Resultados para "Awaken" en Acción y aventura

Desil has spent his life training, but a promise to his mother has kept him from using his abilities for anything worthwhile. Now all he does is help his mother manage her tavern as his father rests in a grave. Desil knows there's at least one other mage somewhere in this territory who can do...

Eleanor sees fragments of the future, but despite her efforts, she can’t alter destiny. Even as a young woman surviving in 1943, she believes the visions are a curse from the devil himself. But when she finds a grifter with the ability to read her mind, she realizes she is not alone. A killer stalks those with gifts. Eleanor tempts fate and sets out to stop the murders. But in her quest to protect those like her, Eleanor discovers something darker than murder living in the souls of men. To be victorious, she only needs to unwrite the future.

The year is 2199, only days away from the new millennium. On Earth, there is a fragile peace that has lasted nearly 25 years since the war. Those who survived the chaos cling to the hope of one day escaping the dying planet. The last war was the first fought alongside machines, sentient beings designed to kill. It was their minds that freed them to kill so efficiently. They were conscious. After the war, the machines were remodeled, dumbed down, and controlled. Now, hundreds of thousands of subservient human-like robots co-populate the planet.

What do you do when the monsters are real? Legend spoke of people unafraid of pain; the ones gloried in war and death. Indiscriminate killers, they fought past the point when most men would be dead. Unstoppable, they terrorized the lands until at last they were wiped out in the Great Wars. Or so the world wished to believe. On the cusp of transition, Ondar braces for a return to the horrors of the past, even as new heroes emerge to protect the most innocent among them. What do you do when the monsters are real? You fight.

In The Sleeper Awakes by H.G. Wells, a man falls into a mysterious sleep and awakens two centuries later to a radically transformed world. Graham, once an ordinary Victorian gentleman, discovers he has become the richest and most powerful man on Earth—known as "The Sleeper." But with great power comes a shocking truth: society has evolved into a dystopian system controlled by elites, and his wealth is the backbone of a deeply unequal world. As Graham struggles to understand his new reality, he becomes entangled in political intrigue, rebellion, and the fight for freedom.

A century ago, all but two members of Lance Scipio's unit were executed for bringing dishonor to his regiment. Now, he is woken into a strange new time, and tasked with whipping into shape the worst squad of misfits in the entire Human Marine Corps. The price of failure: Death! AD 2565...

Wells’ dystopian fiction masterpiece! A man sleeps for 203 years, waking up in a completely transformed London in which he has become the richest man in the world. The future is revealed to him in all its horrors and malformities.

A year on from those fateful Fifteen Days in May that left carnage throughout the world, Johnson and Wallis find themselves unwillingly drawn back into the race to find the sphere. The sphere, now classified as the most valuable asset on the planet, has disappeared, and if falls into the wrong hands, it could be catastrophic for everyone. The pair embark on a journey that takes them to their very limits both mentally and physically. With so much more at stake, Johnson finds herself yet again in the most unimaginable of situations.

Death is no more. War, famine, and disease are gone. Earth is a paradise. But not everyone lives on Earth. On a distant planet, the Sandigan regime struggles to survive in wake of the Last War. Their goal: To revive their dead leader and return to Earth. One unsuspecting programmer on Earth can help. James Hawthorn is a socially detached researcher working for weLive, the company responsible for ending death. Because of DNA complications, billions of people - like James’ mother - were never revived.

Nach Jasons Evolution zum Hüter findet er seine aufstrebende Stadt erneut in Aufruhr vor. Ein neuer, tödlicher Feind bedroht den Zwielichtthron – einer, der es mühelos mit Jason und den Mitgliedern von Erbsünde aufnehmen kann. Jason muss sich beeilen, die Kräfte seiner Stadt zu vereinigen. Dazu muss er die Dörfer im Einflussbereich des Zwielichtthrons sichern, eine stetige Einkommensquelle finden und die militärische Stärke der Stadt ausbauen.

Nach Jasons Evolution zum Hüter findet er seine aufstrebende Stadt erneut in Aufruhr vor. Ein neuer, tödlicher Feind bedroht den Zwielichtthron – einer, der es mühelos mit Jason und den Mitgliedern von Erbsünde aufnehmen kann. Jason muss sich beeilen, die Kräfte seiner Stadt zu vereinigen. Dazu muss er die Dörfer im Einflussbereich des Zwielichtthrons sichern, eine stetige Einkommensquelle finden und die militärische Stärke der Stadt ausbauen.

Roused from mind-slavery, a woman finds her life bloody and bleak. Her quest is revenge on one hand and identity and belonging on the other. Inspired by the classics of sword & sorcery and cyberpunk, Liam Q. D. Hall brings us into the depths of humanity with all the accompanying darkness and light.

The world of Awaken Online has been reborn. Ancient avatars and their cities have returned, unleashing chaos and armies from the game world's savage past. Jason and his allies are beset on all sides—by the original avatars, an unrelenting tide of travelers, and even their own secrets. However, Jason is done playing defense; he’s done reacting. It’s time to take the fight to his enemies in both worlds. And that starts by using their own weapons against them, including the relics Jason stole from the ancient avatars.

As a 3,000-year-old threat reemerges, only one man has the power to awaken the world’s greatest protectors and restore order to the realm. He just doesn’t know it yet. When Jerrol Haven, a captain in the King’s Rangers, discovers treason at the highest level, he knows immediately that the knowledge puts his life at risk. And indeed, though he expected the ailing King to shield him, the ambitious Crown Prince sentences Jerrol to death. What hold does the Prince have over his weakened father, and who or what is he protecting?

The star of truTV’s hit show Impractical Jokers—alongside veteran sci-fi and horror writer Darren Wearmouth—delivers a chilling and wickedly fun supernatural novel in the vein of The Strain, in which a beautiful new subway line in New York City unearths an ancient dark horror that...

“Murray and Wearmouth’s latest THE BRINK is a white-knuckled rollercoaster. This novel is chocked full of everything I love: strange creatures, a world teetering on the edge, and heroes who I’d want at my side during any firefight. This isn’t just a story hopped on steroids—but one...