Resultados para "Luca" en Ciencia ficción

Billions died during the First Trial on Day One. The day the devil came to Earth to play. The Planetary Games. An intergalactic game show. Earth is the Colosseum—and humanity its gladiators. Empowered with alien magic and knowledge, humanity is pitted against each other in a vicious struggle for supremacy, where there is only one survivor. Dan is dead set on making it to the end, but not for himself.

La Luna, fría y resplandeciente, nos acompaña desde que tenemos uso de razón; desde que tenemos conciencia de especie. Pero, ¿qué es realmente la Luna? ¿Qué ocurriría si su órbita se alterase súbitamente? ¿Y si su presencia en el cielo no es casual? ¿Y si está relacionada con la misma esencia del ser humano, con su despertar?Luna: Apogeo es una novela que te hará dudar.... DUDAR. ¿Acaso no es la duda el precursor de la inteligencia?

Während das elektrische Licht Tag und Nacht verschwimmen lässt, sitzt ein junges Mädchen – die vierzigste Gefangene – allein und ausgestoßen in der Ecke. In einem unterirdischen Gefängnis sitzen neununddreißig Frauen. Was übertage geschehen ist, wissen sie nicht: Wurde die Welt verlassen, von einem Virus verwüstet? Die Frauen können sich nicht erinnern, wie sie in den Käfig gelangt sind, haben jegliches Zeitgefühl verloren und nur eine vage Ahnung von ihrem alten Leben.

Long have we been alone; without brides, without females to warm us during the long nights, without sweet mates. But we see them from afar, the brides that could be ours. Kept away from us by walls and weapons. Females we long for greatly...obsessively. Human females. And the one with red hair? I want her. I saw her first. I will fight to the death for her. She is mine. So, we’ll come together and make an exchange with their men that will benefit us all. After that? To the winner goes the spoil. Let the hunt begin...but the red-headed female is mine.

Adam is on the run, and time is running out. His family has been taken from him, and he's working to unravel the secret that someone is hiding from him. Don't miss this action-packed second episode of The Lucid.

Ever since humans arrived, my world has changed. Tensions are high as we quarrel over territory, reforming our fractured clans. I will have none of it. I did not capture a bride. But then my world goes dark—and she appears. A female so lovely she possesses my mind, a bride who blushes every time she catches my eye. She is sweet. She is young. She is everything I am not. Except nothing is as it seems. I'm no longer in the forest; I'm in a cage. I'm on a ship, far from my nest, wrapped in chains. And the female? She is my enemy. Only… I'm the devious naga who does not care.

For fans of zombie fiction (who are tired of The Walking Dead) and fans of the Divergent, Hunger Games, and Maze Runner series who want a more grown-up story. From the authors who brought you the best-selling Citadel series and action-packed suspense thrillers... Adam Bolland, a manager at the Colorado Springs municipal water treatment facility, is only trying to enjoy his career, family, and life. But when things start changing around him, he isn't sure what's going on.

Non è d'accordo, però, quando le Nazioni Unite decidono di inviare con lui quasi 70 soldati d'élite delle Operazioni Speciali, piloti straordinari e scienziati. La missione è una folle impresa dalla quale si aspetta che non torneranno mai. Almeno questa volta la Terra è al sicuro, giusto? Non più di tanto.

Females have returned to Earth, brought here by technology I do not trust. They’ve been claimed and nested and kept far from me. The broken one. The dark one. I will always be alone. When a box falls from the sky and a black-suited human female appears, I am in awe. I am in need. Only, she is surrounded by men. So, I will sneak up on her. I will stalk her, learn everything about her, and wait for the right moment. And when the time comes, I’ll set my trap.

With the crash of their financier and boss's mini jet, Kirby Ross, the team follows a distress call to Snake Island off the coast of Brazil. The island is notorious for being extremely dangerous and off-limits to tourists. Cujo and the team sneak by Brazilian authorities to arrive on the island. They find a few survivors of the crash, but Kirby Ross is missing. Highly venomous golden lancehead vipers cover the island. The island is crawling with snakes, but something massive is stalking the island. Something that only visits once every hundred years, and it hates intruders...

Seattle, 2084. Antony Sartori hides his grief. Struggling to find a sense of purpose after losing his wife to a deadly pandemic, the former engineer silently suffers while surviving on welfare payments.

Quanto tempo rimane all'umanità sul pianeta Terra? Forse non abbastanza. La tecnologia di cui disponiamo ci permette di fare grandi cose, e la stiamo impiegando per distruggere noi stessi. Questo è lo scenario che apre il romanzo: un futuro che diventa l'oggi, in cui le catastrofi di cui da decenni ci parlano gli scienziati si materializzano di fronte ai nostri occhi, e non resta che la fuga nello spazio per trovare un'altra destinazione alla specie umana.

The universe is vast—unfathomably so. It stretches beyond our imagination, a seemingly infinite tapestry of galaxies, stars, and planets, each potentially harboring its own secrets. Among these cosmic mysteries, one question looms large over our species: Are we alone? For decades, scientists have combed the skies for signs of intelligent life—searching for radio signals, scanning the electromagnetic spectrum, and pointing laser arrays into the void. Yet, despite the most advanced technologies and tireless efforts, the silence has been deafening.

OLTRE non è solo una storia di fantascienza, ma un viaggio profondo nella natura dell'esistenza, della sofferenza e della libertà. Attraverso i personaggi di Alex e Lisa, il lettore è guidato in una riflessione sull'equilibrio tra vita e morte, trà bene e male, e su cosa significhi realmente avere il controllo del proprio destino. II mondo creato dal Dottor `Edward, in cui le malattie e la sofferenza sono sfruttate per generare profitto, rispecchia le complessità e le contraddizioni del mondo reale.

The allure of time travel—an age-old fascination—remains one of the most powerful concepts in science fiction and speculative thought. It is the ultimate what-if. What if you could return to a pivotal moment in history and alter its outcome? What if you could leap into the distant future to witness the fate of humanity or catch a glimpse of your own destiny?

After a couple of years of battling vicious monsters, the rag-tag team decides to take a vacation in Baja, Mexico. All is well until a distraught local finds them and asks for help rescuing a lost fishing charter not far off the coast of Baja. A simple mission, sure, but little do they know, it’s all a setup and now they must face a huge cryptid with massive jaws and hunger beyond imagination.

The team heads to New Jersey to stop an increasing number of brutal murders and kidnappings reportedly caused by the Jersey Devil. They soon find themselves deep in the Pine Barrens fighting an age-old monster so elusive they can’t kill it. But when they enter a deep tunnel system, they soon discover a threat beyond comprehension.

Scientists discover something extraordinary under the icy tundra of the Arctic. But when a strange distress call is received, an elite group is assembled to check on the scientists and facility. What they find will turn everything they know upside down and whatever escaped the facility is loose, leaving a trail of blood in its wake.

Ernst, a 19-year-old orphan in a primitive utopian dwelling tribe, offers to seek out council from the wizards across the sea. His people think he's crazy to even attempt such a dangerous journey, but he gains confidence when Enna, his unpredictable wild-haired friend joins the adventure. Ernst and Enna must find a way to stop the late star ship captain's tyrannical successor, Huxley Bradford, before he intentionally destroys Ernst's entire race in a methodical act of genocide.

La Brigata di luce: è così che i soldati che combattono la guerra contro Marte chiamano i reduci, quelli che tornano... diversi. Le reclute nel corpo delle corporazioni vengono ridimensionate come fossero luce per viaggiare da e verso il fronte di battaglia interplanetario. Ognuno di loro subisce una trasformazione quando il corpo si ricompone, è inevitabile anche perché è già di per sé difficile tornare a vivere. E coloro che sopravvivono devono attenersi alle istruzioni della missione, indipendentemente da ciò che accade durante il combattimento.