tailieunhanh - THE HUNTED EARTH

The Observer did not sense with vision, and the energy was not light, but the Observer’s sensations were analogous to vision. It had been in standby, in watchkeeping mode, for a long time. The something it felt was, to it, a brilliant pinpoint in the darkness, a bright but distant beacon. It correctly interpreted this to mean the source was a small, intensely powerful point of energy at great distance. | THE HUNTED EARTH Book I The Ring of Charon By Roger MacBride Allen To Charles Sheffield-friend colleague and the sanest man in this business Acknowledgments I would like to offer my thanks to a number of people who have been tremendously helpful on this book. Thanks first of all to Charles Sheffield to whom this book is dedicated. He read and critiqued The Ring of Charon but it goes far past that. He deserves a lot more than a book dedication for all his kindnesses to me over the years. He is a good man and a good friend. Read his books. To Debbie Notkin my editor who rode herd on me and did that tricky thing editors must do she forced me to be faithful to my own vision of the book without imposing her own. She got the book focused and moving. To my father Thomas B. Allen who zeroed in on the cuts that needed to be made substantially improving the book you hold in your hands. Read his books too. To practically everyone at Tor Books Ellie Lang Patrick Nielsen Hayden Heather Wood and Tom Doherty. They did more than publish this book. They got behind it. And finally thanks to the others who read over this book and kept me honest my mother Scottie Allen and my friend Rachel Russell. One last thing. This book is subtitled The First Book of the Hunted Earth and yes there will be others. But this book and the next and all the books I have ever written or will ever write stand alone. You ll never pick up a book of mine and not be able to understand it without reading 37 other titles. That s a promise. Roger MacBride Allen April 1990 Washington D. C. Why sometimes I ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast White Queen in Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll Dramatis Personae Note a glossary of terms used in The Ring of Charon can be found at the end of the book. Jansen Alter. A Martian geologist. Sondra Berghoff. Young gravities scientist at the Gravities Research Station Pluto. Wolf Bernhardt. Night shift duty scientist at the Jet Propulsion .

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• new phenomena
• example
• choosing
• mutation
• a modification
• flawed identification
• New Religious Phenomena of Ethnic Minorities
• New Religious Phenomena
• The Central Highlands
• Socio economic development
• systems constantly
• ordered systems
• constrain one another
• forecast or predict
• complex phenomena
• behavior of birds
• Disaster Mitigation
• Natural Disasters
• Natural Phenomena
• Health Infrastructure
• health sector
• Shareholder Activism
• Government Regulations
• Executive Compensation
• Board Responsibility
• Cultural Phenomena
• Performance Based
• Radiation measurements
• Luminescence dosimetry
• R scripts
• Computerized deconvolution of luminescence
• Python scripts
• Open access codes