Resultados para "In the Dark" en Aventura

Tamsyn Muir’s Gideon the Ninth unveils a solar system of swordplay, cut-throat politics, and lesbian necromancers. Her characters leap out of the audio, as skillfully animated as arcane revenants. The result is a heart-pounding epic science fantasy. Brought up by unfriendly, ossifying nuns, ancient retainers, and countless skeletons, Gideon is ready to abandon a life of servitude and an afterlife as a reanimated corpse.

Mia Verick grew up on a remote homestead far from civilization. Most young women raised in the Kerrick Confederacy of Aligned Planets go to school. Mia had daily firearms practice, tactical exercises, and pilot training. She never cared about her life, only about living up to the expectations of her father. His mysterious job often takes him away on missions, leaving her to self-training until the day she can surpass him. Now she will never get the chance.

In a future where humanity has scattered itself across the stars and Earth itself is now a dimly remembered place of legend, two worlds of near-supernatural strangeness challenge two naive but courageous heroes.

An interstellar treasure hunt, moral dilemmas, religious conflicts, old familial dysfunction, merciless aliens, and mercenary humans as well...Alibi Jones will have to face them all, and face up to the responsibilities and authority that comes with running a growing colony like The Hornet's Nest in The Star Seeds of Earth!

Hundert Jahre nach dem ‚Letzten Krieg‘ müssen die Überlebenden ohne die Errungenschaften der Technik auskommen. Es gilt das Recht des Stärkeren und die tödliche Droge ‚Glow in the Dark‘ droht den kläglichen Rest der Menschheit auszulöschen. Die 19-jährige Charlotte wächst behütet als Tochter des mächtigsten Mannes von Neuschottland auf. Als sie vor einer arrangierten Ehe davonläuft, hat sie nur eine Chance, der mörderischen Wut ihres Vaters zu entkommen: Eine lebensgefährliche Reise ins Ungewisse, zusammen mit einer Gruppe Verzweifelter, die vor Gewalt, Hunger und Drogen flieht.

Love and murder stir between the stars. Four months after the Belethea Race Royale team’s narrow escape from Otho and Casolla’s dark syndicates, Sylvia Long, Grady/Guns, and Belethea’s newest doubles team arrive on Crion for its inaugural New Year Race. But with Sterling/Hart enjoying their own holiday back home, Sylvia struggles to balance her ever-growing duties as both team coach and manager. Meanwhile, Agent Shiro Tanaka—Sylvia’s boyfriend and the Belethea royalers’ one-man security team—is determined to use this working holiday to propose to Sylvia under Crion’s aurora-bathed skies.

The second book in Jay Allan's Far Star series, Enemy in the Dark, follows Blackhawk and the crew of the Wolf’s Claw as they are gradually--and unwillingly--drawn more deeply into Marshal Lucerne’s campaign to form a united power bloc in the Far Stars to resist imperial encroachment...

The Warriors of Alpha Triad face their greatest threat yet when their survivalist compound is invaded. Not by an enemy army. Not by the horrifying mutants. This time a shapeshifter is loose among the Family. Able to change into any of them at will, it is killing like there is no tomorrow.

A gripping action- and tension-filled suspense time travel account of alternate history. A Diplomat of Mars tells the tragic tale of a girl who could not scream, not because she was in space but because of what she had to scream about. This somewhat futuristic drama tells a very human story, filled with interplanetary political unrest yet marked by the characters’ pride, honor, and resolute conviction never to step on the little ones. It is an easy and enjoyable listen, full of twists and turns...a book that will captivate the listener to the end.

The New York Times bestselling series based on the blockbuster video game for Xbox! It is 2555, more than two years after the Master Chief went missing-in-action following a decisive conflict on Installation 00—the massive, extragalactic Forerunner construct known as the Ark—as part of the...

The Expanse meets the Battle Room in Ender's Game as K. B. Wagers brings us the rollicking first entry in a unique science fiction series that introduces the Near-Earth Orbital Guard—NeoG—a military force patrolling and protecting space inspired by the real-life mission of the U.S. Coast...