Resultados para "Das Signal" en Literatura y ficción

A literary father –daughter novel about memory, forgiveness, and the search for belonging. He wrote detectives who lived in shadows. She grew up searching for a signal in the static. When Jeff Griffin and Zoe MacKenzie meet, silence gives way to memory, music, and the chance to belong. Jeff Griffin built his name writing acclaimed crime novels set in postwar New Orleans —but spent decades hiding from his own past. Zoe MacKenzie grew up without him, raised on stories instead of a father. For more than 18 years, Zoe MacKenzie only knew half her story.

Two astronomers have detected a strange, pulsing signal from deep space. Within hours, the US government goes into lockdown, restricting airspace and scrubbing scientific data. Was the signal an intercepted communication revealing alarming plans for an enemy’s military strike? Or has humanity at long last found proof of extraterrestrial life?

Mexico City, 1988. Long before iTunes or MP3s, you said "I love you" with a mixtape. Meche, awkward and fifteen, discovers how to cast spells using music, and with her friends Sebastian and Daniela will piece together their broken families, and even find love.

'The Signal' is the story of two peasants who work as track walkers on the railway, Semyon Ivanov and Vasily Stepanych. Semyon is grateful for his job and the hut and the vegetable patch which goes with it, but Vasily is discontented with his lot and constantly complains, including to his employers. This grumbling irritates the railway officials and eventually the situation escalates, driving Vasily to take terrible revenge on the state railway.

Well known for his short stories, critically acclaimed author Ron Carlson has been featured in the New Yorker, Harper's Magazine, Esquire, and Best American Short Stories. Carlson has also won a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Fiction, a National Society of Arts and Letters Literature Award, and the 1993 Ploughshares Cohen Prize. Here he captivates audiences with a compelling novel no listener will soon forget.

Commander David Bryce returned from his mission, successful, with a derelict alien ship that wasn’t as empty as predicted. With the assistance of an old ally, David is hell-bent on stopping the invasion before it begins. There’s just one problem; the Signal is hidden somewhere on Earth. Atlas Donovan is the only man capable of helping them, and it’s unclear whether he can trust the ORB employees. One thing is clear: Aliens have been to Earth, and from the looks of it, not just a single race. There were two.

A signal drops. A mirror lies. A name won’t stay erased. In these unsettling stories from Sarah Faith, the ordinary rules of communication, identity, and memory begin to fail—quietly at first, then all at once. A family discovers that losing connection doesn’t mean they’re alone. A gift becomes impossible to refuse—and worse to keep. A routine bound to time and weather begins to feel less like safety… and more like a trap. A place forgotten by everyone else refuses to forget those who enter it.

Years after the Replication Wars ended, clone soldier Unit 734 receives a distress signal from a fellow clone long believed dead. Following the transmission into the dangerous Maw Nebula, he discovers a hidden conspiracy tied to Forge, a secret organization that has spent years rebuilding lost military technology and preparing for another war. Reunited with Unit 819, 734 uncovers Project Genesis—an enormous clone-production carrier capable of creating entire armies in secret.

It is 1860. A female reporter is drawn into a railroad signal man’s haunted, frenzied hallucinations. Are the terrors he experiences a form of insanity or a frightening shade of reality? Are his blood-curdling nightmares simply coincidence–or omens of horror to come? This full-cast dramatization recreates Charles Dickens’s Victorian industrial world of steam trains, ephemeral music, sunsets over desolate landscapes, and figures glimpsed just beyond the embankments. Descend into the darker side of the supernatural in THE SIGNAL-MAN.

1860, Wimborne, Dorset. Rebecca Tullidge, miserably married to her callous husband, is having an affair with a railway officer, John Bedloe. Much to her distress, she trips over her lover's dead body on the railway tracks. Determined to win votes for the upcoming election of mayor, Mr Feltham calls for Inspector Colbeck and Sergeant Lemming to solve the hideous crime, which takes longer than anticipated.

The broadcast isn’t over. It’s just beginning.Juno Voss has spent years chasing dead frequencies—cassette tapes filled with static, half-buried transmissions, and voices that don’t belong to her. But when one recording speaks in her own voice—words she has never said—she’s pulled back into a conspiracy that was never meant to resurface.

"The Signal Man" is a magnificent, tightly focused ghost story. Dickens' charm pervades this mysterious and ominous tale. Various grim events occur but feel somewhat calm - not bloody or appalling, but enthralling and other worldly. Dickens invests the signal-man with education beyond his station. This adds to the credibility of the story as well as impressing the narrator. A must-listen for Dickens fans. An American voice at the request of our listeners.

The world has changed. A killer is on the loose in the metaworld, and the still fragile resistance is in danger of crumbling. The resistance is desperately battling the influence of the Forum and the implant carriers. As humanity spends more and more time in the artificially created metaworld, Steve Työpaikkaa stumbles upon a horrifying truth that shakes the foundations of the future. Meanwhile, his daughter June embarks on a dangerous journey after the Resistance finds the source of a new signal.

Yorkshire, 1943. Lily Baines, a bright young debutante increasingly ground down by an endless war, has traded in her white gloves for a set of headphones. It’s her job to intercept enemy naval communications and send them to Bletchley Park for decryption. One night, she picks up a transmission that isn’t code at all—it’s a cry for help.

The railway signal-man of the title tells the narrator of an apparition that has been haunting him. Each spectral appearance precedes a tragic event on the railway on which the signalman works. The signalman's work is at a signal-box in a deep cutting near a tunnel entrance on a lonely stretch of the railway line, and he controls the movements of passing trains. When there is danger, his fellow signalmen alert him by telegraph and alarms. Three times, he receives phantom warnings of danger when his bell rings in a fashion that only he can hear.

When a single phone call turns Reagan Lindsey's entire world upside down, she heads straight for Dusk Valley—the last place her twin sister, Lainey, was seen alive—determined to find out what happened to her. She never anticipated seeing Finn Lawless again, the man who, seven years ago, gave...

The Signal-Man is a haunting and suspenseful tale by Charles Dickens, exploring themes of isolation, fear, and the supernatural. In this eerie short story, a railway signalman shares his disturbing encounters with a ghostly figure that seems to warn of impending tragedies. As he confides in a passing traveler, the signalman reveals the chilling events that haunt him, leading to a terrifying conclusion.

Dicken's short story features a railway Signal-man who is haunted by a ghostly spectre that visits him each time prior to a tragic event. This is a classic ghost story that has even won favour by Doctor Who.

I was never supposed to survive the explosion. One minute I’m alone on the water, collecting data. The next, I’m drowning, saved by a quiet, lethal Navy SEAL who looks at me like he’s been watching me long before the attempt on my life. Lieutenant Commander Holden Lange is assigned to protect me while base personnel investigate the sabotage. He’s controlled, dangerous, and far too good at reading me. I don’t trust men who make me feel safe. I trusted one once and barely escaped with my life. But the attacks keep coming. My research is stolen.

When a company gathering in Sweden is followed by a sudden global blackout, phones die, networks collapse, and modern life begins to unravel. Stranded far from safety, Martin and a small group of colleagues must navigate fear, mistrust, and escalating violence as they fight to survive in a world...