Resultados para "Anna" en Ciencia ficción

Kara has spent the last six years fighting the infected in the ruins of a broken world, searching for the one person who ever truly understood her. Wade was her only friend growing up in the foster system, the one steady thing in a life built on instability. When the world collapsed, she thought she'd lost him for good until the enemy dumped him at her doorstep, barely conscious and scarred from years in captivity. Helping him heal would be a challenge even if she weren't still in love with him.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Olivia never imagined giving birth in a subway bathroom while the infected pounded on the door. She didn't expect her husband to turn into one of them, either. Rescued by Cole, she clings to him as her only chance of survival for both her and her baby. He's gruff and reserved, but she soon feels safer with him than she ever did with her late husband. She'll fight to stay by Cole's side as the world crumbles around them.

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.

Cupid, a 35 year old scientist, is unlucky in love but successful in his career. When the CEO of a multinational perfume corporation asks him to develop an aphrodisiac using his trained mosquitoes, he jumps at the chance. At the same time, the woman he's been chatting with on an online dating app has finally agreed to meet up. But what Cupid doesn't know is that he's about to go from bitten to smitten.

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.

It's 1984. Winston Smith lives alone in London. He is a secret rebel plotting his escape from the Party: the deadly dictatorship led by Big Brother. Winston dreams of finding freedom, love and peace: everything that is outlawed. His act of defiance will get him killed - but his courage is...

As one of the Kordolian Military's infamous First Division, Lodan Vorkan's one of the most feared warriors in the Nine Galaxies. He doesn't like the unpredictable, and humans are exactly that. Humans are trouble. Humans bring chaos. When he encounters the strange human called Tasha, all his warning alarms go off. She isn't anything like the other humans. She's faster, stronger—artificially so. She has secrets; she tells lies. A trail of blood-scent lingers around her. She is not the kind of human he would imagine as his mate. But Lodan's control is about to be sorely tested.

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.

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...

El recopilatorio de relatos no Cosmere, por el gran autor de fantasía del siglo XXI: Brandon Sanderson.

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.

Their trip through the Androski wormhole didn't take them on the journey they expected, and now Reyanne and the team face a new challenge: stay or go? Stay on this new Earth and make a fresh start, or risk going back through the wormhole, not knowing where they will end up. Neither is ideal, and both have unpredictable consequences. There are still too many unanswered questions about what happened on Earth, and the more the team search for signs, the more they realize how little they really know.

Es sind sechs Monate vergangen, seitdem die Königin der Vampire sich in Schweigen gehüllt hat, und das Schicksal der Welt befindet sich seither auf Messers Schneide. Schließe dich den furchtlosen Dunraven Schwestern bei ihrer Mission an, die Vampirapokalypse in einem sonnenfinsteren und endlos-eisigen Winter zu überleben.

Commander Finch believes he has finally, and safely, returned his crew home. But a jump through the Androski wormhole takes the Omni and her crew to 1993. Fifty years before their original mission. Now Finch and the crew must navigate a past that is still behind in technology until they can safely jump again. They must do so without interfering with the past...and without getting caught. Time is running out and the Androski will soon close. They face not only a leap of time, but faith in where they end up.

Calexa Acura and her crew of misfits are lost, and their ship is in desperate need of repairs. When a massive spacecraft appears in their radius, they're helpless to resist its magnetic pull. The terrifying ship is bigger than any craft she's seen in her life, and somehow, she doubts its occupants will turn out to be the friendly sort. First Encounters are always better when they're amicable, but if necessary, Calexa and her crew will fight.