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  • From This Green Earth
    Sylvia Engdahl
    Sylvia Engdahl became fascinated by the idea of space travel in 1946, and has believed since the early 1950s that expansion of our species to other worlds is vital to the preservation of Earth and the future survival of humankind. Many of the essays in this book express her conviction that we should not be discouraged by the public’s reluctance to support space activity, since ...
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    7,54 €

  • Selected Essays on Enchantress from the Stars and More
    Sylvia Engdahl
    This book consists of essays by the author of Enchantress from the Stars selected from her collections Reflections on Enchantress from the Stars and Other Essays, From This Green Earth: Essays on Looking Outward, and The Future of Being Human and Other Essays, which are available only as ebooks. Because of their length these collections cannot be issued as paperbacks at reasona...
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    7,68 €

  • The Planet-Girded Suns
    Sylvia Engdahl
    Interest in exoplanets--the worlds of other stars--is not new. From the late 17th century until the end of the 19th, almost all educated people believed that the stars are suns surrounded by inhabited planets--a belief that was expressed not in science fiction, but in serious speculation, both scientific and religious, as well as in poetry. Only during the first half of the 20t...
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    12,75 €

  • Herald of the Flame
    Sylvia Engdahl
    As captain of his own starship Estel, Terry Steward, born Terry Radnor, is committed to spreading acceptance of psi powers and other advanced mind capabilities throughout the colonies of humankind. Barred from contact with his beloved planet Maclairn, he now journeys from world to world, heralding the hopeful future about which he alone knows the full truth. But the opponents o...
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    20,00 €

  • Envoy of the Flame
    Sylvia Engdahl
    Ardith Moran is elated by the prospect of contact with extraterrestrial civilizations, elated enough to stake her life on her conviction that they exist after the exploratory expedition’s leaders turn back. The last thing she expects is to fall in love with an alien, much less for their love to play a key role in saving Earth from tyranny and eventual ruin. As a member of the A...
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    16,94 €

  • This Star Shall Abide aka Heritage of the Star
    Sylvia Engdahl
    (This book is known in the UK as Heritage of the Star) Noren can see that his world is not as it should be--it is wrong that only the Scholars, and their representatives the Technicians, can use metal tools and Machines. It’s wrong that only those few have access to the impenetrable City, which he has always longed to enter. Above all, it is wrong for the Scholars to have sole ...
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    12,82 €

  • Children of the Star
    Sylvia Engdahl
    An omnibus edition containing the complete trilogy This Star Shall Abide (known in the UK as Heritage of the Star, Beyond the Tomorrow Mountains, and The Doors of the Universe. Noren can see that his world is not as it should be--it is wrong that only the Scholars, and their representatives the Technicians, can use metal tools and Machines. It’s wrong that only those few have a...
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    26,21 €

  • The Far Side of Evil
    Sylvia Engdahl
    On completion of her training as an agent of the interstellar federation’s Anthropological Service, Elana is sent to a world whose people may soon destroy their civilization. Since not enough is understood about the situation to justify any interference with their evolution, the Service has no power to act; its agents must go as helpless observers, posing as natives, in the hop...
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    13,81 €

  • Journey Between Worlds
    Sylvia Engdahl
    Melinda Ashley has a plan for her life, and a trip to Mars isn’t part of it. When she receives a spaceliner ticket as a high school graduation gift from her dad, she is dismayed, but reluctantly agrees to go with him--in part because she’s infuriated by her fiance’s high-handed declaration that she can’t. Her outlook begins to change when she meets Alex Preston, a second-genera...
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    10,73 €

  • Stewards of the Flame
    Sylvia Engdahl
    When burned-out starship captain Jesse Sanders is seized by a dictatorial medical regime and detained on the colony planet Undine, he has no idea that he is about to be plunged into a bewildering new life that will involve ordeals and joys beyond anything he has ever imagined, as well as the love of a woman with powers that seem superhuman. Still less does he suspect that he mu...
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    21,06 €

  • Promise of the Flame
    Sylvia Engdahl
    Three hundred people in a starship low on life support--they must land fast, or they’ll run out of air. Captain Jesse Sanders is their only pilot. How can he choose where to locate their colony with no chance to explore the raw new world? How can he shuttle them all to the surface within a few short hours? And when the site proves less than adequate, how can he live with the kn...
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    21,06 €

  • Defender of the Flame
    Sylvia Engdahl
    Starship pilot Terry Radnor is elated to be among those chosen to defend the secret colony Maclairn against enemies who pose a threat to the spread of paranormal human mind powers. He commits himself wholly to the goal of that world, not guessing how far his effort to protect it will take him from everything else he cares about--his promising career as a Fleet officer, contact ...
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    18,93 €