• Winter's Orbit is a 2021 LGBT space opera novel, the debut novel by Everina Maxwell. After Prince Taam of Iskat dies mysteriously, his cousin Kiem is forced...
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  • September 2000, two months before the publication of Winter's Heart. Many of the events of Winter's Heart take place simultaneously with the events of the...
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  • "Red Star, Winter Orbit" is a short story written by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling in the 1980s. It was first published in Omni in July 1983, and later...
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    Earth orbits the Sun at an average distance of 149.60 million km (92.96 million mi), or 8.317 light-minutes, in a counterclockwise direction as viewed...
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    value of 0 is a circular orbit, values between 0 and 1 form an elliptic orbit, 1 is a parabolic escape orbit (or capture orbit), and greater than 1 is...
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  • Tower, The Rose and the Thorn, The Death of Dulgath, The Disappearance of Winter's Daughter and Drumindor (not yet written). They are prequels to Sullivan's...
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    (58.65 Earth days) are in a 3:2 ratio. This relationship is called spin–orbit resonance, and sidereal here means "relative to the stars". Consequently...
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  • in 2020. Following its initial publication, Orbit Books re-released The Rage of Dragons and signed Winter to a four-book deal. The Rage of Dragons was...
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    winter solstice and depend on latitude. They differ due to the variation in the solar day throughout the year caused by the Earth's elliptical orbit (see:...
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    other authors: "The Belonging Kind" (1981) with John Shirley, "Red Star, Winter Orbit" (1983) with Sterling, and "Dogfight" (1985) with Michael Swanwick. Gibson...
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