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Temporal Shadows

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The year is 2052. Humanity's first interstellar intercept mission is about to change everything.When a three-kilometer alien object designated IXO is detected on a trajectory toward Earth, astrophysicist Dr. Lukas Novak is chosen to lead a four-person crew aboard the Sentinel to intercept it. What begins as a scientific expedition becomes something far more profound when they encounter the ... Read more

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The year is 2052. Humanity's first interstellar intercept mission is about to change everything.When a three-kilometer alien object designated IXO is detected on a trajectory toward Earth, astrophysicist Dr. Lukas Novak is chosen to lead a four-person crew aboard the Sentinel to intercept it. What begins as a scientific expedition becomes something far more profound when they encounter the
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • How will Artificial Intelligence affect crime, war, justice, jobs, society and our very sense of being human? The rise of AI has the potential to transform our future more than any other technology—and there’s nobody better qualified or situated to explore that future than Max Tegmark, an MIT professor who’s helped mainstream research on how to keep AI beneficial.How ... Read more

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • How will Artificial Intelligence affect crime, war, justice, jobs, society and our very sense of being human? The rise of AI has the potential to transform our future more than any other technology—and there’s nobody better qualified or situated to explore that future than Max Tegmark, an MIT professor who’s helped mainstream research on how to keep AI beneficial.How
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Solar Express

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Solar Express, the thrilling, new, hard science fiction novel from New York Times bestselling author L. E. Modesitt, Jr.You can't militarize space. This one rule has led to decades of peaceful development of space programs worldwide. However, increasing resource scarcity and a changing climate on Earth's surface is causing some interested parties to militarize, namely India, the North American ... Read more

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Solar Express, the thrilling, new, hard science fiction novel from New York Times bestselling author L. E. Modesitt, Jr.You can't militarize space. This one rule has led to decades of peaceful development of space programs worldwide. However, increasing resource scarcity and a changing climate on Earth's surface is causing some interested parties to militarize, namely India, the North American
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The Age of Spiritual Machines

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Understanding Artificial Intelligence

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Drawn from the pages of Scientific American and collected here for the first time, this work contains updated and condensed information, made accessible to a general popular science audience, on the subject of artificial intelligence. ... Read more

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Drawn from the pages of Scientific American and collected here for the first time, this work contains updated and condensed information, made accessible to a general popular science audience, on the subject of artificial intelligence.
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Interstellar

The Search for Extraterrestrial Life and Our Future in the Stars

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“The world's leading alien hunter” —New York Times MagazineFrom acclaimed Harvard astrophysicist and bestselling author of Extraterrestrial comes a mind-expanding new book on space exploration explaining why becoming an interstellar species is imperative for humanity’s survival and detailing a game plan for how we can settle among the stars.In the New York Times bestseller Extraterrestrial,</e... ... Read more

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Trope-ing the Light Fantastic

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The essential resource for anyone who reads, writes, watches, or studies science fiction.Men have walked on the Moon. Siri and Alexa manage—at least often enough to be helpful—to make sense of the things we say. Biologists have decoded DNA, and doctors have begun to tailor treatments to suit our individual genetic make-ups. In short: science and tech happen.But faster-than-light travel? Time ... Read more

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The study of astronomy offers an unlimited opportunity to obtain a deeper understanding of our planet, the solar system, galaxy milk, and the known universe. Using the Linglanguage approach that has proven to be very popular in the other Fleisch student guides, this book is ideal for the largest of the notices that take introductory astronomy courses. The authors face the problems that students ... Read more

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This book is for anyone enthralled by the romantic dream of a voyage 'to the stars.' From our current viewpoint in the twenty-first century, crewed interstellar travel will be an exceptionally difficult undertaking. It will require building a spacecraft on a scale never before attempted, at vast cost, relying on unproven technologies. Yet somehow, through works of science fiction, TV and movies, ... Read more

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Blueprint for a Battlestar

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