Resultados para "Atlantia" en Ciencia ficción

La civilización Atlante ha permanecido en la sombra desde tiempos remotos sin dejar de controlar la evolución del ser humano. Tan solo unos pocos hombres han tenido la fortuna de colaborar con ellos, de conocer sus secretos y mostrarlos después al mundo para pasar a ser personajes de gran...

El submarino de investigación Atlantis II se adentra en la misteriosa brecha gravitacional Larsen 44 para investigar una anomalía que amenaza con desestabilizar el campo magnético terrestre. A bordo viaja Alicia, una enigmática polizón adolescente con habilidades extraordinarias que podrían ser clave para la misión. La tripulación enfrenta peligros mortales mientras descubren secretos que desafían su comprensión de la realidad. En una carrera contra el tiempo, la Comandante Regina debe elegir entre seguir órdenes o confiar en una adolescente que podría ser tanto su salvación como su perdición.

Todo se agita bajo un presentimiento, una intuición colectiva y un arcano universal: La Atlántida. ¿Estaremos reviviendo su cataclismo?, ¿o habremos aprendido de su historia? Con el hallazgo de unos restos arqueológicos durante la construcción de una urbanización de lujo en Sanlúcar de Barrameda, arranca esta fascinante novela que le seducirá desde sus primeras líneas. Alejandro, un tímido librero de Cádiz, sólo tiene por amigo a un viejo marinero, el Corcho, que cuenta leyendas de antiguas ciudades sumergidas mientras bebe en las tabernas de la Caleta gaditana.

It is a story told many times in the century since the Great Martian Invasion - of a devastating and irresistible assault, of mankind in panicked flight, and of humanity's miraculous salvation. Every man and woman, girl, and boy across the globe knows the tale and hears it with reverence and gratitude. And yet - is that the whole story? Did the invaders have all the advantages? All the technology? Not all the brains were on their side. Not all the guile. Certainly not all the ruthless determination.

Nothing matters to the walking dead but finding live flesh to chew on, and nothing matters to Ginny Mills except getting back to her family. Nothing matters to Lee Quartine but keeping his small band of survivors - including Ginny - alive. Upstate New York is overrun, other survivors are more of a danger than a help, and the rumors have begun. There's a place where organization and government still exists, a place where a cure for the zombie virus is underway. The problem is, that place is Atlanta, and there's a hell of a lot of road to cover to get there.

Thrust from her home out in The Elements, having escaped from the labs of The Tyson Estates and now free from the horrors of Sub Terra, Annie with Hutch and their infant daughter, Eden, now find themselves in a world they never knew existed, Atlantica. An underwater civilization, Atlantica was built by seven friends who believed Calvin Tyson’s theory of extreme climate changes due to a drastic shift of the Earth’s axis. It was to be a temporary base of operations until scientists could find a way for their people to survive out in the harsh ruins of the Earth after The Shift.

The "blasted heath" they called it. Five acres of grey desolation, like a sore eaten into the land. West of Arkham, the hills rise wild. There are dark little glens where the trees hang precariously and where thin brooklets trickle, never having been touched by sunlight. There was once a road over the hills and through the valley, but people ceased to use it. The old folk have died or gone away, and the farms and villages are slowly decaying back into dark woods and narrow clearings. A family died up there.

Schloss Frankenstein is haunted by a Monster. Through countless movies and one immortal book, he has stalked its halls and hidden passages. And the Hero has always arisen to protect the Maiden from the Monster's misdirected love.

Strange sightings off the coast of England are the stuff of mass hysteria. Lost causes create their own magic: and was there ever a cause more lost than the Spanish Armada? But then, what is approaching Plymouth?

Santana Sokolov - John "Dick" Chambers' client and a woman he wouldn't mind getting to know much better. Well, if her opinion of him wasn't already so low, it had to look up to see the bottom of her boots. His case is moving forward, but for every two steps forward, it seems someone is trying to kill him. That gets annoying after a while. Make a little head-way, dodge bullets, get into a fight, run for your life. Wash, rinse, repeat. Atlantica isn't giving up her secrets easily, and others are now playing in the game.

An unsettling customer approaches a rare-and-collectible book shop to inquire after the availability of the Necronomicon. Yes, the Necronomicon. The fact that the book is a fictional construct does not dissuade "Mr. Smith", so Danielle initiates a search through her network of collectors, dealers, and sources. When one of those dealers actually locates a copy, Danielle's reality begins to chip around the edges - leading to a confrontation that threatens to shatter it completely.

If The X-Files starred Sherlock Holmes, it would look like this: Colonel Horatio Fitzwilliam, late of Her Majesty's Army, finds wonders beyond imagination as the sturdy companion of the perpetually bemused Doctor Geoffry Stanhope. It was supposed to be a simple hiking tour of the Bavarian Alps. But something is hunting the hunters in the haunted Duchy of Augsbach, and it is up to Dr Stanhope and Colonel Fitzwilliams to find out what it is - if it doesn't find them first.

A man is running, running through the woods, avoiding cities, avoiding his fellow man, running, running. He's running from the authorities, from his crimes, from an entire world. And most of all, he is running from himself and the logically frightening and humane punishment that waits for him if he stops.

Suppose you could travel the streets in a perfect disguise and commit any crime, indulge any vice, do whatever you wanted, to anyone you wanted, unburdened by guilt or remorse, and no one would ever know it was you. What would you do? Would you ever stop? Would you still be yourself? Or can a creature without compassion, without self-restraint, without morals, still be called human at all?

Dr. Moreau, misunderstood and hounded by the London medical community, retreats to a Pacific island to continue his experiments. The goal: nothing less than to surgically rebuild animals into the shape of men and to teach them the meaning of humanity.

The setting is the Old West: Mother Lode, New Mexico. A handful of people, drovers, saloon girls, a barkeep, a preacher and a sheriff, wait in a saloon on a stormy Halloween night. They wait for the dawn, when they will go their separate ways, and Mother Lode will truly become a ghost town. But the storm brings some unexpected arrivals.

A major breakthrough in psychiatric treatment leads to a man with a very crowded head. Here is Brad Linaweaver's tale of a man with the ultimate personality conflict, thanks to two implants designed to be his conscience.

Come away with us now to the far-off, future days of A.D. 1985, when men have landed on the moon! Where Space Marshal, Rory Rammer, and his sidekick, "Skip" Sagan, guard the rule of law and the rights of the innocent! From the skies of Earth to the orbit of the Moon!

A post-apocalyptic, poetic dream...an encounter in a land beyond time.... Three young women reside in a beach house, isolated from the rest of the world by sheer strength of will. And three fighter pilots are on an endless routine sweep for anything out of the ordinary.

Come away with us now to the far off future days of AD 1985, after men have landed on the moon! When Space Marshal Rory Rammer, and his sidekick, "Skip" Sagan, guard the rule of law and the rights of the innocent from the skies of Earth to the orbit of the moon!