Our story begins in the squalid corridors of a maximum-security housing project, where a young girl will rise from the war-torn streets of Chicago to battle injustice in a world insane with corruption. She will be called a hero, a traitor, and nearly everything in between, but all along the way, her courage, her integrity, and her unwavering commitment to that most valuable of right - liberty - will inspire a movement that will never surrender. A masterpiece nearly twenty years in the making, this archival volume contains the complete life story of freedom-fighter Martha Washington.
The chronicle of adventures of the survey ship Sarafand as it journeys through space exploring and mapping newly-discovered planets. The mission bring them into contact with many startling life-forms and menacing aliens. On one world the Sarafand sends out six survey modules and seven return...one of themis a shape-changing, malevolent alien - but which? On another planet they discover a humanoid civilisation which can move around in time. Suddenly the Sarafand investigators are marooned millions of years in the past. Finally, the Sarafand and its crew are stranded ina distant galxy where everything - including them - is shrinking inexorably to zero size...
Alien worlds have always been a central excitement in science fiction. Imaginary landscapes, some surreal, others realistic, are highly important to the novels in which they are contained. Many of these worlds are carefully contructed, realistically detailed and vividly imagined. <b>Alien Landscapes</b> explores ten of the best-known worlds with a detailed text explaining their history and politics, climate, geography, flora and fauna and their location in the Galaxy. All are brilliantly visualised in 30 original paintings, specially commissioned from ten of the best sf and fantasy illustrators. See in full color the spectacular worlds of <b>Arthur C. Clarke's <i>Rama</i>; Anne McCaffrey's <i>Pern</i>; </b>the <b> <i>Okie Cities</i> </b> of <b>James Blish; Hal Clement's <i>Mesklin</i>; Harry Harrison's <i>Eros</i>; </b>the <b> <i>Arrakis</i> </b> of <b>Frank Herbert's Dune; Larry Niven's <i>Ringworld</i>; <i>Trantor</i></b> from <b>Asimov's Foundation Trilogy; Brian Aldiss's <i>Hothouse</i></b> and the <b> <i>End of the World</i> </b> of <b>H.G. Wells.</b> These illustrations give an inspired reality to life and times "out there" from the full planetary view right down to the details of landscapes and society. Illustrators: <i>Rama</i> by <b>Jim Burns</b> <i>Pern</i> by <b>Roger and Linda Garland</b> <i>Okie Cities</i> by <b>John Harris</b> <i>Mesklin</i> by <b>Tony Roberts</b> <i>Eros</i> by <b>Colin Hay</b> <i>Arrakis</i> by <b>Terry Oakes</b> <i>Ringworld</i> by <b>Stuart Hughes</b> <i>Trantor</i> by <b>Angus McKie</b> <i>Hothouse</i> by <b>Bob Fowke</b> <i>End of the World</i> by <b>Les Edwards</b>
