Resultados para "Sand" en Ciencia ficción

For the first time ever in audio! GraphicAudio and Brandon Sanderson are proud to present WHITE SAND produced with a full cast of actors, immersive sound effects and cinematic music. On the planet of Taldain, the legendary Sand Masters harness arcane powers to manipulate sand in spectacular ways...

So I just found out that Sargo has been abducted to a city eight thousand miles across the Salt. Which means if I ever want to see him again (which I'm pretty sure I do) I'm gonna have to embark on a treacherous voyage to get him back . . . alone. Dangerous? Yes. Insane? Definitely. Necessary? Well, I'm pretty sure I'm falling in love with the guy, so . . . yeah. The problem is, I'm still a massive asshole and I haven't really gotten over this drinking thing. And there might be a teleporter inside my head. Oh, and I still don't know how to sail.

“Hugh’s imaginative worlds and tales within them never fail to entertain!” —Andy Weir, New York Times bestselling author of Project Hail Mary The first original novel from author Hugh Howey in six years, Across the Sand takes us back to the world of Sand, to a far future many generations...

Liv wants only one thing: to save her sick father from death. A clue leads her to an alchemist from a bygone era – Fabien Gurgotte. Together, they hatch a plan to travel from Berlin to Hamburg to track down the alchemist Fabien Gurgotte. However, shortly after arriving in the Hanseatic city, Liv disappears without a trace. Will Adrian succeed in overcoming the dangers of modernity and reaching Liv? Can they track down the missing alchemist in time?

No longer nameless or alone, Tate has put down roots in the city of Aurelia. She's found a home, friends, and a misfit family. When an assassination attempt leads to a dangerous loss of control over her dragon, Tate is sent to the farthest reaches of the empire on a mission she can't refuse. It isn't long before Tate stumbles into her usual brand of trouble. Kidnapped and separated from her closest allies, Tate will have to find a way to survive old enemies and new acquaintances.

Wrimmad City, the largest settlement on the remote island of Botzis, is in many ways a low technology backwater fishing village, but for one detail: it boasts the seat of Unitism, the world’s second-largest religious order. Polister Calidon, the leader of that order, has lived a politically complicated but otherwise decently tranquil existence, up until the day an old friend shows up at his door. The friend, Professor Damid Magly, and his companion, Princess Battine Alconnot, are fleeing an international warrant, and demand sanctuary.

In a futuristic world where Earth faces an unprecedented threat, a fierce war breaks out between humans and giants from a distant alien planet. In an epic struggle for survival, the fates of heroes and villains intertwine, and tensions rise to unprecedented levels.

Fred Cassidy leads an idyllic life. As long as he remains a full time college student without a degree, he is provided a very generous stipend from his uncle's estate. But after thirteen years of happy undergrad existence everything is about to change. Cassidy's home is broken into and ransacked. When he enters he is assaulted by a former professor wanting to know where the alien artifact known as the star stone is. Cassidy manages to escape, only to discover that he is also being pursued by hired criminals, Anglophile zealots, government agents, and aliens.

In a futuristic world where Earth faces an unprecedented threat, a fierce war breaks out between humans and giants from a distant alien planet. In an epic struggle for survival, the fates of heroes and villains intertwine, and tensions rise to unprecedented levels.

It is April 1964 in a World in which the swinging sixties never happened. Two Soviet tank armies have fallen on Iran and are poised to pour down from the Zagros Mountains onto the Iraqi floodplains of the Tigris and the Euphrates like wolves upon the fold. The Shah is dead, Tehran has been destroyed by a nuclear strike; while in Iraq there has been a coup d'état, and civil war has broken out. All that stands between the Red Army and mastery of the Persian Gulf are a few dozen British tanks and penny packets of troops.

"1.1.4.MD.LC. Im Auge ist mein Name nur eine Aneinanderreihung von Zahlen und Buchstaben." Als Maeve der Geheimorganisation „Das Auge“ beitritt, welche die Menschheit vor Angriffen durch Außerirdische schützt, glaubt sie, endlich das Rätsel um das Verschwinden ihrer Mutter lösen zu können. Denn dass der Stein, den sie ihr hinterlassen hat, angeblich ausgerechnet aus außerirdischer Materie besteht, kann kein Zufall sein. Doch Maeve hat nicht mit den strengen Hierarchien im Auge gerechnet – und auch nicht, dass ihr Ausbilder Lorcan ungeahnte Gefühle in ihr weckt, die sie beide in Gefahr bringen können.

“...Riveting and frighteningly plausible.” — Kirkus Reviews “…Supremely intense and fantastically imaginative….” — Readers’ Favorite What would you do if you lived in a near-future United States of America in which the President has declared weekend minority culling "Passes"...

On a alien shore on a far distant world two space explorers find dozens of huge, mysterious sandcastles. Where did they come from? Who built them? And will the men survive long enough to discover the answers? Castles Made of Sand is a short story. It has been published twice, originally in the ezine AlienSkin in 2007, and then as a reprint in the e/print magazine Aoife's Kiss in the December 2009 issue.

Im Jahre 1363 gerät Adrian in die Fänge des Raubritters Roland von Eichenthurm. Gezwungen, ihm untertan zu sein, mausert sich Adrian zu von Eichenthurms bestem Kämpfer. Er wird zum Hüter eines Geheimnisses, dass sich inmitten der Straßen Berlins verbirgt und das Mittelalter mit der Moderne verbindet. Im heutigen Berlin wird Liv auf einen jungen Mann aufmerksam, der ihr seltsam bekannt erscheint. Heimlich folgt sie ihm. Auf einmal findet sie sich im Berlin des 14. Jahrhunderts wieder.

After crash-landing on an unfamiliar desert planet, an all-female bounty hunter crew is rescued by a gorgeous, telepathic alien race of barbarians. And while the natives of the sand planet vow to help the females return to space, the barbarians can’t fight their attraction to the fascinating women. Marooned on a sand planet, injured, and separated from her crew, Captain Danica Miller is not having a good day. When she’s rescued from the desert by a huge, gold-skinned alien, she doesn’t know whether to be relieved or to panic.

In a post-apocalyptic world, the young healer Snake ventures into unknown lands during her proving year. Her genetically engineered rattlesnake and cobra provide vaccines and medicines, while the rare alien dreamsnake eases pain and suffering. Of Mist, and Grass, and Sand won SFWA's Nebula Award. It is the first chapter of Dreamsnake, which won the Nebula, the Hugo, the Locus, and the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award.

Meet Z—a genetically enhanced planet scout with a secret. His disgraced, deceased father didn’t just pioneer the tech used on other scouts; he created the nanites flowing through Z’s veins, granting him near-immortality. Z’s mission was simple: land on his assigned planet, declare it unfit for colonization, and disappear into a peaceful exile—alone and far from the mess humanity left behind. But the universe, as usual, didn’t care about his plans. Instead of a barren world, Z crash-lands on a lush, seemingly primitive one—populated by humans.

The Dusahn Empire has been contained for the moment. But there is much work to be done in order to keep them from reasserting their dominance over the Pentaurus sector. As much as Captain Scott wants to see the Empire destroyed, he may have no choice but to find a way to coexist with them.

Lo último que Susie esperaba en la mañana después del apocalipsis eran sandías. Lo último que Na'ima esperaba era viajar a Marte. Pero, ¿Habrá Sandías en Marte?

The old world is buried. A new one has been forged atop the shifting dunes. Here in this land of howling wind and infernal sand, four siblings find themselves scattered and lost. Their father was a sand diver, one of the elite few who could travel deep beneath the desert floor and bring up the...