Fourteen-year-old Alan Broussard is swept up in his science teacher father's community-wide comet-watching activities, which illuminate for the young teen his father's inadequacies, his mother's unhappiness, and his own loss of innocence.
So when a comet comes crashing through the city streets and starts growing into a forest, Nyla can't resist a chance to head somewhere that feels closer to what she had before ... but what starts as an escape could be just the thing to make ...
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A free eBook edition of a science fiction classic. In a vaguely futuristic yet oddly contemporary world, a passing comet casts a shadow of death over Manhattan.
Helen Sedgwick carefully unfolds their surprisingly intertwined paths, moving forward and back through time to reveal how these lovers’ destinies have long been tied to each other by the skies—the arrival of comets great and small.
Desperate to save the human race after a comet's deadly particles devastate the adult population, scientists create a ship that will carry a crew of 251 teenagers to a home in a distant solar system.
A group of men and women, from a shattered society, ride a ball of ice through the solar system in search of a future.
Accompanying Todd was Charles Glidden, the pilot, and Mabel Loomis Todd, the astronomer's extraordinary wife. A historian describes her as follows: Cheerful, talented, sociable, popular enough to arouse jealous gossip, she was capable ...
The years between you will not make a time machine of her your tongue, the unfortunate spark of this forest fire and there is more than enough oxygen between you both old flames never die quick especially when there is plenty of ...
From the critically acclaimed author of Oblivion comes Year of the Comet, a story of a Russian boyhood and coming of age as the Soviet Union is on the brink of collapse.