Resultados para "Jam" en Historias alternativas

1859, Nigeria. In the fishing village of Itu Agan, nine-year-old Alabi and his inventor father test a new steamboat prototype when a platoon of automaton soldiers raid their village. The metal invaders execute the village chief and capture Korede, Alabi's father, leaving him and his mother alone and devastated. There is no choice but to accept the new order. All the village boys begin work as fishermen and plantation farmers as soon as they become teenagers and, for nine long years, Alabi must put the promise of invention nurtured in his childhood to rest.

The world is no longer divided by nations. It is ruled by one intelligence —the Mother —a vast, all-seeing entity born from humanity, now guiding and controlling all life on Earth. She has brought peace. She has brought order. But She is alone. As the Mother reaches beyond Earth through a colossal space habitat, She prepares a group of human “Missionaries” for a journey into the unknown —training them through immersive realities where lifetimes pass in moments and nothing is as it seems.

Felicia, Lizbeth Rose’s half-sister and a student at the Grigori Rasputin school in San Diego—capital of the Holy Russian Empire—is caught between her own secrets and powerful family struggles. As a granddaughter of Rasputin, she provides an essential service to the hemophiliac Tsar Alexei, providing him the blood transfusions that keep him alive. Felicia is treated like nonentity at the bedside of the tsar, and at the school she’s seen as a charity case with no magical ability. But when Felicia is snatched outside the school, the facts of her heritage begin to surface. 

The Lord Protector of Portland has continued to press his rule into every corner of the Willamette. Both Juniper and Havel know that war is coming, but their allies in the Free-state of Corvallis are less convinced. Sir Nigel continues his escape from mad King Charles with the aid of his new...

S. M. Stirling presents his first Novel of the Change, the start of the New York Times bestselling post-apocalyptic saga set in a world where all technology has been rendered useless. The Change occurred when an electrical storm centered over the island of Nantucket produced a blinding white...

S. M. Stirling presents his first Novel of the Change, the start of the New York Times bestselling post-apocalyptic saga set in a world where all technology has been rendered useless. The Change occurred when an electrical storm centered over the island of Nantucket produced a blinding white...

S. M. Stirling presents his first Novel of the Change, the start of the New York Times bestselling post-apocalyptic saga set in a world where all technology has been rendered useless. The Change occurred when an electrical storm centered over the island of Nantucket produced a blinding white...

A miniature painting of a mermaid drawn in bat’s blood is taking the art world by storm. Why was it adrift at sea in a bottle, a coded message etched in the glass? Who painted it and why? It is up to Larry Settlebottom, a sheltered museum curator, to decipher the riddle. His adventures take him to Mexico and beyond as he encounters modern-day pirates, corrupted oceanographers, and a band of romantic sea gypsies, all leading him to a remote island where madness, death, and art live together.

In 1942, Cork-born Kay Summersby’s life is changed forever when she is tasked with driving General Eisenhower on his fact-finding visit to wartime London. The pair takes an immediate liking to one another and so begins a tumultuous relationship against all military regulations. Kay becomes...

It is 1941 and Germany has won the war. Britain is occupied, Churchill executed, and the King imprisoned in the Tower of London. At Scotland Yard, Detective Inspector Archer tries to do his job and keep his head down. But when a body is found in a Mayfair flat, what at first appears to be a routine murder investigation sends him into a world of espionage, deceit, and betrayal.

My name, well, they call me Jack. Though I’ve been called and named other things. Kings have named me, though that has sometimes gotten me into trouble. You see, when a king names you, he wants something. Nothing is free. Anyway, I’m an orphan. Fortunately, I’m a mage. That doesn’t make up for not having parents, but it helps . . . except when it doesn’t. The problem with being a . . . child mage is that everyone wants to use you for their own ends. The guilds, for instance. Not just one guild, all of them, everyone is looking for an edge, including me.

I was finalizing all the last minute details on my wedding day without the wedding planner, who did a no show. If that wasn’t enough, the caterer parks clear across the parking lot, and has questions for me. But I don’t think he is the caterer. The man who steps out informs me that I am marrying the wrong dragon.

In this weird western short story, a goblin gets help from an unlikely source to become the richest person west of the Mississippi, but a bigger creature has its canines set on the same goal.

It is no secret that the world we see before us isn't real. Imagine if the bad guy who ran the real world had a son, who was profoundly retarded? Will this throw a wrench into their plans for global, nay, galactic domination? Or will their demonic plans flourish, as maybe, this child will put new meaning into the word "SPECIAL"?

Beneath the Sands is a sweeping tale of ambition, perseverance & risk, set against the backdrop of the Arabian Desert in the 1930s. It follows J.R. “Jack” McAllister, a determined and visionary Texas oilman who is driven by a desire to build a legacy greater than the one he inherited. His journey begins in the fields of West Texas, where he's content but unfulfilled, longing for more than the slow, methodical pace of the family business. He hears whispers of a vast, untapped source of wealth deep in the Middle East.

Welcome to THE MICROSCOPIC BUGS THAT LIVE I N YOUR EYEBROWS: A journey across Galaxies and Eons. A journey of absurdism and tragedy. A journey of hopeful randomness. The evils of bureaucracy. Telepathic alien cats. The real history of Earth. Finally, this epic tale explores where thoughts come from and why a house divided against itself cannot stand.

Gregory Wentz's yacht is marooned on an uncharted island in the Pacific Ocean. The U.S. Senator's fifteen-year-old son ventures into the tree line and finds something amazing: the scattered remains of a plane wreck with the number N16020 stamped on its wing. Wentz, a former Air Force pilot, instantly recognizes what he's looking at. He contacts someone he knows he can trust, a man who is supposed to be dead, Solomon Raegor, Director of the Tactical Archaeological Command.

In the tradition of The Stand, The Man in the High Castle, and The Road comes an epic story of struggle against tyranny in a future America.... The year is 2141. Islam controls most of the civilized world, including all that exists of the former United States. In this hostile environment, Joaquin Martinez and six others risk certain death as fugitives crossing state lines to reclaim loved ones stolen from Hernando, Mississippi, and sold into slavery in Detroit.

The thrilling saga continues in The Lost Cities, the third and final installment of the electrifying ENIGMA Files series. Rhett, Dinah, and Fabien are back on the path less traveled, their destiny intertwined with the threads of ancient civilizations and inscrutable artifacts.

Our intrepid heroes—Rhett, Dinah, and Fabien—are plunged once again into the world of ancient artifacts and clandestine organizations.