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2 hari yang lalu · Set in the year 2038, Earth is a cautionary tale of the harm humans can cause their planet via disregard for the environment and reckless scientific experiments. The book has a large cast of characters and Brin uses them to address a number of environmental issues, including endangered species, global warming, refugees from ecological disasters, ecoterrorism, and the social effects of ...
4 hari yang lalu · Illustration of a fictional underground town from The Child of the Cavern by Jules Férat. Subterranean fiction is a subgenre of speculative fiction, science fiction, or fantasy which focuses on fictional underground settings, sometimes at the center of the Earth or otherwise deep below the surface. The genre is based on, and has in turn ...
He used to indulge himself doing all sorts of evil things while running wild in despair, but every new day, everything would start all over again. In this way, he has been reincarnated for a thousand years, and on a new day, the sun rose as usual.
5 hari yang lalu · Listed first among the more than 60 included on this post are the 10 top dystopian novels reviewed here (including some that are trilogies or series), arranged in alphabetical order by the authors’ last names.
3 hari yang lalu · Previous studies pointed out that the hydraulic aperture (b h) is solely dependent on the geometric features of a fracture, independent of fluid inertia effects.Here we present an inertial hydraulic aperture (b ih) that considers the fluid inertial effect and fracture geometry effect by massive direct numerical simulations of fluid flow in real and artificial 3-D fractures.
4 hari yang lalu · The following is from The Book of Elsewhere by Keanu Reeves and China Miéville. Reeves has made an indelible mark on the world of entertainment through the diverse roles he has played. He made his comic book-writing debut in 2021 with BRZRKR. Miéville's novels include The City & The City, Embassytown, and Perdido Street Station.
5 hari yang lalu · Polarization modulation of ultraviolet (UV) birefringent crystals is crucial for various applications. Here, we introduce distorted La–O polyhedra into alkali metal sulfates to synthesize a novel birefringent material with excellent UV transmission and birefringence. The incorporation of distorted La–O polyhedra significantly increases the birefringence to 0.0255 at 550 nm, surpassing that ...
