Resultados para "Lucien" en Ciencia ficción y fantasía

A True Story (Ancient Greek: Ἀληθῆ διηγήματα, Alēthē diēgēmata; Latin: Vera Historia or Latin: Verae Historiae), also translated as True History, is a long novella or short novel written in the second century AD by the Syrian author Lucian of Samosata. The novel is a satire of outlandish tales that had been reported in ancient sources, particularly those that presented fantastic or mythical events as if they were true. It is Lucian's best-known work.

Hunter Graves has survived the opening days of the Trial, bloodied, hardened, and marked by a new profession: Exiled Tyrant. What began as a struggle for survival has turned into calculated evolution, each fight pushing him to grow faster, stronger, and colder than before. But the deeper he carves into this world, the clearer it becomes that something is wrong. The Trial isn’t following its rules.

The end of the Trial is here... Hunter has never been patient, especially when patience means weakness. While humanity panics, fights against beasts, and tears itself apart under the weight of the Trial, Hunter moves with purpose. One dungeon falls, then a second, a third, a fourth, cleared faster than anyone expected. Every conquest sharpens him. Every boss slain feeds the storm of destructive mana boiling under his skin. His body evolves. His mind calcifies into something ruthless. But speed has a price. The Trial begins to break. And through it all, Hunter fights alone inside the Trial.

Hunter Graves was the kind of man who lived behind glass—quiet, unreadable, a data analyst with a poker face and a life built on routine. But when a storm of lightning ripped his world apart, Hunter and everyone he knew were thrown into the Multiversal System, a brutal trial of survival where humanity was nothing more than raw material to be tested. Accepting the class of a healer, Hunter should have been relegated to the backline. Instead, his cold pragmatism and honed martial skill make him something far more dangerous: a fighter who refuses to die by the rules others set for him.

Professor Hector Rhoades thinks he knows the truth about the mysterious businesswoman Luci Inferi. Deciding to confront her with this "truth", he proceeds to confront her. Shortly thereafter, Hector discovers that all of his life-long preconceptions about life, the universe, friendship, and more aren't anything like he thought they were.

"Vampire und Drachen" ist ein episch angehauchtes Fantasy Abenteuer und für Hörer ab 16 Jahren geeignet. Ein Mann, namens Wulff, erzählt seinen Zuhörern eine unglaubliche Geschichte. Der erste Teil spielt noch in dieser, unserer realen Welt, in der Wulf fast stirbt, um in einer völlig anderen Welt wieder zu erwachen. Nachdem er sich vorerst an nichts erinnern kann, lernt er in dieser Welt zu leben. Er ist etwas Besonders, denn bevor er die Welten wechselte, rette er Lucie, einer Vampirfrau das Leben, indem er sie von seinem Blut trinken ließ.

L'audiolibro Amore e Psiche è la più nota delle favole contenute in "Le metamorfosi" di Apuleio. Narra delle difficili e dolorose vicende di Psiche...

Inizia con l'AudioBook del Primo e del Secondo Libro di "Le Metamorfosi" di Apuleio, un'avvincente avventura che racconta di magia; a volte le vicende spaventano, a volte meravigliano, a volte sono sensuali e esilaranti. Di sicuro questo straordinario e raro esempio di romanzo composto nell'antica Roma, è un documento storico di grande importanza: avvincente come un fantasy e interessante come un trattato storico, perché la vicenda si snoda nella società del tempo e evidenzia i modi di vivere dell'epoca, le usanze e le superstizioni della gente. Il nobile Lucio, il protagonista di questa epopea, narra in prima persona il suo viaggio fantastico nella magia, le sue vicissitudini, le trasformazioni e il cambiamento finale che non riguarderà solo il suo aspetto ma anche il suo animo.

In an England where monsters have spilled into the world out of myth, only London is magically protected from the monstrous threat. The University runs the city, allowing family of graduate Hunters, Healers, Scholars, and Artificers to live behind the wards.

Lucien, auteur prolifique du IIe siècle apr. J.-C., est né à Samosate, aux confins orientaux de l'Empire romain. Dans les "Histoires vraies", un de ses ouvrages les plus célèbres, il invite le lecteur à un voyage extraordinaire sur la Lune, dans le ventre d'une baleine, sur une île peuplée des grands héros du passé et sur des récifs défendus par des monstres effrayants. Entre fantaisie et pastiche des grandes références littéraires et mythologiques, on peut voir dans les "Histoires vraies" le premier récit de science-fiction de la littérature occidentale.

In a time of pandemics and disease, the ailing world finds itself on its knees, desperate for the cure promised by leading geneticist Dr. Lucien Sabara. With his simple EVE-0 treatment, he seemingly offers an answer to the world's prayers. Though as Gabrielle and Chris learn, the geneticist's true agenda is to play God over humankind, forcing women to require medical intervention to conceive, allowing Lucien to edit unborn embryos in order to create a better race, a more equal race, a more evolved race.

In un'Inghilterra invasa dai teras, mostri spietati dalle sembianze mitologiche, soltanto Londra rimane un luogo sicuro. La città, protetta magicamente da una frontiera che i teras non possono oltrepassare, è governata dall'Università, un'élite di studiosi e guerrieri che ha il compito di classificare queste creature ibride e annientarle. Tutti ambiscono a vivere all'interno delle mura, ma si tratta di un privilegio riservato solamente alle famiglie degli studenti che hanno superato le selezioni e l'addestramento dell'Università, seguendo una delle quattro specializzazioni.

Die Hochkultur der Zwerge ist untergegangen. Zurück blieben nur erbärmliche Kreaturen, die ihre Seelenpein mit Pilzbier zu betäuben versuchen. Den Sinn für die Wirklichkeit gänzlich verloren, kennen die Zwerge nur einen Schuldigen für den Untergang ihres Reiches: die Menschen! Bei einem Unfall wird der Zwerg Fargil vom Nachschub an Pilzbier abgeschnitten. Zwangsweise ausgenüchtert erkennt er den Verfall seines Volkes, und will ihm zu neuer Größe verhelfen. Aber auch unter den Menschen gibt es jene, die nicht hinnehmen wollen, ständig von den Zwergen bedroht zu werden.

Un oraș super-tehnicizat și super-curat în care trăiește eroul, un Programator... Are tot ce-i trebuie, dar vrea, în sinea sa, Libertate. Și un Sens mai profund în viață. Oamenii au căști neurale cu cabluri care atârnă din tavan, peste tot se vad cabluri mai mari sau mai mici, iar niște misterioase și diafane filamente, aproape invizibile, leagă clădirile, oamenii și vehiculele între ele, cam cum era nebunia cu cablurile între blocuri în anii '90...

A girl and her two brothers are transported back to the time of King Arthur, where they must return three magic talismans to their rightful owners or remain trapped forever in the distant past. The adventure begins when Sara Lowry wins a picnic basket at the Firemen's Strawberry Festival. She and her brothers, Greg and Eric, are staying with their uncle at his Hudson Valley estate while their parents are in Japan.

On orders from Mithril, Sousuke has been forced to abandon Kaname to focus on learning the secrets of the Arbalest and the lambda driver.

With the defeat of Gauron, Sousuke's life has entered a comfortable rhythm. He's adjusting to school—the occasional car bomb false alarm notwithstanding—and balancing his newly-found normalcy with the needs of his mercenary life. He's even started to turn his thoughts toward the future—a future that might involve Kaname. But that future will soon face a threat, not from North Korean soldiers, Italian mobsters, or Russian Spetsnaz... but from the hierarchy of Mithril itself!

Kaname is in the doldrums: There's just one week until the end of summer vacation, and she hasn't done anything interesting! Fortunately, Sousuke is here to provide a little adventure by offering her a trip to Merida Island. But what starts for Kaname as a simple trip to learn more about the mystery surrounding her quickly snowballs into a firefight in a chemical weapons facility, a reunion with a mortal enemy, and a battle for control of a runaway submarine! However things turn out, at least she can't claim that her summer was uneventful.

Two months after Sunan, Sousuke and Kaname are in a holding pattern. He'll fire his rifle off the school roof. She'll yell at him to stop. Lather, rinse, repeat. That all changes one day when Sousuke's commanding officer Teletha "Tessa" Testarossa shows up at his apartment, trying to hide a key to a terrorist superweapon of unprecedented power. Tessa is brilliant, pretty, and the same age as Sousuke, and her presence might put a serious crimp on his relationship with Kaname... assuming the city survives the night!

Sagara Sousuke isn't your typical high school student. He reads military enthusiast magazines; he responds to questions with "affirmative;" he brings grenades to school in his bag. Though everyone at school takes him for a hopeless military geek, Chidori Kaname thinks there might be something more to him. When their plane is hijacked in the middle of a field trip, Kaname's instincts will prove correct: Sousuke is an elite, mech-piloting mercenary... and he's here to protect her!