Resultados para "Space Opera" en Aventura

En el año 2373 el ser humano se ha expandido y ha colonizado el sistema solar. Owen Jeringan, líder de Los Diez Mil, cree haber encontrado la forma de fabricar un impulsor, llamado Singularidad, capaz de alcanzar Theia, un mundo gemelo de la Tierra. El problema es que se encuentra dentro del Cinturón de Asteroides, refugio de los peligrosos piratas espaciales. Para la misión, contrata los servicios de Gael Paulsen, un antiguo piloto militar y veterano de la guerra contra Marte, que, junto con un grupo de incondicionales, tratará de hacerse con la codiciada Singularidad.

Un renegado nunca se rinde. Ahora que Jace y el resto de la tripulación tienen una nueva base de operaciones en Titán, la posibilidad de encontrar la Tierra está más cerca que nunca. Sin embargo, no será una misión fácil: la Estrella Renegada tendrá que huir de los ejércitos de la Unión y el Imperio sarkoniano. Luna renegada es la tercera parte de la serie Estrella Renegada, una space opera épica y trepidante que encantará a los fans de Firefly, Battlestar Galactica o Indiana Jones.

On the world called Hyperion, beyond the law of the Hegemony of Man, there waits the creature called the Shrike. There are those who worship it. There are those who fear it. And there are those who have vowed to destroy it. In the Valley of the Time Tombs, where huge, brooding structures move backward through time, the Shrike waits for them all.

Proyecto Hail Mary, una aventura interestelar irresistible como solo Andy Weir podía imaginar, es una historia de descubrimiento, especulación y supervivencia a la altura de El marciano, que nos lleva a lugares que nunca soñamos alcanzar.

Captain Jacob Thomas USMC is a divorced combat veteran just trying to get his life back on track. Returning to the Marine Corps after a failed attempt at reconciliation with his estranged wife, Jake volunteers for a DARPA experiment that catapults him into a future where humanity has been...

La búsqueda para encontrar la Tierra ha comenzado. Después de escapar a duras penas de las garras de la Unión, la nave estelar Estrella Renegada huye a lugares desconocidos. Todos los miembros de su tripulación son fugitivos buscados por la ley. Ninguno de ellos podrá volver jamás a casa.

Strange signals from the edge of the solar system draw the carrier ECS Vanguard into the darkness beyond the planets. There, humanity faces a new alien threat—the Blight. They have come to exterminate what they believe is their ancient enemy's latest puppet civilization. Earth struggles to control the skies with fighters and throws its Lizard shock troops into bloody ground battles. While the war rages, Flex must uncover the truth about the hyperspace rivers connecting the stars, the mysterious Cure that terrorized Venus, and why the Blight believes humanity is already enslaved.

The powerful alien empire of the Gumalagians turns their attention to the United Interplanetary Republic. While Carter has faced dangerous opponents, nothing could prepare him for what’s to come. He must find allies and grow stronger — without sacrificing the people he loves. Along with an audacious and alluring Admiral, Carter races against the clock to assemble a fleet that can save them all.

Cal Carver's time is about to run out. He and his Space Team are broke. Forced to take low-paying gun-for-hire jobs just to keep the food replicator working, their prospects are not looking good. When they pick up a distress signal from a luxury space cruiser, they think their luck might be about to change. And it does. Sadly, not in the way they'd hoped.

The Unity Marine Corps is fighting the most brutal war in human history—and they're losing. Facing an implacable enemy that will stop at nothing short of total conquest, an ugly truth comes to light in battle after battle. Without more Marines, humanity will lose the war. Cullen's plan to recruit civilians from his athletic academies, train them, equip them, and strike back at the enemy is greenlit by Unity Command.

A medio camino entre la space opera más arriesgada y la novela social con evidentes reflejos del presente, "Orpheus" nos presenta a dos hermanos gemelos destinados a un asteroide perdido por designio de una multinacional energética. En su lucha por oponerse a la multinacional espacial encontrarán mucho más de lo que esperan: una fuente de energía limpia que podría sacudir los cimientos de toda la galaxia.

In the stunning continuation of the epic adventure begun in Hyperion, Simmons returns us to a far future resplendent with drama and invention. Onthe world of Hyperion, the mysterious Time Tombs are opening. And the secrets they contain mean that nothing - nothing anywhere in the universe - will ever be the same.

Astronauts fight for the survival of humanity against an alien species seeking to control their future among the stars in this science-fiction thriller. They were humanity's last hope. As the majority of Earth's population uploaded their consciousnesses to embrace digital immortality—free from...

Geddy's final mission is here: Save the universe or watch it burn. The Alliance dangles by its fingertips over the abyss of oblivion as the Zelnads rev up for their grand finale of destruction. Outgunned, outmaneuvered, and probably out of witty comebacks, our heroes embark on a suicide mission...

C'est au tour de Vanessa Fulton de se réveiller d'un sommeil séculaire. Eden a encore évolué, s'enfonçant de plus en plus dans un monde quasi médiéval où la violence est reine. Pour autant, les vestiges de ce qui fut la civilisation terrienne ne sont peut-être pas tous éteints.

For a decade, peace has reigned in interstellar space. A tripartite agreement between the Colonial Union, the Earth, and the alien Conclave has kept the forces of war at bay, even when some would have preferred to return to the fighting and struggle of former times. For now, more sensible heads have prevailed – and have even championed unity. But now, there is a new force that threatens the hard-maintained peace: The Consu, the most advanced intelligent species humans have ever met, are on the cusp of a species-defining civil war.

Here, Simmons returns to this richly imagined world of technological achievement, excitement, wonder and fear. Endymion is a story about love and memory, triumph and terror - an instant candidate for the field's highest honors.

A little over four months has passed since Desmond McLaughlin was physically yanked from his home and thrown to the mercy of a conquering alien empire when they demanded he be handed over for training as he was an ‘Adept’, one of the few able to harness the power of magic in the universe. During that time, he has learned how to manipulate mana and made several friends amongst the aliens whose culture he was now immersed in. And one lover.

Échoués sur une planète alien et laissés pour morts. Ils ne se sont jamais sentis aussi vivants. La tentative de coloniser un système de l'autre côté d'un portail vers les étoiles a conduit à de graves problèmes. Des tempêtes massives, des vers des sables et d'étranges êtres menacent de mettre fin à toute chance de survie pour notre équipe. Espinoza et ses camarades Marines luttent pour rétablir le contact avec la Terre tout en affrontant l'environnement et ceux qui ont attaqué leur vaisseau lors du passage par le portail.

Solstice, the secret organization running the Galactic Union, has made an enemy of The Last Horizon. Soon, they will regret it. Varic and Omega have a plan to infiltrate and destroy Solstice’s leaders, removing another threat to the galaxy. Compared to the apocalyptic monsters the crew has faced in the past, this opponent should be simple.