published by . This book was released on 2022-03-30 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alone, Billy finds himself with only three names. But soon he finds Pepper- loyal, cool-headed, decisive. All the things Billy wishes he was. He is the opposite of his wolf friend in so many ways - too hot-headed and too broken by betrayal he feels he can't remember to have loyalty for any. But Billy is special in his own ways. With powers fueled by emotions, Billy begins to see that both their skills are needed to survive the dangers in store for them on the cold Glass Planet.

Download or read book The Glass Planet 5 written by N. Morgan Reed and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-06-21 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An autistic boy reads with his grandfather ancient stories from the bible. His family are in Egypt when ancient bits of scripture are found in the Antiqua dealers in a market. The Jacob family has moved there and is now part of the exciting discoveries of ancient biblical texts. Antony Jacobs, an archeologist, is part of the team unraveling the secrets of these ancient stories. And he reads them to his grandson at night for bedtime. Antony finds them fascinating if a bit disturbing. And the autistic 9 year old Gwydion lives these stories in his imagination.

Download or read book The Glass Hotel written by Emily St. John Mandel and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2020-03-24 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the bestselling author of Station Eleven and Sea of Tranquility, an exhilarating novel set at the glittering intersection of two seemingly disparate events—the exposure of a massive criminal enterprise and the mysterious disappearance of a woman from a ship at sea. “The perfect novel ... Freshly mysterious.” —The Washington Post Vincent is a bartender at the Hotel Caiette, a five-star lodging on the northernmost tip of Vancouver Island. On the night she meets Jonathan Alkaitis, a hooded figure scrawls a message on the lobby's glass wall: Why don’t you swallow broken glass. High above Manhattan, a greater crime is committed: Alkaitis's billion-dollar business is really nothing more than a game of smoke and mirrors. When his scheme collapses, it obliterates countless fortunes and devastates lives. Vincent, who had been posing as Jonathan’s wife, walks away into the night. Years later, a victim of the fraud is hired to investigate a strange occurrence: a woman has seemingly vanished from the deck of a container ship between ports of call. In this captivating story of crisis and survival, Emily St. John Mandel takes readers through often hidden landscapes: campgrounds for the near-homeless, underground electronica clubs, service in luxury hotels, and life in a federal prison. Rife with unexpected beauty, The Glass Hotel is a captivating portrait of greed and guilt, love and delusion, ghosts and unintended consequences, and the infinite ways we search for meaning in our lives. Look for Emily St. John Mandel’s bestselling new novel, Sea of Tranquility!

Download or read book Earth Made of Glass written by John Barnes and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1999-03-15 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A novel on the Thousand Cultures, as Earth's colonies are known. Comprising more than a thousand planets, each has a unique civilization. The protagonists are two Earth agents--a married couple--sent to negotiate peace between warring Tamils and neo-Mayan Indians.

Download or read book The Glass Universe written by Dava Sobel and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-12-06 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From #1 New York Times bestselling author Dava Sobel, the "inspiring" (People), little-known true story of women's landmark contributions to astronomy A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of 2017 Named one of the best books of the year by NPR, The Economist, Smithsonian, Nature, and NPR's Science Friday Nominated for the PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award "A joy to read.” —The Wall Street Journal In the mid-nineteenth century, the Harvard College Observatory began employing women as calculators, or “human computers,” to interpret the observations their male counterparts made via telescope each night. At the outset this group included the wives, sisters, and daughters of the resident astronomers, but soon the female corps included graduates of the new women's colleges—Vassar, Wellesley, and Smith. As photography transformed the practice of astronomy, the ladies turned from computation to studying the stars captured nightly on glass photographic plates. The “glass universe” of half a million plates that Harvard amassed over the ensuing decades—through the generous support of Mrs. Anna Palmer Draper, the widow of a pioneer in stellar photography—enabled the women to make extraordinary discoveries that attracted worldwide acclaim. They helped discern what stars were made of, divided the stars into meaningful categories for further research, and found a way to measure distances across space by starlight. Their ranks included Williamina Fleming, a Scottish woman originally hired as a maid who went on to identify ten novae and more than three hundred variable stars; Annie Jump Cannon, who designed a stellar classification system that was adopted by astronomers the world over and is still in use; and Dr. Cecilia Helena Payne, who in 1956 became the first ever woman professor of astronomy at Harvard—and Harvard’s first female department chair. Elegantly written and enriched by excerpts from letters, diaries, and memoirs, The Glass Universe is the hidden history of the women whose contributions to the burgeoning field of astronomy forever changed our understanding of the stars and our place in the universe.

Download or read book Cathedrals of Glass written by A.J. Hartley and published by To the Stars. This book was released on 2017-02-21 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the New York Times bestselling author of Steeplejack and co-author of Sekret Machines: Chasing Shadows with Blink-182’s Tom DeLonge, comes a "smart, gripping and atmospheric" science fiction thriller—the Cathedrals of Glass saga… “Deviance is unattractive and jeopardizes all we hold dear…” Ten teenagers broke behavioral law. Sentenced to be reeducated on the moon of Jerem, they were placed in stasis on the automated ship Phetteron for their six day journey. They never reached their destination. “Home looks after its own…” Thrown off course by a computer malfunction, the Phetteron is damaged in an asteroid belt and crash lands on the uninhabited ice planet of Valkrys. Having spent their lives in temperature controlled environments, consuming nutrient supplements, and interacting with people mostly through the infonet, the teens are unprepared to depend on each other to face the harsh, hostile, and hellish landscape. Home will send a rescue party long before their meager supplies run out. “No contrary positions are viable…” Sola was a roamer. She wandered the city after curfew, reveling in the freedom of being disconnected from the techgrid and embracing the joy of physical activity. For those actions, Home declared her deviant. But on Valkrys, her deviance is an asset that may be the teens’ only hope for survival. As Sola explores their strange new world, she discovers that she and her shipmates are linked by something more frightening than their subversive behaviors—and uncovers a truth about the planet the authorities at Home wanted buried. Valkrys is not uninhabited. And what lives there is predatory…

Download or read book The 12th Planet Book I written by Zecharia Sitchin and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1991-05-01 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the years, startling evidence has been unearthed, challenging established notions of the origins of Earth and life on it and suggesting the existence of a superior race of beings who once inhabited our world. The product of thirty years of intensive research, The 12th Planet is the first book in Zecharia Sitchin's prophetic Earth Chronicles series--a revolutionary body of work that offers indisputable documentary proof of humanity's extraterrestrial forefathers. Travelers from the stars, they arrived eons ago, and planted the genetic seed that would ultimately blossom into a remarkable species...called Man. The 12th Planet brings to life the Sumerian civilization, presenting millennia-old evidence of the existence of Nibiru, the home planet of the Anunnaki and of the landings of the Anunnaki on Earth every 3,600 years, and reveals a complete history of the solar system as told by these early visitors from another planet. Zecharia Sitchin's Earth Chronicles series, with millions of copies sold worldwide, deal with the history and prehistory of Earth and humankind. Each book in the series is based upon information written on clay tablets by the ancient civilizations of the Near East. The series is offered here, for the first time, in highly readable, hardbound collector's editions with enhanced maps and diagrams.

Download or read book Percival s Planet written by Michael Byers and published by Henry Holt and Company. This book was released on 2010-08-03 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A novel of ambition and obsession centered on the race to discover Pluto in 1930, pitting an untrained Kansas farm boy against the greatest minds of Harvard at the run-down Lowell Observatory in Arizona In 1928, the boy who will discover Pluto, Clyde Tombaugh, is on the family farm, grinding a lens for his own telescope under the immense Kansas sky. In Flagstaff, Arizona, the staff of Lowell Observatory is about to resume the late Percival Lowell's interrupted search for Planet X. Meanwhile, the immensely rich heir to a chemical fortune has decided to go west to hunt for dinosaurs and in Cambridge, Massachussetts, the most beautiful girl in America is going slowly insane while her ex-heavyweight champion boyfriend stands by helplessly, desperate to do anything to keep her. Inspired by the true story of Tombaugh and set in the last gin-soaked months of the flapper era, Percival's Planet tells the story of the intertwining lives of half a dozen dreamers, schemers, and madmen. Following Tombaugh's unlikely path from son of a farmer to discoverer of a planet, the novel touches on insanity, mathematics, music, astrophysics, boxing, dinosaur hunting, shipwrecks—and what happens when the greatest romance of your life is also the source of your life's greatest sorrow.