In 2025, a new moon of Jupiter suddenly appeared. Circling in the same orbit as Ganymede, Jupiter's formerly largest moon, the hollow metal structure quickly attracted attention. Made of rare alloy and spinning like a top, it was explored and claimed under United Nations Space Administration. Military and government quickly surmised that the purpose was as a beachhead for an alien force, but when they went there, all they found were two Nefra convicts inside.Frightened into world wi...

An authoritative volume representing the vast oeuvre of one of the twentieth century's most brilliant and visionary poets.Widely regarded as some of the most important and innovative poetry from postwar Europe, Tomaž Šalamun's work offers a singularly thrilling reading experience. Sharp and subtle, Šalamun's rhythms intertwine with an incantatory force; his prescient, liberatory politics and poetics pulse like a heartbeat. In Kiss the Eyes of Peace, the hi...

The moon of Jupiter named Trojan was discovered in 2025, and explored by Earth astronauts shortly thereafter, as it appeared to represent a threat for an alien power. As United Nations Space Administration (UNSA) sets out to make international, perhaps interplanetary, claims over this alien phenomenon, they realize the moon is hollow, and harbors some sinister concern for the survival of Earth.Two sets of explorers, one convicts sent from Nefra to set up gravitational transportation...

Your Impossible Voice #25 opens with a story of love, loneliness, and DJs in Argentina, and closes with wayward Taco Bell bandits loose in the Buckeye state. In between, it delivers new short fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction exploring anaphylactic reactions to dust, languages that sound like bonfire flames, dollar-store groceries, golden molars and nectars, witchy weather apps, migraines, matricide, and so much more.Contributors include Cecilia Pavón and Jacob Steinberg, Ro...

A selection of new and previously published poems from a key voice in the new generation of central European post-Communist poets.Aleš Šteger's poetry is multi-layered and technically versatile, ingenious and inventive, adventurous and playful yet serious in intention, and above all, incessantly curious in its investigations which the reader is invited to share – and he loves to ambush the reader with the unexpected.Notable for its moral engagement, his poe...

The poems in Smugglers move through rapid historical shifts and meditations on personal experience, exploring the depths and limits of comprehension through the people and geography of the Balkans. Ultimately, Aleš Debeljak's urban imagination creates a mosaic—intimate and historical—of a vanished people and their country. Every poem in Smugglers is sixteen lines long—four quatrains, a common form for Debeljak. This structural regularity is reinforced by a commitment to v...

Described as “a photographic discovery of the century”, this eBook based on the documentary of the same name uncovers the remarkable story of Lance Corporal George Hackney, the British soldier who took his camera to fight in the battlefields of the Western Front during World War I. Read how his wartime experiences fuelled an unlikely moral quest that was to change his life forever.

From his first book of poems, Chessboards of Hours (1995), Aleš Šteger has been one of Slovenia's most promising poets. The philosophical and lyrical sophistication of his poems, along with his work as a leading book editor and festival organizer, quickly spread Šteger's reputation beyond the borders of Slovenia. The Book of Things is Šteger's most widely praised book of poetry and his first American collection. The book consists of fifty poems that look at "things" (i.e....

I am the last of my type existing today in all the Solar System. I, too, am the last existing who, in memory, sees the struggle for this System, and in memory I am still close to the Center of Rulers, for mine was the ruling type then. But I will pass soon, and with me will pass the last of my kind, a poor inefficient type, but yet the creators of those who are now, and will be, long after I pass forever.So I am setting down my record on the mentatype.

Даследаванне Сонечнай сістэмы і мэты за межамі з'яўляецца запоўніць свой розум з форай ў ведаючы развіццё планетарнай навукі ў сучасным касмічнай эры з гэтай электроннай кнігі. Электронная кніга з'яўляецца простым ў выкарыстанні, асвяжае і гарантавана будзе цікава! Вы можаце прачытаць гэтую кнігу без папярэдняга веды мінулых падзей нашай Сонечнай сістэмы. Шмат што будзе ў гэтым кнігу, такія як наша Сонца, наша Сонечная сістэма, тое, што планета?, Што такое Вялікі Выбух? Планеты нашай Сонеч...

“Fans of Lucas Davenport and Virgil Flowers will eat this up.” --Stephen KingFor fans of THE MARTIAN, an extraordinary new thriller of the future from #1 New York Times–bestselling and Pulitzer Prize–winning author John Sandford and internationally known photo-artist and science fiction aficionado Ctein.Over the course of thirty-seven books, John Sandford has proven time and again his unmatchable talents for electrifying plots, rich characters, sly...

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