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Transformers: Exodus: The Official History of the War for Cybertron
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Transformers: Exodus: The Official History of the War for Cybertron

On the caste-bound planet of Cybertron, Megatron, an undefeated gladiator, gives voice to the unspoken longings of the oppressed masses and opens the mind of Orion Pax, an insignificant data clerk who will become Optimus Prime. What happens between Orion Pax and Megatron forever changes the destiny of all Transformers. This gripping, action-packed novel reveals all the loyalties and treacheries, trust and betrayals, deadly violence and shining ideals, as well as the pivotal roles played by other well-known characters.
 
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Tags: Orion, Cybertron, Megatron, Transformers, betrayals
The Mythology of the Night Sky - An Amateur Astronomer's Guide to the Ancient Greek and Roman Legends
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The Mythology of the Night Sky - An Amateur Astronomer's Guide to the Ancient Greek and Roman LegendsThe Mythology of the Night Sky - An Amateur Astronomer's Guide to the Ancient Greek and Roman Legends

Every amateur astronomer can easily recognize at least most of the constellations. For example, Orion: the brilliant stars Betelguse and Bellatrix form the shoulders of The Hunter, Saiph and Rigel his feet, and the bright diffuse nebula M42 makes a sword hanging from his belt, made up of three prominent stars. But how many of us know the story of Orion? What myths did the ancient Greeks weave around this mighty hunter that placed him so prominently in the sky?
 
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Tags: Orion, stars, around, hunter, mighty, Roman, Mythology, Greek
Turn Right at Orion
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Turn Right at OrionIn this ingenious book, we are all aliens-reading what is in essence a message found in a bottle. Turn Right at Orion is the account of an epic astronomical journey, discovered sixty million years in Earth's future-the product of one man's amazing, revelatory, and occasionally perilous space odyssey. Astrophysicist Mitchell Begelman takes the reader to far distant shores, across a vast ocean of time, in a narrative style that zips along at just below light speed. We travel to the center of the Milky Way, witness the births and deaths of stars and of planets, and almost perish in the crushing forces at the perimeter of a black hole-and all the while Begelman explains in clear and vibrant prose how things work the way they do in the cosmos. Turn Right at Orion is a serious science book that reads like fiction.

Special dedication for velomir :) Live long and prosper!

 
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Tags: Orion, Right, Begelman, planets, almost