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Family D'Alembert
The Family D'Alembert series is a set of science fiction novels by Stephen Goldin Stephen Charles Goldin (born February 28, 1947) is an American science fiction and fantasy author. Biography Goldin was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. A graduate of UCLA with a bachelor's degree in Astronomy, he worked for the U.S. Navy a ..., the first of which was expanded from the 1964 novella ''The Imperial Stars'' by E. E. "Doc" Smith. The series later served as the basis for Goldin's series Agents of ISIS. Plot Jules and Yvette D'Alembert are a brother and sister team of aerialists in the D'Alembert family ''Circus of the Empire'' and also work as agents in SOTE, "The Service of The Empire", the imperial intelligence agency. Series The series comprises the following books: # '' Imperial Stars'' (1976) # '' Stranglers' Moon'' (1976) # ''The Clockwork Traitor'' (1976) # ''Getaway World'' (1977) # ''Appointment at Bloodstar'', also known as The Bloodstar Conspiracy (1978) # ''The Purit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Science Fiction
Science fiction (sometimes shortened to Sci-Fi or SF) is a genre of speculative fiction which typically deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology, space exploration, time travel, parallel universes, extraterrestrial life, sentient artificial intelligence, cybernetics, certain forms of immortality (like mind uploading), and the singularity. Science fiction predicted several existing inventions, such as the atomic bomb, robots, and borazon, whose names entirely match their fictional predecessors. In addition, science fiction might serve as an outlet to facilitate future scientific and technological innovations. Science fiction can trace its roots to ancient mythology. It is also related to fantasy, horror, and superhero fiction and contains many subgenres. Its exact definition has long been disputed among authors, critics, scholars, and readers. Science fiction, in literature, film, television, and other media, has beco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephen Goldin
Stephen Charles Goldin (born February 28, 1947) is an American science fiction and fantasy author. Biography Goldin was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. A graduate of UCLA with a bachelor's degree in Astronomy, he worked for the U.S. Navy as a civilian space scientist before becoming a full-time writer. He has also worked as a writer and editor for the '' San Francisco Ball'', designed and written manuals for a number of computer games, and co-taught a writing class at the California State University at Northridge. A member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA), he has served as editor of its ''SFWA Bulletin'' and held the position of the association's western regional director. Goldin has been married twice, first to Kathleen Sky (from 1972 to 1982) and later to Mary Mason (from 1987 to present). He has collaborated with both in his fiction. Goldin lives in California. Goldin's "The Last Ghost" was a 1972 nominee for the Nebula Award for best short s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
E E Doc Smith
Edward Elmer Smith (May 2, 1890 – August 31, 1965), publishing as E. E. Smith, Ph.D. and later as E. E. "Doc" Smith, was an American food engineer (specializing in doughnut and pastry mixes) and science-fiction author, best known for the '' Lensman'' and '' Skylark'' series. He is sometimes called the father of space opera. Biography Family and education Edward Elmer Smith was born in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, on May 2, 1890, to Fred Jay Smith and Caroline Mills Smith, both staunch Presbyterians of British ancestry. His mother was a teacher born in Michigan in February 1855; his father was a sailor, born in Maine in January 1855 to an English father.1900 Census, House 1515, Residence 438, Family 371, 3rd Ward of Spokane County, Washington, recorded June 13, 1900, accessed via online census images at heritagequest.com They moved to Spokane, Washington, the winter after Edward Elmer was born, where Mr. Smith was working as a contractor in 1900. In 1902, the family moved to Seneaq ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Imperial Stars
''The Imperial Stars'' is a science fiction novel by Stephen Goldin expanded from a novella by E. E. "Doc" Smith. It is the first in a series of ten Family D'Alembert The Family D'Alembert series is a set of science fiction novels by Stephen Goldin Stephen Charles Goldin (born February 28, 1947) is an American science fiction and fantasy author. Biography Goldin was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. A gr ... novels set in a future where humankind has expanded to the stars but reverted to an ancient feudal system of government in an advanced technological setting. Plot summary In the year 2447 the Empire of Earth comprises more than a thousand inhabited systems. A threat to the Empire has developed that the Imperial secret service SOTE (the Service Of The Empire) has been unable to foil. In desperation they turn to the Family D'Alembert. The D'Alemberts are natives of the high gravity planet DesPlaines, giving them unusual strength, speed and coordination. They pu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stranglers' Moon
''Stranglers' Moon'' is a 1976 science fiction novel by American writer Stephen Goldin, the second book in the Family D'Alembert series, the first of which was expanded by Goldin from a novella by E.E. “Doc” Smith. This is the second in a series of ten Family D'Alembert novels. Set in a future where humankind has expanded to the stars but reverted to an old-style feudal system of government in an advanced technological setting, all known planets and space are ruled by an Earth-based Empire. Plot summary Jules and Yvette D'Alembert are a brother and sister team of aerialists in the D'Alembert family Circus of the Empire. But they are also legendary agents "Wombat" and "Periwinkle" in SOTE, "The Service of The Empire", the imperial intelligence agency, sent to investigate the disappearance of a planetary economist and his wife on a moon devoted to recreation: seemingly a vacationers' paradise... The plot is based in part on Thuggee Thuggee (, ) are actions and crimes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
