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2. The Sun and the Star - Wikipedia

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   The Sun and the Star. The Sun and the Star, also known as The Sun and the Star: A Nico di Angelo Adventure and also as From the World of Percy Jackson: The Sun and the Star: A Nico di Angelo Adventure, is a 2023 American fantasy - adventure middle grade fiction novel based on Greek - Roman classical mythology co-written by authors Rick Riordan ...

3. Wind, Sand and Stars - Wikipedia

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   First U.S. edition book jacket (publisher: Reynal & Hitchcock) Wind, Sand and Stars (French title: Terre des hommes, literally "Land of Men") is a memoir by the French aristocrat aviator-writer Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, and a winner of several literary awards. It was first published in France in February 1939, and was then translated by Lewis ...

4. The Star (Clarke short story) - Wikipedia

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   Publication date. November 1955. " The Star " is a science fiction short story by English writer Arthur C. Clarke. It appeared in the science fiction magazine Infinity Science Fiction in 1955 and won the Hugo Award in 1956. [1] It is collected in Clarke's 1958 book of short stories The Other Side of the Sky, and it was reprinted in the January ...

5. List of nearest stars and brown dwarfs - Wikipedia

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   The closest encounter to the Sun so far predicted is the low-mass orange dwarf star Gliese 710 / HIP 89825 with roughly 60% the mass of the Sun. It is currently predicted to pass 0.1696 ± 0.0065 ly (10 635 ± 500 au) from the Sun in 1.290 ± 0.04 million years from the present, close enough to significantly disturb the Solar System's Oort cloud.

6. Jedi Academy trilogy - Wikipedia

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   The Jedi Academy trilogy is a trilogy of science fiction novels set in the Star Wars Expanded Universe. All three books were written by Kevin J. Anderson and published in 1994. The plot takes place around seven years after the events of the 1983 film Return of the Jedi. The series chronicles Luke Skywalker 's early attempts to rebuild the Jedi ...

7. The Lightning and the Sun - Wikipedia

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   The Lightning and the Sun is a 1958 book by Savitri Devi Mukherji, in which the author outlines her philosophy of history along with her critique of the modern world. [1] [2] The book is known for the author's claim that Adolf Hitler was an avatar of the Hindu God Vishnu .

8. The Dark Side of the Sun - Wikipedia

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   The Dark Side of the Sun is a science fiction novel by Terry Pratchett, first published in 1976. [1] It is similar to the work of Isaac Asimov. [2] According to Don D'Ammassa, both this and Pratchett's 1981 sci-fi novel Strata spoof parts of Larry Niven 's Ringworld. [3] The holiday of Hogswatch, which appears in the Discworld books, is ...

9. G-type main-sequence star - Wikipedia

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   The Sun, a typical example of a G-type main-sequence star. A G-type main-sequence star (spectral type: G-V), also often, and imprecisely, called a yellow dwarf, or G star, is a main-sequence star (luminosity class V) of spectral type G. Such a star has about 0.9 to 1.1 solar masses and an effective temperature between about 5,300 and 6,000 K.