Resultados para "Anna" en Aventura

Min and Max broke physics to resurrect a dog. Now the Earth is doomed. Middle management lays the blame on their shoulders, and those passive-aggressive emails are escalating to active-aggressive weapons. They'll rescue the Earth if they can. Secure the future of humanity if there's time.

When an unauthorized oil rig appears offshore of Ecuador, a military team is sent to investigate. The deep-water platform has no markings, no drilling rig, and no workers—but it's surrounded by a curious bank of fog. When their helicopter closes in, it's swallowed without a trace.

Dr. David Gordon has discovered the secret to unlocking the subconscious mind's innate ability to heal itself from trauma, loss, and suffering. This discovery will change everything medical science knows about the mind and expand possibilities for cognitive and intellectual development. However, there are those who plan to pervert this into a terrible weapon of war “to enhance interrogation” without leaving evidence of physical torture and threaten to leverage it to dominate humanity, with no hope of escape.

Four generations ago, a generation ship crashed into the sands of Savene. Since then, its survivors have eked out an existence in the planet’s hostile desert. Yet, the tech is failing, the sands are encroaching, and people are dying.

On Earth, Grover Baines (a NASA scientist) is murdered in 1979 when he stumbles upon a secret third Voyager flight. Unlike the two other probes, Voyager 3 was a small manned craft loaded with reproductive material in hopes of finding a suitable planet for habitation on Alpha Centauri. Years later, in 2001, a fourth Voyager is sent on the same mission. Though technology has advanced dramatically in the 24 years since the first three Voyagers were launched, this mission manages to remain secret amid the attacks on the Twin Towers.

When Kelric, a scion of the imperial family of Skolia, crash-lands his fighter on the off-limits planet of Coba, he figures it will be only a short time before he makes his way home. But he fails to account for the powerful matriarchy of Coba, the mistresses of the great estates who do not want the Empire to know about their recent cultural advances. First they take him prisoner. Then, one by one, the most powerful women on the planet fall in love with him!

The Saga of the Skolian Empire is Catherine Asaro's trademark series. It chronicles the lives of the members of the ruling family of the Empire in the distant interstellar future, weaving a fine blend of action, romance, and hard science fiction.

Tutto ciò che Jamie Allenby ha sempre desiderato è avere spazio intorno a sé, in cui sentirsi finalmente libera. Per questo ha abbandonato la Terra, sovrappopolata e claustrofobica, rifacendosi una vita in un mondo di frontiera, ai bordi della civiltà. Quando però un virus dilagante colpisce l'umanità, annientandola e lasciandone solo un vago ricordo, Jamie si ritrova definitivamente sola, finché un messaggio giunto dalla Terra accende in lei una flebile speranza... Chi è il suo autore?

In the distant future, the Skolian Empire rules one third of the human galaxy, and is the most powerful of all. For the ruling family has the power of telepathy, and through it, the ability to communicate faster than light, across interstellar space. But their most determined enemy, the traders, who thrive on human pain, need to interbreed with a Skolian to gain their powers. And now they have her.

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.

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.

After her crushing defeat against the Tigress, Nephilim is at the Wasp leader’s mercy. In return for her support for Metatron’s grand plan, the Tigress wants Nephilim to complete an extremely dangerous mission: to kill her brother, the leader of TogbuaXiang. What sounds like an easy task for a professional killer cyborg soon turns into the most challenging and dangerous mission Nephilim has ever had to accomplish. But she has promised Metatron that she will bring him the alliance, so she must succeed—no matter what.

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.

In one terrible day, high-school science nerd Anna Reyes loses her college scholarship, gets thrown back to ancient Greece in a lab accident, and becomes the only person who can save the world. The only thing Anna ever wanted was to be just like her celebrity-physicist father. Now she’s stuck in the past with his best student Indy, a snarky, genetically-enhanced border collie and physics postdoc. The two of them have all the technology of the future at their fingertips. Or at least they might, if they can manage to re-create it from the pieces they brought back with them.

Los Angeles is an apocalyptic wasteland. Without orientation, Colton stumbles through the vast, deserted city. He doesn’t remember who he is or where he came from. Scavengers save his life from mutants and bring him to the only remaining inhabited area and safe Zone in former Hollywood. There he learns that after a devastating catastrophe called The Glitch, reality shifted, allowing nightmarish creatures from another dimension to enter our world. These so-called Dark Ones feed on suffering and violence, wanting nothing less than the complete annihilation of humanity.

Der Cyberpunk Bestseller aus den USA jetzt auch auf Deutsch! Nephilim ist eine kybernetisch verbesserte Elitesoldatin, ein Cyborg. Ihr Job ist es, die Drecksarbeit für den Megakonzern zu erledigen, dem sie angehört. Sie und ihre Cyborg-Eliteeinheit werden auf den gefährlichsten Missionen eingesetzt - um Olympias um jeden Preis vor äußeren und inneren Bedrohungen zu schützen. Eines Tages wird sie durch eine Fehlfunktion ihrer Implantate von dem alles kontrollierenden Netz getrennt. Zum ersten Mal in ihrem Leben ist Nephilim frei.

Als Kai, einer der besten Gamer der Welt, in das Cyber Squad aufgenommen wird, glaubt er zunächst, seinen Traumjob ergattert zu haben. Spiele testen und dafür fürstlich belohnt werden, was kann es Besseres geben? Doch schon bald stellt er fest, dass das ein Irrtum war, der ihn sein Leben kosten könnte. Bekleidet mit einem Hightech-Anzug, der seinen Körper und sein Gehirn schützen soll, dringen Kai und sein Team in die gefährlichsten und aufregendsten virtuellen Welten ein, um sie von allem zu säubern, was für normale Spieler schädlich sein könnte.

As a powerful, cybernetically enhanced elite soldier her job is to do all the dirty work for the mega-corporation she belongs to. She and her elite cyborg squad are deployed on the most dangerous missions – to protect Olympias from threats outside and inside at any cost. One day, a malfunction in her implants separates her from the all-controlling grid. For the first time in her life, Nephilim is free.

Nichts ist so, wie es scheint...Nach dem Hackerangriff, bei dem Kai und sein gesamtes Team fast ums Leben gekommen wären, ist jeder bei Helltek nervös. Schlimmer noch, alle Beweise deuten darauf hin, dass der Saboteur ein Mitarbeiter des Unternehmens ist. Kai fürchtet nicht nur um seine Sicherheit sondern auch um die seiner Freunde. Der Verdacht, dass jemand, der ihm nahe steht, dafür verantwortlich sein könnte, ist beunruhigend. Und das ist nur eines von Kais Problemen.

David wakes up in a high-security prison on the forsaken Martian moon Deimos with no memory of his past. A chance encounter with Aztec, a deadly purple-haired cyborg, propels him into a daring jailbreak. She brings him on board a mysterious warship manned by the most notorious and badass crew of the galaxy—the Space Punks. One hundred years ago AI waged a devastating war against its human creators.