Showing results for "Mars" in Literary Fiction

Naomi and Sally Durance are daughters of a dairy farmer from the Macleay Valley. Bound together in complicity by what they consider a crime, when the Great War begins in 1914 they hope to submerge their guilt by leaving for Europe to nurse the tides of young wounded. They head for the Dardanelles on the hospital ship Archimedes. Their education in medicine, valour, and human degradation continues on the Greek island of Lemnos, then on the Western Front. Here, new outrages - gas, shell-shock - present themselves.

“The green warrior decided to close in and end the battle; just as he rushed me, a blinding light struck full in my eyes, so that I could not see Zad’s approach and could only leap blindly to one side to avoid his mighty blade...." Suddenly projected to Mars, John Carter finds himself the captive of the savage green men of Thark. With him is the lovely Dejah Thoris, Princess of Helium. And between them and rescue lay a thousand miles of deadly enemies and unknown dangers.

In the wake of an environmental catastrophe, January, once a principal in London's Royal Ballet, has become a refugee in Tharsis, the terraformed colony on Mars. There, January’s life is dictated by his status as an Earthstronger—a person whose body is not adjusted to lower gravity and so poses a danger to those born on, or naturalized to, Mars. January’s job choices, housing, and even transportation are dictated by this second-class status, and now a xenophobic politician named Aubrey Gale is running on a platform that would make it all worse.

A Princess of Mars is the first novel in Edgar Rice Burroughs's famous "Barsoom" science fiction series. John Carter, a Confederate American Civil War veteran is mysteriously transported to Mars, called "Barsoom" by its inhabitants. Carter finds that he has great strength on this planet, due to its lesser gravity. Carter soon falls in among the Tharks, a nomadic tribe of the planet's warlike, four-armed, green inhabitants.

John Carter, an adventurous soldier and gentleman of Virginia, finds himself mysteriously transported to the planet Mars! There he is captured by the planet's strange inhabitants, fights valiant battles, and finds himself in love with the beautiful prisoner, the Princess Dejah Thoris.

Ovunque è un paesaggio da dopobomba in un’immobilità che sa di preistoria. Cartacce in balìa del vento. Rumori di semafori che cambiano colore. Brusio di insegne di centri commerciali. Respiri di cani randagi sui marciapiedi umidi. Per avere conferma che in questo mondo l’uomo ancora sopravvive, bisogna cercare i teleschermi accesi. Le centinaia di milioni di persone che li guardano immobili sono uno sterminato esercito di terracotta incapace di reagire.

“Erkekler Mars'tan, Kadınlar Venüs'ten” zamana meydan okuyan ve her daim güncelliğini koruyan eşsiz bir klasiktir. Kitabın başarısının sırrı, erkeklerin ve kadınların düşünme, hissetme ve davranma farklılıklarını anlamalarına ve benimsemelerine yardımcı olan basit ama derin kılavuzluğunda yatmaktadır. Bu kitap sayesinde sayısız çift sadece ilişkilerini geliştirmekle kalmamış, aynı zamanda onları dağılma eşiğinden de kurtarmıştır.

Aimee Leduc has her work cut out for her - running her detective agency and fighting off sleep deprivation as she tries to be a good single mother to her new bebe. The last thing she has time for now is to take on a personal investigation for a poor manouche (French Gypsy) boy. But he insists his dying mother has an important secret she needs to tell Aimee, something to do with Aimee's father's unsolved murder a decade ago. How can she say no?

"Il fallait que la planète ferme pour que les cœurs s'ouvrent." Le 17 mars 2020, par la grâce d'un virus, un sans-abri se retrouve confiné avec une créature de rêve. Est-ce la femme qui jadis enflamma son adolescence, une mythomane, une perverse manipulatrice, ou une ultime chance de survie.