What was first published, Solarquest or CirKis?
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Solarquest SolarQuest is a space-age real estate trading board game published in 1985 and developed by Valen Brost, after his having conceived the idea in 1976. The game is patterned after "Monopoly" but replaces pewter tokens with rocketships and hotels with metallic fuel stations. Players travel around the sun acquiring planet, moon, and man-made space structure monopolies while fending off attacks. They seek to knock their opponents out of the game through bankruptcy, as well as optional laser blasts and dwindling fuel supplies (when using the Advanced Play ruleset).
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CirKis CirKis is a piece placing board game, for two to four players, invented by Phil E. Orbanes and developed by Winning Moves Games USA in 2009. However, the game is no longer in production. It received the French Game of the Year Award for 2009. The game is based on Penrose tiling.
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SF Masterworks SF Masterworks is a series of science fiction books started by Millennium and currently published by Victor Gollancz Ltd (both being imprints of the UK based Orion Publishing Group).
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Geoffrey Bles David Geoffrey Bles (1886–1957) was a British publisher, with a reputation for spotting new talent, who started his eponymous publishing firm in London in 1923, and published the first five books of C.S. Lewis' "Narnia" series.
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Editis Editis is a French group of publishing companies, subsidiary of Spanish group Planeta. It is the second-largest French publishing group, after Hachette Livre.
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First Meetings First Meetings (2002) is a collection of Orson Scott Card's short stories from the "Ender's Game" series. Tor Books republished the book in 2003 under the titles "First Meetings in the Enderverse" and "First Meetings in Ender's Universe" and included the more recent "Teacher's Pest", a story about the first meeting of Ender's parents.
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Planetary and Space Science Planetary and Space Science, published 15 times per year, is a peer-reviewed scientific journal established in 1959. It publishes original research articles along with short communications (letters). The main topic is solar system processes which encompasses multiple areas of the natural sciences. Numerical simulations of solar system processes are also conducted at ground based facilities or on-board space platforms. The editor-in-chief is Rita Schulz (European Space Agency/European Space Research and Technology Centre). It is published by Elsevier.
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PlanetQuest PlanetQuest is NASA's education and public outreach program centered on the science and technology of NASA’s long-term search for habitable planets beyond our solar system.
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Spacehounds of IPC Spacehounds of IPC is a science fiction novel by author E. E. Smith. It was first published in book form in 1947 by Fantasy Press in an edition of 2,008 copies. It was the first book published by Fantasy Press. The novel was originally serialized in the August, September and October issues of the magazine "Amazing Stories" in 1931. Smith became disenchanted when he saw that editor T. O'Conor Sloane had made some unauthorized changes in the story, most likely to give each of the three parts it had been split into equal length.
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Elves (Elfquest) The comic book series "Elfquest", created by Wendy and Richard Pini, features a race of elves on the World of Two Moons, searching for their origins and place in the world.
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Mars Crossing Mars Crossing is a science fiction novel by Geoffrey A. Landis about an expedition to Mars, published by Tor Books in 2000. The novel was a nominee for the Nebula award, and won the Locus Award for best first novel in 2001.
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Universalis Universalis is a role-playing game (RPG) from Ramshead Publishing that stresses interactive storytelling. The game uses a unique system, based on "coins" that are used to make additions to the game, which allows the entire group to participate in the creation of the setting and events in play without a traditional gamemaster. The rules also provide a means of negotiating their own alteration, allowing for unlimited customization for play. The system is meant to support any possible genre.
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The History of Middle-earth The History of Middle-earth is a 12-volume series of books published between 1983 and 1996 that collect and analyse material relating to the fiction of J. R. R. Tolkien, compiled and edited by his son, Christopher Tolkien. The series shows the development over time of Tolkien's conception of Middle-earth as a fictional place with its own peoples, languages, and history, from his earliest notions of a "mythology for England" through to the development of the stories that make up "The Silmarillion" and "The Lord of the Rings". It is not a "history of Middle-earth" in the sense of being a chronicle of events in Middle-earth written from an in-universe perspective. In 2000–01, the twelve volumes were republished in three limited edition omnibus volumes. Non-deluxe editions of the three volumes were published in 2002.
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Big Bang Comics (role-playing game) Big Bang Comics is a superhero tabletop role-playing game, written by Chris Carter and published by Pisces All Media in 2006. The game uses a modified version of the "d20 System".
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Star Science Fiction Stories No.1 Star Science Fiction Stories No.1 is the first book in the anthology series, "Star Science Fiction Stories", edited by Frederik Pohl. It was first published in 1953 by Ballantine Books, without numeration, and was reprinted in 1972 as "No. 1". The book featured the first appearance of Arthur C. Clarke's short story, "The Nine Billion Names of God". These books have been very critically acclaimed by critics around the world.
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Elantris Elantris is a fantasy novel written by American author Brandon Sanderson. It was first published on April 21, 2005 by Tor Books and is significant as Sanderson's first published book.
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Scientific Research Publishing Scientific Research Publishing (SCIRP) is an academic publisher of peer-reviewed open-access electronic journals, conference proceedings, and scientific anthologies. s of December 2014 , it offers 244 English language open access journals in the areas of science, technology, business, economy, and medicine.
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Pinakes The Pinakes (Ancient Greek: Πίνακες "tables", plural of πίναξ ) is a lost bibliographic work composed by Callimachus (310/305–240 BCE) that is popularly considered to be the first library catalog; its contents were based upon the holdings of the Library of Alexandria during Callimachus' tenure there during the third century BCE.
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Quest (esoteric magazine) Quest is an esoteric quarterly magazine containing material on magic, witchcraft, and practical occultism, along with personal experiences and reviews. It has been edited since its inception in 1970 by the author Marian Green, who also organises an associated annual Quest Conference.
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The City Outside the World The City Outside the World is a science fantasy novel by American writer Lin Carter, the third in his Edgar Rice Burroughs- and Leigh Brackett-inspired series The Mysteries of Mars. It was first published in paperback by Berkley Medallion in October 1977 and in reissued in trade paperback by Wildside Press in December 1999. The first hardcover edition was published by Wildside Press in February 2011.
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Fasti (poem) The Fasti (Latin: "Fastorum Libri Sex" , "Six Books of the Calendar"), sometimes translated as The Book of Days or On the Roman Calendar, is a six-book Latin poem written by the Roman poet Ovid and published in 8 AD. Ovid is believed to have left the "Fasti" incomplete when he was exiled to Tomis by the emperor Augustus in 8 AD. Written in elegiac couplets and drawing on conventions of Greek and Latin didactic poetry, the "Fasti" is structured as a series of eye-witness reports and interviews by the first-person "vates" ("poet-prophet" or "bard") with Roman deities, who explain the origins of Roman holidays and associated customs—often with multiple aetiologies. The poem is a significant, and in some cases unique, source of fact in studies of religion in ancient Rome; and the influential anthropologist and ritualist J.G. Frazer translated and annotated the work for the Loeb Classical Library series. Each book covers one month, January through June, of the Roman calendar, and was written several years after Julius Caesar replaced the old system of Roman time-keeping with what would come to be known as the Julian calendar.
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Stellaris (video game) Stellaris is a 4X grand strategy video game developed and published by Paradox Interactive. "Stellaris"' s gameplay revolves around space exploration, managing an empire, and diplomacy and warfare with other spacefaring civilizations. It was released worldwide for Microsoft Windows, OS X, and Linux on May 9, 2016.