Resultados para "Else" en Ciencia ficción y fantasía

Sherlock Holmes can hardly refuse when he’s summoned to the palace to consult on a dognapping case. He brings along Varti Weller, who’s compelled to lie because he’s folk-spelled. In the midst of their investigation, a new knack comes to light. Varti can tell when someone else is lying. So he knows that the Selcouth Queen isn’t telling the truth. Or at the very least, she’s left out an important detail about the reason she needs Holmes’s expertise. Newcomb is besieged. Enzo fulfills his duty. Arty expands his crew. Kel spills royal tea. And the Hound is back on the hunt.

Everything Feels Like the End of the World is a collection of short speculative fiction exploring possible futures in an Australia not so different from our present day to one thousands of years into an unrecognisable future. Each story is anchored, at its heart, in what it means to be human...

Kat’s boss has vanished. The police suspect her. But they’ll never find him where he’s gone! Only Kat can help him. Interior designer Kat is broke and desperately needs this commission restoring the Edwardian mansion of Fownhope Priors, but her employer Scott’s wife and mother-in-law are...

"ALWAYS REMEMBER, LIES CAN BE JUST AS POWERFUL AS THE TRUTH." As the door slid open to the high-security section of the Royal Library, Professor Yor Vanderlord recalled how his great-grandfather Yorlik's words led him to this moment. Over a century and a half ago, planetary scientists predicted...

Into the darkness within; or else the light.... When Margaret Atwood wrote these words, she left open the possibility that even our darkest tales may harbor a glimmer of hope. In Or Else the Light, the third and final entry in the Dystopia Triptych, more than a dozen of the best minds in science fiction conclude their stories with a descent into darkness, or perhaps a ray of light.

In a city where every surface can be rewritten and every memory can be purchased, a woman discovers her entire past is a corporate fiction. The memoir she's been writing to document her recovery from a traumatic accident turns out to be someone else's life —someone who was erased to make room for her. As she digs through layers of fabricated evidence and legally binding falsehoods, she realizes the thriller she thought she was reading about a missing person is actually her own story, and the novel's protagonist is hunting her.

The bee swarm wasn't the craziest thing that happened to Kelly. Waking up in someone else’s head takes that honor. Looking out through another person's eyes was an amusing ability at first until Kelly's head intrusions caused one friend to crash his car and another friend to overdose on sleeping pills. If Kelly knew what she was doing her friends wouldn't end up dead or suicidal, but head hopping never came with instructions. Kelly has no idea why she ended up with this curse, but she knows the bees awakened the ability within her so they must hold the key.

When 20-year-old street thief Lyra Ashborne breaks into a legendary library to afford medicine for her dying guardian, she accidentally awakens an ancient dragon and discovers she can read the forbidden Draconic language that has eluded scholars for centuries. Sentenced to death for her crime but rescued during a barbarian invasion, Lyra finds herself hunted across war-torn realms while learning to harness magical powers that could either save her world—or destroy it.

When 20-year-old street thief Lyra Ashborne breaks into a legendary library to afford medicine for her dying guardian, she accidentally awakens an ancient dragon and discovers she can read the forbidden Draconic language that has eluded scholars for centuries. Sentenced to death for her crime but rescued during a barbarian invasion, Lyra finds herself hunted across war-torn realms while learning to harness magical powers that could either save her world—or destroy it.

Kim Lam is an ordinary college student until a freak scientific accident (what else?) transforms Kim and three housemates into Sparks - and drafts them into the never-ending war between the Light and Dark. They struggle to master their new abilities - and (of course) to design cool costumes and come up with great hero-names. Turns out that "accident" was just the first salvo in a Mad Genius's latest diabolical scheme. Now it's up to four newbie heroes to save the day, before they even have a chance to figure out what their team's name should be!

In the aftermath of a tragic demise before her 20th birthday, Violet finds herself thrust into an enigmatic realm of the unknown. A chance encounter with space Vikings in the grand hall offers her a tantalizing opportunity: to return home, but at what cost? Choosing to grasp the lifeline offered, Violet awakens in a world far removed from familiarity, where billowing steam and towering mushrooms dominate the landscape. Navigating this surreal terrain becomes her new reality, a precarious balance between the mysterious and the bizarre.

This Earth is a planet where technology and science rule. Their advance technology is far reaching. Explore this universe with me as we navigate the most interesting developments.

When 10-year-old Lydia discovers a mysterious doll on her stoop, she feels a spark of hope in a town that has shunned her. But her joy is short-lived, as tales of an ancient creature consume her thoughts. Some dismiss the creature’s existence, while others claim their entire town—the flora, fauna, and residents—are under the influence of the Lurker. As Lydia grapples with the enigma of her doll and the dark forces that surround her, she forms an alliance with Jaxson, a cursed boy whose destiny is entwined with the town’s secrets.

Nicht nur die Brüder Grimm oder Hans Christian Andersen haben Märchen gesammelt oder geschrieben, auch in anderen Ländern ist das Märchen selbstverständlich kulturelles Volksgut. In Indien wurden und werden gerne Märchen erzählt - wie diese feine Sammlung von zwanzig wunderbaren Geschichten beweist! Einige Themen kommen uns bekannt vor, anderes ist ganz neu - und natürlich mit dem Kolorit des Subkontinentalen versehen!

Im kontrastreichen Spiel der Gegensätze, ob Patriarch oder Kauz, ob gewitzt oder naiv, wohlwollend oder geizig, waghalsig oder schüchtern, klug oder dumm, amüsieren uns die Hauptfiguren gleichermaßen wie sie uns zum Nachdenken anregen und wir werden Zeuge ihrer mehr oder weniger rationalen wie schicksalshaften Auseinandersetzung mit deren Lebensaufgaben.

Уникальный дар Рихтовщика — каприз Системы. Игроки с таким даром ценятся на Континенте дороже белого жемчуга. Их появление на загружающихся кластерах отслеживаются провидцами и предсказателями.

"Его чужая жена" - фантастический роман Екатерины Каблуковой, жанр любовное фэнтези.

"Чужое счастье. Мой чужой монстр" - фантастический роман Валентины Савенко, жанр любовное фэнтези, попаданцы. Марина не верила в иные миры. Пока не нашла жемчужину и не оказалась запасной избранницей пожирателя душ.

An unassuming woman wanders around the landscape of hell accompanied by a dammed priest and a '60s-style teenage demon activist. The trio is sometimes helped and sometimes hindered by a god-like being with dysfunctional split personalities. The series contains many plots and subplots. There is an overall plot that runs throughout the series that involves the nature of Hell being altered by the unintentional efforts of the trio.

Чужое сердце - фантастический роман Кирилла Клеванского, первая книга цикла "Колдун", боевое фэнтези, попаданцы. Дорогу осилит идущий... Дорога Тима, оказавшегося волею судеб в другом мире, началась с нового, хилого и больного тела, с роли, которой не позавидует и раб.