Resultados para "Rara" en Ciencia ficción y fantasía

Exclusive to Audio! Somewhere amongst the shadowy stacks and the many basements of the British library, something is very much amiss - and we're not talking late returns here. Is it a ghost, or something much worse? PC Peter Grant really isn't looking forward to finding out....

Waldo Packwood has had a rough time of things lately. He's lost his job, his friends, and finally his family. At 50 years old, he's living alone in a small apartment wondering what's happened to his life. He's unexpectedly asked to travel to Hector 1, a lone asteroid in the Jupiter Trojans, to investigate the missing crew. His trip is a struggle from the beginning, as he discovers more about those around him and what they're willing to do to keep Hector 1 to themselves.

Alan Medas ha trent’anni, è un geologo e trascorre la vita sulle miniere tra Africa e Asia, faticando a mantenere le relazioni. Il mondo, da cui lui rimane scollegato per lunghi periodi, viene scosso da una notizia clamorosa: una nuova risorsa alimentare miracolosa è stata appena scoperta. Si tratta di un’alga dalle qualità eccezionali battezzata Narciso. In pochi anni le disparità economiche vengono livellate e i governi collaborano in un’utopia di pacifismo globale senza precedenti.

In a world of Corporate Food Gods and famed Buttersmiths, the disgraced ex-captain of the Lionsguard, Sir Bullstein, joins forces with manipulative bard One-Eyed Beverly on a morally gray job for coin. Their mission? To slay the absolute moron who disrupted famished and wrathful King Reggie's breakfast. Instead of earning easy jimmy-nickels, the party uncovers a deeper, more sinister, and far less trivial danger to the flourishing land of Jimmyville... one they are not at all suited to deal with.

Beautiful. Magnificent. Indestructible. These are the plaudits given to the luxury space liner as it sets forth on its maiden voyage to distant vacation planets. Onboard, far below the decks of the rich and famous, is an unhappy, forlorn janitor named Chuck who mops and sweeps and dreams of, one day, becoming a captain and piloting a great spaceship such as this.

A trip to a war zone to rescue trapped archaeologists finds the S-Squad in a remote desert region of lost cities and temples. They quickly discover that they are not alone among the ruins. First they find the bodies, then they find the webs, then they're in real trouble when the spiders attack.

Lowah, Alaska was a quiet, little town in the middle of nowhere—until workers sent by an American corporation arrived to reopen its long closed mine. Protests erupted, but they were nothing to what was coming next. No one knew the Sasquatch tribes in the woods surrounding the town had claimed the mine as their own until it was too late.

"Major Tom" Corbett has come home–but it is a very different world than he left behind. His life-pod has touched-down into the middle of a nautical war, as massive mega-tooth sharks clash with gigantic reptilian sea-monsters–a conflict that spreads as giant prehistoric alpha-predators struggle for ultimate dominance on both land and sea.

Brave New World remains startlingly relevant, offering a profound warning about the dangers of convenience without conscience, pleasure without purpose, and a society willing to sacrifice its humanity for the illusion of peace. It is a timeless meditation on what it means to feel deeply, think freely, and resist a world determined to design every aspect of existence.

Mount Aire is a secluded enclave on the Kenai Peninsula where folks do their best to live quiet lives away from the chaos of civilization. The town’s peace is shattered when a musher is killed during the annual Terimore 200 sled dog race, and signs of a strange creature are found at the murder scene. Murmurs recalling the year of the beast percolate through town. Six years ago, three died, five the cycle before that.

Throughout history, the dream of creating a superior race—whether physically, intellectually, socially, or economically—has tempted the bold and the reckless. Once every century, a man consumed by a God complex dares to turn that dream into reality. The year 1930 saw such a man, and the devastating legacy still haunts us today. Now, 2030 looms with the promise—and peril—of another.

As an FBI agent, I kick ass. As a psychic FBI agent, I always get the bad guy—until I'm assigned a Dracula copycat case that bites back. Getting my man this time means entering a mysterious underworld where, not every serial killer is human, not every case can be solved, and not everyone can survive.

Abigail Argent stands out. Some people notice that she always wears gloves and shudder when they know why. The ones who know her best notice her ability with metal. Abigail's particular talent lies in the coloring of alloys, for seeing the beauty in a plain piece of metal and being able to draw it out. Her study leads her to discover a connection between her own craft and that of her favorite childhood myth: changing lead into gold.

Eliazar est un bel oiseau, épris de liberté, qui voyage à travers le monde. Lorsqu'il rencontre Rosy, immédiatement son cœur s'emballe, mais celle-ci n'a jamais appris à voler. Et si l'amour donnait des ailes ? Découvre cette belle aventure en musique et évade-toi le temps d'un conte...

Imani has always wanted to be just member of her herd but with her overbearing matriarch mother and grandmother; she's never been given much of a chance. When Imani accepts a job several states away from the rest of her family the only thing on her mind is proving that she can be independent and more than just a breeder for the Herd.

Stormy Morgan is getting her life back together one step at a time. That includes reconnecting with her lost love Hunter Ryan and fixing the credit problems she found herself mired in thanks to some poor decisions while traveling. She’s also a witch, and that adjustment proves harder to make than she envisioned. Stormy is a strong woman determined to make the best of a bad situation. Her hellcat powers are starting to take over, though.

A thrilling horror short collection by Washington-based, emerging author Clay Vermulm. This collection of supernatural, paranormal, and cryptid tales will intrude upon your waking thoughts and disturb your sleep.

A Martian soldier in the 1897 invasion realizes her mission is not a peaceful one and is forced to take horrific action.

What if War of the Worlds wasn't the whole story? What if the Martians had help...human help? In an alternate 1887 England, mysterious little cylinders have been landing in the countryside for a generation, hidden in meteor showers. During that same time, incredible advances have occurred in aeronautics, weaponry, robotics, and genetics. Coincidence? Or are shadowy groups preparing Earth for a terrible fate?

The story of A Christmas Carol, re-told from the unsettling perspective of Tiny Tim. Forget what you know of the original tale. Here, Marley's ghost visits Tiny Tim first.