Remnants of race science

Remnants of Race Science

The Remnants of Race Science traces the influence of ideas from the Global South on UNESCOÂ’s race campaign, illuminating its relationship to notions

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Philosophy of Science and Race

In this concisely argued short book, philosopher Naomi Zack explores the scientific and philosophical problems in applying a biological conception of

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Race and the Making of American Political Science

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Cambridge Handbook of Race and Surveillance

In this handbook, leading scholars in criminology, critical race studies, history, indigenous studies, law, philosophy, political science, psychology,

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How to Argue With a Racist : History, Science, Race and Reality - Rutherford Adam

Anotace: Racist pseudoscience may be on the rise, but science is no ally to racists. Instead science and history can be powerful allies against bigotry, granting us the clearest view of how people actually are, rather than how we judge them to be. HOW TO ARGUE WITH A RACIST dismantles outdated notions of race by illuminating what modern genetics can and can`t tell us abo...

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'Race Is Everything'

An examination of 'racial science' in the 19th and early 20th century, and how art was influenced by it.

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Race Car Design

An innovative text covering the fundamentals of design including the chassis frame, suspension, steering, brakes, transmission and fuel systems using the basic principles of engineering science and mathematics. For students on motorsport degree courses, those involved in Formula Student/FSAE and practicing car designers and constructors.

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Key Concepts in Race and Ethnicity

An accessible exploration of both long standing and contemporary arguments within this key area of social science teaching and research.

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Quantum Supremacy: How Quantum Computers will Unlock the Mysteries of Science - and Address Humanity´s Biggest Challenges - Kaku Michio

Anotace: An exhilarating guide to the astonishing future of quantum computing, from the international bestselling physicistThe runaway success of the microchip processor may be nearing its end, with profound implications for our economy, society and way of life, even leaving Silicon Valley as a new Rust Belt, its technology obsolete. Step forward the quantum computer, wh...

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Quantum Supremacy: How Quantum Computers will Unlock the Mysteries of Science - and Address Humanity´s Biggest Challenges - Michio Kaku

<p>An exhilarating guide to the astonishing future of quantum computing, from the international bestselling physicistThe runaway success of the microchip processor may be nearing its end, with profound implications for our economy, society and way of life, even leaving Silicon Valley as a new Rust Belt, its technology obsolete. Step forward the quantum computer, whi...

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The Atlantis Gene - A.G. Riddle

<p>70,000 years ago, the human race almost went extinct. We survived, but no one knows how. Now the countdown to the next stage of human evolution is about to begin. Will we survive this time? An exhilarating thriller that reveals the secrets of modern science and ancient conspiracies.</p>

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Sound of Culture

Investigates the parallel and intertwined histories of race, technology, and science fiction

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Heretics of Dune (0593098269)

Kniha - autor Frank Herbert, 688 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná Book Five in the Magnificent Dune Chroniclesthe Bestselling Science Fiction Adventure of All TimeLeto Atreides, the God Emperor of Dune, is dead. In the fifteen hundred years since his passing, the Empire has fallen into ruin. The great Scattering saw millions abandon the crumbling civilizatio...

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Heretics of Dune

Book Five in the Magnificent Dune Chronicles -the Bestselling Science Fiction Adventure of All TimeLeto Atreides, the God Emperor of Dune, is dead. In the fifteen hundred years since his passing, the Empire has fallen into ruin. The great Scattering saw millions abandon the crumbling civilization and spread out beyond the reaches of known space.The planet Arrakis - now ca...

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The Race Against Time: Adventures in Late-Life Running - Askwith Richard

Anotace: A transformational quest for the secrets of happy, healthy, whole-life running that will change the way you think about growing older.Colourful, informative and inspiring, The Race Against Time is a story of cold science and heart-warming resilience; of champions and also-rans; of sprinting centenarians and forty-something super-athletes barely touched by age. I...

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The Race Against Time: Adventures in Late-Life Running - Richard Askwith

<p>A transformational quest for the secrets of happy, healthy, whole-life running that will change the way you think about growing older.Colourful, informative and inspiring, The Race Against Time is a story of cold science and heart-warming resilience; of champions and also-rans; of sprinting centenarians and forty-something super-athletes barely touched by age. It...

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Every Living Thing: The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life - Jason Roberts

<p>The dramatic, globe-spanning and meticulously-researched story of two scientific rivals and their race to survey all life. In the 18th century, two men dedicated their lives to the same daunting task: identifying and describing all life on Earth. Their approaches could not have been more different. Carl Linnaeus, a pious Swedish doctor with a huckster's flair, be...

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Dragon Ball Z 1 - Akira Toriyama

<p>Sci-Fi martial arts action! After years of training and adventure, Goku has become Earth's ultimate warrior. And his son, Gohan, shows even greater promise. But the stakes are increasing as even deadlier enemies threaten the planet. DRAGON BALL Z is the ultimate science fiction-martial arts manga. Son Goku is the greatest hero on Earth. Five years after defeati...

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Heretics of Dune - Frank Herbert

Anotace: Book Five in the Magnificent Dune Chronicles-the Bestselling Science Fiction Adventure of All Time Leto Atreides, the God Emperor of Dune, is dead. In the fifteen hundred years since his passing, the Empire has fallen into ruin. The great Scattering saw millions abandon the crumbling civilization and spread out beyond the reaches of known space. The planet Arra...

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Children of Time - Adrian Tchaikovsky

<p>Winner of the 30th anniversary Arthur C. Clarke Award for Best Novel. Adrian Tchaikovksy's critically acclaimed novel Children of Time, is the epic story of humanity's battle for survival on a terraformed planet. Who will inherit this new Earth? The last remnants of the human race left a dying Earth, desperate to find a new home among the stars. Following in th...

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Shards of Earth - Adrian Tchaikovsky

<p>From the author of the thrilling science-fiction epic Children of Time, winner of the prestigious Arthur C. Clarke Award. Shards of Earth is the first high-octane, far-future space adventure in Adrian Tchaikovsky's Final Architecture trilogy.'One of the most interesting and accomplished writers in speculative fiction' - Christopher PaoliniThe war is over. Its her...

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Heretics of Dune, 1. vydání - Frank Herbert

<p>Book Five in the Magnificent Dune Chronicles--the Bestselling Science Fiction Adventure of All Time Leto Atreides, the God Emperor of Dune, is dead. In the fifteen hundred years since his passing, the Empire has fallen into ruin. The great Scattering saw millions abandon the crumbling civilization and spread out beyond the reaches of known space. The planet Arrak...

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The Lights of Prague - Nicole Jarvis

<p>For readers of VE Schwab and the Witcher, science and magic clash in atmospheric gaslight-era Prague </p> <p>In the quiet streets of Prague all manner of mysterious creatures lurk in the shadows. Unbeknownst to its citizens, their only hope against the tide of predators are the dauntless lamplighters – secret elite of monster hunters whose light stave...

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The Lights of Prague - Jarvis Nicole

Anotace: In the quiet streets of Prague all manner of otherworldly creatures lurk in the shadows. Unbeknownst to its citizens, their only hope against the tide of predators are the dauntless lamplighters - a secret elite of monster hunters whose light staves off the darkness each night. Domek Myska leads a life teeming with fraught encounters with the worst kind of evil:...

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The Future of Geography - Marshall Tim

Anotace: Spy satellites orbiting the moon. Space metals worth more than most countries` GDP. People on Mars within the next ten years.This isn`t science fiction. It`s astropolitics.Humans are heading up and out, and we`re taking our power struggles with us. Soon, what happens in space will shape human history as much the mountains, rivers and seas have on Earth. It`s no ...

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The Future of Geography - Tim Marshall

<p>Spy satellites orbiting the Moon. Space metals worth billions. Humans on Mars within our lifetimes. This isn’t science fiction. It’s astropolitics.</p> <p>We’re entering a new space race – and it could revolutionise life on Earth.</p> <p>Space: the new frontier, a wild and lawless place. It is already central to communication, economics, m...

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Guardians of the Galaxy - Annihilation: Conquest - Deneen Brendan

Anotace: Witness the iconic Marvel heroes come together for the first time in this action-packed adventure to protect the galaxy from the all-consuming threat of the Phalanx.The Kree Empire is knocked back on its heels when the Phalanx, a cybernetic race that converts hosts using a techno-organic virus, seizes control of Hala, the Kree homeworld. The person who accidenta...

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Guardians of the Galaxy - Annihilation: Conquest - Brendan Deneen

<p>Witness the iconic Marvel heroes come together for the first time in this action-packed adventure to protect the galaxy from the all-consuming threat of the Phalanx. The Kree Empire is knocked back on its heels when the Phalanx, a cybernetic race that converts hosts using a techno-organic virus, seizes control of Hala, the Kree homeworld. The person who accident...

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The War of the Worlds - Wells Herbert George

Anotace: HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics."For a time I believed that mankind had been swept out of existence, and that I stood there alone, the last man left alive."When a strange, meteor-like object lands in the heart of England, the inhabitants of Earth find themselves victims of a terrible attack. A ruthless rac...

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The Routledge Companion to the Philosophies of Painting and Sculpture Taylor & Francis Ltd

Comprised of 45 chapters, written especially for this volume by an international team of leading experts, this is the first handbook of its kind. Individual topics include art and cognitive science, evolutionary origins of art, art and perception, pictorial realism, artistic taste, style, issues of race and gender, art and religion, art and philosophy, and the end of art....

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A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived : The Stories in Our Genes - Rutherford Adam

Anotace: A dazzling tour of the latest genetic discoveries which are blurring the boundaries between science and history - 'Brilliant, authoritative, surprising, captivating' BRIAN COX 'A brilliant, authoritative, surprising, captivating introduction to human genetics. You'll be spellbound' Brian Cox<br> This is a story about you. It is the...

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A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived : The Stories in Our Genes - Adam Rutherford

A dazzling tour of the latest genetic discoveries which are blurring the boundaries between science and history - 'Brilliant, authoritative, surprising, captivating' BRIAN COX <p>'A brilliant, authoritative, surprising, captivating introduction to human genetics. You'll be spellbound' Brian Cox</p> <p>This is a story about you. It is the history of who y...

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Cixin Liu´s For the Benefit of Mankind: A Graphic Novel - Cch´-Sin Liou

Anotace: Welcome to The Worlds of Cixin Liu, a series of graphic novels created by 35 artists - including writers, illustrators and colourists - from 13 countries, to salute the unique imagination of China`s science fiction grandmaster.Earth. Our home. The sole planet within our solar system capable of sustaining human life. A truly unique ecosystem. Unique, that is, but...

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The Future of Geography: How Power and Politics in Space Will Change Our World - A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER - Tim Marshall

<p>AN INSTANT #2 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'A fascinating and crucial insight into how, even as humanity moves upwards into the final frontier, we'll be influenced by the geographies of space. Marshall has done it again!' Professor Lewis Dartnell, author of Being Human Space: the biggest geopolitical story of the coming century - new from the multi-million-copy in...

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Abaddon´s Gate: Book 3 of the Expanse (now a Prime Original series) - Corey James S. A.

Anotace: A special edition hardcover that celebrates the third book in the NYT bestselling and Hugo award-winning Expanse series. Abaddon`s Gate opens the door to the ruins of an alien gate network, and the crew of the Rocinante may hold the key to unlocking its secrets. Now a Prime Original series. This special edition hardcover includes: A striking new coverStained e...

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Abaddon´s Gate: Book 3 of the Expanse (now a Prime Original series) - James S. A. Corey

<p>A special edition hardcover that celebrates the third book in the NYT bestselling and Hugo award-winning Expanse series. Abaddon's Gate opens the door to the ruins of an alien gate network, and the crew of the Rocinante may hold the key to unlocking its secrets. Now a Prime Original series. This special edition hardcover includes: A striking new coverStained ed...

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Time Machine - Herbert George Wells

Anotace: A Victorian scientist and inventor creates a machine for propelling himself through time, and voyages to the year AD 802701, where he discovers a race of humanoids called the Eloi. Their gently indolent way of life, set in a decaying cityscape, leads the scientist to believe that they are the remnants of a once great civilization. He is forced to revise this ass...

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The Time Machine, 1. vydání - Herbert George Wells

<p>A Victorian scientist and inventor creates a machine for propelling himself through time, and voyages to the year AD 802701, where he discovers a race of humanoids called the Eloi. Their gently indolent way of life, set in a decaying cityscape, leads the scientist to believe that they are the remnants of a once great civilization. He is forced to revise this asse...

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Celestial

An alternative history set during the heyday of the space race. Combining cerebral science fiction with popular history, this is a remarkable examinat

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Celestial

An alternative history set during the heyday of the space race. Combining cerebral science fiction with popular history, this is a remarkable examinat

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Blue, Beautiful World

As first contact transforms Earth, a team of gifted visionaries race to create a new future in this wondrous science fiction novel from the award-w

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Blue, Beautiful World

As first contact transforms Earth, a team of gifted visionaries race to create a new future in this wondrous science fiction novel from the award-w

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African Nationalism Taylor & Francis Ltd

African Nationalism offers an innovative perspective on the creation of nations and nationalism, and the role of race in nationalism overall, by bringing together a compilation of debates on African nationalism, from Pan-Africanism up to the present day. This volume is important reading for students and scholars of nationalism, history, political science, and African stud...

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Chapterhouse: Dune (0593098277)

Kniha - 624 stran, anglicky, Brožovaná bez přebalu matná - autor Frank Herbert, 624 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná Frank Herbert's Final Novel in the Magnificent Dune Chronicles—the Bestselling Science Fiction Adventure of All Time. The desert planet Arrakis, called Dune, has been destroyed. The remnants of the Old Empire have been consumed by the violent ...

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Chapterhouse: Dune

Frank Herbert's Final Novel in the Magnificent Dune Chronicles the Bestselling Science Fiction Adventure of All TimeThe desert planet Arrakis, called Dune, has been destroyed. The remnants of the Old Empire have been consumed by the violent matriarchal cult known as the Honored Matres. Only one faction remains a viable threat to their total conquest the Bene Gesserit, hei...

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Chapterhouse: Dune - Herbert Frank

Anotace: Frank Herbert's Final Novel in the Magnificent Dune Chronicles-the Bestselling Science Fiction Adventure of All Time The desert planet Arrakis, called Dune, has been destroyed. The remnants of the Old Empire have been consumed by the violent matriarchal cult known as the Honored Matres. Only one faction remains a viable threat to their total conquest-the B...

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Chapterhouse: Dune, 1. vydání - Frank Herbert

<p>Frank Herbert's Final Novel in the Magnificent Dune Chronicles--the Bestselling Science Fiction Adventure of All Time The desert planet Arrakis, called Dune, has been destroyed. The remnants of the Old Empire have been consumed by the violent matriarchal cult known as the Honored Matres. Only one faction remains a viable threat to their total conquest--the Bene G...

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The Time Machine (0141199342)

Kniha - autor Herbert George Wells, 106 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná 'Great shapes like big machines rose out of the dimness, and cast grotesque black shadows, in which dim spectral Morlocks sheltered from the glare'When a Victorian scientist propels himself into the year 802,701 AD, he is initially delighted to find that suffering has been replaced by b...

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Seveneves (0008132542)

Kniha - autor Neal Stephenson, 868 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná Combines science, philosophy, technology, psychology and literature in a work of speculative fiction. When a catastrophic event renders the earth a ticking time bomb, it triggers a feverish race against the inevitable.

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Nightflyers and Other Stories - George R.R. Martin

Anotace: An epic collection of science fiction tales around space exploration and cosmic horror by the #1 bestselling author of A Game of Thrones - with the titular story, Nightflyers, coming to Netflix in 2018 On a voyage toward the boundaries of the known universe, nine misfit academics seek out first contact with a shadowy alien race. But another enigma is the Nightfl...

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Nightflyers and Other Stories

An epic collection of science fiction tales around space exploration and cosmic horror by the #1 bestselling author of A Game of Thrones - with the titular story, Nightflyers, coming to Netflix in 2018 On a voyage toward the boundaries of the known universe, nine misfit academics seek out first contact with a shadowy alien race. But another enigma is the Nightflyer itself...

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Vampire Hunter D Omnibus 1 - Hideyuki Kikuchi

<p>The aristocratic vampire lords known as the Nobles inherited our world, and with dark science and immortal patience made real the things that mortals had merely dreamed, whether voyaging to the distant stars, or conjuring monsters to roam the Earth. Yet the grand civilization of the Nobles has grown decadent, and as the terrorized remnants of humanity at last fo...

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ANGELS AND DEMONS - Dan Brown

Anotace: The explosive Robert Langdon thriller from Dan Brown, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Da Vinci Code and Inferno-now a major film directed by Ron Howard and starring Tom Hanks and Felicity Jones. Angels & Demons careens from enlightening epiphanies to dark truths as the battle between science and religion turns to war. This is the book that start...

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Parasyte 6 - Hitoshi Iwaaki

<p>A horrific science fiction story complete with sweet romance, imaginatively grotesque images, and a spine-tingling evaluation of human nature.ENEMY MINEShinichi has been hiding his true nature from the world- His body has been colonized by an alien being, and now he's half-human, half-alien. The other alien invaders, led by the cruel and beautiful Tamura, have di...

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Guns, Germs and Steel - Jared Mason Diamond

<p>'A book of big questions, and big answers' Yuval Noah Harari, bestselling author of Sapiens </p> <p>Why has human history unfolded so differently across the globe? And what can it teach us about our current crisis?</p> <p>Jared Diamond puts the case that geography and biogeography, not race, moulded the contrasting fates of Europeans, Asia...

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Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance

The last days of man are at hand.. Two years after the Infinite War the once great warring nations now lie in ruins, and humanity’s hope for a brighter future is nothing but a bitter memory. A new, seemingly unstoppable enemy, supported by the zealots of The Order, now seeks to eradicate mankind: UEF, Aeon Loyalist, and Cybran alike. With their backs against the wal...

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Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance (PC)

The last days of man are at hand.. Two years after the Infinite War the once great warring nations now lie in ruins, and humanity&rsquo;s hope for a brighter future is nothing but a bitter memory. A new, seemingly unstoppable enemy, supported by the zealots of The Order, now seeks to eradicate mankind: UEF, Aeon Loyalist, and Cybran alike. With their backs against the...

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Invisible Planets - Liu Ken

Anotace: Here are thirteen short stories from the new frontiers of Chinese science fiction, selected and translated by Hugo, Nebula, Locus and World Fantasy Award-winner Ken Liu.Hao Jingfang`s Hugo-Award-Winning `Folding Beijing` takes place in a near-future dystopia where the title city`s buildings fold into and out of the earth, allowing three different strata of socie...

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The Whisperer in Darkness and Other Tales - Howard Phillips Lovecraft

<p>When strange things are reported to be floating in rivers in rural Vermont after a flood, old myths about hill-dwelling monsters who abduct humans resurface in subsequent debates, much to the annoyance of local academic Albert N. Wilmarth. However, when he starts receiving letters from a man named Henry Wentworth Akeley about the supposed presence near his farmho...

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Nightflyers &amp; Other Stories - George Raymond Richard Martin

<p>From #1 bestselling author of A Game of Thrones: Nightflyers, coming to television on SyFy, is an epic story of space exploration and cosmic horror, plus five George R. R. Martin classic science fiction tales. On a voyage toward the boundaries of the known universe, nine misfit academics seek out first contact with a shadowy alien race.</p><p>But anot...

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