The saga of Earth's first space colonists continues in this riveting novel of their struggle to create a new civilization light-years away from the world-and the problems they thought they left behind.

The revolution that won Coyote's independence from Earth is 20 years past. Coyote's aging computers, aircraft, and medical equipment are badly in need of replacement. And the colony's survival is in question. Now the colony's hard-won independence depends on the descendants of Coyote's original settlers-versus help from Earth that may be more of a detriment than a boon: Former ...(展开全部)

<i>Coyote</i> marks a dramatic new turn in the career of Allen Steele, Hugo Award-winning author of Chronospace. Epic in scope, passionate in its conviction, and set against a backdrop of plausible events, it tells the brilliant story of Earth's first interstellar colonists-and the mysterious planet that becomes their home.

<i>Coyote</i> marks a dramatic new turn in the career of Allen Steele, Hugo Award-winning author of Chronospace. Epic in scope, passionate in its conviction, and set against a backdrop of plausible events, it tells the brilliant story of Earth's first interstellar colonists-and the mysterious planet that becomes their home.

Hugo Award-winning author Allen Steele's critically acclaimed "Coyote" was a dramatic new departure-"a terrific, break-out book" (Robert J. Sawyer) of "classic science-fiction" ("Orlando Sentinel"). But if "Coyote" was a grand novel of interstellar exploration, then "Coyote Rising" is the bold next step-a novel of interstellar revolution. <br /> The crew of the hijacked starshi...(展开全部)

The continuing epic of Earth's first space colonists--and their fight against a repressive government to reclaim their world in the name of freedom.

Two decades have passed since the revolution that won Coyote's independence from Earth. The colony may be free, but its aging computers, aircraft, and medical equipment are badly in need of replacement. The colony's survival is now in question, and help from Earth is imminent. But there are those who fear that aid from the mother world may be more hindrance than help...As the s...(展开全部)

艾伦·斯蒂尔（1958— ），美国科幻小说家，作品以恢宏太空史诗为主，具有前瞻性和预见性。他是资深的航天学者和太空前沿基金会顾问，曾受邀参观约翰逊航天中心，并在美国众议院为太空项目谏言。2008年，斯蒂尔的短篇小说《生活在火星酒店》连同七十余部火星题材科幻作品，收录进了一张DVD并搭乘美国“凤凰号”探测器登陆火星。在三十多年的写作生涯中，斯蒂尔创作了二十五部长篇小说和近百篇短篇小说，作品被翻译成十多种语言。斯蒂尔曾三获雨果奖、两获轨迹奖、六获阿西莫夫读者选择奖，还曾提名星云奖等世界科幻大奖七十余次。

A journey through the otherworldly science behind Christopher Nolan’s highly anticipated film, Interstellar, from executive producer and theoretical physicist Kip Thorne. Interstellar, from acclaimed filmmaker Christopher Nolan, takes us on a fantastic voyage far beyond our solar system. Yet in The Science of Interstellar, Kip Thorne, the physicist who assisted Nolan on the sci...(展开全部)

A compulsively readable literary masterpiece, A Reunion of Ghosts is the shared confessional of three sisters who have decided to kill themselves at the end of the 20th century, honoring the dark legacy that has haunted their extraordinary family for decades How do three sisters write a single suicide note? In the waning days of 1999, the Alter sisters—Lady, Vee, and Delph—fina...(展开全部)