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On antanut muistorahan nurmien nuorentamiskilpailusta - kunniakirja blanco Artturi I Virtanen Artturi Ilmari Virtanen ( 1895 Helsinki – 1973 Helsinki) oli professori ja suomalainen Nobel-palkittu kemisti.Virtaselle myönnettiin vuonna 1945 Nobelin kemianpalkintoja tärkein Virtasen tutkimusryhmän työn tuloksista oli AIV-rehun kehittäminen.

A powerful Ethics organisation is trying to prevent any wars from happening again on Earth. To try and work out how to do this they run experiments on non advanced populations, to see the factors that can lead up to a terrible conflict like the last devastation.A point of view character is actually a recorder of these experiments and conflicts.The noble intentions they have still have to be carried out by flawed humans.

Stringer, an unsociable drifter, joins an expidition to a world called Patra-Bannk (Freeze-Bake). The expedition's leader seeks a treasure of metallic hydrogen, of which there is evidence from a previous trip to the planet. Patra-Bannk is at least 50 times the size of Earth, six hundred thousand kilometers across, and its slow rotation rate results in extreme weather, alternating between freezing cold "nights" (Patras) lasting up to six (Earth) months during which the sun never rises and steaming hot "days" (Bannks) during which the sun never sets for a similar number of months.The planet's current inhabitants are human-like, but with six fingers on each hand and with skin that darkens and lightens dramatically as the weather changes. They are divided into semi-barbaric groups with historical enmity toward one another.There are local legends of an ancient people called the Polkraitz who lived on Patra-Bannk centuries ago and had much more advanced technology than is currently available. They left, but are prophesied to return when two of the traditional calendar systems coincide - an event known as the Golun-Patra that occurs once every 96 (Earth) years. The upcoming Golun-Patra is the twelfth Golun-Patra, which gives it added significance.Stringer encounters a tribe that includes a scientist, or Time Keeper, named Alhane, who believes that the world is round, but the planet's size makes it difficult to prove. Stringer assists Alhane's investigation, but also realizes that a planet so large should have much higher gravity. He recognizes that there are more secrets to be uncovered about the origin and nature of Patra-Bannk, and the expedition becomes a race to save the planet from its own deterioration.

Dr. Orpheus finds a future Earthworld caught in a double-destructive pincers between benign enslavement by the miracle drug Anagonon and hideous enslavement by invaders from a far galaxy. To meet this twofold threat, Croyd must exercise his amazing abilities to the fullest, resorting to time travel, mind transfers, and a breathrakingly swift shell game of body transpositions, all the while battling the greatest odds he has ever faced.

Classics of high fantasy, Ursula K. Le Guin's three previous Earthsea novels--A W izard Of Earthsea, The Tombs Of Atuan, and The Farthest Shore--have been compared with J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings and C.S Lewis' Narnia stories as being among the genre's greatest creations. Now the fourth and final volume, Tehanu, brings to a conclusion the remarkable Earthsea cycle with a revelation of wisdom, wonder, and literary wizardry. Once she'd been a priestess, quest-companion to a powerful mage, a student of high magic. Then she gave it all up to be a farmer's wife on Gont, content to lead a simple life. But Tenar was not born to live her days in peace, away from great events. A dying wizard and an abused child were the first to call her back to the path she had abandoned. For the end of the adventure beckoned and Tenar would be there along with the dragons, mages, and the young king himself to share in the unforgettable fate of the kingdom known as Earthsea.

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Quark/3 is a 1971 anthology of short stories and poetry edited by Samuel R. Delany and Marilyn Hacker. It is the third volume in the Quark series. The stories and poems are original to this anthology.---___Contents: -Forward, by Samuel R. Delany & Marilyn Hacker-Continuous Landscape, by Donald Simpson-"Encased in Ancient Rind", by R. A. Lafferty-"Home Again, Home Again", by Gordon Eklund-"Dog in a Fisherman’s Net", by Samuel R. Delany-Six Drawings, by Robert Lavigne-"The Zanzibar Cat", by Joanna Russ-"Field", by James Sallis-"Vanishing Point", by Sonya Dorman-"Where Have You Been, Billy Boy, Billy Boy?", by Kate Wilhelm-"Brave Salt", by Richard Hill-"Nature Boy", by Josephine Saxton-"Balls: A Meditation at the Graveside", by Virginia Kidd-"Ring of Pain", by M. John Harrison-"To the Child Whose Birth Will Change the Way the Universe Works", by George Stanley- "A Sexual Song", by Tom Veitch-"Twenty-Four Letters from Under the Earth", by Hilary Bailey-Six More Drawings, by Robert Lavigne- "The Coded Sun Game", by Brian Vickers- Contributors’ Notes___---

"Xanthe is a member (female) of a research team which is investigating the possibilities of humanoid robots, in a world of chaos and starvation...Two types of robot have been produced: the Pragmapractors, who do the conventional manual work; and the Philophrenics, who have been programmed to more human levels, to feel affection, to talk, and even construct themselves. The question is: should they be allowed to go further?"

___---All men are sterile---___in the world of few decades hence, as the result of an ill-advised atmospheric test. All that is, except for 0.005% of the male population, the "seedies", who are kept in isolated clinical redoubts. Here thea are milked of the precious fertile seed on whitch the human life debends. They are hated, for obvious reasons, by the sterile "randies" and "queers" who comprise the two main male divisions of society outside the seedies`sealed world. Even so, each seedy must periodically venture out for a day to experience at first hand the frenetic, debauched life of the majority of mankind. This is te story of one such day in the life of Tim, a fifteen-year-old seedy. Outside, he is soon dangerously involved -- with drug.taking gang of "queers", an evil pusher and the pusher`s sister, anxious to get pregnant while she can. But, even though his life is at stake, Tim cannot oblige her. For seedies, though fertile, do not feel sexual desire... This thought-provoking, adventurous novel marks the debut on the science fiction scene of a striking and original new talent.