Resultados para "Das Institut" en Ciencia ficción y fantasía

Un grupo de NERDS organizan una fiesta clandestina de fin de año en su instituto. Allí distribuyen una sustancia estupefaciente de misteriosa procedencia, que requiere seguir unas reglas de uso para su pleno disfrute. Si no cumples estas reglas, te conviertes en zombi. La locura se desata en el Instituto Bellavista. Por sus pasillos corren las bestias y la sangre, aunque el verdadero peligro es en lo que se convierten los no infectados.

It has been five years since the Revelation, and Earth is now a member of the Intergalactic Confederation of Planets. Peace has broken out. Climate change has been reversed. Life expectancy has increased. Poverty has just about been wiped out. The Institute is up and running at the Embassy. Students from around the world have transferred, researchers from major universities are doing sabbaticals, and Confederation technology is being adapted for human use.

To Jake Bayard’s amazement, he meets a Homo habilis: a five-foot, hundred-pound hairy hominid that was supposed to have gone extinct 1.65 million years ago. Philip is no moronic precursor to man, but a member of the elite extraterrestrial Institute, needing help to leave Earth. The problem is that Philip is a liar, a sneak, and a diabolical genius using the Traveler for his own ends. Out in the stars, Bayard discovers a conspiracy backed by ancient military tech and run by the little hominids bent on conquering everything, including Earth.

Recently, in reality, archeologists found evidence of writing 9,000 years ago. If there was an Atlantis 10-12,000 years ago, it would be highly likely that it would have links to writing that came after it. Similar to a "Mad Max" scenario, when Atlantis fell, the population would end up mostly illiterate, losing most of the written language with it. But certain symbols and letters would persist, leading to the simple bills of laden 9,000 years ago.

Two picks from the warehouse arrive at the Institute: an ancient medallion mostly encased in granite and a map with an "X" near edge of the North American continental plate. The Institute members who stay to research the medallion need the help of a specialist and find themselves contending with a persnickety metallurgist. To get to the answer about the medallion, they break the rules, and what they discover is amazing, yet so scientically simple. Linda and Virgil have family issues.

Virgil's pick from the warehouse sends the Institute of Antiquities group to Egypt. He picked what look like giant pool tiles and a small figurine. However, the liaison in Egypt is Rick's estranged father, Field General Nels Lundgren, and the person sent on behalf of the Egyptian Department of Antiquities is Dr. Carruthers, the original group member who walked away.

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The Institute team gets its first item from the secret warehouse, another crystal ball, and the team discovers the secret of the crystal balls.

In an "archeological emergency", the government hijacks a group of scientists who discover advanced ancient civilizations. After making astounding finds, they then have to find a way to get out of the government's clutches.

The Colonel makes the first pick from the secret warehouse, “something from the Southwest”. In response, a large, strange wire contraption wrapped in an old “Indian blanket” arrives. Because of his Native American/Latino heritage, the Colonel is interested in identifying the old blanket. Virgil and Mandy test the wire contraption to an unexpected conclusion. Irina and Cynthia investigate the 18,000 year old book from the Marsala expedition and reveal some of its secrets. Cynthia’s drunk mother meddles into her work life, intent on Cynthia returning to Brandeis and more prestige.

My name is Ava-Marie, and I love living on the dark side. Getting into trouble is kind of my thing, but one night, I take revenge too far. I’m sentenced to a reform school for magical delinquents... though really, it’s a prison. As the only supernatural who can control both fire and water, I’m already a target. To make matters worse, I literally share a soul with Charlie, a sexy inmate from the wrong side of the tracks. Surviving at the Institute is almost as risky as falling in love.

Humanity lives in the sunlit world of what we believe to be reality. Unknown to most there is, unseen by most, another world, possibly many other worlds, running side by side with our own. The Marquette Institute and Department of Preternatural Activities (DPA) are the latest in a long and illustrious line of organizations established to help safeguard the human race from the monsters living in the spaces between reality and nightmares. These stories just scratch the surface of the operations and investigations conducted in almost 200 years of operation.

Si vous pouviez voyager dans le temps, que feriez-vous ? Voici 22 réponses au fil d'autant de nouvelles de différents genres. Mais, finalement, le voyage dans le temps n'est ici qu'un prétexte, un élément de décor.

An atypical rainmaking machine is investigated, picked by a new General to the NSC. But the General fails to arrive. The Colonel and Irina go to Minnesota to follow up on the defrosted child and find themselves on a rollercoaster. The Colonel leaves aging hippie Mike in charge to deal with the NSC Chiefs. A premature visit from the head of Mike and Cynthia’s national professional body becomes a nightmare, as orthodoxy meets outliers.

Just as the Colonel gets his new bio-med lab, Cynthia, Mandy, and Rick fall ill. The Colonel then learns that the SEALs they dove with in the Atlantic are also sick. However, one of the SEALs got ill in public, and when he dies, the CDC tries to take over the Institute, and a conflict ensues between Admiral Cutworth and the chief CDC medical investigator who is a bit of an ass. And in the end, it's not an illness!

The Institute group is woken in the middle of the night to explore an island with an omega-shaped building that has risen out of the Atlantic. It’s the same building the first IA group went to see in 1872 that resulted in their permanent government detention. The current group insists on a letter protecting them from a similar outcome, but only one of the National Security Commission chiefs is available. The letter they get is not binding. They land, and what they find upends everything they thought they knew.

Pirate antihero Rooker Flynn has 13 death sentences. But instead of being executed, he’s forced into the deadliest fantasy magic school ever built. Trapped on the island with murderous outlaws, a corrupt warden, and giant poisonous spiders, Rooker must stage a daring prison break or die trying. This isn't school, it's survival. Joined by his former partner Jack Swift, Rooker Flynn must outwit lethal trials, outlaw gangs, and the inhuman dangers lurking beyond locked doors.

Sailors have always had their stories, their tall tales of the sea. While many are the bragging and one-upmanship of men who do work no one else wants to do, some of them are frighteningly real. What a few sailors lucky enough to survive know is that beneath the icy waters of the Northern Pacific, a terror from the forgotten depths of history hunts them.

The Marquette Institute and the Department of Preternatural Activities (DPA) have been America's primary defense against the things that go bump in the night for more than a century and a half. It has been said that without the activities of this group and similar organizations, the human race would've fallen under the heel of dark forces long ago.

What ancient evils live beneath the waters of the great Lakes of North America? During a massive snow storm in a small diner, we get a glimpse of the terror below.