Red Planet is a 1949 science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein about students at boarding school on the planet Mars. It represents the first appearance of Heinlein's idealized Martian elder race (see also Stranger in a Strange Land). The version published in 1949 featured a number of changes forced on Heinlein by Scribner's, since it was published as part of the Heinlein juveniles. After Heinlein's death, the book was reissued by Del Rey Books as the author originally intended.
Plot summary
On Mars, Jim Marlowe and Frank Sutton travel to the Lowell Academy boarding school for the start of the academic year. Jim takes along his native, volleyball-sized pet, Willis the Bouncer, who is about as intelligent as a human child and has a photographic memory for sounds, which he can also reproduce perfectly. At a rest stop, Willis wanders off and encounters one of the adult sentient Martians. The three-legged alien takes the two boys and Willis to join a ritual called "growing together" with a group of its fellows. They also share water, making Jim and Frank "water friends" with the Martian, who is named Gekko.
DNA is the debut studio album by British girl groupLittle Mix. It was released on 19 December 2012 in the United Kingdom via Syco Music. The group began work recording the album in December 2011 and concluded in September 2012. Throughout the recording process, Little Mix worked with several producers, including TMS, Future Cut, Steve Mac, Jarrad Rogers, Richard "Biff" Stannard, Ash Howes, Jon Levine, Xenomania, Fred Ball and Pegasus. The album was co-written by Little Mix and they stated that they were involved in the development of the album as much as possible. Sonically, the album is primarily a mixture of pop and R&B records, with influences from dance-pop, pop rock and hip hop found on specific songs as well. The album's lyrical content explores empowerment, relationships and heartbreak. Songs on the album were also co-written by members of other girl groups, including Nicola Roberts of Girls Aloud, Shaznay Lewis of All Saints and T-Boz of TLC.
DNA received mixed reviews from music critics. The album's lead single, "Wings", was released on 26 August 2012, reaching number one in UK and Ireland as well as charting in Australia, New Zealand, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Belgium, Canada and the US. The second single, "DNA", was released on 11 November 2012, peaking at number three in the UK. Two post-album singles were released: "Change Your Life" on 3 February 2013, and a remix of "How Ya Doin'?" featuring American rapper Missy Elliott was released on 17 April 2013; both songs reached the top 20 in the UK.
Battletech Centers are commercial virtual entertainment venues that feature multiplayer virtual combat in the fictional BattleTech universe. The games are played in fully enclosed cockpits with multiple screens, joysticks, and rudder pedals. The centers were initially created and operated by Virtual World Entertainment, LLC. Today, the gaming cockpits can now be found in various sites around the United States.
History
The first BattleTech Center opened in Chicago in 1990, with others in Yokohama following in August 1992 and Tokyo in 1993. Eventually, 26 such facilities were built and included other game types and more elaborate operations. These new locations were called 'Virtual World'. Each Virtual World site featured at least 16 networked "pods" designed in part by Frog Design. In 1991, Computer and Video Games called Battletech "definitely the most exciting interactive videogame system yet devised." It was also featured in Discovery Channel's Beyond 2000.
By 1993, patrons could compete against players in other centers across the country. Red Planet was the first non-BattleTech game added, and involved racing through the mining tunnels of Mars using vectored thrust mining hover-crafts. However, rapid advances in arcade games and online games meant that the Japanese Centers began closing in 1995, and by 2000 no BattleTech Centers remained operational in Japan.
The Stage 7 Biff, Chip and Kipper Stories, written by Roderick Hunt and illustrated by Alex Brychta, provide a rich story context to help develop language comprehension and decoding skills. Stories, More Stories A and More Stories B involve familiar situations and a variety of fantasy settings through the magic key adventures. Longer stories help to build reading stamina, which is important for later reading success. The new-style inside cover notes provide advice and support to help adults read and explore the story with the child, supporting their decoding and language comprehension development.
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Red Planet Story | Oxford Reading Tree Stage 7 | Biff Chip and Kipper Stories | English Learning
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Red Planet story written by Roderick Hunt and illustrated by Alex Brychta
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Red Planet
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Who is Robert A Heinlein?
Robert Anson Heinlein was an American science fiction author, aeronautical engineer, and naval officer. Sometimes called the "dean of science fiction writers", he was among the first to emphasise scientific accuracy in his fiction and was therefore a pioneer of the subgenre of hard science fiction.
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The Stage 7 Biff, Chip and Kipper Stories, written by Roderick Hunt and illustrated by Alex Brychta, provide a rich story context to help develop language compr...
The Stage 7 Biff, Chip and Kipper Stories, written by Roderick Hunt and illustrated by Alex Brychta, provide a rich story context to help develop language comprehension and decoding skills. Stories, More Stories A and More Stories B involve familiar situations and a variety of fantasy settings through the magic key adventures. Longer stories help to build reading stamina, which is important for later reading success. The new-style inside cover notes provide advice and support to help adults read and explore the story with the child, supporting their decoding and language comprehension development.
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The Stage 7 Biff, Chip and Kipper Stories, written by Roderick Hunt and illustrated by Alex Brychta, provide a rich story context to help develop language comprehension and decoding skills. Stories, More Stories A and More Stories B involve familiar situations and a variety of fantasy settings through the magic key adventures. Longer stories help to build reading stamina, which is important for later reading success. The new-style inside cover notes provide advice and support to help adults read and explore the story with the child, supporting their decoding and language comprehension development.
#LearnToRead
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Red Planet story written by Roderick Hunt and illustrated by Alex Brychta
Robert Anson Heinlein was an American science fiction author, aeronautical engineer, and naval officer. Sometimes called the "dean of science fiction writers", ...
Robert Anson Heinlein was an American science fiction author, aeronautical engineer, and naval officer. Sometimes called the "dean of science fiction writers", he was among the first to emphasise scientific accuracy in his fiction and was therefore a pioneer of the subgenre of hard science fiction.
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Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_A._Heinlein
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After her family is killed and her homeworld occupied, young Kathreen Martin is sent to the distant world of Furoris for re-education. She will live the rest of her life as a serf – to be bought and sold as a commodity of the Imperial Network.
When her only chance of escape is ruined, a chance mistaken identity offers her a new life as the orphaned daughter of a First-Citizen Senator and heiress to a vast fortune.
She vows to claw her way into power to sit among the worlds’ elite. Then, with her own hands, she will reap bloody vengeance on them all.
But to beat them, she must play their game. And she must play it better than them all.
BLACK MILK
Prometheus has the chance to bring his wife back from the dead, but doing so will mean the destruction of Earth.
Spanning time, planets and dimensions, Black Milk draws to a climactic point in a post-apocalyptic future, where humanity, stranded with no planet to call home, fights to survive against a post-human digital entity that pursues them through the depths of space.
Five lives separated by aeons are inextricably linked by Prometheus’s actions:
Ystil.3 is an AI unit sent back in time from the distant future to investigate Prometheus’s discovery...
The mysterious Lydia has devoted her life to finding a planet that the last remaining humans can call home…
Tom Jones (he’s a HUGE fan!) is an AI trapped inside a digital subspace, lost and desperate to find his way back to his beloved in real-time…
Dr Norma Stanwyck is a neuroscientist from 24th Century Earth whose personal choices ripple throughout time...
Prometheus must learn the necessity of death or the entire universe will be swallowed by his grief.
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Robert Anson Heinlein was an American science fiction author, aeronautical engineer, and naval officer. Sometimes called the "dean of science fiction writers", he was among the first to emphasise scientific accuracy in his fiction and was therefore a pioneer of the subgenre of hard science fiction.
Thanks for watching.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_A._Heinlein
#RobertHeinlein #sciencefiction #classicsciencefiction
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https://linktr.ee/bookodyssey
____________________________________________________________________
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MY SCI-FI NOVELS
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Darrel-William-Moore/e/B0754KS349/ref=dp_byline_cont_pop_ebooks_1
DELPHINE DESCENDS
After her family is killed and her homeworld occupied, young Kathreen Martin is sent to the distant world of Furoris for re-education. She will live the rest of her life as a serf – to be bought and sold as a commodity of the Imperial Network.
When her only chance of escape is ruined, a chance mistaken identity offers her a new life as the orphaned daughter of a First-Citizen Senator and heiress to a vast fortune.
She vows to claw her way into power to sit among the worlds’ elite. Then, with her own hands, she will reap bloody vengeance on them all.
But to beat them, she must play their game. And she must play it better than them all.
BLACK MILK
Prometheus has the chance to bring his wife back from the dead, but doing so will mean the destruction of Earth.
Spanning time, planets and dimensions, Black Milk draws to a climactic point in a post-apocalyptic future, where humanity, stranded with no planet to call home, fights to survive against a post-human digital entity that pursues them through the depths of space.
Five lives separated by aeons are inextricably linked by Prometheus’s actions:
Ystil.3 is an AI unit sent back in time from the distant future to investigate Prometheus’s discovery...
The mysterious Lydia has devoted her life to finding a planet that the last remaining humans can call home…
Tom Jones (he’s a HUGE fan!) is an AI trapped inside a digital subspace, lost and desperate to find his way back to his beloved in real-time…
Dr Norma Stanwyck is a neuroscientist from 24th Century Earth whose personal choices ripple throughout time...
Prometheus must learn the necessity of death or the entire universe will be swallowed by his grief.
____________________________________________________________________
GOODREADS
You can stalk me on Goodreads to see what I'm currently reading. https://bit.ly/3rrcByD
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IMAGE USE
The images in my videos are mostly licensed stock photos. However, occasionally I will use images found online. I always seek to properly credit artists and offer a link back to their amazing work but sometimes it's hard to find the original source of the work. If I've used an image you own and I haven't credited you, please feel free to get in touch as I am always more than happy to do so.
Join us a we read about Eric's the Bears favourite things and his amazing adventure to the awesome red planet. What will he find? Eric and the Red Planet: A Spa...
Join us a we read about Eric's the Bears favourite things and his amazing adventure to the awesome red planet. What will he find? Eric and the Red Planet: A Space Adventure with Numbers by Caroline Glicksman is available on Amazon here: http://fave.co/2vxPcgf
Join us a we read about Eric's the Bears favourite things and his amazing adventure to the awesome red planet. What will he find? Eric and the Red Planet: A Space Adventure with Numbers by Caroline Glicksman is available on Amazon here: http://fave.co/2vxPcgf
If you like my sci-fi analysis, try my books. The Stars Entwined is the first in my big universe which I'm building, start here: http://bit.ly/starsentwined
If you like my sci-fi analysis, try my books. The Stars Entwined is the first in my big universe which I'm building, start here: http://bit.ly/starsentwined
If you like my sci-fi analysis, try my books. The Stars Entwined is the first in my big universe which I'm building, start here: http://bit.ly/starsentwined
Welcome to the Red's Planet Youtube channel! Get a sneak peek at Red's Planet, a graphic novel by Eddie Pittman, published by Amulet Books, a division of Abrams...
Welcome to the Red's Planet Youtube channel! Get a sneak peek at Red's Planet, a graphic novel by Eddie Pittman, published by Amulet Books, a division of Abrams Books. Get your copy here: http://www.redsplanet.com/comic/buy-t...
"Daily Beetle" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0
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Welcome to the Red's Planet Youtube channel! Get a sneak peek at Red's Planet, a graphic novel by Eddie Pittman, published by Amulet Books, a division of Abrams Books. Get your copy here: http://www.redsplanet.com/comic/buy-t...
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A pair of novels that finally breath life into the characters created by DAVID BOWIE
Literatures first ever twin books
Twin books are neither prequel, nor seque...
A pair of novels that finally breath life into the characters created by DAVID BOWIE
Literatures first ever twin books
Twin books are neither prequel, nor sequel or differing viewpoint of the same story. They are simultaneously released, only the reader can decide which to read first.
"The backstory to the character Ziggy Stardust."
"Being a long time Bowie fan I get such a kick out of all the references and how well they're blended in. Every time I spot one I get giddy like a school kid."
@oflivious_is_art_about_bowie
"Just to say that I finished the 'other' book this morning – I was really hooked on these 2 stories, they would make a great film or 2."
Janet Haigh
"I'm actually reading these books for the third time, the intriguing story distracts me from discovering little Bowie subtleties."
Andrew Crook
Synopsis:
Thawing a cryonically frozen human from 500 years ago exposes a stable futuristic society to many ancient beliefs. One of those beliefs is religion and its promise to deliver immortality. The super-intelligence that cares for humans (Mother) realises that promise remains unfulfilled. Without the ability to understand the true meaning of being human, she sees an opportunity to make it a reality. Only a few humans understand that unless her ultimate act of kindness is stopped, she will destroy humanity forever.
For information about the stage production visit Michael-Mendoza.com.
WHAT ARE TWIN BOOKS? - Two intertwined novels released on the same day leaving the reader to decide which to read first. Although each can be enjoyed as a freestanding story in its own right, the stories weave together sharing characters, timelines and plot points. TWINS are neither prequel nor sequel or the same story from different perspectives.
A pair of novels that finally breath life into the characters created by DAVID BOWIE
Literatures first ever twin books
Twin books are neither prequel, nor sequel or differing viewpoint of the same story. They are simultaneously released, only the reader can decide which to read first.
"The backstory to the character Ziggy Stardust."
"Being a long time Bowie fan I get such a kick out of all the references and how well they're blended in. Every time I spot one I get giddy like a school kid."
@oflivious_is_art_about_bowie
"Just to say that I finished the 'other' book this morning – I was really hooked on these 2 stories, they would make a great film or 2."
Janet Haigh
"I'm actually reading these books for the third time, the intriguing story distracts me from discovering little Bowie subtleties."
Andrew Crook
Synopsis:
Thawing a cryonically frozen human from 500 years ago exposes a stable futuristic society to many ancient beliefs. One of those beliefs is religion and its promise to deliver immortality. The super-intelligence that cares for humans (Mother) realises that promise remains unfulfilled. Without the ability to understand the true meaning of being human, she sees an opportunity to make it a reality. Only a few humans understand that unless her ultimate act of kindness is stopped, she will destroy humanity forever.
For information about the stage production visit Michael-Mendoza.com.
WHAT ARE TWIN BOOKS? - Two intertwined novels released on the same day leaving the reader to decide which to read first. Although each can be enjoyed as a freestanding story in its own right, the stories weave together sharing characters, timelines and plot points. TWINS are neither prequel nor sequel or the same story from different perspectives.
The Stage 7 Biff, Chip and Kipper Stories, written by Roderick Hunt and illustrated by Alex Brychta, provide a rich story context to help develop language comprehension and decoding skills. Stories, More Stories A and More Stories B involve familiar situations and a variety of fantasy settings through the magic key adventures. Longer stories help to build reading stamina, which is important for later reading success. The new-style inside cover notes provide advice and support to help adults read and explore the story with the child, supporting their decoding and language comprehension development.
#LearnToRead
#redplanet #story #oxfordreadingtree #english languagelearning #oxfordstories #englishstories#biffchipandkipperstories #englishstory #englishfairytales #theredplanet #englishpractice
Red Planet story written by Roderick Hunt and illustrated by Alex Brychta
Robert Anson Heinlein was an American science fiction author, aeronautical engineer, and naval officer. Sometimes called the "dean of science fiction writers", he was among the first to emphasise scientific accuracy in his fiction and was therefore a pioneer of the subgenre of hard science fiction.
Thanks for watching.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_A._Heinlein
#RobertHeinlein #sciencefiction #classicsciencefiction
____________________________________________________________________
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____________________________________________________________________
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MY SCI-FI NOVELS
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DELPHINE DESCENDS
After her family is killed and her homeworld occupied, young Kathreen Martin is sent to the distant world of Furoris for re-education. She will live the rest of her life as a serf – to be bought and sold as a commodity of the Imperial Network.
When her only chance of escape is ruined, a chance mistaken identity offers her a new life as the orphaned daughter of a First-Citizen Senator and heiress to a vast fortune.
She vows to claw her way into power to sit among the worlds’ elite. Then, with her own hands, she will reap bloody vengeance on them all.
But to beat them, she must play their game. And she must play it better than them all.
BLACK MILK
Prometheus has the chance to bring his wife back from the dead, but doing so will mean the destruction of Earth.
Spanning time, planets and dimensions, Black Milk draws to a climactic point in a post-apocalyptic future, where humanity, stranded with no planet to call home, fights to survive against a post-human digital entity that pursues them through the depths of space.
Five lives separated by aeons are inextricably linked by Prometheus’s actions:
Ystil.3 is an AI unit sent back in time from the distant future to investigate Prometheus’s discovery...
The mysterious Lydia has devoted her life to finding a planet that the last remaining humans can call home…
Tom Jones (he’s a HUGE fan!) is an AI trapped inside a digital subspace, lost and desperate to find his way back to his beloved in real-time…
Dr Norma Stanwyck is a neuroscientist from 24th Century Earth whose personal choices ripple throughout time...
Prometheus must learn the necessity of death or the entire universe will be swallowed by his grief.
____________________________________________________________________
GOODREADS
You can stalk me on Goodreads to see what I'm currently reading. https://bit.ly/3rrcByD
____________________________________________________________________
IMAGE USE
The images in my videos are mostly licensed stock photos. However, occasionally I will use images found online. I always seek to properly credit artists and offer a link back to their amazing work but sometimes it's hard to find the original source of the work. If I've used an image you own and I haven't credited you, please feel free to get in touch as I am always more than happy to do so.
Join us a we read about Eric's the Bears favourite things and his amazing adventure to the awesome red planet. What will he find? Eric and the Red Planet: A Space Adventure with Numbers by Caroline Glicksman is available on Amazon here: http://fave.co/2vxPcgf
If you like my sci-fi analysis, try my books. The Stars Entwined is the first in my big universe which I'm building, start here: http://bit.ly/starsentwined
Welcome to the Red's Planet Youtube channel! Get a sneak peek at Red's Planet, a graphic novel by Eddie Pittman, published by Amulet Books, a division of Abrams Books. Get your copy here: http://www.redsplanet.com/comic/buy-t...
"Daily Beetle" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
A pair of novels that finally breath life into the characters created by DAVID BOWIE
Literatures first ever twin books
Twin books are neither prequel, nor sequel or differing viewpoint of the same story. They are simultaneously released, only the reader can decide which to read first.
"The backstory to the character Ziggy Stardust."
"Being a long time Bowie fan I get such a kick out of all the references and how well they're blended in. Every time I spot one I get giddy like a school kid."
@oflivious_is_art_about_bowie
"Just to say that I finished the 'other' book this morning – I was really hooked on these 2 stories, they would make a great film or 2."
Janet Haigh
"I'm actually reading these books for the third time, the intriguing story distracts me from discovering little Bowie subtleties."
Andrew Crook
Synopsis:
Thawing a cryonically frozen human from 500 years ago exposes a stable futuristic society to many ancient beliefs. One of those beliefs is religion and its promise to deliver immortality. The super-intelligence that cares for humans (Mother) realises that promise remains unfulfilled. Without the ability to understand the true meaning of being human, she sees an opportunity to make it a reality. Only a few humans understand that unless her ultimate act of kindness is stopped, she will destroy humanity forever.
For information about the stage production visit Michael-Mendoza.com.
WHAT ARE TWIN BOOKS? - Two intertwined novels released on the same day leaving the reader to decide which to read first. Although each can be enjoyed as a freestanding story in its own right, the stories weave together sharing characters, timelines and plot points. TWINS are neither prequel nor sequel or the same story from different perspectives.
Red Planet is a 1949 science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein about students at boarding school on the planet Mars. It represents the first appearance of Heinlein's idealized Martian elder race (see also Stranger in a Strange Land). The version published in 1949 featured a number of changes forced on Heinlein by Scribner's, since it was published as part of the Heinlein juveniles. After Heinlein's death, the book was reissued by Del Rey Books as the author originally intended.
Plot summary
On Mars, Jim Marlowe and Frank Sutton travel to the Lowell Academy boarding school for the start of the academic year. Jim takes along his native, volleyball-sized pet, Willis the Bouncer, who is about as intelligent as a human child and has a photographic memory for sounds, which he can also reproduce perfectly. At a rest stop, Willis wanders off and encounters one of the adult sentient Martians. The three-legged alien takes the two boys and Willis to join a ritual called "growing together" with a group of its fellows. They also share water, making Jim and Frank "water friends" with the Martian, who is named Gekko.