Resultados para "Mars" en Literatura de género

Últimas tardes con Teresa constituye uno de los hitos de la narrativa española de la segunda mitad del siglo XX. Dentro de la obra de Juan Marsé, esta inolvidable novela ocupa además un lugar muy especial, pues mereció el Premio Biblioteca Breve en 1965 y supuso la consolidación del autor como uno de los escritores más representativos de la literatura europea contemporánea.

Un agente biológico es robado de un laboratorio de seguridad biológica. Armado, podría matar a millones de personas, y sobreviene una búsqueda nacional desesperada para atrapar a los terroristas, antes de que sea demasiado tarde. Luke Stone, jefe de un departamento de élite del FBI, con su propia familia aún en peligro, prometió retirarse, pero cuando la nueva Presidenta, que acaba de prestar juramento, lo llama, no puede darle la espalda.

I, Mars by Ray Bradbury is a haunting tale of isolation, technology, and mortality set against the desolate backdrop of the Red Planet. The story follows Barton, an aging man who has spent 50 years waiting alone on Mars for rescue. When a telephone rings in the dead of night, he discovers it is his own recorded voice—an invention he once created to stave off loneliness. What begins as a comfort turns into a relentless torment, as the recording manipulates him toward exhaustion and ultimately death.

Yesi y Desi. Vecinas. Amigas. Rivales. Dos destinos que se entrecruzan con consecuencias devastadoras. Berta Marsé se estrena en la novela. "Nacer en el mismo año, bajo el mismo signo zodiacal, vivir en el mismo barrio y estudiar en el mismo colegio, frecuentar el mismo parque, las mismas plazas, los mismos comercios no tiene por qué suponer una estrecha amistad. Si acaso una amistad circunscrita al espacio y al tiempo, ineludible, como una especie de tara genética. Pero no una amistad verdadera.

A young girl goes missing in small-town America.

Premio Gran Angular México 2014. Joaquín perdió a su padre por culpa de la droga de moda, así que cuando sus amigos se vieron tentados a consumirla él quiso evitarlo, alejarlos de ella, protegerlos. Joaquín, sin embargo, innovaba una cosa: las drogas tienen efectos dañinos, sí, pero no...

Colonies require support and expansion to other planets means shipping supplies to them. Pirates love long supply chains and not even Elon Musk is invulnerable, although there is reason to believe he might do slightly better than cumbersome governments. This highly speculative look at the perils of building the first functional Mars colony stars Elon Musk.

Ovunque è un paesaggio da dopobomba in un’immobilità che sa di preistoria. Cartacce in balìa del vento. Rumori di semafori che cambiano colore. Brusio di insegne di centri commerciali. Respiri di cani randagi sui marciapiedi umidi. Per avere conferma che in questo mondo l’uomo ancora sopravvive, bisogna cercare i teleschermi accesi. Le centinaia di milioni di persone che li guardano immobili sono uno sterminato esercito di terracotta incapace di reagire.

In an epic adventure authorized by Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc., the Warlord of Barsoom and the Lord of the Jungle come face-to-face in what must be described as their more most challenging exploit yet. When Tarzan finds himself marooned on dying Mars, without friends or weapons, he undertakes a trek across the dead sea bottoms of the Red Planet in search of food and shelter. What happens when the ape-man falls in with a tribe of four-armed Martian gorillas beside which the bronzed giant is no more than small boy? Will Tarzan sink into abject slavery or rise to ape-lord?

John Carter, an adventurous soldier and gentleman of Virginia, finds himself mysteriously transported to the planet Mars! There he is captured by the planet's strange inhabitants, fights valiant battles, and finds himself in love with the beautiful prisoner, the Princess Dejah Thoris.

“The green warrior decided to close in and end the battle; just as he rushed me, a blinding light struck full in my eyes, so that I could not see Zad’s approach and could only leap blindly to one side to avoid his mighty blade...." Suddenly projected to Mars, John Carter finds himself the captive of the savage green men of Thark. With him is the lovely Dejah Thoris, Princess of Helium. And between them and rescue lay a thousand miles of deadly enemies and unknown dangers.

The president is taken hostage aboard Air Force One. A shocking ride ensues as elite Delta Force veteran Luke Stone, 29, and the FBI’s Special Response Team may be the only ones who can bring him back. But in an action-packed thriller jammed with shocking twists and turns, the destination - and the extraction - may be even more dramatic than the ride itself.

In Primary Threat (The Forging of Luke Stone, Book 3), a ground-breaking action thriller by number one best seller Jack Mars, elite Delta Force veteran Luke Stone, 29, leads the FBI's Special Response Team as they respond to a hostage situation on an oil rig in the remote Arctic. Yet what at first seems like a simple terrorist event may, it turns out, be much more. With a Russian master plan unfolding rapidly in the Arctic, Luke may have arrived at the precipice of the next world war. And Luke Stone may just be the only man standing in its way.

In Any Means Necessary, nuclear waste is stolen by jihadists in the middle of the night from an unguarded New York City hospital. The police, in a frantic race against time, call in the FBI. Luke Stone, head of an elite, secretive, department within the FBI, is the only man they can turn to. Luke realizes right away that the terrorists’ aim is to create a dirty bomb, that they seek a high-value target, and that they will hit it within 48 hours. A cat and mouse chase follows, pitting the world’s most savvy government agents versus its most sophisticated terrorists. As Agent Stone peels back layer after layer, he soon realizes he is up against a vast conspiracy, and that the target is even more high value than he could have imagined—leading all the way to the President of the United States. In Oath of Office, a biological agent is stolen from a biocontainment lab. Weaponized, it could kill millions, and a desperate national hunt ensues to catch the terrorists before it is too late. Luke Stone, head of an elite FBI department, with his own family still in jeopardy, has vowed to walk away—but when the new President, barely sworn in, calls him, he can’t turn his back on her.

In Primary Command (The Forging of Luke Stone - book number two), a ground-breaking action thriller by number one bestseller Jack Mars, elite delta force veteran Luke Stone, 29, leads the FBI’s special response team on a nail-biting mission to save American hostages from a nuclear submarine. But when all goes wrong, and when the President shocks the world with his reaction, it may fall on Luke’s shoulders to save not only the hostages - but the world.

Aimee Leduc has her work cut out for her - running her detective agency and fighting off sleep deprivation as she tries to be a good single mother to her new bebe. The last thing she has time for now is to take on a personal investigation for a poor manouche (French Gypsy) boy. But he insists his dying mother has an important secret she needs to tell Aimee, something to do with Aimee's father's unsolved murder a decade ago. How can she say no?

L'atzar reuneix dos homes a la terrassa de l'Hotel Arts, on han pujat per suïcidarse. La conversa, forçada per les circumstàncies, és banal i sòrdida: Qui es llançarà primer? Per quina banda? L'Arnau sospesa pros i contres. En Roger és un cínic de tornada de tot. La tensió entre tots dos augmenta quan són descoberts i assetjats per la policia i es converteixen en presa del circ mediàtic, mentre cadascun fa examen de consciència i no gosa formular a l'altre la pregunta clau que dóna sentit a allò que viuen i, potser, pot canviar el curs dels esdeveniments.

When erudite ape Professor Khan and rough-and-tumble cowboy Bulls-Eye Gutierrez are zapped away on a one-way trip to Mars, they are thrown into a world in chaos. Under the malevolent gaze of the Weather Witch, Princess Cyclone, our heroes face the intrigue and war raging across an alien world. Will they survive long enough for the other Centurions to build a way back home? Or will they perish upon the shifting sands of the Red Planet, never to be seen again?

When elite Delta Force soldier Luke Stone joins a secretive government agency, he is dispatched on the mission of a lifetime: a whirlwind race across Europe and the Mid-East to save the President’s daughter before she is beheaded by terrorists.

Dans une Bretagne envoûtante, une histoire d'amour fulgurante et ambigüe entre trois êtres. Un château isolé, entre forêt et océan. Albert, maître des lieux, Herminien - son ami, son complice - et la belle Heide s'appréhendent, se côtoient, s'attirent, se repoussent, s'attirent encore, et enfin se déchirent.