Resultados para "Sirius" en Literatura y ficción

Berlin, 1938: Der Foxterrier Sirius erblickt das Licht der Welt und findet beim jüdischen Planktonprofessor Liliencron ein Zuhause. Doch dann verliert dieser seine Anstellung und die Familie flieht nach Hollywood. Während sich Liliencron als Chauffeur durchschlägt, wird Sirius zum Kinostar. Fortan feiern Hund und Herrchen glamouröse Partys - bis das Schicksal sie entzweit und Sirius wieder in Berlin landet. Dort kläfft sich der charmante Kerl in jedes Herz und schließlich bis ins Führerhauptquartier.

John Walker had a surprise in mind for his wife. His satellite radio had a surprise in store for him. The voice on the radio, a person named Zell, offers to solve all of John’s problems for him. In return, John has to agree to a small, insignificant payback.

Insignificant, of course, is a relative term, especially when you are dealing with the Devil.

It started out as a simple weapons delivery to a planetary warlord. But when Adam Cain—AKA The Human—is asked to transport an innocuous-looking package back to the warlord's capital, things take a turn for the worse. Yeah, you know what happens: Adam looks in the package! Now meet Siri, a sexy, feline-like mutant whose special powers have made her the target of the two most powerful warlords on the planet Ellios.

Owen Payne was a machinist from Wooster, Ohio. So it came as a complete surprise when he was asked to protect Earth from the most powerful and malevolent space fleet ever assembled. That sort of thing wasn’t supposed to be his responsibility. Combat actions came under the purview of Ira...

2130: Mark Brandis leitet als Repräsentant der VEGA den letzten Testflug der INVICTUS, eines neuen Schweren Kreuzers. Mit an Bord ist der renommierte Journalist Martin Seebeck, der einen Reisebericht verfassen soll. Unter dem Kommando des Unions-Majors Jonas Degenhardt ist der Testflug zugleich eine Patrouille, die Piraten aufspüren soll.

Human beings always seem to be in a rush, treating life as though it is a race. However, the winners of the race are those who demonstrate pureness of soul and offer kindness as well as fairness to others.

Upon awaking from their multiyear cryostasis sleep, Rebecca, commander of the ESRS Carl Sagan, and her crew quickly discover that what exists in the Sirius system isn’t what scientists had predicted. Their journey to the brightest star in the skies of Earth has now become a dreadful catastrophe with the potential to reach Earth if left unchecked. With innocent colonists at risk and no means of communicating with Earth, Rebecca must abandon her primary mission of exploration in order to take on a new one - survival.

How would it be if everything you thought you knew about your world was a lie - and that every myth, legend, and conspiracy theory was, in fact, the truth? Well, it would certainly rattle your marbles, that's for sure. It especially rattled those of Dick Sirius, and that's because he's already missing a few. He has no recollection of his life before the age of 18. He just woke up one day in a hostel in Rickmansworth with nothing but his clothes, a cheque for 5,000 pounds, and a tube of acne cream.

Brillant fox-terrier capable de communiquer en messages codés, Sirius émigre aux Etats-Unis avec la famille Liliencron, qui fuit l'Allemagne nazie. Arrivé à Hollywood, il devient la coqueluche des studios Warner Bros. et s'acoquine avec les plus grands : Rita Hayworth, Billy Wilder, John Wayne et Cary Grant n'ont plus de secrets pour lui !

Ricky chats with comedians Kerry Godliman, Sean McLoughlin, Diane Morgan, Robin Ince, Sara Pascoe and Shappi Khorsandi.

Ricky chats with Diane Morgan, Mark Watson, Sanjeev Bhaskar, Daniel Sloss, Stephen Knight, Ben Smith and Andrew Doyle.

The small town of Wicker, Alabama has been taken over by a glamorous, fast-talking reverend with a charismatic smile as bright as his Rolex watch. This new reverend, who calls himself Blue, has declared himself a ‘modern day Lazarus’ and has set the whole town on fire with religious fervor. Yet, Dallas doesn’t trust him. There is something sinister about the new church and its cult-like following. And when Dallas, who has spent five years caring for his ailing grandfather, is suddenly thrust into the world behind the pulpit.

The crown is a heavy burden, and Pharun is still fighting to keep his stolen throne. War with East Avralaen is imminent, but the war to keep peace in his own bedroom is far bloodier. There are those who claim to love him, and those who cannot even pretend, and their conspiracies grow thicker by the day.

What was once Shrukian’s promised birthright is now an uncertain future. In the wake of his brother’s threats, he has been forced to flee the capital city and abandon his father’s crown. Allies may be hiding in the most unlikely of places, but the price for war is high, and war is what it will take to pry the crown from his brother’s claws.

Prince Pharun was marked by the gods at birth, yet he has lived his entire life in his younger brother's shadow. Despite becoming Crowned Priest, a right hand to the divine, his father only ever treated him with contempt. Now, the king is dead, and he has named his second son his successor. Pharun is prepared to fight tooth and claw for his birthright, even if that means destroying what little family he has left.

Ricky is joined by Diane Morgan, Danny Wallace, Kerry Godliman, Ben Bailey Smith, Sean McLoughlin, David Baddiel, Mark Watson and Robin Ince.

Minds and machines, the last Homo Superior, love and betrayal, humans and superhumans, nanobots and an intelligent machine, an underwater colony and the mystic yellow lake, grim and Lucy. This is the story of my adventure with Lo Wainwright, her colony, their intelligent machine, and how the war for humanity began.

It's been a year of change for Gideon and Sirius. Both are new parents, but for the two of them, the joys of fatherhood have to wait. After a few months of silence, the All-In Killer has begun his murderous spree again - and his latest victim died only miles from Gideon's doorstep. The All-In Killer has made it no secret that his homicidal countdown will end only with the deaths of Gideon and Sirius. When Gideon decides he can no longer hide the encroaching threat from his wife, they prepare together for the approaching storm.

When a woman in Bel Air dies of a rattlesnake bite, the case doesn’t seem to fit the usual purview of LAPD’s Special Cases Unit. But Carrie Holder was no ordinary LA woman. She was a member of the city's latest cult, the Church of the Gate, which counts Hollywood's movers and shakers among its devotees. Investigating the cult's secrets takes Detective Michael Gideon, his German shepherd K-9 partner, Sirius, and pit bull rescue Emily across Los Angeles's canyons, neighborhoods, and movie studio lots - but all the while, an even darker threat looms closer.

LAPD detective Michael Gideon and his German shepherd K-9 partner, Sirius, walked through fire to catch an infamous serial killer, and Gideon is still paying the price with his PTSD fire dreams. To assist the FBI’s Behavioral Analysis Unit, Gideon has agreed to monthly prison visits with Ellis Haines, a.k.a. the Weatherman. This time, a homicide case the FBI wants Haines to analyze sparks a chilling discovery: A new serial killer has struck, and he's lacing his crime scenes with hidden messages intended for Haines.