**Can she save herself from a witch's fate?** Martha is a feisty and articulate young woman, the daughter of a wheelwright, living in a Herefordshire village in Elizabethan England. With no mother Martha's life is spent running her father's meagre household and helping out at the local school whils
Galileo's Children: Tales of Science vs. Superstition
β Scribed by Dozois, Gardner (editor)
- Book ID
- 108259102
- Publisher
- Baen Books
- Year
- 2005
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 324 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781625793447
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
Thirteen tales dealing with the struggle of scientists toward truth in spite of opposition from religious and political forces arrayed against them.
Authors include:
George R.R. Martin
Arthur C. Clarke
Robert Silverberg
Ursula K. Le Guin
Keith Roberts
Edgar Pangborn
Chris Lawson
Brendan DuBois
James Alan Gardner
Paul Park
James Tiptree, Jr.
Mike Resnick
Greg Egan
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