Resultados para "Gilead" en Ciencia ficción y fantasía

Olvidado Rey Gudú es la obra maestra de Ana María Matute y una de las grandes novelas del siglo XX. Repleta de fábulas y fantasías, narra el nacimiento y la expansión del Reino de Olar, con una trama llena de personajes, aventuras y de un paisaje simbólico: el misterio Norte, la inhóspita estepa del Este y el Sur, rico y exuberante, que limitan la expansión del Reino de Olar, en cuyo destino participan la astucia de una niña sureña, la magia de un viejo hechicero y las reglas del juego de una criatura del subsuelo.

Situada trescientos años después de los eventos de Alien: Desde las sombras y Alien: Rio de Dolor, Alien: Mar de pesares trata del redescubrimiento de los xenomorfos (Aliens) dormidos en las minas abandonadas de LV-178, el planetoide de Alien: Desde las sombras que ahora ha sido transformado y llamado 'Nuevo Galveston'.

Una peculiar novela de ficción prospectiva que nos lleva al año 2035, en el que la inteligencia artificial ha sustituido al ser humano en muchos aspectos relevantes de la vida cotidiana. A raíz de una serie de accidentes robóticos, las empresas genéticas se plantearán traer a la vida a neandertales como mano de obra. En medio de la situación, Laia, una española residente en San Francisco, se cruzará con Tessa, una joven embarazada que alberga en su interior un secreto que podría sacudir el mundo entero.

El cielo de Madrid se tiñe de rojo sangre... El firmamento parece venirse abajo. Pero este solo es el primero de una serie de sucesos extraordinarios. A lo largo de dos intensos días de septiembre de 1859, dos personajes opuestos llevarán a cabo la investigación de estos fenómenos. Él es un hombre huraño y cínico, aferrado a la razón, antiguo investigador de falsos milagros que ya no cree en nada; ella, una joven vidente que puede percibir lo que la razón niega pero que vive atemorizada por inquietantes visiones.

Septiembre de 1859. Tras la extraña tormenta solar, la ciudad aguarda en una calma tensa: está a punto de cumplirse una amenaza escrita hace siglos. En el silencio resuenan los bastones de un hombre huraño y metomentodo. A su lado camina una joven ciega que puede ver lo que nadie ve. Juntos forman una singular pareja de investigadores: razón frente a intuición, ciencia contra creencia. Una nueva pista les va a conducir hasta un apartado manicomio, y este será solo el principio.

Sonya recibe la noticia de que su difunto padre tenía un hermano gemelo poco después de romper su compromiso matrimonial y perder su trabajo, así que, cuando descubre que su tío desconocido le ha dejado en herencia una mansión victoriana en la costa de Maine, decide instalarse en ella para descubrir por qué los niños fueron separados al nacer y la razón por la que todo se mantuvo en secreto.

Powerful Circe, daughter of the sun-god Helios, is sad to see Odysseus, King of Ithaca, depart from her island, Aeaea—but her heartbreak is eased after dolphins take her to Delos, where she explores a new love relationship. Circe has a strained relationship with her mother, Perse, but when she finally listens to Perse's encouragement to seek out the amphibian god Glaucus, she's glad she's heeded her advice. Together, the two embark on underwater adventures, and Circe shares with Glaucus her knowledge about the healing and harmful power of herbs.

Qualcuno li chiamava Lupi di mare, altri semplicemente vichinghi. Per due anni Osric ha vissuto una vita tranquilla, anche se temuto ed evitato per il suo passato misterioso e il suo occhio rosso sangue. Quando i predoni dall'altra parte del mare saccheggiano il suo villaggio, si ritrova prigioniero del loro capo, Sigurd il Fortunato. Immerso nel mondo dei norvegesi e spinto dalla loro brama di avventura, Osric si dimostra un autentico guerriero e crea un profondo legame con Sigurd.

Est-ce la 3ème guerre mondiale ? Nous sommes dans la guerre de la pensée. Ne pas partager la pensée des éclaireurs vous condamneent inexorablement. Comment sortir de ce dilemme et echapper à cette pression permannte ?

After hijacking a balloon from a Confederate camp, a band of five northern prisoners escape the American Civil War. Seven thousand miles later, they drop from the clouds onto an uncharted volcanic island in the Pacific. Through teamwork, scientific knowledge, engineering, and perseverance, they endeavor to build a colony from scratch. But this island of abundant resources has its secrets. The castaways discover they are not alone. A shadowy, yet familiar, agent of their unfathomable fate is watching.

Sometimes even in the middle of nowhere, trouble finds you. When you're a librarian working the night shift, it's even more likely, but Ava has a few tricks up her sleeve for dealing with the shifters, visitors and creatures who roam in the dark. If she's very lucky, the new stranger in town will prove to be a boon rather than a hindrance. A cozy, romantic fantasy.

Get the Starship Gilead Box Set, featuring all three books in the series. 50+ hours of space fleets, conflict, and military space opera action.

Across the ages roams an immortal troupe of actors, gifted with fantastical powers and led by a mysterious artiste with a penchant for meddling. Wherever they roam, they encounter magic and monsters and evil that requires taming.This is the first anthology based on characters from the extraordinary novella The Travelling Players of Gilean, by Margaret Weis and Aron Eisenberg, which was featured in The Best of Tales, Volume One.

Duke and Earl are just passing through Rockwood county in their pick-up truck when they stop at the Diner for a quick bite to eat. They aren't planning to stick around-until Loretta, the eatery's owner, offers them $100 to take care of her zombie problem. Given that Duke is a werewolf and Earl's a vampire, this looks right up their alley.But the shambling dead are just the tip of a particularly spiky iceberg.

Tolkien’s acclaimed modern classic ‘fairie’ tale, read by Derek Jacobi. Farmer Giles of Ham is one of Tolkien’s most popular stories, full of wit and humour, set in the days when giants and dragons walked the earth. He did not look like a hero. He was fat and red-bearded and enjoyed a...

Elian of Han-Gilen is the pride and scandal of her father's princedom. She has out-ridden, out-hunted, and out-shot every suitor. Now comes one whom she could bring herself to love: No lesser man than the throne prince of the Golden Empire. But Elian swore an oath as a child to a foster brother who is now a warrior king. Consort to an imperial heir or squire at arms to a conqueror: Elian must choose, and in choosing, decide the fate of two empires.

Good things and things that feel good, don’t last forever. The death of a stranger explores life in a fictional town in America. Antaville is a beautiful white town, where people have lived harmoniously for years. But the eternal peace they hoped for was short-lived when a stranger is found dead in the middle of the town, a mystery that leaves the people of Antaville in disarray as they try to adjust to their reality that one of them might be the killer of a black man in a white neighborhood.

Once upon a time, there was a powerful witch who ran away from her grandmother. The grandmother sent out bloodhunters to find her, but she enchanted a cherry red cloak to mask her blood's scent. Not too far away, there was a big, bad Lycan who had one drink too many. Blurry visions of a woman in red and one passionate night left him with nothing but a primal pull to her. What happens when the woman in red runs back into the arms of the Lycan? Will she escape her grandmother's grasp? Or will she be sacrificing herself to the big, bad wolf?

As Evening Song builds toward its dramatic conclusion on Islay, the boundaries between technology and ancient legend blur. Tormod must confront not only those who wish to control his past but the terrifying realization that he may have ended up there for a purpose beyond his comprehension. Will Karen and Steve be able to help Tormod uncover the truth buried in his DNA, or will he become another pawn in a game far larger than he could ever have imagined?

Years have passed since the clash of shieldwalls echoed across the land. The Saxons are now the lords of Britain. And yet the bards still sing of Arthur - 'In our darkest time, when we need him most, shall he come again.' Yet old Beran has no love of bards' songs. Nor of people, unless they are paying him to steal or kill. He is a mercenary, in the employ of the cutthroat Nabor ap Nabor, and he has been ordered to murder a boy fleeing a burning city. No ordinary boy either. No, this boy is the son of King Constantine and the grandson of High King Ambrosius.