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Extreme Planets

By: Chaosium

Type: Novel - Softcover

Product Line: Science Fiction Novels (Chaosium)

Last Stocked on 6/11/2017

Product Info

Title
Extreme Planets
Publisher
Category
Sub-category
Author
David Brin, et. al.
Publish Year
2014
Pages
356
Dimensions
5.5x8.5x1"
NKG Part #
2147555104
MFG. Part #
CHA6055
Type
Novel - Softcover

Description

Two decades ago astronomers confirmed the existence of planets orbiting stars other than our Sun. Today more than 800 such worlds have been identified, and scientists now estimate that at least 160 billion star-bound planets are to be found in the Milky Way Galaxy alone. But more surprising is just how diverse and bizarre those worlds are.

Extreme Planets is a science fiction anthology of stories set on alien worlds that push the limits of what we once believed possible in a planetary environment. Visit the bizarre moons, dwarf planets and asteroids of our own Solar Systems, and in the deeper reaches of space encounter super-Earths with extreme gravity fields, carbon planets featuring mountain ranges of pure diamond, and ocean worlds shrouded by seas hundreds of kilometers thick. The challenges these environments present to the humans that explore and colonies them are many, and are the subject matter of these tales.

Edited by David Conyers, David Kernot, and Jeff Harris. 356 pages. Cover illustration by Paul Drummond. The anthology features 15 tales from leading science fiction authors and rising stars in the genre: