Resultados para "Anaconda" en Literatura y ficción

Football star and Internet sensation Gavin "Anaconda" Adams is the biggest celebrity our little town has ever seen. But I had no idea who he was when I accidentally walked in on him naked. I was shocked, seeing all of him, a cocky grin on his face. I didn't know what to do. So I ran. No matter what I do, I can't get that image out of my head. To make matters worse, Gavin wants a date with me.

After six years of underground fights, a saviour emerges from the shadows. With secret-filled onyx eyes and a past as tangled as mine, his salvation from the cartel has strings attached. I'm a bargaining chip, delivered to my brother's best friend and the infamous Anaconda Team. Yet freedom is a bittersweet victory that comes at a cost.

Anaconda cuenta la historia ficticia de un planeta que busca la destrucción del ser humano porque siempre provocó maldad en la naturaleza y en los animales, solo para poder llegar a cumplir sus egoístas ambiciones.

In 1907, Colonel Percy Fawcett returns from an expedition into the unexplored regions of the Brazilian - Bolivian Borderlands with proof of the largest anaconda in history. Hoping to bring the monster back to civilization, Professor Neal Coldwell hires famed big-game-hunter Barrett Walker to lead him into the unknown and capture what the natives call the Mother of the Waters. The expedition quickly turns deadly, plunging all involved into the ultimate battle for survival.

Twenty-four of the 23rd century’s best and brightest engineers and soldiers find themselves mysteriously transported to 1801 after their mining ship, The Anaconda, crosses a space-time warp in the Asteroid Belt. What will they do when they return to the New Earth - live in isolation on a Pacific Island, or put their God-like powers to work challenging Europe’s great empires on behalf of native peoples and slaves? Some believe history can be changed. Others think nudging civilization will only lead to disaster.

Adventurer Wandering Smith is hunting anacondas in the jungles of South America when he spots an orchid hunter, who is fleeing from a group of natives. The two join forces, but it soon becomes clear to Wandering Smith that the orchid hunter is after something much more adventurous than rare flowers. 'The Golden Anaconda' is one of five stories written by entomologist Elmer Brown Mason about the swamp-guide Wandering Smith. They were originally published in 'The Popular Magazine' and were inspired by Elmer Brown Mason's own travel adventures.

Fifty years after the asteroid-mining ship Anaconda was transported by a space-time warp four centuries back in time, its crew members have changed the face of the planet they call New Earth. The African slave trade is shut down, 23rd century technology and ideas are dominant in North America while making inroads in South America and Japan, a modern consumer economy has spread from the Mediterranean into Russia, and the once-great imperial states of Europe are undergoing political and religious turmoil.

While capturing anacondas in the jungles of South America, adventurer Wandering Smith spies an orchid hunter fleeing from a troupe of angry natives spewing poisoned arrows. But when this orchid hunter joins the hunting expedition, it becomes clear that he thirsts for something other than rare orchids - he is also collecting the jewels used to adorn shrunken heads.

More than two decades have passed since the asteroid mining ship Anaconda crashed into a space-time warp and emerged four centuries in the past. During that short time, two crew members oversaw a successful war of liberation in North America, two others eliminated the African slave trade, and the ship’s general manager created a modern consumer economy stretching across the Mediterranean.

Three centuries after the Orbem Novis colonists told off-Earth financiers who backed their voyage to stay away from their new home on a distant planet or face death, the Farside Corporation receives an unusual request. Two top-drawer agents are hired to locate the last descendants on Earth of the colonists’ leader and bring them to Orbem Novis.

More than a decade after the crew of the 23rd century asteroid mining ship Anaconda crashed through a space-time warp to the year 1801, much has changed on the New Earth. A war of liberation on North America and in the Caribbean has driven the colonists back to Europe, leaving the natives and freedmen to build a new Utopian society. Separately, the African slave trade has been brutally shut down by the twin assassins known as the cadets, and the general manager’s modern consumer economy is booming in the Mediterranean using advanced products made with 23rd century technology.

In the sixth book of the Anaconda series, 10 years have passed since the 23rd-century asteroid mining ship Anaconda mysteriously appeared 400 years in the past. Aided by a library containing a detailed history of Earth’s people and natural resources, along with millions of tons of processed ore and advanced 3-D printing factories, the crew has split into factions bent on creating utopian societies on the planet they call New Earth.

In this sequel to The Anaconda, A New Earth, A War of Myths, and Dystopian Sacrifices, crew members from a 23rd-century asteroid mining ship that mysteriously traveled 400 years into the past continue to pursue their private missions on the new planet. Five years have passed since the fall of New Orleans, and the global war of liberation for slaves and native peoples has spread east of the Big Muddy River and south to the Caribbean.

In this sequel to The Anaconda, A New Earth, and A War of Myths, crew members from an asteroid mining ship that mysteriously traveled 400 years into the past continue to pursue their private missions - a global war of liberation for slaves and native peoples, two 23rd-century capitalists seeking to control the Ottoman Empire, and an effort to protect civilization’s greatest treasures in a museum hidden away on a South Pacific island.

In this sequel to The Anaconda and A New Earth, crew members from an asteroid miner mysteriously transported 400 years into the past compete against each other among the natives and empires of 1802. An army of Plains tribes created by one faction seeks to drive Europeans from North America, while two 23rd-century capitalists employ long-lost Templar Knights to pressure London mercantilists and the Ottoman sultan to establish a global monopoly.

The year is 1801, and some of the future’s best and brightest want to lead an army of aborigines and freed slaves against the European oppressors. Others prefer a more peaceful strategy to stem the inevitable yet catastrophic industrial revolutions. Meanwhile, a team of twin assassins roams the planet in search of targets, and the artificial intelligence they all rely on is contaminated and becoming unreliable.