Resultados para "Parallel" en Literatura de género

Charles Vas, il protagonista di "Mondo parallelo" è un tipo alquanto bizzarro e molto sognatore che vede la propria vita cambiare di colpo senza quasi rendersene conto. Per caso si ritrova coinvolto in una missione che lo porterà a varcare il confine tra realtà e fantasia alla ricerca di una misteriosa scatola magica catapultando l'ascoltatore in una nuova visione del mondo e della sua concezione. Lungo il suo percorso incontrerà personaggi reali e irreali che lo condurranno a scoprire il suo destino ma è davvero lui il prescelto?

Get ready for a wild ride through an alternate universe of music in Rock & Roll Nightmares: Parallel Lines. These short stories, written by award-winning and bestselling authors, cover everything from hilarious antics to deep reflections, all set in a music world that's not quite what you remember. What ties them together? Each tale takes a real rock star's story and spins it in a whole new direction.

Three unusual men are at the heart of Parallel Stories: Hans von Wolkenstein, whose German mother is linked to secrets of fascist-Nazi collaboration during the 1940s; Ágost Lippay Lehr, whose influential father has served Hungary’s different political regimes for decades; and András Rott, who has his own dark record of mysterious activities abroad. The web of extended and interconnected dramas reaches from 1989 back to the spring of 1939, when Europe trembled on the edge of war.

The survivor writing to us is an empathic 18-year-old named Tommy. He’s been sealed in a three-acre biosphere with just one other person, and the outside world has been radio-silent for the three years of their enclosure. Tommy is in telepathic contact with someone living during our time who may hold the key to an evolutionary metamorphosis. The journals, entitled Parallel Journeys, have been sent back in time to inspire you to create your own metamorphic butterfly effects to help our species avoid extinction and survive in a new form.

In urgent need of repair, the Mary May finds herself forced to flee across dangerous worlds that promise to end their search for home. With no other choice but to flee through the dimensions to save the Mary May, with her engines on the verge of giving up and in search of safe harbour, the crew navigate worlds ravaged by war whilst fighting off space choked with shattered junk intent on destroying them. With the engines eventually repaired, rather than continuing the search for their home, they respond to a call for a good samaritan.

Margarita didn't live her pregnancy like it was a gift from the heavens. Locked up in a conformist society in Athens, she can't breathe. One day, she decides to leave everything behind to become a writer. In Paris where she now lives, she must deal with the fact that she abandoned Maria (Massa), her daughter, to be able to write. Meanwhile, Massa creates the image of her mother, through stories that she imagines. This book, Parallel Worlds, is the place where they meet.

Two women. Two worlds. One goal: to stay alive. Neither woman had "run for my life" on their to-do list, but you don’t always get what you want.

A group of explorers and scientists discover a hidden island in the Bermuda Triangle which holds the secrets to the origin of man. They also encounter a mute race of missing links who love to dance, and the first Tyrannosaurus Rex. That's all you need to know really.

A misguided time travel experiment in the 25th century fans out to impact hundreds of parallel universes. Heinrich Schloss had arrived at Berlin's Tempelhof airport in 1982 to pick up his wife. After a brief migraine-like spasm, he opened his eyes to Tempelhof in 1941 to witness Hitler's death in an airplane accident. A history professor who had grown up in a divided Berlin was now a party chieftain in Nazi Germany. All those speculative conversations around the table with colleagues about what could have been changed to avoid the fall of Germany now had immediacy.

In a parallel universe where humanity's destiny is shaped by two enigmatic ancient texts, the very fabric of society is woven through the intricate threads of these scriptures. One book, steeped in mystique, bequeaths godlike dominion to a chosen leader, conferring upon them the ability to shape the fate of nations. The other tome narrates the profound saga of the Creator and his plans, sparking profound questions about existence and purpose.

In a world where scientists have become the new superstars, Rick Hamilton, once a celebrated rock icon, has lost his passion for music amid the clamor of shallow fame. One night, in a haze of disillusionment, a portal from a parallel universe brings back his long-lost college roommate, Andy. The visitation offers Rick a chance to explore a reality where his life took a different turn.

Travis had always been a confident man, but everything changed when, stripped of his memories, he found himself naked and surrounded in a time long gone. When a chance encounter gave him hope that he might not be the only one in the same tragic predicament, he took control.

Tony Danials has lived with regret for most of his life. He never told Mark how he really felt. He watched him marry someone else. He stayed quiet. Now, years later, with nothing left but memories, Tony wakes up in a world that shouldn’t exist. In this reality, he’s younger. Stronger. And somehow, he’s married to Mark. The house, the photos, the life they share, it all feels real. But Tony remembers another version of things. One where Mark died. One where the love between them never had a chance. Now he’s caught between two truths, and the line between memory and reality keeps shifting.

The entire nation groaned as the man once again backed his tires against the curb.

After a failed suicide, Silas Silverleaf awakens in a parallel universe where he never existed. Faced with impending destruction, he discovers love, purpose, and redemption in the gripping sci-fi mystery.

When Lily, a little girl with psychic abilities, is terrorized by Shadow People, she and her family seek the help of experienced psychic medium Edith MacKenzie. Together they navigate portals, vortexes, time travel, and encounter Ancient Egyptian Gods who help them open a Stargate to rid the Earth of a dark entity brought forth by a military experiment gone terribly wrong.

Longlisted for The Center for Fiction 2022 First Novel Prize A “poignantly rendered and illuminating” (The Washington Post) coming-of-age story about “the ways in which family, grief, love, queerness, and vulnerability all intersect” (Kristen Arnett, New York Times bestselling author)...

Celestial beings and human witches clash for the future of the human and fairy worlds in Paul Cornell's Last Stand in Lychford. There are changes in the air, both in Lychford and in the land of fairy. The magical protections previously employed by the town are gone, and the forces of darkness...