Resultados para "Luna" en Space Opera

Un renegado nunca se rinde. Ahora que Jace y el resto de la tripulación tienen una nueva base de operaciones en Titán, la posibilidad de encontrar la Tierra está más cerca que nunca. Sin embargo, no será una misión fácil: la Estrella Renegada tendrá que huir de los ejércitos de la Unión y el Imperio sarkoniano. Luna renegada es la tercera parte de la serie Estrella Renegada, una space opera épica y trepidante que encantará a los fans de Firefly, Battlestar Galactica o Indiana Jones.

Hace diez años que el imperio Orestes conquistó el Sistema Aurora tras una sangrienta campaña militar. Los siete hermanos gobiernan ahora el destino de la humanidad. Las voces contrarias han sido silenciadas; los disconformes asesinados. Ya no queda nadie capaz de hacer frente al poder del imperio.La paz de los Orestes, fundada a sangre y fuego, les permite gobernar sobre los quince planetas del sistema.

Segunda entrega de la multipremiada Saga "Tennen" del autor David Luna Lorenzo, "Sombras Tennen" es un homenaje a la fantasía oscura y la space-opera más descarnada y de mayor calidad. En ella encontraremos trepidantes batallas a lomos de dragones modificados genéticamente, razas ignotas, intrigas imperiales, torturadores y mazmorras prohibidas. Una delicia para los amantes del género y para los que empiezan a probar sus amargas mieles.

A hundred years in the future, a war wages between the Five Dragons - five families that control the moon's leading industrial companies. Each clan does everything in their power to claw their way to the top of the food chain - marriages of convenience, corporate espionage, kidnapping, and mass assassinations. Through ingenious political manipulation and sheer force of will, Lucas Corta rises from the ashes of corporate defeat and seizes control of the moon. The only person who can stop him is a brilliant lunar lawyer: his sister, Ariel.

As the leader of the moon's newest "dragon", Adriana has wrested control of the moon's helium-3 industry from the Mackenzie Metal Corporation and fought to earn her family's new status. Now, at the twilight of her life, Adriana finds her corporation, Corta Helio, surrounded by the many enemies she made during her meteoric rise. If the Corta family is to survive, Adriana's five children must defend their mother's empire from her many enemies - and each other.

En el año 6578 alguien asesina a la Luna. Para investigar este crimen universal se movilizarán todas las fuerzas del CGQCNSE (Consejo Galáctico Que Casi Nunca Se Equivoca). Sin embargo, a pesar de la urgencia por demostrar que el sistema solar está en orden, la identidad del asesino se hace esquiva, y todo el asunto entraña consecuencias diversas para los personajes.

Le héros de ce roman s'appelle Colomb : tout un symbole. Il sera le premier homme à se poser sur la Lune. Reste à en revenir. A la condition que, là-haut, rien ne vous retienne.... Et, surtout il y a l'aventure terrestre de sa femme. Une aventure sans doute plus dangereuse que la conquête des étoiles. Cela se nomme l'amour... Féroce et tendre, pervers et poétique, un grand BarjaveL.

The year is 1961. The Cold War is in full swing and the space race is on. Russia aims to send humanity to space. But what if space comes to humanity instead? Yuri Gagarin’s epic flight into space is disrupted when an alien Mothership jumps into orbit, causing a cosmic car crash that defies all odds. Everything changes. The US and USSR must quickly put aside their differences. In exchange for the Earth’s help in the rebuilding of their Mothership, the mysterious aliens, the Vulbathi, offer promises of technology beyond humanity's wildest dreams.

The Metal Legion is committed to saving all, but when a battle makes them traitors and enemies, they'll have to bet everything they have to win the freedom of all humanity.

Ein spannender Near-Future-Space-Thriller von Hard-SF-Autor Phillip P. Peterson. Ein Flug zum Mond – dank milliardenschwerer Investitionen der Firma FrontierTech ist das nun auch für Privatpersonen machbar. Die Lehrerin Luna Patel ist eine der ersten begeisterten Mond-Touristinnen. Das Ziel ihrer Landefähre ist eine kleine Station im Tal Taurus-Litrow. Doch als es zu einer Triebwerk-Fehlfunktion mit anschließender Bruchlandung kommt, verwandelt sich der Traum in einen Alptraum.

Captain Graciela is where she wants to be, far from her controlling mother, in a rented solar sail cargo ship, trading and gambling throughout the heliosphere. It can be lonely in the void, but the crew on the H2LiftShip, the LunaCola, is all the help she needs: Jack, a talking dog with a nose for Earth jerky, Tang, a poker-obsessed orangutan, and Octopus, in his watery navigation station, are her constant companions on her journey.

Ever wonder what it would be like to live on the Moon? Just ask Aphrodite Kim, a teenage genius who was born on Luna and has lived there all her life. She knows TerraNova City well; in fact, she’s a certified tour guide, making extra money guiding rich Earthworm tourists around the Lunar Free State’s capital.

Neues Leben auf dem Mond - NATHAN schafft eigene Tatsachen. Für die Menschen einer fernen Zukunft ist die Erde nicht mehr der "kleine blaue Planet", von dem aus sie ins All aufgebrochen sind. Die Menschen verstehen sich - nach der lateinischen Bezeichnung ihrer Ursprungswelt - als Terraner, obwohl sie auf Tausenden Welten siedeln. Terra selbst wurde von unbekannter Macht vor Jahrhunderten gegen einen nahezu identischen Planeten ausgetauscht und ist seither verschwunden; mittlerweile gilt die Erde als Mythos.

Corta Hélio, one of the five family corporations that rule the moon, has fallen. Its riches are divided up among its many enemies, its survivors scattered. Eighteen months have passed. The remaining Hélio children, Lucasinho and Luna, are under the protection of the powerful Asamoahs, while Robson, still reeling from witnessing his parents' violent deaths, is now a ward - virtually a hostage - of Mackenzie Metals. And the last appointed heir, Lucas, has vanished from the surface of the moon.

After ending the Luna-Terra war by destroying the rogue colony Lunar 1, Captain Jason has retired to the US Virgin Islands intent on self-destruction. If the booze doesn't kill him first, the Colombian drug cartel surely will. But before he has a chance to properly pickle his liver, and before a jealous drug lord has a chance to take him out, the Admiral of Space Fleet recruits Jason for one last mission.

Decades after the last footprints were left on the Moon, the US was preparing to return to the Lunar surface in a new class of rockets, when the mission suddenly became much more urgent. It would have to be a rescue mission. Unbeknownst to the rest of the world China had sent its own Lunar expedition. A manned expedition. Until a distress call was received, no human outside of China even knew that the mission was manned - or that their ship had crash-landed and couldn't take off again.

The financial and economic crisis is over, and the Lunar Free State is beginning to pull out of the recession it suffered competing with the Confederated Nations over the Xanadu colonies. Now, however, the LFS is indebted to the CNE, and the new Lunar government is gradually falling under CNE’s influence. In a few years, the LFS will become just another puppet state under the CNE banner.

Sol 0, calendrier novéen. 17 h 30, heure locale. Le programme de colonisation s’est effondré. Et pourtant, éparpillés à la surface novéenne, les survivants constatent que leur cauchemar n’est pas terminé. Pièges mortels, prédateurs génocatalysés, forêts empoisonnées... Spes-Nova n’est pas un monde hospitalier. C’est un enfer déguisé. Le rassemblement commence à peine qu’une mystérieuse malédiction frappe la lune de la géante gazeuse. Une Terre Grise, morte, qui semble asphyxier le monde. En fin de compte, les Lostseekers ne sont peut-être pas le plus grand danger.

Eine Künstliche Intelligenz übermittelt eine Botschaft – ein junger Mann muss sich bewähren. Gut 4000 Jahre in der Zukunft bildet die Erde das Zentrum eines Sternenreiches, das Tausende von Welten umfasst. Überall leben die Menschen in Frieden und Freiheit. Zu den anderen Völkern der Milchstraße und ihren Angehörigen besteht ein freundschaftlicher Austausch.

Commander Jonah Reyes, lunar hydrologist and a man rebuilding his faith, oversees the Shackleton Array, a ring of photothermal towers guarding Tycho Station’s wells. When the Helios Combine moves to claim the Moon’s water and a solar storm bears down, Tycho is thrust into a perilous choice. A shadow team seeds sabotage, a yield optimizer AI begins to reroute lifeblood from breath to profit, and a stowaway child emerges from a sealed crate with nothing but courage and a name.