Resultados para "Los Watson" en Fantasía

It is the autumn of 1880, and Dr. John Watson has just returned from Afghanistan. Badly injured and desperate to forget a nightmarish expedition that left him doubting his sanity, Watson is close to destitution when he meets the extraordinary Sherlock Holmes, who is investigating a series of deaths in the Shadwell district of London. Several bodies have been found, the victims appearing to have starved to death over the course of several weeks, and yet they were reported alive and well mere days before.

After ten thousand years of dreaming, locked in stasis at the heart of his shattered home world, Lion El'Jonson wakes to the nightmare of Imperium Nihilus. In this midnight age, the dying embers of humanity are threatened on all sides by the hungry darkness. Alone, even the Lion has no hope of prevailing against such evil – but there are those who would aid him in his quest. Hunted to the edge of endurance, many among his Fallen knights have long-awaited the day their liege would return to redeem them.

At the beginning of the 20th century, Watson was an infamous brute who ruled his remote patch of Florida with an iron fist. He had no problem killing those who got in his way, and was even rumored as the murderer of legendary outlaw Belle Starr. By 1910, Watson’s neighbors had endured enough. They greeted him as he returned home and promptly gunned him down.

When a nuclear missile is launched from somewhere in the east - North Korea or China - communications from other parts of the earth ceased. Thirty years later, civilization still struggles to become redefined. A new society has formed with new rules. Those that follow the rules can hope for a few years of comfort. Those on the inside of the safety dome have it tough. Those on the outside don’t last long. As far as the eye can see, the earth outside is radioactive, primitive. These are the stories of the survivors, men and women that struggle to eke out a living in a world gone awry.

Witty and realistically sarcastic; full of self-redemption and the dark, cosmic inner-workings of life and death. Comically sharp yet lighthearted, Death Dresses Poorly is the bittersweet tale of a young man’s journey through the discarded baggage of his childhood.

"Slow Birds" tells the story of a strangely idyllic world that is plagued by mysterious invaders. Dubbed slow birds, because the cylindrical objects fly at the rate of only a few feet per minute, the artifacts are a complete mystery. Jason Babbidge's life is inexorably changed and linked to the slow birds when his brother, Daniel, climbs aboard a slowbird shortly before it disappears into the unknown.

The world is falling to the burning shadow of the Possessed and only the power of a battle mage can save it. But the ancient bond with dragonkind is failing. Of those that answer a summoning too many are black. Black dragons are the enemy of humankind. Black dragons are mad. Falco Dante is a weakling in a world of warriors, but worse than this, he is the son of a madman. Driven by grief, Falco makes a decision that will drive him to the brink of despair. As he tries to come to terms with his actions Falco follows his friends to the Academy of War.

Monologues, sketches and stories set at the Virgin Money London Marathon, narrated by some of the biggest and best names in comedy.

It is the beginning of 1918, the last year of the greatest war in human history, to date. All the belligerents stagger on their feet. Starvation is an ever present reality, while disease waits in the wings. In Russia, no longer a belligerent but, instead, rapidly descending into civil war and chaos, a lone family—Father, Mother, four beautiful young girls, and a brave but sickly boy—await their own fate, shivering and hungry in the dark, hoping and praying for salvation. Their relatives in England have turned their backs. The guards set over them do little but torment them.

Entriss Online was Ian's life: by day, as one of their lead developers; by night, gaming as the accomplished Mandorf the Wizard. Now, they are shutting down the game, and Ian has no way to stop them. After years of leveling up, both professionally and personally, everything he has worked for is going to end. His goggles-and-gloves virtual reality MMORPG is being replaced with Everyworld Online, a next-gen game that provided full immersion so players can experience a world that looks and feels real.

Join the Colonize Epiales Challenge and enter a world that will test your skills, challenge your strategies, and require you to think fast. Compete against 11 other teams for four intense weeks by establishing an outpost in the treacherous virtual reality world of Epiales. Using cutting-edge technology and Winside Immersion Pods, you will be logging in to a lifelike experience—but be warned: it’s anything goes out there! Only one group can win the coveted Winside Scholarship. Will it be you?

L’inverno in Norvegia non offre grandi distrazioni, e le poche ore di luce sembrano non bastare agli abitanti di Bergen. Lo sanno bene Anders e il suo migliore amico Ingo, che cercano di spezzare la monotonia con la passione per l’horror e il metal. I due ragazzi non sanno però che presto dovranno mettere da parte i loro interessi per far posto a qualcuno di ben più strano, qualcuno che sceglie la terra dei fiordi proprio per la sua propensione alle tenebre.

Cress ha diciassette anni e un miglior amico, Charlie. Entrambi orfani e desiderosi di rendersi indipendenti, scappano dalla loro tutrice. Ma tra le strade di New York si aggira un misterioso individuo in impermeabile e mascherina anti-smog, un essere dall’aspetto mostruoso e inumano, che rapisce Charlie. Cress è disposto a tutto pur di ritrovarlo. Erynni, una strega-telepate che vive in una casa a forma di gabbia di uccello, decide di aiutarlo, e di presentarlo agli altri inquilini: Jonsi, in cerca anche lui di una persona scomparsa, e Sakura, figlia di uno stregone giapponese, venuta in America per tenere fede a una vecchia promessa.

Giappone, Regno di Yamatai, secondo secolo. La nobile Jingu, scelta come moglie dall'Imperatore Chuai, si vede costretta ad abbandonare l'arte della spada e l'amato Hondawake. Quando però l'orgoglio di Chuai attira l'ira di un kami, la fanciulla si ritrova d'improvviso vedova, con una profezia a gravarle sul capo e il cuore avvelenato dal desiderio di vendetta. Impugnando la spada dell'Imperatore, Jingu guiderà l'esercito di Yamatai verso una terra sospesa fra i mondi, abitata da sinistre creature.

Cat è un'adolescente che, dopo aver perso prematuramente la madre, vive e lavora nel piccolo circo itinerante gestito dal patrigno. Sogna di diventare una funambola, ma la realtà è dura e avara di soddisfazioni. L’uomo che dirige la compagnia e che dovrebbe farle da padre è severo e autoritario, così come il resto degli artisti che provano invidia o indifferenza. Quando il circo si stabilisce in una foresta isolata dal più vicino centro urbano iniziano ad accadere eventi misteriosi.

Hannah is a hotel worker, who struggles with depression after a trauma in her childhood and a toxic ex-boyfriend. Callum is a student, questioning his own sanity since a strange young man appeared on the other side of his mirror. When Hannah disappears, her brother Callum determines to find her. His journey leads him to Epping Forest and a mysterious waterfall. But Hannah has fallen through a portal to another world.

After Molly confesses a shocking detail to Dan, the two of them are visited by multiple guests. Who or what are they, and what could they want?

Laith knows what loss feels like. She knows it in her bones, and in the way her minder, Akani, looks at her whenever Laith's attention is diverted. She knows it in the way that her father dies a slow, painful death as he succumbs to the wrath of a plague that has ravished the Evgans, her people, for centuries. She knows it in the loneliness and isolation of having nothing to attain except title of Queen of the Svissan Isles. And then her world ends.

The Court of Enigmus has abandoned their post and gone into hiding on an icy post-apocalyptic world, working desperately to find a way to defend themselves against the Framers and keep Leid out of Sarine's warpath. Concurrently, Qaira must face his tainted past before his waning conscience and crumbling mental health make him a liability. Regalis Sarine-376 has a new partner, Inspector Dracian-786. His expertise offers hope that finding the Vel'Haru responsible for her companions' deaths is within reach.

Solstice Winters has spent most of her life halfway between normal society and the world of her magical parents. However, when getting caught between two worlds becomes more than metaphorical, being able to summon light or open locks might not be enough.