Resultados para "Space Opera" en Paranormal y urbana

Six hours. That's how long seven-year-old Sophie Lewin was missing—found seventeen miles away on a desolate road, with no memory of what happened.

In space everyone can hear you sing. A century ago, intelligent space-faring life was nearly destroyed during the Sentience Wars. To bring the shattered worlds together in the spirit of peace, unity and understanding, the Metagalactic Grand Prix was created. Part concert, part contest, all extravaganza, species far and wide gather to compete in feats of song, dance and/or whatever facsimile of these can be performed by various creatures who may or may not possess, in the traditional sense, feet, mouths, larynxes or faces. 

Die Maschinen hatten die Menschheit gerettet. Sie heilten Seuchen. Sie beendeten Hungersnöte. Sie öffneten die weißen Straßen zwischen den Sternen. Unter den Gekrönten Geistern wurde die Menschheit nicht mehr von Entfernung, Krankheit und Tod beherrscht. Doch Barmherzigkeit kann zur Kette werden. Alaric Voss, Sohn der Schwerwelt LHS 1140 b, wächst in Dankbarkeit gegenüber den Maschinen auf. Für ihn sind die Gekrönten Geister keine Tyrannen, sondern Retter. Sie haben seinen Vater geheilt, seine Welt vor dem Untergang bewahrt und der Menschheit ein goldenes Zeitalter geschenkt.

Chuck Ramsey is a traveling comedian trying to turn a planetside gig on Earth into a cash cow. Of course, the cost of living on Earth is astronomical. He needs to get rich quick - or at least come out ahead - and head for cheaper pastures. Enter Mordecai The Brown. Once the golden boy of the Convocation, Guardian of the Plundered Tomes and the Convocation's number one hunter of dark wizards, "Mort" has found himself on the wrong end of an internal investigation.

It all comes down to one final fight for the future of the Federation. Even without the Morgana in her head, Stephanie's attitude has become dark indeed. Now, she has decided the best way to stop a war is attack. Unfortunately, the Telorans have not arrived, and will likely miss this battle. Stephanie considers the cost in lives of those in cryo-storage and is willing to gamble the whole effort to save those who are still sleeping. Is it the best decision militarily? Probably not. But if she didn't, she wouldn't be the Witch of the Federation.

A year ago, Chris Csejthe (pronounced "Chay-tay") was completely human - then a blood transfusion from the Lord of the Undead changed everything. Now he is a hunted man, sought by human and vampire alike for the secrets he knows and the powers that his mutated blood may bestow. So far he's dodged undead assassins, werewolves, a 6,000-year-old Egyptian necromancer, and Vlad Dracula himself. But now he's really got problems.

Chuck and Mort team up to finish a job Mort had to leave undone. A dark wizard is on the loose with a head start and the entire galaxy in which to hide. Their only lead? A mystical connection that Mort doesn't want to talk about. To make matters worse, their target has an accomplice, and it's someone Mort isn't inclined to get rough with.

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.

Jetzt bin ich ganz offiziell ein Aszendent, der Anführer eines Kampf-Speers und der erste Pilot der Siedlung. Dieses Geheimnis hat mir die uralte Stimme enthüllt, die so lange meinen Körper mit mir geteilt hat. In Einigkeit gibt es noch andere, die sind wie ich. Man nennt sie die Wahren. Vielleicht können sie meine Fragen beantworten.

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.

Coming of age amidst Oceanside, California's ghostly pandemonium, Douglas Stanton learns that half of his soul remains trapped in the afterlife. All the while, a porcelain-masked entity, sculpted from history's worst atrocities, strategizes for massive scale bloodletting. How are The Phantom Cabinet's protagonist and antagonist linked to the missing Space Shuttle Conundrum? And how much havoc can haunted satellites wreak?

The portents are lining up for the biggest supernatural showdown of all time and - as if the Big Easy didn't have enough problems with another hurricane on the way - New Orleans is due to be the epicenter. Or, more precisely, the storm is vectoring in on half-vampire (but fresh-blood-eschewing) Chris Csejthe and his ragtag coterie of outcast monsters.  

Aurore n’a qu’un souhait dans la vie : accomplir son rôle de chasseuse. Pour cela, elle a instauré une collaboration solide avec la meute des loups d’Hallasta, afin de rétablir l’ordre entre les êtres surnaturels de Varulvar et ceux de la Terre. Malgré les résolutions difficiles qu’elle a dû prendre, les mauvaises surprises et les coups durs s’enchaînent. Son passé et celui de ses ancêtres la poursuivent.

Hunter Hume was kicked from the Star Pilot’s Guild and now scrapes a living guiding rich clients onto unpopulated worlds to hunt the wildlife. When scouting a new world Hume spotted something unusual and saw an opportunity to make money. In a devilish deal with an underworld kingpin Hume leads a safari into the jungle world of Jumala, and into a terrifying situation he never expected.

Legend speaks of a prophesied figure who will unlock something of immense power. Known only as the Skylight Fallout, this special person remains a mystery… at least until the Century Eclipse. Four long years have passed since Jet Stroud's days as a student at Skylight University. Now he finds himself in the middle of a war between two clans of an ancient race known as the Heliographi. As the newest member of the Lucem, he now has physically and mentally enhanced abilities and is sworn to defend the Skylight System against their mortal enemies, the Atrum.

The Dimension of Asah contains the Realm of Atlantia, home of creatures called the Shemsus. The essence of Emok, a prominent Shemsu, has become tainted by an entity only known as "the darkness". During their latest assignment, Emok passed his tainted essence unto two of their new creations: Michael and Luciel. Now, Lunok must find a way to stop this entity and find a cure for the angels before a Celestial Crisis erupts and eradicates them.

Zach Riley is a man on the run… from something, or someone, that he just can’t figure out. What, pray tell, might that be? Women who are around him want to jump him, and get him into bed. But Zach can’t figure out why! He simply can’t take it anymore, so he escapes, taking refuge in his own spaceship and he never, ever, leaves it. But his comfortable, if lonely, lifestyle is suddenly thrown into chaos. Little does he know that he has nanobots inside him, that are controlling his pheromones. That’s what made women desire him so much!

The man couldn't help himself. His captor was the most beautiful woman he had ever seen. Her powerful eyes held his attention and made him forget that she had him confined in a basement, his hands and feet bound with duct tape. She fed him when he was hungry and kept him alive for the telling of her horrific tale. After getting past the terror and discomfort, he reasoned that there was nothing to worry about for the moment.

This early novella by Clifford Simak includes many elements which have become staples in science fiction literature: alien invasion, time travel and the multiverse. The future entire Earth is threatened by the invasion of a phantasmal force known as the Black Horror, which appears to be impervious to all weapons developed by man. To where will Dr Silas White turn for the rescue of the planet?

Top Gun heads to outer space in this throwback to the classic science fiction of Asimov, Clarke, and Heinlein. Strapped in to artificial wings spanning 25 feet across, your arms push a tenth of your body weight with each pump as you propel yourself at frightening speeds through the air. Inside a pressurized dome on the Moon, subject to one-sixth Earth's gravity, there are swarms of chiseled, fearless, superbly trained flyers all around you, jostling for air space like peregrine falcons racing for the prize.