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Journal of an Adventure Through Time and Space: Journal of an Adventure Through Time and Space 36 reviews
D. J. Machale
Turtleback Books Distributed by Demco Media, 2004
The Adventure Continues...YESTERDAY!
D. J. MacHale wrote for television for years before turning his attention to novels. He created ARE YOU AFRAID OF THE DARK?, a long-running series on Nickelodeon in the United States, but it also showed in Canada on YTV and Cinar.
For the last few years, he's been writing the adventures of Bobby Pendragon, a boy who's destined - hopefully - to save the world. Several worlds, actually. Bobby ...
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Time Windows45 reviews
Kathryn Reiss
Harcourt Paperbacks, 2000
Creative
I've heard of "gentle readers" but this author is a "gentle writer". She has taken a subject that could be horrifying for kids and made it a "spooky adventure". When I was a little girl I had a metal dollhouse with little rubber people and hard plastic furniture. To me it was a mansion with soft contours and real life. As an adult I love the giant dollhouse at the Smithsonian and reading ...
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A Man on The Moon: 3 Volume Illustrated Commemorative Boxed Set118 reviews
Andrew Chaikin
Time Life Medical, 1998
A Recreation of Wonder
This book vividly paints the picture of the voyages and lives of the Apollo astronauts. It is exhaustively detailed; so much so that you often feel as if the astronauts are telling their own stories in real time. For true fans of the Apollo era this is the comprehensive story of the greatest adventure man has ever undertaken.
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Black Holes and Time Warps: Einstein's Outrageous Legacy (Commonwealth Fund Book Program)86 reviews
Kip S. Thorne
W. W. Norton & Company, 1995
Just nice!
Really makes difficult concepts understandable in addition it is a
joy to read. Not like a boring or overwhelming text book.
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Enchantress from the Stars36 reviews
Sylvia Louise Engdahl
Simon Pulse, 1989
What a classic
This is a re-read from my youth and I am glad that it has been reissued. I love all of Engdahl's work and I only wish that she would write more after her long dry period. A well-writte intelligent and charming female protagonist learns and grows within a setting much like early (good) Andre Norton- reminiscent of Ice Crown, in fact.
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The Rise of the Wyrm Lord: The Door Within Trilogy - Book Two33 reviews
Wayne Thomas Batson
Thomas Nelson, 2007
The Adventures of a Headstrong Girl Who Does Something Truly Brave or Truly Stupid or Possibly Both
Mr. Batson takes another big risk in this sequel to The Door Within because he comes dangerously close to repeating the plot of the first novel, just with a girl hero instead of a boy. Fortunately, he avoids the error. Antoinette Reed is in many ways following in the footsteps of Aidan Thomas but precisely because her path to belief and her personality is so different from Aidan's, her ...
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The Final Storm (The Door Within Trilogy, Book 3)38 reviews
Wayne Thomas Batson
Thomas Nelson, 2006
The Adventures of Someone I Didn't Expect
Mr. Batson brings his trilogy to a satisfying conclusion here (though I would like to have learned what became of Faethon) in this finale to The Door Within and The Rise of the Wyrm Lord, in the process having King Eliam issue a call to a character I did not expect to receive one. The cataclysmic events set in motion during The Rise of the Wyrm Lord continue at that relentless "Batson pace" so ...
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The Door Within: The Door Within Trilogy - Book One79 reviews
Wayne Thomas Batson
Thomas Nelson, 2007
An Excellent Tale
When Aidan Thomas and his family have to move halfway across the country to care for his aging grandfather, the disgruntled teenager knows that life will never be the same. What he doesn't know is exactly how different life will be. The discovery in the basement of mysterious scrolls with a fascinating but unfinished story leads Aidan to seek the Door Within and travel to a world of noble ...
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The end of eternity (The Lancer science fiction library)53 reviews
Isaac Asimov
Lancer Books, 1963
This Book is Why I'm a Time Travel Fan
Time travel is a great, speculative sub-genre of scifi. Although mildly dated this is book highly worthwhile. Asimov's storytelling and imagination are legendary due to works like this.
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Astronomy Hacks: Tips and Tools for Observing the Night Sky56 reviews
Robert Thompson, Barbara Fritchman Thompson
O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2005
Useful Book
This book has lots of good ideas in it.
Well worth the money.
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Coming of Age in the Milky Way29 reviews
Timothy Ferris
William Morrow & Co, 1988
"Cosmic"
What a story! And yes, I said story because the author has taken subjects most of us take for granted (the size of the heavens, the age of the Earth, the intricacies of the atom) and turned these into a wonderful almost joyous tale of intellectual achievement. I am still stunned at the depth of scholarship, the vast research and the almost magical manner in which Ferris manages to make what ...
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The Children of Green Knowe22 reviews
L. M. Boston
Harcourt Children's Books, 2002
Loved it then, love it now
I first read this book when I was a child (in the 60's) and immediately fell in love with it. It has everything I adore in a book; a little magic, a little ghostliness; an English castle; lovely animal companions; characters from times past; people with manners, morals and down to earth values and last but not least--love. I have re-read this book many times and have just finished listening to ...
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Seeing in the Dark : How Backyard Stargazers Are Probing Deep Space and Guarding Earth from Interplanetary ...21 reviews
Timothy Ferris
Simon & Schuster, 2002
Every Man A Galileo
This is an informative and at times whimsical work about outer space, specifically who is doing the observing and what is being observed. The material goes considerably beyond the title, as only one chapter actually treats of near earth objects [NEO's] at depth, and I am still confused over the author's distinction between "amateur" and "professional" astronomers. With those caveats in mind, ...
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Into That Silent Sea: Trailblazers of the Space Era, 1961-1965 (Outward Odyssey: A People's History of S)31 reviews
Francis French, Colin Burgess
University of Nebraska Press, 2007
Into That Silent Sea
As the author of The All-American Boys, I never miss an opportunity to read space books by others. Into that Silent Sea takes you into the early years of human spaceflight and tells the story in a way that will appeal to both space buffs and the public at large. It is full of little-known facts about well-known Soviet and American space flyers along with new and interesting information about ...
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Raintree County ... Which Had No Boundaries in Time and Space, Where Lurked Musical and Strange Names and ...19 reviews
Ross F. Lockridge
Houghton Mifflin (T), 1984
One of the Best Ever Written
You may have once wandered through an art gallery and while walking between images both beautiful and banal happened upon a painting unlike few you have ever seen before. It was found placed in a more remote part of the exhibit and poorly lit thus causing you to give it a brief glimpse. At first glance, the quaint simplicity caused you to smile yet upon a second look you noticed the ...
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The Principia: Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy22 reviews
Isaac Newton
University of California Press, 1999
A time of Science and Philosophy together
"I hope that, decades from now, when I and my other books have been forgotten, this will still be useful to scholars and students". So spoke Harvard University Professor I. Bernard Cohen some years before his death in 2003. His co-translator Anne Whitman had died in 1984. The translation and the extraordinary commentary is 974 pages long and took 15 years to complete. I have had this edition for ...
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In the Shadow of the Moon: A Challenging Journey to Tranquility, 1965-1969 (Outward Odyssey: A People's ...21 reviews
Francis French, Colin Burgess
University of Nebraska Press, 2007
The Best Book I Have Ever Read
There are and have been hundreds if not thousands of books about manned spaceflight over the years but only a select few have really been able to communicate the true story and feeling generated by one of the most fondly remembered era's in American history. A time most commonly remembered as being one of technological marvel. However the true story is one of the men & Women who supported and ...
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Knight's Castle18 reviews
Edward Eager
Turtleback Books Distributed by Demco Media, 2003
Attention history and fantasy lovers!
Four children and a magical toy castle, what could happen? Everything! When Ann and Roger visit their cousins in Baltimore, Roger is given a toy castle, with toy figures from Ivanhoe and other legends. But the tables turn when they find they can become part of the world that Robin Hood, Rebecca, and Maurice De Bracey inhabited. Can the children solve the problems that they cause as they change ...
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Can I Get There by Candlelight?18 reviews
Jean Slaughter Doty, Ted Lewin
MacMillan Publishing Company, 1980
Still a favorite...
I read this book when I was about 11 years old. I'm 33 now and still remember it. It's one of the few books from my youth that I'll pick up and re-read every now and again. This book is the first one that introduced me to fantasy. But it's also mystery, supernatural, and historical as well as a great horse story. When I think of the top ten books that influenced me to become a writer, this is one ...
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Practical Astronomy with your Calculator19 reviews
Peter Duffett-Smith
Cambridge University Press, 1989
Loved it!
If you're into astronomy and like to fly by the seat of your pants, this is your book. Combine it with a good reference, like Burnham's Celestial Handbook.
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