Resultados para "Noir" en Ciencia ficción

A fresh-faced newcomer arrives in an isolated, gang-run town and soon finds herself taking a job nobody else wants: bodyguard to a ghoul. Not just your average mindless, half-rotted shuffler, though. Lucille is a dancer who can still put on her own lipstick and whose shows are half burlesque, half gladiator match. But the stranger is no stranger to this particular ghoul. Both women are undercover in their own way. And both have something to lose if their connection comes to light.

À la requête de Simon Ford, ancien contremaître des houillères d'Aberfoyle, en Écosse, l'ingénieur James Starr en reprend l'exploitation. Un nouveau filon est découvert, permettant une reprise fructueuse de l'exploitation et entraînant la création d'une véritable « ville » minière sous la surface de la terre : Coal-City.

Norman Spindle: CEO. Business guru. Secret mortal enemy. Lance Zoom must stop the mad tycoon from taking over ZoomCorp—unfortunately, spreadsheets creep him out. It falls to Layla Zoom to call in the cavalry. Or in this case, the twelve-year-old. In this warped introduction to the Zoom Universe, a hero will rise, a dark heart will be kindled, and the family toaster will be in dire peril. Hey, business meetings are tough.

Cinq ans après l’apparition d’un virus implacable, la « Veuve Noire », qui n’a frappé que les hommes, le dernier mâle sur Terre rend l’âme. Le monde bascule dans un après aux contours inédits. Entre le vertige du deuil et l’urgence de réinventer le quotidien, les règles se renversent et les imaginaires s’ouvrent. Quels héritages garder, quelles alliances tisser, quels rêves oser quand la moitié de l’humanité a disparu?

Murder Beyond the Milky way earns every word of its five-star reviews. It takes the hard-boiled noir detective tradition and transplants it into the outer reaches of space. On the most isolated planet in the explored universe an elite member of one of the five corporations that control all of...

A handsome Lyran diplomat wants to marry me and will not take "no" for an answer. Of course, he is a tall, muscular, and jaguar-like god of a man, but I’m not ready to give up my freedom in the galaxy. However, I can do dinner. He says he has two surprises for me. I am human. I am curious.

Aliens say humans shouldn’t be so curious. But I want to know what Agnorrians are. Male, female, both, or neither? I can hardly turn down an opportunity to spend some intimate time with a beautiful Agnorrian royal when asked. I know people say Agnorrians are hazardous to humans, but how can a species that is so perfectly made be dangerous? Each story will describe a night in the life of one human woman and an alien. My stories are for open-minded science fiction fans, contain scenes of a sexual nature, and end as realistically as they begin.

If being my wife was something galactic women could apply for, they’d happily die for the opportunity. I am a Lyran Metamorph god. I am the god of night. Shockingly, this human female only wants to return to Earth. I fear she will not pass the three challenges to become my wife. I must woo her and inspire her. This human must succeed. If she fails, we both die. Our destinies are intertwined. We must be victorious.

Brent Spiner's explosive and hilarious novel is a personal look at the slightly askew relationship between a celebrity and his fans. If the Coen Brothers were to make a Star Trek movie, involving the complexity of fan obsession and sci-fi, this noir comedy might just be the one. Set in 1991...

In den dunklen Tiefen der Galaxis, wo die Konsularische Hegemonie und das Triarchat von Vaylen einen fragilen Frieden wahren, wartet ein Geheimnis, das die Zukunft aller Spezies verändern könnte. Als Überlebender einer Mission, die nie hätte scheitern dürfen, stehst du vor einer Wahrheit, die dein gesamtes Dasein infrage stellt. Deine Entscheidungen bestimmen nicht nur dein eigenes Schicksal–sie werden über den Verlauf der Geschichte der ganzen Galaxis entscheiden. Wirst du zum unerbittlichen Gesetzlosen, der seinen eigenen Regeln folgt?

WELCOME TO NIGHT CITY. THE CITY OF DREAMS. IF IT HASN'T CHANGED YOU YET, IT WILL . . . AND IF IT DOESN'T KILL YOU, YOU MIGHT COME OUT THE OTHER SIDE AS A LIVING LEGEND. In neon-drenched Night City, a ragtag group of strangers have just pulled off a heist, robbing a convoy transporting a...

The Global Alliance for Intelligent Arbitration (a.k.a. GAIA) was meant to steer mankind away from real-world warfare, giving nations a VR platform where both diplomacy and combat could be conducted without further harm to the planet or themselves. What it's also done, however, is give Omala's ex, Rex, a robust system he can copy, dress up, and monetize. If she wants to preserve her legacy for their daughter, Omala will have to step up to the battle prepared. All that stands between her and victory is Rex's new wife, the devious Johanna Tieg.

LONDON 2027. Terrorists deploy a highly sophisticated nerve agent called London Black at Waterloo station - for an unfortunate section of the population, what follows is agonising physical deterioration and usually death. LONDON 2029. DI Lucy Stone is called in to investigate the gruesome murder...

Everything comes crashing down on Detective Zach Forrest when a rampaging cyborg attacks him, disrupting his investigation into the death of a lowly thumper club doorman who knew too much. Before he can determine his next move, a beautiful, mysterious evidence clerk lands on his doorstep. Meanwhile, to combat the rapidly increasing number of cybernetically enhanced criminals, the police chief assigns him the difficult task of tracking down and stopping the street doctors who build the abominations at any cost.

December, 1933. The city that cannot sleep, where cartels and mobsters go bump in the night. Manhattan's delicate peace is broken when four politicians in the pocket of America's reigning megacorporation are murdered at the Edison Hotel, dispatched by an unknown assassin wielding a rare and unique weapon. The NYPD calls upon the only man for the job: Elias Roche, the Nightcaller.

Adam Rubenstein and Sunil Rao have been nemeses and reluctant partners since their Uzbekistan days. Adam is a seemingly unflappable American Intelligence officer and Rao is an ex-Mi6 agent, an addict and rudderless pleasure hound, with the uncanny ability to discern the truth of things—about everyone and everything other than Adam. When an American diner turns up in a foggy field in the UK and is followed by a mysterious death, Adam and Rao are called in to investigate. 

Four days before Christmas, eight-year-old Bo loses his mother in a tragic accident, twenty-eight-year-old Brandon loses his job after a hostile takeover of his big-media employer, and forty-eight-year-old Blue, a key witness in a criminal trial against an infamous now-defunct tech startup, struggles to reconnect with his family. So begins Jinwoo Chong's dazzling time-bending debut that blends elements of neo-noir and speculative fiction as the lives of Bo, Brandon, and Blue begin to intersect, uncovering a network of secrets and an experimental technology that threatens to upend life itself.

Santana Sokolov - John "Dick" Chambers' client and a woman he wouldn't mind getting to know much better. Well, if her opinion of him wasn't already so low, it had to look up to see the bottom of her boots. His case is moving forward, but for every two steps forward, it seems someone is trying to kill him. That gets annoying after a while. Make a little head-way, dodge bullets, get into a fight, run for your life. Wash, rinse, repeat. Atlantica isn't giving up her secrets easily, and others are now playing in the game. 

Le gouverneur poussa un cri désespéré et se jeta sur son arme. L'homme des collines passa à l'action avec la vitesse dévastatrice d'un ouragan.Il bondit, envoya le gouverneur rouler à terre d'un puissant coup du pommeau de son poignard, saisit la Devi sous un bras puissant et bondit vers la fenêtre. Chunder Shan fit des efforts frénétiques pour se relever et vit l'homme rester un instant en équilibre sur le rebord de la fenêtre, dans une volée des habits de soie et des membres blancs de sa captive royale.

In un piccolo paese dell'isola la gente comincia a morire, lanciandosi da balconi e scarpate: nessuno ha un motivo apparente, ma tutti un vago sorriso. I casi ormai non si contano più e la stampa internazionale si riversa nella cittadina per documentare gli eventi. Quando, nel timore di un'epidemia planetaria, si spegnerà il faro dell'attenzione, gli abitanti resteranno soli e prigionieri a sprofondare nel regno delle ombre. Non soli del tutto, però. È rimasto in paese uno scrittore di gialli per affrontare il mistero di quei suicidi felici.