Resultados para "Alma" en Ciencia ficción y fantasía

Solo aquellos dignos superan las pruebas, y la joven Meryn arriesgará la vida (y el corazón) para ser una de ellos. Vincúlate o sangra. Lucha o muere. La derrota no es una opción.

Les anciens dieux grondent, et ne resteront plus en sommeil très longtemps... Casia Greythorne est une mercenaire aguerrie, et seules deux choses importent dans sa vie : remplir ses contrats et gagner assez d’argent pour financer le traitement vital de son mentor. Lorsque le souverain de...

El mundo espera un mesías, un recién nacido que, según la profecía, redima el lugar del dolor –y también de heroísmo–, y devuelva la paz y la alegría que todos desean. Éste es el universo que descubre este libro: Harleck, imperio de los...

98.8%. A Eliotte aún le cuesta creerlo, pero los resultados de su test de compatibilidad son irrefutables. La autoridad mundial acaba de decretar científicamente que Izaak Meeka es su alma gemela más pura. En las próximas semanas, tendrán que casarse e irse a vivir juntos, a pesar de que su corazón solo late por Ashton, el hermano pequeño de Izaak… Sin embargo, Eliotte sabe muy bien que en el siglo XXII es la ciencia, y no el corazón, la que determina qué parejas pueden formarse.

Los que buscan la paz deben matar la guerra. Lógico. Regresa a su infancia. Porque el asesino a sueldo también fue una vez una niña. Pero entonces este error fatal le sucede precisamente a ella. La mano del maestro de la espada se cierra en un puño. Antes de ir a la guerra, busca la lanza mágica. Sin previo aviso, el niño y el hombre poco visible se enfrentan a tareas casi imposibles. El mundo de Krosann se desangra en una guerra civil y está de luto por las bajas. El autoproclamado rey Shohtar utiliza poderes más fuertes que la muerte.

El dolor de una traición. Un pacto con el Diablo. Un amor imposible. La belleza de la libertad. Y un corazón roto. Es posible que los finales felices no existan. O sí. Pregúntale a la chica de algodón de azúcar.

Nada pode apagar o passado. Um aventureiro veterano, Christian está prestes a completar uma última jornada, que lhe permitirá se aposentar em paz. Mas tudo dá errado quando o passado volta para assombrá-lo. Agora, Christian e seus companheiros, um mago aberrante e uma menina selvagem...

Featuring all-new tales of dark fantasy, cosmic horror, supernatural revenge, and the sorcery of terror from masters of the craft, this issue includes stories and poems by Alma Katsu, Heather Graham, Maurice Broaddus, Fran Wilde, Priya Sharma, Anne Walsh, Yvonne Navarro, Jake Bible, Gabrielle Faust, and Christina Sng.

Here are the greatest stories of one of the greatest writers working in any genre today. All ten of the stories gathered here are Hugo or Nebula award winners - some even have the distinction of winning both. With a new Introduction by the author and personal afterwords to each story, plus a special look at three of Willis' unique public speeches - this is unquestionably the collection of the season, an audiobook that every Connie Willis fan will treasure.

Booklist calls the world of Hugo Award winner Elizabeth Bear’s spellbinding Jacob’s Ladder series “magnificently populated, well worth visiting.” Here the trilogy that began with Dust and Chill draws to its stunning conclusion. The passengers of the generation spaceship Jacob’s Ladder have found a new home at last. But the planet Grail is already inhabited - and its population of genetically engineered humans has no intention of sharing the world.

Hugo Award winner Elizabeth Bear has won high praise for her thought-provoking science fiction. The second in Bear’s powerful Jacob’s Ladder series, Chill finds the generation starship Jacob’s Ladder with a new captain—Perceval. As Perceval struggles with the ship’s recent damage, remnants of the rebellion still linger and a threat to the crew grows.

Hugo Award winner Elizabeth Bear has been called one of the best science fiction authors of her generation. In Dust she skillfully spins a classic science fiction trope - the lost generation ship - into a complex and compelling tale of fallen angels, secretive family politics, and sexual taboo.

A desperate cry has come out of Denton, requesting Sephron’s aid. War is brewing, and to put an end to a lord’s dangerous greed, Sephron must infiltrate a hostile, desert city and rescue an unlikely prisoner. Soon, he finds himself trapped inside the walls of Galtor surrounded by cruel and violent soldiers. But he is alone in this venture, and the entire fate of Rhayadera rests in his hands.

In the heart of Ringwood, a peculiar shop peddles the souls of the departed. Souls like James Lavender, who ended up in the store after someone cut short his life. When Matron Lily of Whitewood Asylum buys James, intending to use him to aid in tormenting a patient named Alma Edwards, he embarks on a perilous quest to sever his contract. As James delves deeper into the secrets of Whitewood Asylum, he forms a secret bond with Alma, who’s struggling to hold on to her sanity amidst the torments.

Alma Drake was a typical suburban college student before she was turned into a Succubus by her less-than-perfect boyfriend. Ian turned out to be a powerful soul-sucking Incubus with a harem of other Succubi feeding him souls. Now Alma’s up to her eyeballs in soul debt and flat broke in terms of real-world cash. She can’t turn to her friends because she had to drop out of college to keep from accidentally killing her classmates. Her mom, who thinks Alma’s a junkie, sleeps all day and stays out all night. And Alma can’t run away, because Ian… well, Ian always finds her.

Si piensas que los dragones son un mito, aprenderás lo contrario en esta historia. Es más, aprenderás sobre elfos, y descubrirás un mundo entero que no sabías que existía delante mismo de tus narices. En su búsqueda de material para su siguiente libro. Luzi encuentra muchos secretos y una antigua sabiduría, señales de un conocimiento anciano supuestamente perdido.

Doctor Drusilla James of Imperial House Vo went from being an insignificant human on Earth to one of the most influential women in the Alliance Empire. The goddess of home has granted to her this lofty position in exchange for her everlasting devotion to her and her continuing belief in the Lost People. However, Drusilla veered from the goddess’s path when she accepted Admiral Jei’s tempting offer to reanimate Commander Jane Johnson at the Capital City Hospital, and now she finds herself head-to-head with her adoptive mother for Imperial power.

In Alma Alexander’s enthralling new novel, Simonis is a woman who lived many lives before rising to the top – a helpless child in circus performances, an accomplished courtesan and spy, a heretic who sheltered men thought to be damned for what they believed.

From the acclaimed and award-winning author of The Hunger comes an eerie, psychological twist on one of the world's most renowned tragedies, the sinking of the Titanic and the ill-fated sail of its sister ship, the Britannic. Someone, or something, is haunting the ship. Between mysterious...

Does it feel like people are getting stupider? No, it’s not your imagination. New government data shows that the general intelligence level in the US is plummeting. Investigative reporter Ben Wozniak is trying to uncover why. Is the quality of teachers to blame? Or the increased use of AI? Or dependence on social media for all of our opinions? Or is it the rise of book banning by conservative school boards? Or chemicals in the water? Or maybe something in the in the air?