Catalog Search Results
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Informative, entertaining and upbeat, this book continues Grazier and Cass's exploration of how technology, science, and scientists are portrayed in Hollywood productions. Both big and small-screen productions are featured and their science content illuminated?first by the authors and subsequently by a range of experts from science and the film world. Starring roles in this volume are played by, among other things, computers (human and mechanical),...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
How does Einstein's description of space and time compare with Dr. Who? Can James Bond really escape from an armor-plated railroad car by cutting through the floor with a laser concealed in a wristwatch? What would it take to create a fully-intelligent android, such as Star Trek's Commander Data? How might we discover intelligent civilizations on other planets in the galaxy? Is human teleportation possible? Will our technological society ever reach...
Author
Language
English
Description
"To save the future, she must return to the beginning. Three years after her best friend Peggy went missing, Harper Starling is lost. Lost in her dead-end job, lost in her grief. All she has are regrets and reruns of her favorite science fiction show, Infinite Odyssey. Then Peggy returns and demands to be taken to the Argonaut, the fictional main character of Infinite Odyssey. But the Argonaut is just that... fictional. Until the TV hero himself appears...
Author
Language
English
Description
Following the tragic deaths of two of their colleagues, only Captain Jack Harkness, Gwen Cooper and Ianto Jones remain of Torchwood, protecting humanity against the unknown. Martha Jones, ex-time traveller and now working as a doctor for UNIT, has been called to CERN - the world's largest particle physics laboratory in Geneva. They're about to activate the Large Hadron Collider, designed to recreate conditions after the Big Bang and thus give an insight...
Language
English
Description
The TARDIS arrives on a planet which is home to the humanoid Gonds. Ruling over these people are the Krotons, crystalline beings who crash-landed there centuries before. Currently in suspended animation, the Krotons can only be reconstituted by an influx of mental energy. When the Doctor, Jamie, and Zoe befriend the Gonds, they find a community divided by their servitude to the Krotons. Then the Doctor and Zoe take the Krotons' mental ability test--and...
Language
English
Description
This six episode serial hails from the very first TV series in 1964. The 28th century. The TARDIS materializes on a spaceship orbiting a planet known as the Sense-Sphere, whose natives, the Sensorites, have trapped the ship's human crew in a state of paralysis. When the Doctor investigates, the Sensorites steal the lock mechanism from the TARDIS, thus trapping him and his companions.
Author
Language
English
Description
When PC Andy Davidson arrests a young girl for shoplifting, he thinks it's going to be a routine case. That is, until he sees that she is carrying a gun. The girl is soaking wet, covered in mud, and the weapon is like nothing he's ever seen before. He knows that this is a case for Torchwood. The team discovers that the girl is called Freda, but can find out nothing else. Yet when she speaks, it's a strange mix of English and Icelandic, but with a...
Language
English
Description
When the TARDIS arrives on the storm-lashed planet Peladon, the Doctor and Jo are catapulted into the politics of the planet, which is about to join the Galactic Federation. Trouble ensues when a series of mysterious deaths occurs and the Ice Warriors, old enemies of the Doctor, are revealed to be behind it.
Language
English
Description
This six episode serial hails from the very first TV series in 1964. The 28th century. The TARDIS materializes on a spaceship orbiting a planet known as the Sense-Sphere, whose natives, the Sensorites, have trapped the ship's human crew in a state of paralysis. When the Doctor investigates, the Sensorites steal the lock mechanism from the TARDIS, thus trapping him and his companions.
Author
Language
English
Description
On the trail of a dangerous energy field, Torchwood are led to Delhi. There they witness the simultaneous disappearance of hundreds of people, and Jack discovers that the field centers on an old colonial mansion--Torchwood India. Jack is shocked to find that Torchwood India is still going strong--he shut it down himself over 80 years ago. He's even more surprised to find that its members haven't aged a day. What is the secret of their eternal youth,...
Author
Language
English
Description
When 24-year-old Steven Ballard is found dead, the police quickly realize that this is no ordinary case--for his body is that of a man in his seventies. They call in Torchwood to investigate, and after another corpse is found, it becomes clear that something terrible is happening. Someone is sending victims to a dark dimension, to be punished by the thing they fear most. Who is the shadowy taxi driver preying on his passengers? What significance do...
Author
Language
English
Description
The Time Lords intercept the transmit beam from Earth to Nerva and strand the Doctor, Sarah Jane and Harry on the planet Skaro in an era before the Daleks evolved. Before the travellers are to be allowed to return to the TARDIS, the Doctor must fulfill a daunting mission--to change the course of evolution itself.
Search More Libraries
Didn't find what you need? Items not owned by SWAN Library Network can be requested from other WorldCat libraries to be delivered to your local library for pickup.
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Suggest a purchase. Submit Request