Resultados para "Max" en Ciencia ficción

In the twilight of a collapsing Earth and under the sinister hand of a galactic force known as the Gray Purpose, humanity has traded freedom for order. But not all will bow. When a dying soldier of the Purpose washes ashore on a forgotten beach, he brings with him the first cracks in a carefully maintained reality. He is found by a ragtag band of wanderers a traveling musician with fire in her hair, an aging comedian, a boy genius.

The Zombie War came unthinkably close to eradicating humanity. Max Brooks, driven by the urgency of preserving the acid-etched firsthand experiences of the survivors from those apocalyptic years, traveled across the United States of America and throughout the world, from decimated cities that once teemed with upwards of thirty million souls to the most remote and inhospitable areas of the planet. He recorded the testimony of men, women, and sometimes children who came face-to-face with the living - or at least the undead - hell of that dreadful time.

This is the After the End collection, Volumes 5 through 8. BROOD by Claire Kent For years, I’ve been waiting to turn twenty-one so I can marry, start breeding, and contribute to life in our bunker, but just before my spousal ceremony, the council makes a change. Instead of marrying the boy...

He's a part-time gardener and car thief. She's a murderous nun on a holy mission from another dimension. Together, they can save the world from a politically charged alien invasion - but only if the world wants to be saved. From Max Barry, the author of Jennifer Government, Providence and Lexicon comes a satirical speculative adventure for fans of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy and Adjustment Day by Chuck Palahniuk.

When China invades America, guerrilla warfare explodes on the streets of Los Angeles in this provocative short story about the future of war from Max Brooks, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of World War Z. China thought it would be a quick war, an easy war. But now, years later, as the...

Mara Pappus, a 23rd century petty officer third class, is in trouble—and she knows it. After locking herself in a tool room when the science vessel Vitus is attacked suddenly by an unknown vessel with advanced weaponry, she hears knocking SOS signals coming from somewhere on the ship. Knowing she will have to don an EVA suit and go look for other survivors, she learns she is in a race against time on a dying ship with limited power. She will have to save not only herself, but also her crew.

Maxu never expected to find his fated mate. But he recognized Meg at first sight. Sadly, she's not as pleased with the match as he is. She's guarded in a way he doesn't entirely understand and pushes him away at every turn.

Tra le ceneri di un mondo morente, Rossa trova una lettera su cui c'è scritto "Bruciare prima di leggere". Inizia così la strana corrispondenza tra due agenti rivali in una guerra che si dipana attraverso le vastità del tempo e dello spazio. Rossa è membro dell'Agenzia, una distopia tecnologica post singolarità. Blu appartiene al Giardino, un'unica ampia coscienza che risiede in tutta la materia organica. I loro passati sono pieni di sangue; i loro futuri si escludono l'un l'altro. Non hanno nulla in comune, tranne il fatto che sono le migliori. E sono sole.

It's spring break and Max is stuck at home all by himself. Just the way he likes it. He games online, feasts on junk, and wonders why his cat can suddenly talk. Thanks to a bizarre mishap, Max has started shifting between parallel universes whenever he falls asleep. A curious affliction, and one that steadily erodes his sanity. Day after day, he awakes to a strange new reality and struggles to make sense of his surroundings.

In his latest journey, Max the Rogue delves deeper than ever into the ancient dungeon beneath his village, venturing to levels where few have returned. Accompanied by the wise and battle-hardened Aldric, Max encounters the ominous Shifting Labyrinth and the eerie Guardians of Shadow, each trial forcing him to face the darkest parts of himself. Alongside the dungeon’s mysteries, Max confronts visions from his past, testing his resilience and purpose as he strives to maintain his sense of self.

Angela doesn't know who she is, what school she went to, or where she lives. She doesn't even know what she is. They told her she's dead and her thoughts execute on a machine. But she doesn't feel like a machine and definitely doesn't look like one. More like some stuck-up kid with zero percent body fat. Angela goes in search of her identity and meets a girl who seems familiar. The girl might have the answers Angela needs, if Angela can ever find her again. Angela would have a better chance of figuring out who she really is if people would stop lying to her and stop shooting at her.

Any kind of death annuls everything except his present knowledge and returns him to the past. This is a good way to test all sorts of things. That is, it would be, if not for one little thing.... This loop has real lords and it's unlikely that they'll be happy to hear about an uninvited guest. And that isn't his only problem - all of his memories of the last year have simply disappeared, but the world around him has changed in the meantime. 

Master Chief Sergeant Major Max Rage was the top dog in an elite fighting force that no one in the galaxy could stop. Until, one day, someone did. The lone survivor, Rage was blamed for the mission failure and court-martialed. With a serious chip on his shoulder, Rage finds himself as a bouncer at the top dive bar in Greenville, South Carolina. And, man, is he bored with his job. At least until he gets a job offer he can't refuse.

1871 enthüllte ein Buch ein Geheimnis, das niemals für die Öffentlichkeit bestimmt war! Tief unter der Erde existiert eine uralte Zivilisation mit einer Technologie, die alles verändern kann: Vril. Freie Energie, die Materie formt, Maschinen antreibt und ganze Völker beherrscht. Was später als reine Fiktion betitelt wurde, wurde für Eingeweihte zum Wegweiser. In den 1930er Jahren suchten okkulte Zirkel des deutschen Reiches fieberhaft nach dieser unterirdischen Zivilisation und ihrer Energie.

In this world, Earth has been captured and integrated into the mighty Velly Empire. Max has fallen into a time loop that restarts his life each week, deleting everything but his memories of previous loops and his ability to work with energy. However, he isn't the only time traveler. There are others nearby, much more powerful and dangerous, guided by their own goals. He has already run into a couple of them and survived by the skin of his teeth. 

WINNER OF The 2020 Hugo Award for Best Novella, the Reddit Stabby Award for Best Novella AND The British Science Fiction Association Award for Best Novella Two time-travelling agents from warring futures, working their way through the past, begin to exchange letters - and fall in love in this...

I may have already met your grandchildren even if you don't have any yet. I'm 110 years into the future. But I wish I could come back, then I could prevent the fire that took my son’s life. But reverse time travel is impossible. I know, because I’ve wasted many years trying. At least, that’s what I used to think until I met a woman who came from the future and messed with my machine, sending me further through time than intended. Now I need to find her. She might have answers and she might have a way to save my son. I am Dr. Wayland, scientist, in year 2130.

I had always imagined science as orderly and predictable, a world of rules and neat equations. Yet here I was, standing in front of a machine that should not exist. It was now apparent that the collective minds of the world may not have the complete picture. Stranded in the 1930s, Ryan desperately wants to return to 1980 and reunite with Lucy, the one person who truly understands him. But now the time machine is destroyed and history is unraveling in ways that don’t make sense. (This book is entirely written by the author. No AI used for the content or cover)

Max didn't ask to be created, but it was a case of mistaken identity and he had no say in the matter. Now he is without his flesh and blood body, in a strange new digital realm, and not taking it really well. However, his new existence comes with abilities that the regular humans can only dream about. If absolute power corrupts, can he avoid being corrupted? These are the logs he wrote for posterity. Written in his voice and not meant for the general public. Listen at your own discretion, but be warned—once you start, you may never go back to your mundane existence.

In September 2019, Max Morgan boarded a vintage Twin Beech aircraft with his five co-workers and was pulled back in time to northern Germany 1,700 years earlier. Max’s family found acceptance from the local villagers, and Max trained them in tactics to turn them into a cohesive fighting force that made the Romans nervous. His introduction of black powder grenades and the use of his firearms were significant force multipliers, but that did not stop the Romans from visiting tragedy on his tribe and his family.