Resultados para "Ma" en Ciencia ficción y fantasía

Edición conmemorativa 25 aniversario. Quizá los olores evoquen el privilegio de la invisibilidad. Antes del tacto, sucede el olor, como mensajero de una esencia que sabe desaparecer en el aire y ser agente de un gran poder. La seducción que despliega el olor es implacable: se instala en...

Un fascinante viaje post-apocalíptico hacia la desaparición del ser humano de la faz de la tierra. «Poderoso, enigmático, imaginativo y tratado con maestría… Uno de los mejores intentos modernos de describir el infierno», The Washington Post. «Recuerda en muchos sentidos a 1984 de...

Cedric The Brown is a wizard with a dark past. In an effort to make amends, he hides in plain sight among the residents of a space station he once nearly destroyed. Cut adrift by a bankrupt megacorp, the mobile mining station sets off to uncharted space in a desperate attempt to scrape by.

San Francisco 1992. La Terra è un pianeta desolato, devastato dalle guerre nucleari; gli esseri umani sono in gran parte emigrati nelle colonie esterne e numerose specie animali si sono estinte, tanto che possedere un animale domestico vivente è diventato un ambito status symbol. Per chi non può permettersi un cucciolo “vero”, come il cacciatore di taglie Rick Deckard, ci sono le pecore elettriche...

Eli Mercer was never meant to be a hero. He’s crude, paranoid, and painfully self-aware… because he can hear the author writing his life in real time. When the zombie apocalypse erupts, Eli does what any conspiracy-brained survivor would: run, fortify, and trust absolutely no one. But the “author” has other plans, and Eli’s first act of mercy gets him betrayed and kicked out of his own stocked safehouse.

The daunting alien spacecraft continues to hover over Oceanside, California. Cheryl, who’s being held prisoner on the alien ship, learns that the aliens known as the Kindrel have had similar experiences with the prehistoric creatures. Can Cheryl convince them to fight on their side to extinguish the prehistoric creatures ravaging Earth? Or will they continue with their orders to annihilate the human race?

After Cheryl’s abduction, Andre, with the help of their friends, sets out on a journey to save her. He believes the only catch will be finding a way onto the spaceship. But he is wrong, dead wrong. The surviving humans share a common enemy with the aliens. They’re both at war with the prehistoric creatures. Regardless, the aliens are annihilating humans due to possible infection. If the keepers can’t find a way to communicate with the aliens, will this be the end of humanity?

With the arrival of the alien ship, the war began. Per Cheryl, who is a keeper, the aliens’ goal is to stop the creatures from spreading to other worlds by annihilating them. Unfortunately, the only way to do that is to also exterminate humans since many are infected which allows the creatures to live in human form.

Trying to navigate this scary new world, the survivors have a lot to learn about their enemy. Overnight, the alien infection has spread through the population at an alarming rate. There are many unanswered questions regarding the infected. Are they dead or alive? Are they zombies? Or are they aliens? Whatever they are, they’re no longer human.

Since the appearance of the alien creatures, the world has drastically changed. Electricity still has not been restored, and people are panicking. The creatures that hadn’t fled the area to chase the moon are hiding in the shadows while guarding their offspring. Infected people are growing ill and morphing into something sinister. Losing their humanity, their only instinct is the primal need to feed their insatiable hunger. Follow our survivors as they navigate the second day of this strange and dangerous new world.

Awakened after millions of years of imprisonment, a prehistoric alien threat has been freed, and is now wreaking havoc on the Earth. Becoming more powerful by draining electricity all over the planet, the earth is plunged into darkness, making humanity more vulnerable than ever.

Contains books three and four of the Prophecies series: Tools of Prophecy and Lords of Prophecy.

Thrown into a conflict beyond the scope of anything Bye-Bye ever imagined, he will be tested in ways he never imaged. Whether that means stopping a war or just taking the girl he likes on a date, he certainly has his work cut out for him. Tensions are rising and if Bye-bye and his friends can’t put a stop to a brewing war, Anvilton and Hammerton might just destroy each other. That is, if the other adventurers don’t destroy them first. With the odds stacked against them, will Bye-bye and his friends survive the Mountain Valley War?

So you want to fight crime? Save people from villains? Be the good guy? If the answer is "yes" to all these questions, then the life of a sidekick just might be for you. Davis might come to regret the day he decided to become a sidekick, but now that he has already put in the time to complete the certification program, he was going to see it through. But first, he needs to survive in the wilds for a couple of weeks with his fellow wannabe sidekicks; nothing like teen angst and drama to make a man feel his years.

‘One of China’s greatest living novelists’ GUARDIAN Blending fact with fiction, China Dream is an unflinching satire of totalitarianism. After decades of loyal service, Ma Daode, a corrupt and lecherous party official, has been appointed director of the China Dream Bureau, charged with...

STAG, the Special Technologies Analysis Group, is a clandestine government operation headquartered 50 feet under Marine Base Quantico, and they're looking for someone with the right stuff. Peabo Smith, an ex-Special Forces soldier, volunteers to participate in a mission that gives him an opportunity to maybe get back into the action. When things don't go quite like Peabo had planned, he realizes that the experiment may end up changing his life forever.

As far as 20-year-old Jeremiah's concerned, his life vanished seven years ago with the fevers that nearly killed him and wiped his memory. But with the illness came a strange new gift: the ability to hear the thoughts of others. Only when Jeremiah comes home from work to discover a dead KGB agent does he find himself fleeing the only life he knew. Trying to evade a past he cannot remember, his escape catapults him into a world involving covert military operations, missing Soviet-era explosives and a 2,000-year-old prophecy that predicted his birth.

Eighteen-year-old Jason Rogers’ life is turned upside-down when he finds himself in the custody of an unnamed government agency that is falsely accusing him of being responsible for the explosion that caused the death of his parents. Anya is 17 - a teenager who wishes she could be normal for once - but she’s not. A secret government agency, headed by none other than her father, knows how to leverage the dangerous capability she was born with. All goes well for her until one of the agents turns on her.

The only human student at Mather's School of Magick, Phineas Smith has a target on his back. Born with the rare ability to tap into unlimited magick, he finds both Faerie Courts want his allegiance - and will do anything to get it. They don't realize he can't levitate a feather, much less defend the Faerie Realm as it slips into civil war. Unseelie Prince Roark Lyne, Phineas's roommate - and self-proclaimed arch-nemesis - is beautiful and brave and a pain in the ass.

After the last Faerie Civil War, the leaders of the magickal pantheons stripped the shining Seelie Court of its power and tasked the dark Unseelie Court with maintaining the natural balance of the world. Ages later, a twisted intrigue throws the balance of all Faerie into ruin and ignites a new civil war.