Resultados para "Space Opera" en Distopía

In the wake of their shattering victory, Brutal Deluxe ascends at last into the Premiere League—krieg chess at its most savage, lethal, and politically charged. To anchor his impossible squad, Virgil unveils his most heretical gambit yet: an Echo, vat-grown and memory-sown, a man wearing a dead prodigy's face and the broken remnants of a stranger's soul. He calls himself Lance—and he must master his fractured self even as the world's elite gather to break him.

In the future, the leaders of Hive nations–nations without fixed location–clandestinely committed nefarious deeds in order to maintain an outward semblance of utopian stability. But the facade could only last so long. The comforts of effortless global travel and worldwide abundance may have tempered humanity's darkest inclinations, but conflict remains deeply rooted in the human psyche. All it needed was a catalyst, in form of special little boy to ignite half a millennium of repressed chaos.

In the year AD 3000, Earth is a dystopian wasteland, plundered of its natural resources by alien conquerors known as Psychlos. Fewer than 35,000 humans survive in a handful of communities scattered across the face of a post-apocalyptic Earth. From the ashes of humanity rises a young hero, Jonnie Goodboy Tyler. Setting off on an initial quest to discover a hidden evil, Jonnie unlocks the mystery of humanity’s demise and unearths a crucial weakness in their oppressors.

In the cold reaches of space, freedom is a luxury few can afford. Grimes is a restless teen imprisoned in Penal Colony 473, a place where obedience is law, and rebellion is crushed. But when a chance discovery—a tattered book about a star-sailing outlaw—sparks a fire in him, he dares to dream of a life beyond the iron bars of his prison. Together with a crew of unlikely misfits, he steals a rusted ship and escapes into the vast unknown.

Cassandra Cannon, a disgraced soldier turned mercenary, has one desperate goal: save her brother before his unraveling digitized consciousness is lost forever. Her plan is bold—steal a gravity lance, a weapon powerful enough to siphon energy from a black hole—while staying one step ahead of the United Human Collective military and the unpredictable Auroran Order.

Seven years after Kongdra, the survivors live scattered between worlds. Yoon Ji has grown into the pilot her mother once was—sharp, steady, and haunted. The galaxy she inherits is breaking apart: the Horub Empire is rotting from within, war with the Faction refuses to die, and something far older is stirring beneath the ruins.

Five Moons: Convolute drops you right into the middle of the action as the Syndicate's last mobsters hunt down a Special Forces agent in the streets of Habston, the biggest little city on Panara-5. It quickly becomes a running gun battle as Dallas Blake and the crew of the Five Moons try to save him. Special Forces enlists the Five Moons to transport their agents to Daggan-7, but the alien mysteries of this ship are not about to give Dallas any breaks. In the worst of places, Dallas suddenly finds himself embroiled in yet another alien enigma with only a cryptic message.

Der in sich abgeschlossene 1. Band der Science-Fiction-Trilogie »DoHa« von Erik Harlandt führt den Leser in eine vor Leben überschäumende Galaxis, die uns gefunden hat:Als Phil auf einem fernen Planeten aus dem Duplikatedrucker torkelt, muss er feststellen, dass sein Original und damit seine Existenz vernichtet sind. – Wahrscheinlich.

When the Earth is threatened by a slowly expanding sun, mankind embarks upon a mission to send a mammoth Worldship to settle a new planet across the stars. The preternatural races step out of hiding to work with the humans to save what they can from their dying world. With the aid of the Fae, shape shifters, Vampires, and other creatures of supernatural lore, the Worldship, Leviathan, is complete one thousand years later.

Reeling in the aftermath of the White Tower incident, Haldin Raish is struggling to get by. What he needs is time, peace and quiet, and probably the ear of an attentive soothsayer. But the raknoth have other plans... Across Enochia, terror reigns. Civilians are disappearing. Monstrous hybrids roam the land, attacking faster than the Legion can keep up. Across Enochia, the raknoth are winning.

The year is 4545 and humanity has now colonized and reached the farthest points of their known universe’s boundaries, which has revealed a shocking truth nobody was prepared to confront! In the wake of this chaos, dark and sinister forces begin to rise, claiming the opportunistic spoils for themselves by seeking to destabilize the galactic balance of power and politics.

Olympias ha realizzato il suo sogno: vivere nella Casa-tra-le-Stelle, un'utopia di pace, tolleranza tra specie, non-­violenza e incredibili tecnologie. Tutto molto diverso da Abisso, il suo pianeta natale, in cui la violenza e la ferocia sono le uniche armi a disposizione di chi vuole sopravvivere. Quando suo padre Philippos muore, Olympias è costretta a tornare su Abisso, e questo le cambierà la vita. Impossibile proteggere se stessi e la propria famiglia, se non ci si adegua alle spietate leggi di quel pianeta.

Raven Astray: The Rise of Yoon Ji is a two part novella. Part 1 is a science fiction narrative following Commander Jang Seo-Ah, a decorated starfighter pilot, as she battles to save a convoy of refugees from cosmic disaster while simultaneously giving birth aboard her disabled warship. Part 2 Kongdra is a wild and dangerous world, where vapor dragons roam and the Unio lies grounded. As weeks stretch into years, a girl born from chaos will learn to navigate the wreckage.

Die Schlacht um Serena ist beendet. Beide Seiten haben große Verluste erlitten und sind noch dabei, ihre Wunden zu lecken, als das Terranische Konglomerat in seinen Grundfesten erschüttert wird. An der Besatzung eines Horchpostens nahe der RIZ wird ein Massaker verübt. Doch offenbar sind nicht die Ruul die Drahtzieher hinter dem Angriff. Alles deutet auf eine Verwicklung der ROCKETS in das Blutbad. Plötzlich stehen alle Mitglieder der Spezialeinheit unter Generalverdacht.

Not for John Lee. His search for answers for the System Quest has taken him deep into the Forbidden Zone, into the very arms of his enemies. He's betrayed family and friends and been betrayed in turn. The most powerful human in the System has come to the final leg of his journey. And still, he has no idea if what he will find will fill the burning need within him. For the Redeemer of the Dead will not stop, until the cries of the lost and the sacrificed are answered.

Dr. Cass Baros is haunted by dreams of an alien world, and will do anything to find it. Relentlessly, she works her science team and her fiancé, Dr. Julian Saunders. Captain Lewis’ military Spec Op team joins the scientists. Egos clash and agendas cross. Trapped, the team is plunged into a dangerous adventure beyond their control. They struggle to unravel millennia old secrets in an alien world where nothing is what it seems, especially the aliens.

Noah, an orphan from Earth's last days who, as a child, was smuggled to safety across the stars, is now nearly a man and a leader to the young enclave of Earthborn who reside on Sora. When the tranquility of their settlement is shattered by a shocking assassination attempt, Noah turns to his combative younger brother, Erik, Lucas and Asha's only child by blood, for aid.

In this thrilling second book of the Earthborn trilogy, Lucas and Asha have survived the decimation of Earth at the hands of the invading Xalans and seek safe haven with their enemy's true foes, the Sorans. They find a lush planet inhabited by a civilization far more advanced than their own, waging a seemingly endless war against a constantly evolving enemy. The Sorans call the pair of them the "Earthborn", and they're welcomed as heroes, almost as gods.

Finalmente una buona notizia: l'equipaggio ha fatto ritorno sulla Marion! E qui non c'è tempo da perdere. Mentre Hooper deve incorporare la cella del combustibile nella NARCISSUS, gli altri si occupano di raccogliere cibo e medicine in preparazione per il lungo e faticoso viaggio. Ma non solo Ash vuole impedire alla squadra di lasciare viva la MARION - anche l'ultimo alieno rimanente si nasconde da qualche parte sulla nave ed è in attesa di prede fresche.

Nachdem in Nordamerika endlich die Waffen schweigen, dringt Vince auf der Suche nach Joy in die besetzte Zone vor, Mac steuert mit ihrem Frachter die Saturnmonde an und Azrael kehrt zurück nach Sibirien. Doch der Krieg ist nur scheinbar vorbei. Hinter den Kulissen wird der Kampf mit ungeahnter Härte weitergeführt und lässt jene, die sich einmal darin verstrickt haben, nicht aus seinem Würgegriff.