Resultados para "In the Garden" en Ciencia ficción

Amber avoided relationships; relationships caused pain. Now, she found herself drawn to the young professor of her religious history class. He understood her, and he understood lessons the past could teach. Few people currently alive remembered those lessons. The one-world society in which she lived had tried to solve problems of the past, problems like racism and religious conflict, without discerning the underlying problem. That was partly why Amber had been drawn to a study of history. A dimple and a twinkle in his eye had drawn Amber to the professor.

After years of hard work, Matthew and Alex Graham have created a thriving home in the Colony of Maryland. About time, in Alex's opinion, after far too many adventures she is really looking forward to some well-deserved peace and quiet. A futile hope, as it turns out. Things start to heat up when Jacob, the third Graham son, absconds from his apprenticeship to see the world - especially as Jacob leaves behind a girl whom he has wed in a most irregular fashion. Then there's the infected matter of the fellow time traveler Alex feels obliged to help - no matter the risk.

It is the third century of the atomic era. Most people are genetically altered to eliminate racial features, but not Amber or her new husband Jerry. Religion has also been outlawed, and the young couple have just escaped religious persecution. What will the sanctuary they have arrived at be like?

Als der Schriftsteller Frank Dekker nach einem One-Night-Stand in einem Hotel aufwacht, ahnt er zunächst nicht, dass sein Leben sich in Kürze radikal verändern wird. Die Realität holt ihn unerbittlich ein und macht ihn zum Hauptverdächtigen in einem Mordfall. Um nicht zum Spielball in einem Strudel aus Gewalt, Politik und Leidenschaft zu werden, muss er die Initiative ergreifen und selbst ermitteln. Schon bald stellen sich Fragen, die weit über die ursprüngliche Aufgabe hinausgehen. Agieren verängstigte Bürger zunehmend aggressiver gegen Roboter und künstliche Intelligenzen?

From award-winning author Benjamin Percy comes the second novel in his grippingly original sci-fi series, The Comet Cycle, in which a passing comet has caused irreversible change to the growth of fungi, spawning a dangerous, invasive species in the Pacific Northwest that threatens to control the...