Resultados para "Nemesis" en Literatura y ficción

Por primera vez en español. La serie "La Leyenda del Pueblo del Hielo" ya ha cautivado a 40 millones de lectores en todo el mundo. Con el clan del Pueblo del Hielo disperso por Noruega y Dinamarca, sus vidas traen nuevas alegrías ­–y nuevos peligros­–. Cuando el joven Tancredo, bisnieto de Tengel el Bueno, emprende su primera aventura, se ve arrastrado a una pesadilla de engaño y un asesinato. ¿Podría ser real? Aquí conoce a Jessica, una joven noble, quuien podría ser su salvación. Pero está obsesionada por la maldad y la locura de la familia que debía protegerla.

La quinta entrega de la saga superventas en la que se basa la serie de TV The Expanse. Se han abierto miles de mundos y se ha desatado la mayor fiebre por ocupar el territorio de la historia de la humanidad. A medida que los colonos se marchan en oleadas sucesivas, las estructuras de poder del viejo Sistema Solar comienzan a ceder. Las naves desaparecen sin dejar rastro. De manera clandestina, han empezado a formarse ejércitos privados. Alguien ha robado la única muestra de la protomolécula.

From the ashes of a devastated Boston, a harrowing legend emerges. Thirteen years prior, the colossal kaiju, Nemesis, ravaged the city in her relentless pursuit of retribution. Today, mankind's survival teeters on the sacrificial offerings atop a chilling monolith known as The Altar, where the condemned pay the ultimate price to prevent Nemesis's wrath from consuming humanity.

"Nemesis" was first published in the March 1950 issue of Super Science Stories. Sir Arthur C. Clarke (1917-2008) is regarded as one of the most-influential science fiction writers of all time. He was named a Grand Master by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, and was inducted into the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame.

Between the fall of man and the arrival of the JFK, the Horn of Africa is a battleground. Salvation. Vengeance. Vanity.

Villainy has a new face. With the Voy recently dispatched, Daniel Hunt and the rest of the Pack think they have a moment of reprieve from the madness. They would be wrong. A stranger from the future comes with a story so wild it's hard to deny. If this wasn't enough, a new Relic is introduced onto the field. Every faction will do whatever it takes to claim it as their own.

In a great English house, a young woman offers herself to one of the most powerful and influential figures in the land - but this is no ordinary seduction. She plans to ensure his death.... On holiday in France, Professor Tom Wilde discovers his brilliant student Marcus Marfield, who disappeared two years earlier to join the International Brigades in Spain, in the Le Vernet concentration camp in the foothills of the Pyrenees. Wilde secures his release just as German tanks roll into Poland. Meanwhile, a U-boat sinks the liner Athenia in the Atlantic with many casualties....

En el «calor sofocante de la Newark ecuatorial» una espantosa epidemia causa estragos y amenaza con dejar a los niños de la ciudad de Nueva Jersey mutilados, paralizados, o minusválidos, e incluso con matarlos. Este es el sorprendente tema de la nueva y desgarradora obra de Roth: una epidemia de polio que tiene lugar en un tiempo de guerra, el verano de 1944, y sus efectos sobre la comunidad de Newark, regida por la cohesión y los valores de la familia, y sobre sus niños.

Pesadillas de Quentin han plagado a Claudia desde que trató de forzarla a demos con él para siempre, pero esta nueva premonición de su muerte es diferente...y más de lo que puede manejar. Con toda la determinación que puede reunir, Claudia se dirige al mundo alienígena buscando Q y todas las respuestas que seguramente encontrará con él. Las cosas se complican una vez más con el regreso de John Slater. Es un hombre con un objetivo: salvar a su chica. ¿Será capaz de convencerla de que todo lo que ha hecho ha sido con sus mejores intereses en el corazón?

Humans from the inner planets and robots from the outer planets have engaged in a planetary war in which no side won. Both sides have retreated to their respective zones, searching for a superweapon that will allow them to annihilate the other. Robots believe they have a plan and only one man can stop them.

When a kidnapping attempt on the Mage-Queen of Mars is thwarted by luck, leaving thousands dead in its wake, Prince-Chancellor Damien Montgomery returns to field operations one more time. The evidence leads to one place: Tau Ceti. In Tau Ceti, Mage-Commander Roslyn Chambers finds herself without a posting as her teaching tour ends. Before she can take any kind of vacation, an old friend from her pre-Navy days shows up claiming to have information about the attempt on the Queen.

Can a desperate young lady return a rakish earl to respectability? When Miss Margaret Caldecourt returns to her ancestral English country manor from Vienna to care for her late brother’s six-year-old son and heir, Timothy, she learns that unscrupulous relatives threaten his birthright. Immediately she seeks help from her childhood friend and Timothy’s newly named guardian, the handsome Adam Fortescue, sixth Earl of Abberley.

Nemesis Hunt is a British actress who is willing to do anything to be cast in a play. She finds that the best way to get a good part is to seduce important people in the theatrical world. Their ages and gender did not matter to her. As long as they could “perform,” and help her career, she is quite willing to offer her sexual favors.