Resultados para "Miles" en Ciencia ficción y fantasía

En la ciudad de High Norland, la joven Charmain Baker pasa sus días con la nariz siempre metida en algún libro. Cuando su familia la envía a la casa de un pariente mago, ella parte emocionada por vivir al fin su propia aventura. Pero a su llegada se topa con un confuso laberinto de habitaciones extrañas, un aprendiz sin maestro e infinidad de criaturas singulares. Para colmo, pronto se ve involucrada en una misión del rey por la que acude una intimidante bruja llamada Sophie.

El sultán Shahriar descubre que su esposa lo engaña y la decapita. Todavía lleno de rencor, cada día desposa a una mujer a la que luego ordena matar por la mañana. Inesperadamente, Sherezade, la hija del visir, se ofrece voluntaria para casarse con el sultán. Durante la noche de bodas, la muchacha inicia un relato que deja fascinado a su marido, pero que interrumpe justo antes del amanecer.

Con motivo de la muerte de la emperatriz de Cetaganda, Miles Vorkosigan y su sobrino Ivan son enviados al funeral como represantes diplomáticos de Barrayar. Nada más llegar, ambos son inexplicablemente atacados por un sirviente de la recién fallecida emperatriz. Cuando el mismo sirvinete es encontrado muerto al día siguiente, Miles e Ivan se ven envueltos en mitad de un misterio sin resolver. Miles intentará solventar la situación lidiando con una extraña, complicada y engañosa cultura alienígena, mientras Ivan se centra en crear relaciones con la parte femenina de la nobleza.

Chloe Sinclair is desperate to find her sister who vanished under mysterious circumstances. Retracing her footsteps the day of her disappearance, she finds nothing but dead ends. Until she makes her way to an antique store in the heart of Edinburgh with an eccentric shopkeeper who gives her a strange looking stone and a cryptic message. When the man she thought she loved attacks her to take the stone for himself, it transports her back in time to medieval Scotland, dropping her in the middle of dangerous territory.

Book five of a progression fantasy epic set around a pseudo-medieval society clinging to existence on frozen post-apocalyptic Earth. Impossible odds, weak-to-strong progression, dungeon-delving, epic battles, scavenged tech, prophecy, magic, and mystery—12 Miles Below has something for everyone.

Una peculiar novela de ficción prospectiva que nos lleva al año 2035, en el que la inteligencia artificial ha sustituido al ser humano en muchos aspectos relevantes de la vida cotidiana. A raíz de una serie de accidentes robóticos, las empresas genéticas se plantearán traer a la vida a neandertales como mano de obra. En medio de la situación, Laia, una española residente en San Francisco, se cruzará con Tessa, una joven embarazada que alberga en su interior un secreto que podría sacudir el mundo entero.

I woke up in a game I never played, stripped of choice, doomed to die. They gave me the Soldier class and threw me into a barracks ruled by elves. No tutorial. No way out. Just drills, bruises, and the creeping realization that I’m not playing. I’m being played. My masters are NPCs who think they’re real. The system says I’m here to fight their wars. But a hunting accident changed everything.

She has the city brought to its knees, a single death stroke away from victory, but in the same breath, she struggles with her own wavering loyalty. Haunted by the fate of her predecessors, who all turned against the Pale Lady—and nearly succeeded. Time is her enemy. Her elder brother, To'Aacar, has set his plans in motion. The city must be taken, and her treasonous thoughts must be handled soon, or else.

Danger stalks across the surface. Tension and panic rise within the clan as whispers of a massive raider army of a size never before heard of, rallying together. They plan a grand crusade to sweep across the white wastes, eliminating any who stand in their way. Their numbers are legion, their power and resources near limitless. And their course is set to cross the clan.

Extreme sub-zero temperatures suffocate the surface. Frozen structures of bygone eras span across massive ice-wastes. And the survivors closely guard any technology rediscovered within them. The only escape from the deadly climate is beneath the surface, but that doesn't mean it's safe... Monstrous machines lurk in the depths. Unhinged demigods war against them, dying over and over, treating it all like a game. The depths themselves shift over time, more contraption than rock.

The rules of reality have changed. All types of zombies have appeared with only one goal: Kill the living. Eric and his schoolmates must survive by adapting and growing stronger, but that's easier said than done. The undead get stronger with every passing day, and that's not even mentioning the blood moons. Even worse, the military and police seem to have disappeared.

Miles Morales has a lot going on, what with moving to a new neighborhood, dealing with the loss of his father, and the whole gaining superpowers thing. After a misunderstanding with the law, Miles questions what it means to be a hero when people are ready to believe the worst of you. Tempted by the power and freedom of his new abilities, Miles must decide what kind of Spider-Man he wants to be. When Vulture starts wreaking havoc across the city with his new accomplice Starling, Miles can't just sit back and watch.

Humanity's hour of reckoning draws near. Armed with Hexis's forbidden knowledge, forged by Tenisent's brutal trials, and driven by his own revolutionary engineering, Keith Winterscar stands ready to challenge the world itself. Likely among the strongest humans now walking the Earth, Keith's true mission is clear: liberate To'Wrathh from Relinquished's stranglehold. Their plan is audacious. Their target is legend.

नल-दमयंती मिलन – नलाला दमयंतीचा त्याग करावा लागला. पण दमयंतीने आपल्या अभागी पतीला शोधण्याचा ध्यास घेतला. आता...

Echo London never wanted to be the curator of the People’s Library, a digital collection of human consciousness. But when she’s assigned as its head librarian, Echo is entrusted with humanity’s greatest minds and historical figures, all of whom have been recreated through controversial consciousness-capturing technology that lets visitors interact with the dead. But an anti-tech rebellion is stirring. When a rebel attack results in tragedy, a mysterious woman wearing an ancient death mask leaves behind cryptic final words for Echo: It all begins with nothing.

La sociedad vive más centrada en su perfil digital que en su propia existencia. Con un estilo directo y emotivo, Elías Pérez nos plasma a través de Aguas Mil, un relato cargado de intriga y actualidad, con las tecnologías y nuestros sentimientos más primitivos como protagonistas. Una escucha trepidante, que dejará el camino abierto a la reflexión tras su escucha.

For a thousand years, Doro has cultivated a small African village, carefully breeding its people in search of seemingly unattainable perfection. He survives through the centuries by stealing the bodies of others, a technique he has so thoroughly mastered that nothing on Earth can kill him. But when a gang of New World slavers destroys his village, ruining his grand experiment, Doro is forced to go west and begin anew. He meets Anyanwu, a centuries-old woman whose means of immortality are as kind as his are cruel. Now they begin a struggle that will last centuries.

Against his will, Thaden was transported elsewhere in a big flash of light along with millions of other Humans from Earth, to a place where they would train to become Contenders in a whole new world. Unfortunately for him, something occurred during his transference into the “Training” program, and he was ejected from the whole training process and sent into the open mouth of an active volcano for bodily disposal.

The tale of a fallen love, Jack has lived a quite normal 16 years of life doing the least just to get by in school. No real friends besides his mother and father. But his simple, nonchalant life would change when he would go and help a beautiful young woman. His helpful nature would get him into a lot of trouble and we will see if pain will ruin a kind smile. This story was not written for the mass public or even for me but a story that was written for the story itself unlike every other story these

Before you knew him as the king or the Immortal, he was Commander Xavier “X” Rodriguez—with ninety-six dives under his belt, the most experienced Hell Diver on the airship known as the Hive. Time after time, he dived through the electrical storms, returning with parts to keep his home in the sky. Then, on a jump into Hades, the most hostile environment in North America, he sacrificed everything for mission and team. They returned to the airship with the fuel cells needed to keep the Hive running, but X was left behind.