What do we do when life throws rocks at us' "Instead of trying to discipline your mind with ill will, fault-finding, guilt, punishment, and fear, use something far more powerful: the beautiful kindness, gentleness, and forgiveness of making peace with life."--Ajahn Brahm "In free fall, nothing is so
Tales of the Flying Mountains
β Scribed by Poul Anderson
- Publisher
- Open Road Integrated Media
- Year
- 2014
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 191 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 1497694280
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β¦ Synopsis
In a thrilling collection of hard science fiction stories, a master of speculative fiction envisions a volatile future when Earth's colonies throughout the galaxy attempt to break free from home-world rule
On a spaceship rocketing toward the stars, an official council meets to discuss how to censor history for the benefit of a new generation in spaceβwhich stories to preserve and which ones to discard forever . . .
Golden-age hard science fiction luminary Poul Anderson approached the future with a mixture of excitement, hope, and skepticism. In Tales of the Flying Mountains, the multiple Hugo and Nebula Award winner offers stories from a new war of independence and beyondβportending a time when a North American government on Earth will take up arms against its own rebellious children colonizing the cosmos, then exploring the shape of the universe in the war's aftermath. Firmly based in hard science and human nature, here are seven...
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