Resultados para "Space Opera" en Cyberpunk

Am Rand der bekannten Galaxis stoßen zwei abgebrannte Weltraum-Schürfer auf ein verlassenes Schiff - und wecken vier formlose Wesen aus dem Kryo-Schlaf. Vor ihren Augen verwandeln sich die Kreaturen in perfekte Doppelgänger! Eine Generation danach führt Minarel Tarkin ein hochprofitables, streng geheimes Unternehmen: Sie vermietet Simipathen - Gestaltwandler mit nahezu unzerstörbaren Körpern - an die Reichen, Mächtigen und Kriminellen. Doch als eine Simipathin verschwindet, wird aus dem Geschäft ein Überlebenskampf.

Charlie Travers hat nicht darum gebeten, der Anführer einer Rebellion zu werden … aber niemand sonst wollte den Job. Jetzt, da er eine Armee zusammengestellt und sie mit den tödlichsten Kampfflugzeugen ausgerüstet hat, die je gebaut wurden–den legendären Vanguard-Starfightern–, braucht er nur noch eines: jemanden, der diese Dinger fliegen kann.

Let's do this thing! The invasion's about to begin. Sergey's got no time to waste and enemies up the wazoo...

Der Quadrant steht in Flammen. Gewalttätige Aufstände brechen scheinbar zufällig im Einflussbereich der Konföderation aus. Die Reaktion der mächtigen Konföderationsflotte war schnell und energisch, aber sobald sie auf einem Planeten die Ordnung wiederherstellt, bricht anderswo eine Rebellion aus. Die Omega Force arbeitet gerade bei den Grenzwelten, als sie gezwungen wird, einem alten Verbündeten zur Hilfe zu kommen. Bald wird klar, dass diese beiden Ereignisse miteinander verknüpft sind.

David wakes up in a high-security prison on the forsaken Martian moon Deimos with no memory of his past. A chance encounter with Aztec, a deadly purple-haired cyborg, propels him into a daring jailbreak. She brings him on board a mysterious warship manned by the most notorious and badass crew of the galaxy— the Space Punks. One hundred years ago AI waged a devastating war against its human creators. Humanity won, but barely and at a horrible price. Ever since, the solar system has been strictly controlled by the Pentad, a ruthless coalition of megacorporations.

The highly-anticipated fourth installment in the Kapamentis Crime series, from bestselling science-fiction author T.W.M. Ashford...

For Mason Guthrie, a sudden arrest, railroad trial, and quick conviction for the "vandalism" of fixing things around his tenement building come as a shock. For Rosa Fuentes, it's just more confirmation that, to Earth's rulers, they're nothing but commodities to be bought and sold. Together - along with Rosa's disturbingly capable AI - they break out and make their way off Earth to start a new, free life. Unfortunately, the folks they stole a billion credits from along the way would like those back.

The "F" Word tells the story of Laina, a British canine biped who's been somehow transported into a strange and hostile world full of smart, mostly hairless, talking apes. In the dead of night, while raining profusely, Laina takes refuge in what appears to be a completely empty skyscraper building in the heart of London. Along the way, Laina meets Minnow, a goth engineer at his existential wit's end, along with an array of colorful characters, some human, some less so. Together, Laina and Minnow set out on an unforgettable adventure, navigating a world teetering on the singularity.

Sai-Locked is the second entry in the epic, sci-fi, space opera book series Age Of Bipeds. Our story begins 100 years after the Bipedal Event of 2065. The Earth has spent the past century adjusting to dozens of new mammalian races, faster than light travel, and the various other cans of worms that exploded open upon the creation of Earth's first, stable sai.

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.

Bubbles Marlowe, the infamous cyborg detective, prefers to stick to the shadows. But when one of her cases blows up in the media, the private eye is thrust into the public eye. An army of unhinged fans is stalking Bubbles and her best friend is on the run from corporate head-hunters – not the kind that want to give her a job. Worst of all, the only people who can help them have started to mysteriously disappeared.

There are cowboy boots on his feet, pop-up hints appearing in his vision, and, oh yeah, there’s a mariachi band in his head. The world's not going to slow down and let him catch up though, no, it's going to throw a chrome hover car at him and hope he gets the picture.

Kale Drayton knows his place. As a Ringer born on Titan, he's used to keeping his head down and his mouth shut--no matter how much the Earthers abuse him or his own kind berate him. So, when he's caught stealing from a wealthy merchant, he's lucky to be sentenced to low-paying maintenance work on a gas-harvesting ship instead of life in a cell... or worse. But when his mother is quarantined, Kale finds himself backed into a corner.

Ari Barlow has long survived on instinct. It’s crucial for living in the crime capital of the Meridian System. Established for space travel and trade by Illyarium, a world of gods amongst men, the Port of Acheron is now a far cry from the holy image it was spawned from. Just how she likes it. Together, with her level-headed partner, Ari takes any job that brings in the credits.

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.

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?

Ein ferner Mond. Ein dunkles Geheimnis. Im Jahr 2098 steht die Menschheit unmittelbar vor der planetaren Expansion. In einem gewaltigen Raumschiff verlässt der frisch geschiedene Instandhaltungstechniker Carl Harding die unter politischen Unruhen und Wasserknappheit leidende Erde, um auf dem entlegenen Eismond Kallisto ein neues Leben zu beginnen. Seit Jahrzehnten wird dort das Wasser des subglazialen Ozeans gefördert, um daraus Treibstoff für die Besiedlung des Sonnensystems zu gewinnen. Carl soll in der Kolonie für die Sicherheit des weit verzweigten Zutrittssystems verantwortlich sein.

Lorelei Ogden lives a rather pedestrian life shuttling goods from one part of the solar system to the other. Nothing exciting ever happens. Until it does. Suddenly, she’s being hunted down by unknown forces, all because she’s been having headaches and weird dreams.

Cassidy Delgado knows every lurid inch of Interstellar Online. But the brilliant software architect behind it all bristles at an update forcing her to respec as an unfamiliar class. And when a rogue AI bot goes on a rampage, she’d better master her new abilities or die trying.