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Today Fast lives in a peaceful section of Beverly Hills, California, above the smog of Los Angeles, in a home heated and powered by 12 solar panels. At 63 he has written more than 50 books, including science fiction works, "Zen stories," and thrillers--the last under the pseudonym of E.V. Cunningham. His best-known works are historical novels such as The Unvanquished, Citizen Tom Paine, April Morning--all set during the Revolutionary War--and Freedom Road, a tale of the Reconstruction Era. But Fast will probably gain the most recognition from his latest novel, and from his two upcoming...
...good advantage, Saudi Arabia has planted some 10 million tamarisk, acacia and eucalyptus trees to help keep the dunes from overwhelming its al-Hasa oasis near Hofuf. Taking a cue from the cattle drives of the old American West, seven Sahel nations are involved in a scheme, dubbed Solar, that would allow nomads to continue to raise cattle on marginal Sahelian rangeland. But when it comes time for fattening before marketing, the time when the cattle make their greatest inroads on pastureland vegetation, they will be marched to the wetter and hardier lands in the south...
...detectors, magnetometers, infra-red spectrometers and radiometers, as well as instruments for detecting and recording ultraviolet radiation and radio emissions from the planets. They will, it is hoped, give man his closest look yet at Jupiter, a planet that contains more matter than all the other planets in the solar system put together. The pair will also devote a good deal of attention to four of Jupiter's 13 moons...
...molecules similar to those on Earth. Voyager 2 could be sent on to Uranus, 20 times farther from the sun than Earth, and possessor of a newly discovered system of rings (TIME, April 11); it would not reach Uranus until January 1986. Eventually the Voyagers would pass beyond the solar system...
...speculators would bet their Nobels on such musings. But Berry tosses aution to the solar wind. In two or threem centuries, he believes, a future NASA could launch a great fleet of robot spaceships to attract bits of free-floating iron in near by interstellar space, like children herding filings with magnets. Eventually so much matter would be gathered up that ,he particles would begin attracting one another by their mutual gravity and compress themselves into a black hole of some ten solar masses. The purpose of this iron sun? To provide instantaneous transportation across the heavens for anyone brave...