She has also published three novels, MERMAIDS. It's true, it will remind us that we are, after all, not God. Patty Dann (born October 30, 1953) is an American novelist and nonfiction writer. Patty is the author of THE GOLDFISH WENT ON VACATION: A Memoir of Loss, and THE BABY BOAT: A Memoir of Adoption. And your father's name will shine again like a beacon in the galaxy.

Then, having reached the heights, this all-but-divine race perished in a single night, and nothing was preserved above ground.Īlta, about a million years from now the human race will have crawled up to where the Krell stood in their great moment of triumph and tragedy. Ethically and technologically they were a million years ahead of humankind, for in unlocking the mysteries of nature they had conquered even their baser selves, and when in the course of eons they had abolished sickness and insanity, crime and all injustice, they turned, still in high benevolence, upwards towards space. In times long past, this planet was the home of a mighty, noble race of beings who called themselves the Krell. United Planets Cruiser C57D, now more than a year out from Earth Base on a special mission to the planetary system of the great main-sequence star Altair. And so, at last, mankind began the conquest and colonization of deep space. Almost at once there followed the discovery of hyperdrive through which the speed of light was first obtained and later greatly surpassed. By 2200 A.D., they had reached the other planets of our solar system.

While working at the A&E network in 1986, she revised Mermaids, a coming-of-age novel she. Mermaids (1990) Rated PG-13 110 minutes Cast Cher as Mrs.

In the final decade of the 21st Century, men and women in rocket ships landed on the moon. Patty Dann2 is an American novelist and nonfiction writer. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH), 13.95 (147pp) ISBN 978-0-89919-471-4 There is a charm and freshness to this first novel, whose 14-year-old protagonist, Charlotte.

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