2073. Earth falls victim to a new ice age and parodoxically, the Green politicians have rejected the technology that could save the planet. Two astronauts have crash-landed in the frozen American midwest - their only hope of survival is a group of science enthusiasts who can return them to freedom.
Just as scientists find an enormous asteroid approaching Earth on a collision course, the world's economy goes into a tailspin, making it unlikely that any sort of space mission to avert the disaster will be launched. This is the final volume in a quartet.
An independently wealthy woman who has been spear-heading a effort to get mankind to more fully explore space may get the support that she needs when an asteroid on an impact course is discovered heading for Earth. The appearance of additional objects in space, though, may indicate that an alien intelligence wants humanity to stay on the planet ...
During the 1800s, several inventors manage to extend the capabilities of Charles Babbage's proto-computer, using it to predict the future and, where it suited them, to alter it. Almost two hundred years later, those alterations begin to collapse, threatening the fabric of late-20th-century culture.
From the tragic workings of the Holocaust and Hiroshima to contemporary examples of genocide in Bosnia and Rwanda, this collection of original essays examines the enduring impact of such cataclysmic events on the modern human psyche. Inspired by the career of Robert Jay Lifton, the distinguished contributors to this volume acknowledge Lifton's ...
The Year 2000 is at hand. The end of the millennium means many things to many people, but it has significance for almost everyone. A thousand years ago, monks stopped copying manuscripts and religious building projects came to a halt as panic swept Europe. Today, anxiety about global warming, government power, superviruses, even recycling, is on ...
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