Countdown

Description

The first hop to the cosmos becomes real, as Mars will be the first destination. But before the space craft lift off, two foolish antagonists nearly did well in stopping the flight. This sci-fi tale for juvenile adults was created by a Catholic minister.

Countdown includes these chapters: I – Twenty-five; II – Twenty-four; III – Twenty-three; IV – Twenty-two; V – Twenty-one; VI – Twenty; VII – Nineteen; VIII – Eighteen; IX – Seventeen; X – Sixteen; XI – Fifteen; XII – Fourteen; XIII – Thirteen; XIV – Twelve; XV – Eleven; XVI – Ten; XVII – Nine; XVIII – Eight; XIX – Seven; XX – Six; XXI – Five; XXII – Four; XXIII – Three; XXIV – Two; XXV – One; XXVI – Zero.

Science fiction which is frequently abbreviated to SF or sci-fi is a category of hypothetical fiction, usually about creative ideas like revolutionary science and technology, space flight, traveling through time, more rapidly than traveling through light, alike cosmos and outer space creatures. Science fiction frequently uncovers the impending outcomes of scientific and other novelties, and has been referred as a “literature of ideas”. It commonly circumvents the magical, and not like the associated category of whim, generally, science-fiction tales were supposed to have a basing in science-grounded piece of information or concept during the time the tale was written, but this construction is nowadays restricted to hard science fiction.

Science fiction is hard to explain, as it involves a huge variety of subcategories and topics. Writer and editor Damon Knight summarized the complexity, telling “science fiction is what we point to when we say it”, a delineation reiterated by writer Mark C. Glassy, who explores that the meaning of science fiction is alike to the meaning of pornography: you do not know what it is, but you know it when you see it.
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