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TEST OF FIRE 9D
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Artikel-Nr:
9781482911909
Seiten:
0
Gewicht:
249 g
Format:
147x135x28 mm
Beschreibung:
Ben Bova was born in Philadelphia and received his doctorate in education from California Coast University in 1996. The author of over 120 futuristic novels and nonfiction books, he has also been a radio commentator, editor, lecturer, and aerospace industry executive. His articles, opinion pieces, and reviews have appeared in Scientific American, Nature, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and many other publications. His work has earned six Hugo Awards. He received the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Arthur C. Clarke Foundation in 2005, and his novel Titan won the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for the best science fiction novel of 2006.
Cities became ovens, grasslands seas offlame. As the touch of dawn swept westward across the spinning planet,its fiery finger killed everything in its path. Glaciers in Switzerland beganto melt; floodwaters poured down on the burning villages dotting the Alpinemeadows. Paris became a torch, then London. North of the Arctic Circle,Laplanders in their summer furs burst into flame as their reindeer collapsed and roasted onthe smoking tundra. The line of dawn raced westward across the Atlantic,but as it did, the sun dimmed as quickly as it hadflared. The Americas escaped the sun's wrath almost.