Resultados para "Planes" en Antologías y relatos breves

Poirot es convocado por Lord Alloway, del Ministerio de Defensa, porque han robado los planos de un nuevo submarino de guerra. La principal sospechosa es la señora Conrad, que podría ser una espía extranjera. Durante la noche alguien se acerca a Poirot y ofrece devolver los planos a cambio de que no se haga publicidad sobre el asunto. El detective belga pronto descubrirá que nada es lo que parece.

In "Plan 7 from Sin City", a 1950s seedy Las Vegas PI is hired to follow a philandering husband who may be selling atomic secrets to the Reds. This noir science fiction parody is a prequel to the worst movie of all time, Plan 9 from Outer Space.

"La Nau" és l’obra guanyadora del prestigiós premi de novel·la curta Just M. Casero. La intrigant història d’uns personatges que viuran una experiència extraordinària. Una nau, 200 tripulants i un destí: Xeix. Tot el necessari per viure-hi una llarga temporada. Un món planificat al mil·límetre. Un exterior fosc, estàtic i glaçat com l’entrada d’una caverna endimoniada. Quà es Xeix? Quà els espera en aquest destí enigmàtic? Un viatge a un univers desconegut ple de sorpreses que t’atrapa com una droga i que finalment no et deixa indiferent.

Sita Dulip has missed her flight out of Chicago. But instead of listening to garbled announcements in the airport, she discovers a method of bypassing the crowds at the desks, a nasty lunch, whimpering children, their punitive parents, and the blue plastic chairs bolted to the floor: she changes planes—literally. Sita discovers entire planes of existence and visits societies not found on Earth—bizarre societies that share similarities with Earth's cultures and sometimes open doors into the alien.

“Allende is one of the most important novelists to emerge from Latin America in the past decade.”—Boston Globe An enthralling tale of one man's search for love and his struggle to contend with the pain and deprivation that shaped him. Born in the Hispanic barrio of Los Angeles, Gregory...

Toy Planes is a short story from the collection Tides from the New Worlds. Caribbean-born novelist Tobias Buckell established himself as a gifted new voice in science fiction with his stunning first novel, Crystal Rain. Now, in his first collection, Buckell demonstrates his strengths in the short form, offering listeners a collection of stories that are compelling, smart, wonderfully imagined, and entertaining.

In these two "inspired by actual accounts" but still entirely fictional tales, a pair of challengers of the unknown go one on one with two of the world's most famous mysterious legends. In "Beneath Still Waters", a lake-dwelling giant creature draws a devoted paranormal investigator into a staggering encounter that goes far beyond a blurry photo of something with a long neck and humps passing by a Loch Ness excursion boat.

The story begins on a stormy night as passengers board the infamous flight, a sense of unease hanging in the air due to recent rumors of a hijacking attempt. Among them is Emily Davis, a perceptive flight attendant with a unique gift that will be put to the ultimate test. As the plane takes to the skies over the vast Pacific, strange and eerie events unfold, and the line between the living and the dead blurs. Shadows move through the cabin, and ghostly apparitions appear, sending shivers down your spine.

Box set contains Hostile Territory, Shot in the Dark, and Contingency Plan! Series contains a band of brothers unwilling to just stand by and watch a woman in need, a foul-mouthed parrot who gets in everyone's business, and a level of steam you may not be ready for.

A delightfully funny, fantastically inventive collection of twenty newly unearthed short stories by Sir Terry Pratchett, the award-winning and bestselling author of the phenomenally successful Discworld fantasy series. This special trove is a must-have for Pratchett fans of all ages. The...