The Celestial Steam Locomotive
Author | : Michael Coney |
Publisher | : Sphere |
Total Pages | : 302 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780708881941 |
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Author | : Michael Coney |
Publisher | : Sphere |
Total Pages | : 302 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780708881941 |
Author | : Michael G. Coney |
Publisher | : Hachette UK |
Total Pages | : 218 |
Release | : 2012-06-18 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0575126450 |
It is the year 143,624 Cyclic, and Earth possesses only a past. The immortal Alan-Blue-Cloud, remembers what was and what will be, and tells the story of Earth's future history. After the Great Migration, most humans that were left on Earth withdrew into the Domes where they slept and dreamed with the help of the Rainbow. In a village near one of the Domes, Manuel lives as an artist, challenged by the stagnant life that has consumed the village over the centuries. Manuel joins together in partnership with an old man and a sleeping girl in a Dome to form the Triad. Guided by Starquin the Omniscient, they battle the forces that have controlled the Earth and held it in this static state for too long.
Author | : Michael Coney |
Publisher | : Open Road Media |
Total Pages | : 355 |
Release | : 2014-04-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1497622026 |
The Songs of Earth series beings with “a daring, often dazzling storytelling feat—and absolutely not to be missed” (Kirkus Reviews). It is the year 143,624 Cyclic, and Earth possesses only a past. The immortal Alan-Blue-Cloud, remembers what was and what will be, and tells the story of Earth’s future history. After the Great Migration, most humans that were left on Earth withdrew into the Domes where they slept and dreamed with the help of the Rainbow. In a village near one of the Domes, Manuel lives as an artist, challenged by the stagnant life that has consumed the village over the centuries. Manuel joins together in partnership with an old man and a sleeping girl in a Dome to form the Triad. Guided by Starquin the Omniscient, they battle the forces that have controlled the Earth and held it in this static state for too long.
Author | : |
Publisher | : David R. Godine Publisher |
Total Pages | : 124 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9780879236717 |
Depicts the building of the "Berkshire" steam locomotive.
Author | : Michael G. Coney |
Publisher | : Gateway |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2013-04-23 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0575129433 |
Millennia ago Starquin visited the Solar System. Because he is huge - some say bigger than the Solar System itself - he could not set foot on Earth personally. yet events here were beginning to interest him, and he wanted to observe more closely. So he sent down extensions of himself, creatures fashioned after Earth's dominant life-form. In one of Earth's languages they became known as Dedos, or Fingers of Starquin. Disguised, they mingled with Mankind. We know this now, here at the end of Earth's time. The information is all held in Earth's great computer, the Rainbow. The Rainbow will endure as long as Earth exists, watching, listening, recording and thinking. I am an extension of the Rainbow, just as the Dedos are extensions of Starquin. My name is Alan-Blue-Cloud. It is possible you cannot see me but are aware of me only as a voice speaking to you from a desolate hillside, telling you tales from the Song of Earth. I can see you, the motley remains of the human race, however. You sit there with our clubs and you chew your roots, entranced and half-disbelieving as I sing the Song - and in our faces are signs of the work of your great geneticist, Mordecai N. Whirst. Catlike eyes here, broad muzzles there, all the genes of Earth's life, expertly blended, each having its purpose. Strong people, adapted people, people who survived. The story I will tell is about people who were not so strong. It is perhaps the most famous in the whole Song of Earth, and it tells of three simple human beings involved in a quest who unwittingly became involved in much greater events concerning the almighty Starquin himself. It is a story of heroism and love, and it ends in triumph - and it will remind the humans among you of the greatness that was once yours.
Author | : Adam Gopnik |
Publisher | : Random House |
Total Pages | : 370 |
Release | : 2001-12-18 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1588361381 |
Paris. The name alone conjures images of chestnut-lined boulevards, sidewalk cafés, breathtaking façades around every corner--in short, an exquisite romanticism that has captured the American imagination for as long as there have been Americans. In 1995, Adam Gopnik, his wife, and their infant son left the familiar comforts and hassles of New York City for the urbane glamour of the City of Light. Gopnik is a longtime New Yorker writer, and the magazine has sent its writers to Paris for decades--but his was above all a personal pilgrimage to the place that had for so long been the undisputed capital of everything cultural and beautiful. It was also the opportunity to raise a child who would know what it was to romp in the Luxembourg Gardens, to enjoy a croque monsieur in a Left Bank café--a child (and perhaps a father, too) who would have a grasp of that Parisian sense of style we Americans find so elusive. So, in the grand tradition of the American abroad, Gopnik walked the paths of the Tuileries, enjoyed philosophical discussions at his local bistro, wrote as violet twilight fell on the arrondissements. Of course, as readers of Gopnik's beloved and award-winning "Paris Journals" in The New Yorker know, there was also the matter of raising a child and carrying on with day-to-day, not-so-fabled life. Evenings with French intellectuals preceded middle-of-the-night baby feedings; afternoons were filled with trips to the Musée d'Orsay and pinball games; weekday leftovers were eaten while three-star chefs debated a "culinary crisis." As Gopnik describes in this funny and tender book, the dual processes of navigating a foreign city and becoming a parent are not completely dissimilar journeys--both hold new routines, new languages, a new set of rules by which everyday life is lived. With singular wit and insight, Gopnik weaves the magical with the mundane in a wholly delightful, often hilarious look at what it was to be an American family man in Paris at the end of the twentieth century. "We went to Paris for a sentimental reeducation-I did anyway-even though the sentiments we were instructed in were not the ones we were expecting to learn, which I believe is why they call it an education."
Author | : S. David Wilson |
Publisher | : S. David Wilson |
Total Pages | : 195 |
Release | : 2024-02-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
This revised annotated work explores the rise and fall of the steam age as it shaped the life of an archetypal industrial family. Particular emphasis is placed on the railroad and shipbuilding industries in Britain and the United States.
Author | : George Augustus Nokes |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 348 |
Release | : 1899 |
Genre | : Locomotives |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Joseph Whitehead Harding |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1945 |
Genre | : Locomotives |
ISBN | : |
Author | : J. W. Harding |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 302 |
Release | : 2016-07-02 |
Genre | : Transportation |
ISBN | : 9781614279822 |