Resultados para "Anna" en Ciencia ficción

In una Sicilia distopica, una ragazzina di tredici anni parte alla ricerca del fratellino rapito. Decimata da un virus che uccide solo gli adulti, l'isola è percorsa da selvagge orde di ragazzini e cani randagi.

Ser una nave espacial inteligente debería de ser más divertido, sin embargo, después de dispersarse por el espacio durante casi un siglo, Bob y sus clones simplemente no pueden evitar meterse en problemas. Los Bobs han creado suficientes colonias para que la humanidad no se extinga, pero las disputas políticas tienen el mal hábito de persistir a pesar de todo; y las sondas brasileñas aún siguen intentando acabar con la competencia. No conforme, los Bobs han elegido pelear contra una especie más antigua y más poderosa, con un apetito voraz y muy poca paciencia.

Bob Johansson recién vendió su compañía de software por una pequeña fortuna y le ilusiona vivir la vida en grande. Lo primero en su lista de pendientes: gastar su nuevo dinero. En un derroche, contrata un servicio para preservar su cabeza en criogenia, en caso de muerte. Momentos después, pierde la vida al cruzar una calle. Al despertar, 117 años después, Bob descubre que su mente ha sido cargada a una sonda espacial inteligente, con la habilidad de replicarse a sí misma.

Hace más de cien años, Bender dirigió su nave hacia las estrellas y jamás se volvió a saber de él. No ha habido rastro de él a pesar de las numerosas búsquedas realizadas por sus compañeros clones. Ahora Bob está decidido a organizar una expedición para saber cuál fue el destino de Bender, al costo que sea.

Ellen Ripley finally returns to Earth, only to discover that LV-426 — where the crew of the Nostromo first came into contact with the deadly xenomorphs — has been renamed Acheron. Protected by Colonial Marines, the colonists seek to terraform the storm-swept planet against all the odds. But in the face of brutal living conditions and the daily struggles of a new world, there is humanity and hope.

A fresh post-apocalyptic anthology: the end of the world seen through the salvage and ruins, featuring Emily St. John Mandel, Carmen Maria Machado, and more.

Es 1984. Winston Smith vive sólo en Londres. Es un rebelde encubierto conspirando su fuga del Partido: una dictadura mortal liderada por El Gran Hermano. Winston sueña con encontrar la libertad, el amor y la paz: todo lo que está prohibido. Su resistencia podría matarlo, pero su valentía es...

A classic and innovative work of feminist science-fiction and a definitive novel in the slipstream genre. In Ice, Anna Kavan's haunting and surreal novel, the narrator and a man known as 'the warden' search for an elusive girl in a frozen, seemingly post-nuclear, apocalyptic landscape. The...

I led a quiet life, peacefully ruling the underworld until that mother of *** showed up with her people and angels. They destroyed everything I'd built with so much effort and nearly killed me. But I managed to return! Wait . . . My only disciple and candidate for a new body is a sick kid who's about to die? Are you serious?!

It's been years since the first Emergence, since the first specimen of the kaiju scourge awoke from millennia of dormancy beneath the sea and wrought untold devastation upon the cities of man. Much has since been lost, but a great deal gained, too. In the crucible of extinction-level events, a new breed of super-soldier, capable of interfacing with the beasts, was born.

Scientifically minded Edward Prendick is shipwrecked in the southern Pacific and rescued by a passing ship. Aboard he meets Montgomery whose destination is an island belonging to Dr. Moreau. Moreau, formerly an eminent physiologist in London whose gruesome experiments in vivisection had been publicly exposed, had fled England as a result of his exposure. Edward tries to understand and survive among Dr. Moreau's gruesome 'beast-folk' and tries to return to civilization.

Anna, a young woman and one of the last survivors of Earth, is forced to live on the space station Ulltra after a crash landing. How will she cope with her new troik family and what does the terrible prôlik want from her? She will soon find out... And she will meet more than one enemy. Suddenly, one of them is always at her side. But all she wants is to get to Opzalon.

As the ship's archivist, Anna stumbles across hints that the story they've been told about the fate of Earth was a fabrication. Tantalizing clues require unraveling that connect her to Ella Deveros, from six centuries before her time, and Mya Makade, another six before that. Love is the thread that binds them and promises salvation.

L'arte come arma, la resistenza come scelta. Il mondo è finito anni prima che chiunque se ne rendesse conto, nel silenzio più assoluto. Non avevano saputo vedere il pericolo delle piccole cose, immagino. Avevano pensato che i bisbigli si potessero ignorare.

Drei Monate sind vergangen, seit Rosprom seine Offensive gegen Olympias entfesselt hat. Die Angels haben gewonnen, aber zu welchem Preis? Viele sind gefallen, und sowohl Nephilim als auch Metatron haben lebensbedrohliche Verletzungen erlitten. Aber der Angriff hat auch etwas Gutes: Metatron wurde in den Vorstand von Olympias berufen und ist damit seinen Zielen einen wichtigen Schritt näher gekommen. Ein entscheidendes Puzzleteil fehlt jedoch noch, und um es zu finden, muss Nephilim ins Herz des feindlichen Gebiets reisen — nach TogbuaXiang.

There’s no murder in paradise. But some deaths are too ugly to ignore. When a young woman falls from a high-rise in Olympias, the case looks like suicide. Homicide detective Siro Ferreira-Nunes isn’t convinced. His instincts tell him it’s murder — and his partner, the cynical Kate Spader, hates that he might be right. The victim was part of Olympias’ most controversial system: the Companion Program, where citizens legally sell themselves into binding contracts of servitude. Officially, it’s all “choice” and “luxury.

Nephilim hat die Angelborn-Akademie abgeschlossen und ist nun ein vollwertiger Guardian Angel von Olympias. Sie erhält ihre Spezialisierung als Kampfvorhut und wird ihrem ersten Partner zugewiesen. Schon bald wird sie sich in ihrer ersten Begegnung mit feindlichen Cyborgs bewähren müssen. Und im Verborgenen spinnt Metatron seine eigenen Pläne für sie... Buch 3 der Behind Blue Eyes Origins-Novellenserie konzentriert sich auf Nephilims erste Jahre als Guardian Angel.

Nephilim hat die wichtigste Prüfung in Angelborn bestanden und ist bereit für ihre ersten bedeutenden Augmentierungen, die sie ihrem Ziel, ein Guardian Angel zu werden, näher bringen werden.

When Shelby Arnold slipped into the airplane bathroom to argue with her husband, she never would have thought it would save her life. But it did. While she bickers with him over video chat, an unexplained phenomenon strikes the earth with devastating force, and the world is plunged into darkness and silence. In an instant, ninety percent of the population loses both their sight and their hearing. Shelby is not one of them. She and a few others on flight 1515 are spared the effects of the anomaly. Unfortunately, they are not spared the horrors of the world they face once they land.

She came to Alaska for a wedding. She didn't expect the end of the world. Nora wasn't looking for love. Twice divorced and tired of heartbreak, she came to Alaska to watch her best friend get married and maybe figure out who she can be alone. Instead, she ends up stranded in the frozen wilderness after their plane goes down, trapped with someone she's not sure she can trust. Theo is the only other survivor. He's handsome, irritating, and far too good at getting under her skin. While the cold could get them first, something more dangerous lurks in the snow.