Resultados para "Dark" en Ciencia ficción

The fate of the world rests on the Dark Lord's shoulders. Time is running out. The Pearl Rot sweeps across the world, crystallizing everything in its path. Deklin sails the wild seas aboard a dragon turtle, seeking the Serpent Spires to reforge the Shadowheart. The only thing that can stop the...

Fifteen billion years from now, Earth is a dying planet, its skies darkened by the ashes of burned-out galaxies, its molten core long cooled. The sunless planet is nearing the day of final gravitational collapse in the surrounding galaxy. Mutations and evolution have led to a great disparity of life-forms, while civilization has resorted to the primitive.

Año 2119. Las cosas no van muy bien en el planeta. Hay amplias zonas inundadas como consecuencia de un catastrófico accidente nuclear. Y los habitantes de este futuro distópico miran con fascinación los albores del siglo XXI, a sus ojos una época de esplendor cultural. Así lo considera...

Magic is dead. The Empire made certain of it. For five hundred years, the Empire has ruled through fear, crushing kingdoms beneath towering war machines powered by stolen magic. When Alira, a mysterious young woman with no memory of her past, discovers she possesses abilities thought lost to history, she becomes the most hunted person in the world. Joined by a rogue resistance fighter, a young king, and a band of unlikely allies, Alira must uncover the truth behind the Empire's greatest secret before an ancient power awakens and plunges the world into war.

En 2030, un arqueólogo llega al Círculo Polar Ártico para continuar el trabajo de su recién fallecida hija. Allí, los investigadores están estudiando secretos que ha desenterrado el permafrost derretido; entre ellos, los restos perfectamente conservados de una niña que parece haber muerto de un virus antiguo... Una vez desatada, la peste ártica se extenderá por el mundo y cambiará la vida en la tierra para las generaciones venideras, por lo que la humanidad se verá obligada a idear formas innovadoras de afrontar la tragedia.

Un cuento de la criada en el mundo moderno. Una crisis de infertilidad asola el mundo, el último parto natural se produjo hace más de veinte años y ahora la única forma de concebir es someterse a un doloroso tratamiento de fertilidad. Todo recién nacido es estrictamente monitorizado, y si...

He broke the chains. Then he broke the world…. A decade ago Darrow led a revolution, and laid the foundations for a new world. Now he’s an outlaw. Cast out of the very Republic he founded, with half his fleet destroyed, he wages a rogue war on Mercury. Outnumbered and outgunned, is he still...

With all past mistakes put right, I can finally breathe easy. Time to start a family, but that means establishing a new line. Question is—will it all be so straightforward? Will they even let a new clan see the light of day? Put it this way . . . if anyone tries to stop us, this dark...

Tony and Addie must up their game—or get put out of business for good—in the second volume of this dystopian series from the creator of Victor of Tucson. The Blast isn't your typical New Manhattan neighborhood. It's the kind of high-tech, hardwired cyberpunk underworld where only the tough...

He broke the chains. Then he broke the world…. A decade ago Darrow led a revolution, and laid the foundations for a new world. Now he’s an outlaw. Cast out of the very Republic he founded, with half his fleet destroyed, he wages a rogue war on Mercury. Outnumbered and outgunned, is he still...

The Afterfall was just the beginning. The Sorcerers struck their killing blow. The galaxy has collapsed. With communications and logistics crippled, trillions of souls are left adrift in the dark—isolated, abandoned, and desperate. This isn't just a blackout, it's a catastrophic reset...

The end of the world has come not with a bang or a whimper, but with the guttural snarl of walking corpses hungry for human flesh. The "lucky" survivors flee an unstoppable virus spreading death and societal collapse across the globe. As the rules of civilization crumble, a lawyer, a pilot, and a nurse become comrades-in-arms in the fight against extinction. But not every enemy wears a rotting face, and anyone who doesn’t have your back just might have your head. Humankind’s twilight is at hand, and these are indeed... dark days.

Scoundrels are always afraid of the truth. It reveals their true colors, which are otherwise concealed beneath a veneer of decency. The necromancer prince Max Richter can find the truth wherever it's hidden: in a magical prison atop a remote mountain, in the depths of foci poisoned by...

I was framed for murdering another Omega, and my only chance at survival was the Alphas I'd turned into enemies. I hated asking for help—hated begging while they taunted me, but there was no other option. They were the only ones standing between me and death. If only their proximity didn't...

He broke the chains. Then he broke the world…. A decade ago Darrow led a revolution, and laid the foundations for a new world. Now he’s an outlaw. Cast out of the very Republic he founded, with half his fleet destroyed, he wages a rogue war on Mercury. Outnumbered and outgunned, is he still...

The past never dies, it only lies in wait. The necromancers are awakening an ancient power. The lines between different epochs are blurring. While his enemies weave their deceitful web, Maximilian Richter invokes an ally who remembers a pre-abomination world. Lives are the pieces in this chess game. Those who do not fear death—it's their move.

The Great Princes' magical games conceal a hidden dimension. Abomination foci turn out to be not merely sources of blight, but portals through which creatures from another world pass. It is up to Max Richter to solve this mystery before the true enemies of humanity deliver their fatal blow. What...

Founding a clan at such a young age—I don't know how many have been here before. But I do know it's going to take more from me to make my family truly strong. That's not something I need—that's something I want. So, let’s see how the Shuvalovs deal with what comes their way. Because as...

Static Bind is a standalone short story introduction to the Hack & Harrow series, which features Danil and Tiernan as the main characters for the duration of the 8-installment saga. Get a taste for the world, the action, and the chemistry in this spicy, snack-sized story! Two fugitive mercenaries. One steamy wager. Enough denial to reduce competent killers to obsessive idiots. It’s been a long day. Tiernan just wants to settle in for the night, maybe have an emotionally detached bang with his unlikely, smokin' hot ally, and take a long, luxurious bath… not that he has access to a bathtub.

Bones was born with the miraculous power to heal, but all her gift has brought is death. As a child, her older brother trained her to survive, and so survive she did. The blood on her hands will never wash off, she is broken and scarred in more ways than one, but she survived. After finally...