Resultados para "Engel" en Ciencia ficción y fantasía

Katria swore she'd never fall in love. She's seen what "love" means through the cruelty of her family. So when she's married off to the mysterious Lord Fenwood for a handsome price, all Katria wants is a better life than the one she's leaving. Feelings are off the table. But her new husband makes not falling in love difficult. As their attraction begins to grow, so too do the oddities within her new life: strange rules, screams in the night, and attacks by fae that Katria never thought were real. 

On the night of the blood moon, the Vampire Lord must die. Floriane's position as the forge maiden of Hunter's Hamlet is one of reverence, for it is her skill that arms and protects the vampire hunters. She knows her place and is a faithful servant to the Master Hunter and her community... until the night of the blood moon. Until her brother is dying at the hands of the Vampire Lord Ruvan.

Sanfte und eindringliche Geister aus fernen Sphären begegnen sich in einer wogenden Welt aus Träumen und Schlafliedern in Ein Engel in der Nacht, eine musikalische Erzählung. Dieses Werk verwebt eine neue Geschichte von Bestseller-Autorin Cornelia Funke mit ausdrucksstarken neuen Kompositionen von Luna Pearl Woolf und vertrauten und beliebten Liedern von Irving Berlin, Lennon/McCartney, Jake Heggie, Engelbert Humperdinck, Gordon Getty und anderen.

Underhill is my ruthless mother. Her realm is my deadly home. The brutal creatures here are both foe and friend. But the group of fae that just attacked me? They’re all foe. Dragged from my game of hide-and-seek with a dragon, and my home of twenty-one years, I’m thrust into a weak, ugly realm. Earth. Something is taking the fae children of the Irish court, and an Oracle has declared I must find them. Nope. Not my problem. Bye. Except a three-year-old girl they suspect is the next Queen of All Fae was taken too.

Der Meditationsworkshop in Reichenau an der Rax wird für die beiden zur Falle: Heftige Unwetter und Muren schneiden das Seminarhotel von der Umwelt ab und völlig unerwartet stirbt ein Mitglied der Gruppe vor aller Augen. Agnes' emphatische Fähigkeiten erwachen erneut und bald wird klar - ein Mörder ist unter ihnen.

“Sci-fi is the main thing,” I was told. “Compelling would be nice. Strange is only a suggestion.” That set the wheels turning – and why not – since I’ve been a sci-fi fan my entire life! So I set out to look for stories that met these parameters - sci-fi that celebrates the weird, embraces the unusual, seeks to unscrew the inscrutable...and is... strangely compelling! If that's what you're after, you’ve come to the right place!

Spannend en fantasierijk verhaal over een magisch callcenter. Brugklasser Dahlia heeft een groot geheim. Zij is de enige in haar gezin die weet dat ze op het punt staan om uit huis te worden gezet. Hun vervallen woning wordt gesloopt om plaats te maken voor een nieuwbouwproject van Maarten Zwartwater, een van de machtigste inwoners van de stad. En het lijkt erop dat hij niet alleen met Dahlia's huis snode plannen heeft... Dahlia besluit het callcenter van De Bellende Engel om hulp te vragen.

The ISS Mordrake is in serious trouble. After a skirmish with a Corsair marauder, she is stranded in deep space, far from regular shipping routes, and death appears certain. But in space, not all things are certain. Not even death. Adrift and stranded in deep space with no hope of rescue, the ISS Mordrake has six month’s worth of food left, but just less than two weeks of air, and things are looking pretty grim.

After nearly two days of fierce fighting, the Battle of Turtle Island left the skies of the Corsair world darkened with their dead. For a while, the terror seemed to be over, but not just yet. Not all the great Corsair figures of legend had been killed or captured - a few had slipped through the net. Dead Beckoning is the tale of Adam, a former Corsair captain working to expunge his bloody past by doing good - starting with helping the imperial starship Antares to track down and capture one of the most powerful and feared Corsairs in legend: Sona Kilroy.

Returning from an evening in Mars City spent visiting relatives he didn’t know he had, Timaset Skooch arrived at the local space port to find his new acquisition stolen. A few minutes later, the crew of his slightly run-down loderunner "Celeste", returned from a nearby pub, blind drunk, puzzled, and now unemployed as well. Ever since he’d decided to quit being a PI and to try his hand at running cargo instead, things had just blown up in Skooch’s face one day at a time (Florpavian Flamebirds tended to do that occasionally).

You may be wealthy, you may be influential, even popular... but just because you're successful at life doesn't mean you're necessarily successful at everything. Those things don't protect you from everything fate might have in store for you. This is exactly the case for Harald and Virian Vanderbilt - an entrepreneurial couple, happily married, who run their deep-space prospecting company together, building a small business empire. Then one day they're unexpectedly separated when the ship Virian is on board is lost during a prospecting voyage.

Deanna was just another third-rate colony in the Terran Empire - and it was pretty much as boring a lump of rock as could be expected. That is, until Gary Beck, a.k.a. Beck the Badfeller, ran over an obsidian crow with his jeep on the highway to San Fedora and didn’t have a spare tire. Things pretty much went down hill from there.

Enjoy a humorous look at life in space through the eyes of some colorful characters in this collection of five unique sci-fi tales by Christina Engela, spanning everything from adventure to suspense to comedy, and then back again!

Action! Adventure! Time Travel! Each day shapes the days that follow...The Time Saving Agency liked having fresh agents on the job, who had a clear mind and steady hand. After all, time travel wasn’t for the faint of heart. The pay was good enough, but as Johnathan Scrooby decided long ago - even if he didn’t get paid for it, the thrill alone was payment enough! Then again, the TSA realized they couldn’t afford to have disgruntled employees with the power of God at their fingertips, so the pay was very, very good indeed!

After that disappointing and sudden end to what had been a promising career, Mei rewarded herself with a long, relaxing vacation in the outback to celebrate her gender reassignment and her new start in life. The first stop on her journey turned out to be a little backwater planet called Deanna....

Mykl d’Angelo, skipper and owner of the loderunner Pegasus, had fallen on hard times, and he'd just had the worst day of his life in that field. Due a minor misunderstanding, his crew had stolen the "Short Shit" - the ship's only shuttle, leaving him and two others behind to crew the ailing (and now understaffed) loderunner on their own.

Auf dem Berg Kaniburrha stand der Tempel der Gott-Maschine. Seit Anbeginn der Zeit wachte sie über die Entwicklung von Modul 1, auf dass ihre Macht unangefochten fort bestünde. Doch wie alle seine Spiegel und Schatten, die das Universum bildeten, hatte Modul 1 einen Fehler. Die Schriften von Perigon kündeten von einem Wegwahrer, der einst kommen würde, um die Macht der Gott-Maschine zu brechen. Und die Maschine fürchtete diesen Tag.

Der Herzsamen - Teil 1 bis 16. Befallen vom Grumpf verliert die Welt ihre Farbe, Schönheit und Magie. Wie eine Krankheit breitet er sich über die Menschheit aus. Die Wege von Lisa Marie, Hans und Elfi kreuzen sich auf besondere Weise. Gemeinsam schmieden sie einen Plan.

Greed and Fear, two emotions that rule both individuals...and Countries. Now, China has decided that they will do whatever it takes to acquire TQB technology. There was a glaring flaw in their plan. When they kill an unborn little baby in a raid, the Queen Bitch is Released. Now, China has two options...Kill Bethany Anne, or Sue For Peace.

Carving out a living in the Deathlands is no easy feat. To most, the only thing that matters is one more day spent above ground. To the man known as Trader, the only thing that matters is the bottom line. In a mutie-filled, irradiated wasteland, Trader and crew set out to find the scavvie Marsh Folsom. Stories going around say that Folsom has knowledge of an underground cache with a legendary bounty.