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conversations.value: What could be a title for a book about APPROACHES, Alan, I>Hound with the genre: Literature & Fiction, Genre Fiction?
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conversations.value: A title for this book could be 'To the Stars'
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conversations.value: What is a description for a book titled To the Stars about Maya, Clayton, Archaeology with the genre: Children's Books?
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conversations.value: Clayton the author is the chairman and co-founder of the Maya Archaeology Initiative. A journalist and editor, he developed a passionate interest in Maya culture more than 40 years ago.
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conversations.value: What is a plot for a book about APPROACHES, Alan, I>Hound with the genre: Literature & Fiction, Genre Fiction?
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conversations.value: To the Stars (novel): Protagonist Alan Corday is a young engineer, and is kidnapped from a spaceport called "New Chicago" and taken aboard the interstellar trading starship Hound of Heaven.\nThe ship is commanded by a charismatic leader named Captain Jocelyn, who tells Corday to use his skills to help the Hound of Heaven in its travels between Earth and space colonies in other star systems.\nOn the first page of the book\'s prologue Hubbard cites "the basic equation of mass and time.\nAS MASS APPROACHES INFINITY, TIME APPROACHES ZERO", meaning that interstellar travelers at near light speed experience time relative to their environment, and when they return to their home star will find that decades or centuries may have passed.\nSix weeks of time aboard the ship amounts to roughly nine years experienced by those on Earth.\nCorday resists mingling with the culture aboard the starship, but when he returns home after travels with the Hound of Heaven he finds that his fiancee has aged and has trouble with her memory.\nCorday realizes his only home has become that of the starship.\nCaptain Jocelyn is killed in an ambush on a dystopian Earth, and Corday takes command of the ship.
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conversations.value: To the Stars (novel): Protagonist Alan Corday is a young engineer, and is kidnapped from a spaceport called "New Chicago" and taken aboard the interstellar trading starship Hound of Heaven.\nThe ship is commanded by a charismatic leader named Captain Jocelyn, who tells Corday to use his skills to help the Hound of Heaven in its travels between Earth and space colonies in other star systems.\nOn the first page of the book\'s prologue Hubbard cites "the basic equation of mass and time.\nAS MASS APPROACHES INFINITY, TIME APPROACHES ZERO", meaning that interstellar travelers at near light speed experience time relative to their environment, and when they return to their home star will find that decades or centuries may have passed.\nSix weeks of time aboard the ship amounts to roughly nine years experienced by those on Earth.\nCorday resists mingling with the culture aboard the starship, but when he returns home after travels with the Hound of Heaven he finds that his fiancee has aged and has trouble with her memory.\nCorday realizes his only home has become that of the starship.
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conversations.value: What is the first five paragraphs for this book?
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conversations.value: To the Stars
  To the world at large, of course, it was just another day. A different sort entirely at different places on the great, round, rolling Earth, but nothing out of the ordinary. It was Tuesday on one side of the Date Line and Monday on the other. It was so-and-so's wedding anniversary and so-and-so's birthday and another so-and-so would get out of jail today. It was warm, it was cool, it was fair, it was cloudy. One looked forward to the future with confidence, with hope, with uneasiness or with terror according to one's temperament and one's geographical location and past history. To most of the human race this was nothing whatever but just another day.
  But to Joe Kenmore it was a most particular day indeed. Here, it was the gray hour just before sunrise and already there were hints of reddish colorings in the sky. It was chilly, and somehow the world seemed still and breathless. To Joe, the feeling of tensity marked this morning off from all the other mornings of his experience.
  He got up and began to dress, in Major Holt's quarters back of that giant steel half-globe called the Shed, near the town of Bootstrap. He felt queer because he felt so much as usual. By all the rules, he should have experienced a splendid, noble resolution and a fiery exaltation, and perhaps even an admirable sensation of humility and unworthiness to accomplish what was expected of him today. And, deep enough inside, he felt suitable emotion. But it happened that he couldn't take time to feel things adequately today.
  He was much more aware that he wanted some coffee rather badly, and that he hoped everything would go all right. He looked out of the windows at empty, dreary desert under the dawn sky. Today was the day he'd be leaving on a rather important journey. He hoped that Haney and the Chief and Mike weren't nervous. He also hoped that nobody had gotten at the fuel for the pushpots, and that the slide-rule crew that had calculated everything hadn't made any mistakes. He was also bothered about the steering-rocket fuel, and he was uncomfortable about the business of releasing the spaceship from the launching cage. There was, too, cause for worry in the take-off rockets—if the tube linings had shrunk there would be some rather gruesome consequences—and there could always be last-minute orders from Washington to delay or even cancel everything.
  In short, his mind was full of strictly practical details. He didn't have time to feel noble aspirations or sensations of high destiny. He had a very tricky and exacting job ahead of him.
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conversations.value: What is three more paragraphs?
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conversations.value: The tip of the tail caved in. The ship's empty cargo space was instantly filled with air at intolerable pressure and heat.
  The hull exploded outward where the rocket flames played. There was a monstrous, incredible jerking of the cabin that remained. That fraction of the ship received the full force of the rocket thrust. They could decelerate it at a rate of fifteen gravities or more.
  The cabin remnant was heavy, of course, but it was an irregular object, some twenty feet across. It was below orbital velocity, and wind-resistance slowed it. Even so, it traveled 47 miles to the east in falling the last 10 miles to Earth. It hit a hillside and dug itself a 70-foot crater in the ground.
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conversations.value: What is the last five paragraphs? End with the sentence ' Another second and something over for her voice to return.'.
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conversations.value: The Chief stopped suddenly. A sizable boulder rose from the dust. The Chief struck it smartly with his space-gloved hand.
  Commander Brown was waiting for them with an out-stretched hand. "Glad to have you aboard." And there was a genuine smile creeping across his face.
  Joe talked with careful distinctness into a microphone. His voice took a little over a second to reach its destination. Then there was a pause of the same length before the first syllable of Sally's reply came to him from Earth.
  Sally's voice was surprisingly clear. It wavered a little, but there was no sound of static to mar reception.
  Pause. One second and a little for his voice to go. Another second and something over for her voice to return.