Resultados para "Ever" en Ciencia ficción

Far from the savage remnants of humanity, Henry and his family have managed to survive the grip of desolate, perpetual winter on a vast tundra that was once an ocean teeming with life. When the family is discovered, their peaceful existence is shattered and their lives changed forever. Henry’s siblings are kidnapped, leaving him alone in the ruins of their home. Broken, altered, and tormented by all that has befallen him, he is driven to wreak vengeance upon those who assume him dead...by any means necessary.

Catherine Howard stumbles upon the tomb of her granddaughter, Anne Howard Brandon, who'd been swept back through time. Horrorstruck, she discovers Anne was murdered in the year 1562. She calls upon a time-traveling priest, Father Daniel, to rescue her precious granddaughter. But journeying back to the 16th century is a dangerous undertaking; the life and death risks sobering and real. Daniel calls upon the forces of heaven and earth - including a secret Vatican society of time travelers - to aid in this quest. 

Heroes are the worst. Jim Riven would know—he used to be one. Now he just wants to run his crumbling old bar and be left alone. Beer and chicken wings don’t try to vaporize him. Well, not since that one time. But when remnants of his old life come calling, they bring the one reason he can’t ignore. Lock, a hero who died fighting for the Spectrum world’s premier hero team may not be so dead after all. But if she’s alive, where has she been?

“War” is a dirty word on Ragnarok. For the past hundred years, the planet’s human inhabitants have been trying to rebuild their civilization after a self-inflicted nuclear holocaust. The event—which they call the “Great Destruction”—was so traumatic they’ve destroyed all the records and refuse to talk about it, other than to swear it will never ever happen again. At least, that’s what they tell the Lunar Free State’s contact team.

She designed the perfect code. Now it's calculating her expiration date. In the world of The Algorithm Knows You, privacy is a relic of the past and your next move has already been mapped. Maya Chen, a brilliant data scientist, believed she was building a tool for human optimization—until the system she created began predicting "anomalies" that weren't glitches, but deaths.

"The Longest Science-Fiction Story Ever Told" was first published in the October 1966 issue of Galaxy. Sir Arthur C. Clarke (1917-2008) is regarded as one of the most influential science fiction writers of all time. He was named a grand master by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America and was inducted into the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame.

Elvie Nara was doing just fine in the year 2074. She had a great best friend, a dad she adored, and a bright future working on the Ares Project on Mars. But then she had to get involved with sweet, gorgeous, dumb-as-a-brick Cole - and now she's pregnant. Teen pregnancy is never easy - especially when extraterrestrials are involved....

Times are tough in the economic downturn of the late 2040s. Angel, an ex-prostitute-turned-assassin, has just killed her ex-boyfriend without making a dime on it. Camaro, a courier, is wanted by the Feds for smuggling coffee and evading pursuit. And Haiwee, once the greatest hacker on the planet, has ruined her body with the drugs used to enhance her reflexes and is destitute with no reputation left to cash in upon. So when a billionaire offers them a big paycheck to retrieve one of three collectible bottles and destroy the other two, the three young mercenaries don't ask questions.

Was wäre, wenn du plötzlich zwanzig Jahre in der Zukunft und in den Armen eines Fremden landest, zu dem du dich auf unerklärliche Weise hingezogen fühlst? Dass du nicht den Verstand verloren hast, beweisen die gigantischen Wolkenkratzer am Potsdamer Platz, genauso wie der unwiderstehliche Mann mit den strahlend blauen Augen.

The starways' Lone Watcher had expected some odd developments in his singular, nerve-fraught job on the asteroid. But nothing like the weird, twenty-one-day liquid test devised by the invading Steel-Blues. Unlike the usual style of audiobook, this release has a music and effects soundtrack backing the narration, giving it a radio play feel rather than a straightforward reading.

The story opens with our newly married protagonists, Elizabeth and Fitzwilliam Darcy, defending their village from an army of flesh-eating unmentionables. But the honeymoon has barely begun when poor Mr. Darcy is nipped by a rampaging dreadful. Elizabeth knows the proper course of action is to promptly behead her husband (and then burn the corpse, just to be safe). But when she learns of a miracle antidote under development in London, she realizes there may be one last chance to save her true love.

Step back into the shadow cast by the world again in this collection of 24 eclectic short stories ranging from satire through to horror and science fiction.

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Everything You Ever Wanted written by Luiza Sauma, read by Stephanie Racine. You wake up. You go to work. You don't go outside for twelve hours at a time. You have strategy meetings about how to use hashtags. After work you order expensive drink after...

It's Christmas at St Mary's and time for the traditional illicit jump. Except this one is perfectly legal. It's Major Guthrie's last jump. To the Battle of Bannockburn, no less. An important moment in history for two nations - one that warrants everyone's full attention. But Max soon finds herself grappling with a near-lethal game of pooh sticks, another avian incursion and two turbulent teenagers intent on piloting their own illegal jump. And that's all before they even get near 14th-century Scotland. For this is St Mary's, and nothing is ever simple.

HellSans is set in a fictional UK, where HellSans is a ubiquitous typeface, enforced by the government in all communications and in all public spaces. It is the ultimate control device. The majority of the population experience bliss when they see the typeface, but there’s a minority who are allergic to it. The HellSans Allergic (HSAs) are persecuted, and live on the streets or in a ghetto on the outskirts of the capital city.

Don't miss the third book in the breathtaking new series from the number one bestselling author Santa Montefiore! A secret past. A love that defies time... "I started this, but truly, I have no idea how to end it without breaking my heart." When Pixie Tate is sent to solve a mystery at the old...

Celebrated nerd hero Wil Wheaton ( Star Trek: The Next Generation; The Big Bang Theory) brings R.A. Salvatore's only Forgotten Realms novella to audio. If Ever They Happened Upon My Lair is a story of the Bloodstone Lands that deals with a contested issue of the Forgotten Realms: the mortality of dragons.

In the dead of a moonless night, a sickening, guttural scream split the silence of Haven’s Hollow—a sound that seemed to come not from any living creature, but from the very bowels of the earth. Beneath the cracked pavement and familiar brick, something ancient and abhorrent stirred. The cry was accompanied by the stench of decay and burnt flesh, a macabre prelude to the nightmare that was about to shatter the town’s serene veneer.

Volume 2: The Veil of Eternal Night finds the shattered remnants of Haven’s Hollow facing a terror that transcends the physical. In a world where the night sky itself is torn asunder by alien light and spectral rifts, Margaret Sloane leads a desperate coalition of survivors—now bolstered by mysterious exiles and ancient practitioners of lost lore. As cosmic deities awaken and the echoes of forgotten sacrifices reverberate through time, the survivors learn that the void has evolved.

§ Bold and beautiful... a book we need right now ― Chika Unigwe § A stunning debut ― Yomi Sode § Finally, a new era of sci-fi is upon us ― Dr Anne-Marie Imafidon § Determined in its directness but ever hopeful in its tone ― Jendella Benson § A must read for the hopeful! ― Lavinya...