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1) The Martian
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"Six days ago, astronaut Mark Watney became one of the first people to walk on Mars. Now, he's sure he'll be the first person to die there. After a dust storm nearly kills him and forces his crew to evacuate while thinking him dead, Mark finds himself stranded and completely alone with no way to even signal Earth that he's alive--and even if he could get word out, his supplies would be gone long before a rescue could arrive. Chances are, though, he...
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War of the Worlds is a science fiction novel by English author H. G. Wells first serialised in 1897 in the UK by Pearson's Magazine and in the US by Cosmopolitan magazine. The novel's first appearance in hardcover was in 1898 from publisher William Heinemann of London. Written between 1895 and 1897, it is one of the earliest stories that detail a conflict between mankind and an extraterrestrial race. The novel is the first-person narrative of both...
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New Line Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2008]
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English
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David is a widowed science fiction writer who adopts Dennis, a young boy who claims to be from the Red Planet. David believes the child acts strangely in order to process the difficulty he has had in his young life, but soon both David and his sister, Liz, begin to wonder if the boy might be telling the truth.
6) The Martian
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Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
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English
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You May Not Be A Billionaire, But These Stories Can Take You To Space For Free
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After a bad storm blows across Mars, astronaut Mark Watney is presumed dead and left behind. Now stuck on a hostile planet, he must find a way to signal Earth and in the meantime survive on limited supplies.
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MPI Home Video
Pub. Date
[2014]
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English
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Uncle Martin's powers have been greatly expanded. He can generate force fields, dream in two dimensions, project images from the mind's eye, and use 'digital levitation' - but he can't keep from getting Tim into all kinds of trouble.
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Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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Using screen adaptions of Frankenstein, 20,000 leagues Under The Sea, The Time Machine, and The Martian Chronicles, this program illustrates some major themes of science fiction. Students see how this literay form has developed in our century, and why is it so popular. Examples are discussed in terms of their psychological, religious and philosophical contributions.
10) Dinner on Mars: The Technologies That Will Feed the Red Planet and Transform Agriculture on Earth
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English
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From Impossible Burgers to lab-made sushi, two witty, plugged-in food scientists explore leading-edge AgTech for the answer to feeding a settlement on Mars-and nine billion Earthlings too.
Feeding a Martian is one of the greatest challenges in the history of agriculture. Will a Red Planet menu involve cheese and ice cream made from vats of fermented yeast? Will medicine cabinets overflow with pharmaceuticals created from engineered barley grown using...
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Star fighters volume 1
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Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
c2012
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English
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At the Intergalactic Force Academy, a training ground for an elite young fighting team sworn to protect and defend the galaxy, first-year student Peri and half-Martian Diesel witness Earth getting bombarded by Xion spaceships and the pair is quickly drawn into the fray.
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Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2011
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English
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"This collection of wry and witty, dark and perilous contemporary fables and tales is populated by people--and monsters and aliens and animals and inanimate objects--motivated by and grappling with the fears and desires that unite us all."--P. [2] of cover.
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Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2008
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English
Description
"Now in its third edition, this dictionary offers wide-ranging and authoritative coverage of the earth sciences and related topics. In more than 6,250 clear and accessible entries, it covers geology, oceanography, paleontology, mineralogy, volcanology, and planetary science as well as climatology, geochemistry, and petrology. The third edition is fully updated and includes additional coverage of process geomorphology and physical geography, plus more...
14) Stadium arcadium
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Warner Bros. Records
Pub. Date
2006
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English
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Red Hot Chili Peppers join forces again with producer Rick Rubin for their ninth studio album. The album includes the single Dani California along with the song Snow.
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Nickelodeon / Paramount
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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The PAW Patrol emBARKS on eight out-of-this-world adventures! An alien spaceship crash lands at Farmer Yumi2s and the pups help the stranded extra-terrestrial fix his ship. Then, Rubble meets his double aboard an alien spaceship. Finally, Ryder and the pups save Mayor Goodway's party guests when a frightened alien zaps them into floating space bubbles and so much more!
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Ecco
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
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"A literary cavalcade ... featuring more than fifty pieces of the greatest comic writing of our time. The book includes such masters of the form as Roy Blount, Jr., Bruce Jay Friedman, Veronica Geng, Jack Handey, Garrison Keillor, Steve Martin, and Calvin Trillin, as well as work by newer comic stars like Andy Borowitz, Larry Doyle, Simon Rich, George Saunders, and David Sedaris, ... [and] classics by Bret Harte, Elizabeth Bishop, Donald Barthelme,...
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