Resultados para "Flora" en Ciencia ficción

It's been a few years since I've landed here on Icehome Beach, and as resonance after resonance dwindled the list of bachelors, I knew who I'd end up with. As soon as we got past our differences, I'd end up as R'jaal's mate. On an everyday excursion, however, my khui decides otherwise. It sings all right...but not to R'jaal. Instead, I resonate to I'rec—the forceful, brash, overly-alpha leader of Shadow Cat. Did I mention he's got a long-distance girlfriend already?

Flora, surnommée « la planète verte », est entièrement couverte de forêts. Depuis des mois, les vaisseaux de l'Empire terrien l'observent, envoient des sondes, des robots, afin d'en percer les secrets. L'heure est maintenant venue de démarrer les opérations de colonisation. Les premiers humains vont pénétrer sous le couvert des arbres géants. Liam, un soldat malgré lui, fait partie de cette première vague. Il doit, avec des centaines de camarades, sécuriser le site choisi pour l'ascenseur spatial et le camp de base.

Tan inclasificable como única en su sensibilidad y su aproximación al género, "Flor de hadas en el bolsillo" es una novela fantástica que no deja indiferente a los lectores. Se articula en forma de cuaderno de viaje que poco a poco se va transmutando en el formato novela. La historia sigue las peripecias de un protagonista que atraviesa la ciudad de nomorfa pertrechado con una sustancia mágica en su bolsillo. El resultado será un periplo cercano a la prosa poética en el que se mezclan sensaciones, memoria y un sentido de la narrativa poco común.

In the wake of the apocalypse, Flora has come of age in a highly gendered post-plague society where females have become a precious, coveted, hunted, and endangered commodity. But Flora does not participate in the economy that trades in bodies. An anathema in a world that prizes procreation above all else, she is an outsider everywhere she goes, including the thriving all-female city of Shy. Now navigating a blighted landscape, Flora, her friends, and a sullen young slave she adopts as her own child leave their oppressive pasts behind to find their place in the world.

The year is 2038, and the formerly bustling town of Three Rivers, Texas, is a surreal wasteland. Under the authoritarian thumb of its tech industrialist mayor, Pablo Henry Crick, the town has outlawed reading and forced most of the town’s mothers to work as indentured laborers at the Big Tex Fish Cannery, which poisons the atmosphere and lines Crick’s pockets. Scraping by in this godforsaken landscape are best friends Prosperina and Neftalí—the latter of whom, one of the town’s last literate citizens, hides and reads the books of the mysterious renegade author Jazzmin Monelle Rivas.

In a small town in Arizona, the class of '05 is holding their class reunion. The only place they can find for the reunion is a civil defense bomb shelter. The joyous class reunion is interrupted by an earth-shaking catastrophic event, trapping its 53 guests. The story is about ordinary people surviving extraordinary events with dignity, honor, bravery, stupidity, and malice. A full range of human emotions. The story shows the best and worst of humanity.

"Darien, de nueve estrellas, debe huir junto a su abuelo Folker de un peligroso asesino de niños que ha puesto en jaque a La Nueva Orden. Mientras tanto, dos de los mejores sabuesos reales siguen los pasos de este último para comprobar la participación de la Iglesia en los terribles sucesos...

Segunda entrega de la saga "La Flor de Jade", continuando "El Enviado". En una producción minimalista, el propio autor, J. B. Vilches, nos ofrece la lectura de esta edición X Aniversario, agregando, además, la sección "Los Apéndices Secretos", un recorrido por la creación, contexto, personajes y ambiente de este volumen."Llegamos buscando respuestas y sólo encontramos nuevas preguntas. Esperan demasiado de nosotros. En un mundo herido, dominado por la mano del terror, la travesía es ciega. Nuestras alianzas, impuestas. No hay punto de retorno.

It is the 26th century. Alfred, known as Theta 7B to the Solar Solutions Corporation, is a zetter who debugs and solves computer issues by logging in mentally to a computer system. He navigates the circuits with his mind. Zetting is addictive and dangerous, but a huge rush. Alfred lives and works on the run-down Florida Station, a space station orbiting Jupiter, controlled by the Solar Solutions Corporation. Alfred discovers dangerous problems with the network during a zet. It leads him down a path that will endanger everything he holds dear.

Desperate to escape her home world of Thuria, Flor crash-lands on a planet she’s never heard of before. One called...Earth. To hide amongst the population, she must kill and consume a human to take their form. One taste, and she finds herself ravenous for more. Consumed by her hunger, she launches into a frenzied hunt for her next victims.

The world is frozen. The animals in the ascendant. And, locked in desperate pursuit of "the other father" across a grim, icy apocalypse, Jim will do anything to keep his daughter alive.

The Trumbo View is a breathtaking vista that unfolds dramatically from the crest of Trumbo Road, offering an expansive panorama that captures the essence of nature’s beauty. As you stand at the lookout point, the horizon stretches out before you, revealing rolling hills dotted with wildflowers, lush green valleys, and the occasional glint of a distant river snaking through the landscape. The sky above seems to stretch infinitely, painted in hues of blue during the day, with cotton candy clouds that drift lazily by.

War. An old English word derived from the 11th century. But what does the word mean? Death and destruction are the common denominators. In the last century, Earth had two global wars. World War 1 had over 15 million deaths. World War II, over 70 million deaths. Whatever the cost, humans have not learned how to avert wars. Perhaps it would make a difference if we knew where we came from.

A war is raging in the galaxy, a diversion, a means of keeping beings from several planets from realizing the deceit in which their leaders are cooperatively engaged. Genocide is taking place, threatening to wipe out an entire species, and the only hope for these gentle beings requires that one of them have the courage to make a dangerous and lonely journey through space and merge with a creature from another world. Quizan Azah braves the journey, merging with a human, Cole, creating a powerful new species, the Trekachaw, setting in motion the events that may ultimately restore peace.

Jarmen D’ju has no memories of his previous life. They were stolen in the lab that changed him into a monster. Though he was rescued, he knows he will never truly have the life he wants. As a being of half organic material and half cybernetic engineering, Jarmen will always need to hide. Finding a partner is not an option, for who could ever love a monster?

Taj Das, a struggling DJ in his 20’s, searches for love, but it’s far beyond his reach. Taj lives in the shadow of his accomplished older brother and his friend, a popular local DJ. Taj’s father disapproves of his life choices and wants him to pursue a more practical career. Taj and his father butt heads about his future, and their relationship becomes more contentious as Taj faces an ultimatum without much time to prove his father wrong. After a terrible debut performance, Taj retreats home.

En su conmovedor relato en primera persona, una joven es testigo de la desgarradora ocupación de su ciudad por el Tercer Reich. A través de su testimonio personal, narra los días tumultuosos que acompañaron la llegada de los nazis, pintando un vívido retrato de la conmoción, el miedo y la desesperación que impregnaron cada rincón de su existencia.

Embark on an exhilarating journey into the vibrant worlds of S.E. Smith, where seven captivating series await your exploration. In "Skeeter's Halloween Treat" from the Zion Series, join Skeeter, Krac, and Skeeter’s dad, Bulldog, on a heartwarming mission that takes a surprising twist. Then, delve into the Alliance Series with "Date Night," where a romantic evening among the stars becomes the perfect escape amidst the chaos of interstellar parenthood.

Gewinner des Chrysalis Award der European Science Fiction Society Nominiert für den Kurd Laßwitz Preis Was würdest du tun, wenn du plötzlich der einzige Mensch in deiner Stadt wärst? Als Dr. Sarah Berger an einem friedlichen Morgen vor die Tür ihres Hauses tritt, erkennt sie, dass Hills View nicht nur ruhig ist – es ist zu ruhig. Über Nacht sind alle Bewohner verschwunden. Aber wohin? Und warum haben die Bewohner ihre Häuser penibel aufgeräumt, bevor sie die Stadt verließen? Die junge Ärztin beginnt zu entschlüsseln, was hinter den rätselhaften Ereignissen in Hills View steckt, doch sie befindet sich bereits mitten im Ewigkeitsprojekt.

Political scandals. Corporate greed. Embezzlement, disinformation, and fraud. Schemes perpetrated, year after year, by an elite few—and yet it’s always, always the little people who are victimized. Who pay the price. Those little people have finally demanded action. Powerful elites must be watched. And our leaders have responded...by mandating that all individuals who wield global influence receive Harvesters—nanoparticle-infused, flexible circuitry tattoos that transmit a person’s biometric data for monitoring and analysis. Analysis by Data Miners—like Gwen Elliott.