Resultados para "Silence" en Ciencia ficción y fantasía

Not all prisons are made of stone. For nineteen years, Nox Duma has been a pawn to the Veridian Empire's most ruthless tyrant, a man who tortures his own kind with cruel magical experiments. Haunted by the sister still trapped under this tyrant's control, Nox struggles to lead a secret...

Une mission d’exploration ordinaire. Un système stellaire qui n’aurait jamais dû exister. Et une survie dont personne ne comprend encore le prix. Lorsque le vaisseau d’exploration Niña est envoyé au-delà de l’espace cartographié, l’équipage s’attend à une mission de routine. Collecter des données. Observer. Revenir. Mais quelque chose cloche. Les instruments réagissent de manière incohérente. Les trajectoires ne suivent plus les lois connues. Et une présence diffuse semble hanter le vide entre les étoiles.

From USA Today bestselling author Nghi Vo comes a beautiful new tale in the Hugo Award-winning Singing Hills Cycle. Every story begins somewhere. On the banks of the Ya-lé River, the town of Luntien gathers to celebrate the start of the rainy season, but the celebration is marred by the arrival...

Juniper Smith always dreamed of attending a magic college. Now he's enrolled at the Athenaeum of Sound and Silence, where students learn to bend velocity and freeze motion itself. There's just one catch: he's there as a government operative, hunting threats that lurk in the shadows between lectures.

Millions of listeners worldwide have treasured the visionary brilliance of Carlos Castaneda, who first explore the world of the Yaqui Indian sorcerer in The Teachings of Don Juan. Now, at last, Don Juan returns in The Power of Silence - wise, infuriating, capable or working miracles and playing practical jokes, but always seeking the wisdom of the warrior. The Power of Silence is Castaneda's most astonishing book to date - a brilliant flash of knowledge that illuminates the far reaches of the human mind. 

The final Queen rises, When the threat of the Void reaches Coruscis, Naia Colvari finds herself thrust into the middle of a war she didn’t believe even existed…until it showed up on her doorstep. With not only her own fate, but that of the very world, in jeopardy, she must find a way to survive, and win, at any cost. and darkness descends… The perfect assassin, unfeeling and unquestioning, Damian Valessos had never challenged an order. Never once had he failed to claim a target —not until the sharp-tongued Queen of Coruscis entered his life.

Ein abgelegenes Städtchen. Seltsame Bewohner. Ein uraltes Geheimnis, das im Schatten lauert. Auf einer Zugreise strandet ein junger Mann in einer verschlafenen französischen Provinzstadt. Was zunächst wie ein harmloser Zwischenstopp erscheint, entwickelt sich rasch zu einer verstörenden Begegnung mit dem Unbegreiflichen.

Dr. John Silence ist ein Arzt für „besondere" Fälle. Eines Tages erhält er den Hilferuf eines Komödianten, der auf mysteriöse Weise seinen Sinn für Humor verloren hat und glaubt, nicht „allein" im Haus zu sein. Algernon Blackwood ist ein Meister seines Fachs.

2095. Dans un monde anesthésié par les épidémies, les femmes, devenues rares et donc précieuses, gouvernent désormais l'ensemble des cités survivantes. Le système a été entièrement réinventé : qu'il s'agisse de votre catégorie sociale, de votre mariage, ou même de votre prénom, tout est imposé.

Teenager Staci's father has just remarried, and now she finds herself being shunted aside by her new stepmother. Shunted all the way to the run-down and dying Maine town of Silence, in fact, and the custody of her alcoholic mother. It gets worse. Silence seems to be stuck in the proverbial stone age. There's no cell phone service except at the very top of a bluff outside of town, no internet except dial-up, and not one familiar franchise or business. 

After her girlfriend breaks up with her for being too emotionally stifled, Jo Miller is trying to become more expressive. But then her boss calls her into his office for a private meeting and sexually assaults her. His parting words are, “you won't want to talk about this Jo. You think you do now, but trust me, you won’t.” Jo had been ready to go straight to the police, but every time she tries to talk about what happened, live insects crawl up her throat and into her mouth. 

Jerry Jenkins has been presented with such awards as the Christy Award and the Platinum Book Award from the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association. The number one New York Times best-selling author of the Left Behind Series picks up where his momentous novel Soon ended. Silenced continues the futuristic story of double-agent Paul Stephola. Following World War III, religion has been banned. Although a believer, Paul alsoworks for the government agency responsible for persecuting Christians.

In the darkness of an underground cave, blind creatures hunt by sound. Then there is light, voices, and they feed.... Swarming from their prison, the creatures thrive; to whisper is to summon death. As the hordes lay waste to Europe, a girl watches to see if they will cross the sea. Deaf for years, she knows how to live in silence; now it is her family's only chance of survival. To leave their home, to shun others. But what kind of world will be left?

Sul pianeta sbagliato, ma al momento giusto e per le ragioni migliori, Hadrian Marlowe intraprende una strada che non può che finire nel sangue. Fuggendo dal padre e da un futuro come torturatore, si ritrova bloccato su un mondo arretrato e bizzarro. Costretto a combattere come gladiatore e a destreggiarsi fra gli intrighi di una corte planetaria straniera, viene coinvolto in una guerra che non ha iniziato lui, per un Impero che non ama, contro un nemico che non potrà mai capire.

Hadrian Marlowe, privileged first son of a Duke, was destined for greatness, and he has become a legend. The Sun-Slayer. The Breaker of Sieges. The Crusher of Civilisations. His is a story which defined the course of worlds. This novel is not that story - not the only laid out in the history books, charting the 300 years of his life. Rather this is Hadrian's story, told in his own worlds.

Upon returning to Valia after his journey to Caelford and the Unclaimed Lands, Corin Cadence is confronted with a familiar foe—his own father. While his strength has vastly increased since his last encounter with Magnus Cadence, Corin knows that he’ll need every trick at his disposal—and maybe a few new ones—if he wants to survive a duel with his father intact. While Corin struggles with his family, his friends must face a second year at Lorian Heights with new classes, familiar but new chancellor, and deadly new enemies both on and off the campus.

Un vaisseau pas comme les autres. Un équipage inoubliable. Un univers fantastique. Un conflit qui renaît de ses cendres... La situation est critique pour Ani et l'équipage de la Maraudeuse : après la prise de contrôle du Nébularium par les Conscients, leurs têtes sont désormais mises à prix. Contraints de se retrancher dans le Cryptocosmos, ils cherchent le moyen de briser le scellé maintenu par Rex Universalis autour du Système Solaire.

The Nameless are no more. Former agent Sofia Ortiz must put aside her grief and form a new team - Arclight. After discovering damning intel, General Munroe dispatches them on a recon mission to Hong Kong, in the heart of enemy territory. Zanzi Connors, despondent over the mystery of her missing parents and burdened by guilt, hesitantly agrees to join. With the clock ticking and choices limited, Arclight begins a desperate fight to fulfill their oath of being the beacon in a world of darkness.

In the pulse-pounding third book of the C.O.R.P.S.E series, Maris is Public Enemy #1. A botched attack exposes her identity. Now C.O.R.P.S.E. manipulates the public against her, forcing her into hiding with Spyder. On the run with unlikely allies, Maris desperately counterattacks C.O.R.P.S.E. She's determined to clear her name and reveal their sinister plans. Dodging hovercopters through dystopian Nuevo Diego, she navigates sewers, back-alley deals, and an underground railway in a frantic race for the truth.

With enemies closing in and lives on the line, a former military cadet has no choice but to embrace her grandmother's legacy—and become a pirate. Having turned her back on the STARs Academy, Nimah Dabo-124 now serves as second-in-command of the Stormchaser, under her space-pirate grandmother...