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conversations.value: What is a description for a book titled Orion about Sterling, Kansas, John with the genre: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Fantasy?
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conversations.value: the author lives in Sterling, Kansas, with her husband, John. They reside in a little house full of mismatched furniture, unalphabetized books, and sundry oddities. Sometimes they like to sit on the back steps and listen to the neighbors blast early Queen hits from across the alley. They suspect the abandoned house next door to be full of weirds or cannibals, or both.
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conversations.value: Swap the first and the last sentence.
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conversations.value: They suspect the abandoned house next door to be full of weirds or cannibals, or both. They reside in a little house full of mismatched furniture, unalphabetized books, and sundry oddities. Sometimes they like to sit on the back steps and listen to the neighbors blast early Queen hits from across the alley.the author lives in Sterling, Kansas, with her husband, John.
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conversations.value: What is a description for a book titled Orion about Ghost, Shell, Intron with the genre: Comics & Graphic Novels, Manga?
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conversations.value: Internationally-acclaimed artist the author was born in Japan in 1961. Little else is known about the private life of this artist, except that he enjoys reading and keeps spiders as pets. Even the name he works under is a pseudonym concocted to help conceal his true identity. Despite his efforts to remain anonymous, the world can not get enough of the hermetic but phenomenally talented artist who has published an intense array of science-fiction-themed adventures. the author's impressive body of work includes his multi-volumed "life's work," Appleseed; the mystical sci-fi extravaganza Dominion; his ground-breaking, world-renowned study of the evolution of man with machine, Ghost in the Shell; and dozens of other projects including his first-ever comics work, Black Magic, and the incredibly detailed guides to his art, Intron Depot and Intron Depot II: Blades. the author's entire library of work is available in English through Dark Horse Comics.The artist recently finished his long-anticipated sequel to Ghost in the Shell, Ghost in the Shell II: Man/Machine Interface, which will be published by Dark Horse in early 2002.
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conversations.value: Reverse the sentences.
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conversations.value: The artist recently finished his long-anticipated sequel to Ghost in the Shell, Ghost in the Shell II: Man/Machine Interface, which will be published by Dark Horse in early 2002.. the author's entire library of work is available in English through Dark Horse Comics. the author's impressive body of work includes his multi-volumed "life's work," Appleseed; the mystical sci-fi extravaganza Dominion; his ground-breaking, world-renowned study of the evolution of man with machine, Ghost in the Shell; and dozens of other projects including his first-ever comics work, Black Magic, and the incredibly detailed guides to his art, Intron Depot and Intron Depot II: Blades. Despite his efforts to remain anonymous, the world can not get enough of the hermetic but phenomenally talented artist who has published an intense array of science-fiction-themed adventures. Even the name he works under is a pseudonym concocted to help conceal his true identity. Little else is known about the private life of this artist, except that he enjoys reading and keeps spiders as pets.Internationally-acclaimed artist the author was born in Japan in 1961
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conversations.value: What is the first five paragraphs for this book?
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conversations.value: Orion
  Yet it seemed to me that time and brain size were not the only requirements for the development of intelligence. Intelligence requires interaction among individuals, communication. Had Albert Einstein been left in a wilderness at birth and never met another human being, he would never have developed the ability to speak, let alone do physics.
  Most modern reptile species lay their eggs and never return to them, leaving the hatchlings to fend for themselves. So did most of the dinosaurs, although at least one species of duckbilled dinosaurs apparently cared for their young. For this novel I proposed that the reptilians that evolved on the fictitious planet Shaydan orbiting the equally fictitious star Sheol evolved intelligence through motherly care and a form of telepathy.
  The telepathy is something of a cheat, I admit. But think of your own childhood experiences. Did not your mother have moments of startling telepathic powers?
  The astronomical setting for this novel is accurate—up to a point. It is entirely possible to "rebuild" the solar system with a small unstable dwarf star at the same distance from the sun that the planet Jupiter is now. The gravitational perturbations on the earth and the other inner planets of our solar system would be negligible. The sun's companion star could have one or more planets orbiting around it, just as the planet Jupiter now possesses sixteen or more moons.
  Ask any astronomer, though, and he or she will tell you that there is no way Jupiter could be the remnant of a star that exploded. No natural way, is what they implicitly are saying. For the novelist, however, it is possible to use deliberate changes caused by forces other than blind nature. In this novel the dwarf star Sheol evolves into our familiar planet Jupiter through the determined efforts of and the Creators.
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conversations.value: What is five more paragraphs?
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conversations.value: Ask any astronomer, though, and he or she will tell you that there is no way Jupiter could be the remnant of a star that exploded. No natural way, is what they implicitly are saying. For the novelist, however, it is possible to use deliberate changes caused by forces other than blind nature. In this novel the dwarf star Sheol evolves into our familiar planet Jupiter through the determined efforts of and the Creators.
  The breakup of Sheol's one planet causes a rain of meteors on Earth that triggers the Time of Great Dying, the titanic wave of extinctions that wiped out not merely the dinosaurs but thousands of other species of land, sea, and air some sixty-five millions years ago. The end of the Cretaceous saw the slate of life on Earth wiped almost clean.
  The nearly emptied world that existed after the great Cretaceous calamity contained abundant empty ecological niches that new forms of life could move into. The age of mammals began, leading ultimately to the earliest hominids.
  The dinosaurs began in a planetwide catastrophe that scrubbed away more than half the species then occupying the earth. They died in a paroxysm of similar proportions. The available evidence strongly points to a bombardment of meteors and/or comets that was either accompanied by or actually triggered tectonic shifts of the landmasses that altered sea levels and climate all around the globe.
  For myself, I think there is probably much more to the Time of Great Dying than a cataclysmic rain of fire from the heavens, dramatic though that may be. As the Cretaceous was nearing its end a new form of life arose on Earth: a life-form so ubiquitous and lowly that we seldom give it much thought unless we are forced to deal with it directly. That life-form is grass.
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conversations.value: What is the last four paragraphs?
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conversations.value: And a single human being, created to obey the whims of the gods, strives not merely to survive but to understand, not blindly to obey but to learn how to be a god himself.
  Dr. Bova received the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Arthur C. Clarke Foundation in 2005, "for fueling mankind's imagination regarding the wonders of outer space." His 2006 novel TITAN received the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for best novel of the year, and he received the 2008 Robert A. Heinlein Award "for his outstanding body of work in the field of literature."
  Dr. Bova has been involved in science and high technology since the very beginnings of the space age. President Emeritus of the National Space Society and a past president of Science Fiction Writers of America, Inc., Dr. Bova was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and has been a member of the Arizona Astronomy Board.
  He is a columnist for the Naples Daily News and a widely-popular lecturer. Earlier in his career, he was an award-winning editor and an executive in the aerospace industry. He has worked with film makers and television producers such as Woody Allen, George Lucas, and Gene Roddenberry.
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conversations.value: Delete the last sentence.
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conversations.value: And a single human being, created to obey the whims of the gods, strives not merely to survive but to understand, not blindly to obey but to learn how to be a god himself.
  Dr. Bova received the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Arthur C. Clarke Foundation in 2005, "for fueling mankind's imagination regarding the wonders of outer space." His 2006 novel TITAN received the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for best novel of the year, and he received the 2008 Robert A. Heinlein Award "for his outstanding body of work in the field of literature."
  Dr. Bova has been involved in science and high technology since the very beginnings of the space age. President Emeritus of the National Space Society and a past president of Science Fiction Writers of America, Inc., Dr. Bova was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and has been a member of the Arizona Astronomy Board.
  He is a columnist for the Naples Daily News and a widely-popular lecturer. Earlier in his career, he was an award-winning editor and an executive in the aerospace industry.