"A Thousand Degrees Below Zero" is a thrilling science fiction novel written by Murray Leinster. Set in a future world where climate change has spiraled out of control, the story follows a group of scientists and explorers on a dangerous mission to save humanity from impending doom. Their harrowing journey takes them across treacherous landscapes, battling extreme weather conditions and facing numerous perils along the way. From daring rescue missions to clashes with ruthless adversaries, the characters must confront their own fears and limitations as they race against time to prevent a cataclysmic freeze. Leinster's gripping narrative combines scientific speculation with pulse-pounding action, exploring themes of survival, human resilience, and the consequences of unchecked environmental devastation. "A Thousand Degrees Below Zero" serves as a cautionary tale, highlighting the urgent need for environmental stewardship and the potential consequences if we fail to address the impact of climate change.

In this volume the author describes more than 3000 short stories, novels, and plays with science fiction elements, from earliest times to 1930. He includes imaginary voyages, utopias, Victorian boys' books, dime novels, pulp magazine stories, British scientific romances and mainstream work with science fiction elements. Many of these publications are extremely rare, surviving in only a handful of copies, and most of them have never been described before.

A massive compilation, each and every one of the one thousand receipts is listed in the table of contents. Chapters include: metallic alloys, art of coating metals with metals, experiments on crystallization, preparation of gas, colouring and bleaching, etc. Sub-sections of the chapter on colouring and bleaching: yeing of woollens, linens, silks etc., calico-printing, colouring of paper-hangings, encaustic painting, transparencies, painting on glass, enamelling, sympathetic inks (which include nitromuriatesof Gola and tin, gallate of iron, nitro muriate of cobalt, printer's ink, copper-plate printer's ink, lithography or printing from stone, etc).