People have been dreaming of going to Mars since the invention of the first rocket. It's nearly a century since men walked on the moon, and humanity is finally ready for their next great adventure. But time, distance, and fuel constraints mean that this will be a one-way mission. As far as space exploration goes, we're putting all our eggs in one basket. The crew numbers hundreds, in the hope that there will be enough to stop the expedition succumbing to cabin fever, and every one of them is a world-class expert in some scientific discipline. But what kind of people would give up everything else in their lives, just to be the first to set foot on another world? And how will they react when they find out they weren't the first?
EIGHT CHILDREN WERE KIDNAPPED.
"'Young man,' he said, 'you've won my daughter and you must pay the piper!' "'What piper?' I said. "'The Pied Piper of Hamelin, I don't think,' replied the professor, vulgarly, and before I could realize what he was doing he had drawn a ...
Mark Forsyth - author of the Sunday Times Number One bestseller The Etymologicon - reveals in this essay, specially commissioned for Independent Booksellers Week, the most valuable thing about a really good bookshop.
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“Will leave readers swooning.” —PopSugar When Dimple Met Rishi meets Ugly Delicious in this funny, smart romantic comedy, in which two Vietnamese American teens fall in love and must navigate their newfound relationship amid their ...
A deluxe edition of Bolano’s complete poetry Perhaps surprisingly to some of his fiction fans, Roberto Bolano touted poetry as the superior art form, able to approach an infinity in which “you become infinitely small without ...
Presents the first four issues of the horror comics anthology "Adventures into the Unknown!." originally published in 1948 and 1949.
Fresh, imaginative, and deft, The Unknown Knowns marks the arrival of a unique new voice in literary fiction.
We see his close-knit family, the disruptions of moving and changing schools, and the complexities of living with autism. “In writing this book,” writes Dara, “I have experienced challenges but also felt incredible joy, wonder, ...
The Unknown: An Anthology is a work of experimental fiction