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It makes dramatic long-lasting climate predictions of the effect a nuclear winter would have on the Earth, an event that is suggested by the authors to follow both a city countervalue strike during a nuclear war, and especially following strikes on oil refineries and fuel depots.
Cold Comfort Farm is a comic novel by English author Stella Gibbons, published in 1932. It parodies the romanticised, sometimes doom-laden accounts of rural life popular at the time, by writers such as Mary Webb . [ 1 ]
McRae is introduced returning to work, after for a year-long absence recovering from serious stab wounds. He is soon labelled as "Lazarus" by his colleagues as he has risen from the dead [note 1] [1] [2] McRae had been stabbed by the Mastrick Monster (Angus Robertson) [3] who McRae has to interview in "Flesh House" about a suspect Robertson shared a cell with. [4]
Dr. Strangelove parodies Cold War fears of a nuclear war between the United States and the Soviet Union and stars George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden, Keenan Wynn, Slim Pickens, and Tracy Reed. The story concerns an insane brigadier general of the United States Air Force who orders a pre-emptive nuclear attack on the Soviet Union .
The Book of Counted Sorrows and The Book of Counted Joys are fictional books "quoted" as the source of various epigraphs in many of Dean Koontz's books. The books as cited sources do not actually exist; they are false documents. Koontz has since released a book under the same title, collecting the various epigraphs and adding additional material.
In the Cold Dark Ground is the tenth instalment [1] in the bestselling Detective Sergeant McRae series of crime novels [2] set in Aberdeenshire from Stuart MacBride. Plot [ edit ]
Comet is a 1985 popular-science book by Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan. [1] The authors describe the scientific nature of comets , as well as their varying roles and perceptions throughout history. The evolution of human understanding of comets is also detailed, and thinkers and astronomers such as Edmond Halley , Immanuel Kant , and William Huggins ...
Cold Granite is the debut novel written by Stuart MacBride. It features Detective Sergeant Logan McRae (who is later nicknamed "Lazarus") as its central character, who works for Grampian Police in Aberdeen, Scotland. Logan McRae went on to feature in a series of books which became a bestseller series for MacBride. [1]