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The Ganymede Club, the Glossary

The Ganymede Club is a science fiction novel by American writer Charles Sheffield, published in 1995.^[1]

Apocalypse

Apocalypse is a literary genre originating in Judaism in the centuries following the Babylonian exile (597-587 BCE) but persisting in Christianity and Islam.

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Asteroid belt

The asteroid belt is a torus-shaped region in the Solar System, centered on the Sun and roughly spanning the space between the orbits of the planets Jupiter and Mars.

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Bastei Lübbe

Bastei Lübbe is a major publisher of genre fiction, pulp fiction and non-fiction in the German language.

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Callisto (moon)

Callisto, or Jupiter IV, is the second-largest moon of Jupiter, after Ganymede.

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Ceres (dwarf planet)

Ceres (minor-planet designation: 1 Ceres) is a dwarf planet in the middle main asteroid belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.

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Charles Sheffield (25 June 1935 – 2 November 2002), was an English-born mathematician, physicist and science-fiction writer who served as a President of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America and of the American Astronautical Society.

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Cold as Ice (novel)

Cold as Ice (1992) is a science fiction novel by Charles Sheffield. The Ganymede Club and Cold as Ice (novel) are fiction about the Solar System and novels by Charles Sheffield.

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Colonization

independence. Colonization (British English: colonisation) is a process of establishing control over foreign territories or peoples for the purpose of exploitation and possibly settlement, setting up coloniality and often colonies, commonly pursued and maintained by colonialism.

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Earth

Earth is the third planet from the Sun and the only astronomical object known to harbor life.

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Europa (moon)

Europa, or Jupiter II, is the smallest of the four Galilean moons orbiting Jupiter, and the sixth-closest to the planet of all the 95 known moons of Jupiter.

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Ganymede (moon)

Ganymede, or Jupiter III, is the largest and most massive natural satellite of Jupiter and in the Solar System.

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German language

German (Standard High German: Deutsch) is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, mainly spoken in Western and Central Europe. It is the most widely spoken and official or co-official language in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, and the Italian province of South Tyrol.

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Giant planet

A giant planet, sometimes referred to as a jovian planet (Jove being another name for the Roman god Jupiter), is a diverse type of planet much larger than Earth.

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Helene (moon)

Helene is a moon of Saturn.

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Internet Speculative Fiction Database

The Internet Speculative Fiction Database (ISFDB) is a database of bibliographic information on genres considered speculative fiction, including science fiction and related genres such as fantasy, alternate history, and horror fiction.

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Italian language

Italian (italiano,, or lingua italiana) is a Romance language of the Indo-European language family that evolved from the Vulgar Latin of the Roman Empire.

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Kirkus Reviews

Kirkus Reviews is an American book review magazine founded in 1933 by Virginia Kirkus.

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Library Journal

Library Journal is an American trade publication for librarians.

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Mars

Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun.

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Mercury (planet)

Mercury is the first planet from the Sun and the smallest in the Solar System.

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Moon

The Moon is Earth's only natural satellite.

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Oberon (moon)

Oberon, also designated, is the outermost and second-largest major moon of the planet Uranus.

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Psychiatrist

A psychiatrist is a physician who specializes in psychiatry.

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Psychoactive drug

A psychoactive drug, mind-altering drug, or consciousness-altering drug is a chemical substance that changes brain function and results in alterations in perception, mood, consciousness, cognition, or behavior.

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Routledge

Routledge is a British multinational publisher.

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Saturn

Saturn is the sixth planet from the Sun and the second-largest in the Solar System, after Jupiter.

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Science Fact and Science Fiction: An Encyclopedia

Science Fact and Science Fiction: An Encyclopedia is a 2006 reference work written by Brian Stableford and published by Routledge.

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Science fiction

Science fiction (sometimes shortened to SF or sci-fi) is a genre of speculative fiction, which typically deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology, space exploration, time travel, parallel universes, and extraterrestrial life.

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Self-replicating machine

A self-replicating machine is a type of autonomous robot that is capable of reproducing itself autonomously using raw materials found in the environment, thus exhibiting self-replication in a way analogous to that found in nature.

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Self-replication

Self-replication is any behavior of a dynamical system that yields construction of an identical or similar copy of itself.

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Solar System

The Solar SystemCapitalization of the name varies.

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Terraforming

Terraforming or terraformation ("Earth-shaping") is the hypothetical process of deliberately modifying the atmosphere, temperature, surface topography or ecology of a planet, moon, or other body to be similar to the environment of Earth to make it habitable for humans to live on.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ganymede_Club

The Ganymede Club, the Glossary

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4 Vesta

Fiction about main-belt asteroids

Fiction about terraforming

Fiction about the Solar System

Fiction set on Saturn's moons

Novels by Charles Sheffield

Novels set on Callisto (moon)

Novels set on Ceres (dwarf planet)

Novels set on Ganymede (moon)

Novels set on Mercury (planet)

Novels set on Saturn

Novels set on Titan (moon)

Novels set on Uranus

Novels set on Venus

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