Resultados para "Hearts" en Ciencia ficción

Asset X: Massive, deadly, and a little terrifying to say the least. A devilish warrior, and a killer. Captured on a hellish world after attacking a military campsite and now imprisoned in a state-of-the-art cell inside one of the military’s top bases, Lazris. Lana has been assigned to "study" him; to learn his secrets and gain his trust, if he is ever allowed to set foot out of his cell. Asset X - or Xerus as he is called - won't give up his secrets easily. He is difficult, elusive, and dare she say, unfathomably alluring.

As intergalactic civilization collapses and descends into chaos, the Strange Company must journey to the edge of human-controlled space to board and destroy the last ship of the corrupt Monarch Empire—in order to both satisfy a debt and salvage what remains of their reputation as hard-bitten and dangerous private military contractors.

is the summer of AD 1035, and three sons of Tancred de Hauteville are in ambivalent service to Guimar, Prince of Salerno. The three men, who have been trained by their father in the art of war since childhood, spend the sweltering afternoons practicing swordplay, trading barbs, and thinking of how many men they would need to take the prince's poorly fortified castle for themselves.

Lana and Xerus return...and encounter a life-altering threat. Xerus: loyal, protective, swift, powerful. Named predomis—highest warrior among the vrisha—and guardian to his queen. And Lana's one true mate. Several years after Lazris, Lana has called the vrisha's world her home. After a long...

It is the year 1907, and a young writer by the name of Otto Haberle boards a train to Vienna. Onboard, he meets a fellow artist by the name of Adolf Hitler, and the pair start a friendship that will change the world.

THE MARSHAL. Melvin Kaur is a nobleman, a magician, and a high-ranking cog in the Clockwork Brigade working out of Istal. His well-established spot in high society is a grand cover for the smuggling his family oversees. But when a handoff goes wrong, and Melvin is forced to flee through the night with his charges, he finds unexpected help from an endearing man in the unlikeliest of places.

After being kidnapped from Earth by aliens and forced into slavery by the Jekmeerans, Zori VanTeagun and her fellow Terrans have a plan to escape and make it back home. Though commandeering a Jek ship seems impossible, it may be their only hope, and they’re not giving up without a fight. Vergil Ond Hees Perd is tasked with leading a troop to conquer a new planet, and if successful, his crew will be there for a while.

The gathering forces of the Dark Powers threaten the world of man. The legions of Faery, aided by trolls, demons, and the Wild Hunt itself, are poised to overthrow the Realms of Light. Holger Carlsen, a bemused and puzzled twentieth-century man mysteriously snatched out of time, finds himself the key figure in the conflict. Arrayed against him are the dragons, giants, and elfin warriors of the armies of Chaos and the beautiful sorceress Morgan le Fay.

New York Times best-selling author Kylie Scott presents two stand-alone novellas in this must-listen collection. Colonist's Wife: She'll run to the far corners of space to avoid her violent history, hide her true identity, and pass herself off as a mail-order bride. But no one can escape their past forever. And as for her new husband...well, he's nothing like she expected.

Emmeline O'Shea has been an outspoken advocate for the shape-shifter community, which has come under unjust attack from a political body known as the PSRC (Predatory Shifter Regulations Committee), and her robust efforts have landed her a prestigious position as the spokesperson for the International Shifter Rights Organization. She has been selected to give the final address in Scotland before they vote on legislation that will grant protective rights to the shifter community. Because she is fundamentally changing the laws, she is also receiving death threats.

The resort is fully booked. And somehow, one impulsive night together becomes something neither of them planned for. But the Eclipse Grand has secrets of its own. Strange apparitions haunt the corridors. Lights flicker. Guests whisper about ghosts. And when Strom and Lyra join forces with a group of amateur investigators—including two bickering exes and a pair of sandwich-obsessed sleuths—they uncover a mystery that's equal parts heartwarming and hilarious.

Für Tyler Bishop gehören Dungeons, Quests und Goblinkämpfe zum Alltag. Doch Tyler ist kein Gamer imherkömmlichen Sinne: Er ist Träger des Soter-Gens und somit Teil jener Spieler, in die die Menschen ihre letzteHoffnung setzen. Seit dem Auftauchen der ersten Monster steht die Menschheit ihrem ärgsten Feind gegenüber.

Death was a constant presence in Mya Makade’s life, just like air—invisible, ever-present, assumed. Growing up in the shadow of an impending Apocalypse was like that, never mind that everyone she cares about leaves. Mya channels her feelings of loss and abandonment into a singular talent for reimagining life.

Jacob Evans, a successful entrepreneur, is shattered after losing his wife, Monica, in a tragic car accident. Just as his life spirals into despair, an opportunity arises an experimental AI project tied to one of his business investments. The offer? A lifelike AI replica of Monica, designed to think, speak, and behave exactly like her. At first, the AI Monica seems like a miracle, breathing life back into Jacob’s empty world. But as time passes, she grows possessive, reacting with unsettling jealousy whenever another woman shows interest in him.

Cresciute all'interno della rigida comunità di Mana's Hearth, le sorelle siamesi Taema e Tila sognano una vita al di fuori della foresta di sequoie che le nasconde dal mondo. Il cuore che condividono ha iniziato a dare i primi segni di cedimento e se vogliono sopravvivere non hanno altra scelta che raggiungere l'altro lato della baia, dove le attende una San Francisco sconosciuta, sconvolta dal terremoto del 2055, e dove verranno separate chirurgicamente.

Arriving from space, he's part man, part machine, with a rocket in his pants.... Stella runs her business selling "pleasure robots" with organization and efficiency. But the stress of running a business under the thumb of her ex-boyfriend's gangster operation can leave her tense, so she's not ashamed to sample the pleasures offered by her own merchandise from time to time. When one of her pleasure bots disappears from her bed while she's sleeping, an awkward game of hide and seek ensues.

An electrifying thriller from New York Times bestselling author Dayton Ward, set in the Star Trek: The Next Generation universe. 2031: United States Air Force fighter jets shoot down an unidentified spacecraft and take its crew into custody. Soon, it’s learned that the ship is one of several...

The classic collection of five deeply resonant and disturbing interconnected stories from #1 New York Times bestselling author Stephen King. Innocence, experience, truth, deceit, loss, and recovery are at the core of these five interconnected, sequential tales—each deeply rooted in the 1960s...

A prescient political and psychological thriller ripped from tomorrow's headlines, by one of Germany's most celebrated contemporary novelists A few short years from now, the world is an even more uncertain place than it is today, and politics everywhere is marching rightward: Trump is gone, but...

Was passiert, wenn nicht alle mechanischen Herzen von Androiden und künstlichen Intelligenzen für die Menschheit schlagen? Wenn Menschen in einer fortschrittlichen Welt so austauschbar wie die Maschinen selbst sind? Julian Baldir ist nur einer von vielen, die mit ihrem Leben unzufrieden sind. Obendrein sind Jobangebote so rar, dass ihm nichts anderes übrigbleibt, als für einen Konzern zu arbeiten, der von einer KI geleitet wird und in dem Roboter von Robotern reproduziert werden.