Resultados para "Space Opera" en Ingeniería genética

Après avoir quitté une Terre mourante du fait des erreurs de nos sociétés, l'Arche, premier vaisseau à coloniser une exoplanète, arrive au bout d'un long voyage de 80 ans. Les colons sortent de leurs caissons cryogéniques et découvrent ce qui doit devenir un nouveau commencement pour l'humanité. Une nouvelle planète, un monde principalement végétal baptisé Eden.

The modern classic of space opera that began with Children of Time continues in this extraordinary novel of humanity's battle for survival on a terraformed planet. Earth failed. In a desperate bid to escape, the spaceship Enkidu and its captain, Heorest Holt, carried its precious human cargo to...

Her name is Eve14. She is the result of a 1000-year project by the robots of Earth to restore the planet after all life was wiped out in 2065. 27 robotic minds, copied from Earth's great scientists, carried on after the species died. They mixed and matched those minds in endless combinations, producing a whole race of machines with human personalities. Immortal, but with memories of sensations they can no longer experience, some renegade robots now have a daring agenda.

On the battlefields of the future, death is not the end for a soldier. The Revenant Program collects badly wounded soldiers broken by war and converts them into unthinking, unfeeling cyborg weapons. Their bodies are immune to pain, their minds impervious to fear and doubt. All controlled by a neural implant called the Imperative. They are the ideal force for any mission too deadly or too difficult for normal men. A force that answers to the darkest corners of the military.

Adrian Tchaikovksy's critically acclaimed stand-alone novel Children of Time is the epic story of humanity's battle for survival on a terraformed planet. Who will inherit this new Earth? The last remnants of the human race left a dying Earth, desperate to find a new home among the stars. Following in the footsteps of their ancestors, they discover the greatest treasure of the past age - a world terraformed and prepared for human life. But all is not right in this new Eden.

When deep-space travel altered the genes of the first interstellar colonists, Earth abandoned them. But some of the colonies survived, and a new civilization of mental and physical “Variants” has been established, centered around clusters of space stations known as the outworlds. Now the unthinkable has happened: a suicide assault has destroyed the life support system of a major waystation. All that is known about the young men responsible is that in their last living moments they were receiving messages from an uninhabited sector of space and were playing a virtual reality game.

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.

Das Heilmittel für die Fäulnis könnte die Galaxis retten – oder sie vernichten. Während die mysteriöse Fäulnis Welten verschlingt, verliert das Ranger-Korps seinen Kampf zum Schutz der Bürger der Union. Doch jetzt taucht eine noch größere Bedrohung auf. Hrawnor Deg, ein rücksichtsloser Verbrecherboss, steht kurz vor dem Einsatz von Omnipotent – einer uralten Technologie, die angeblich das Leben selbst umschreiben kann. Nur Fin und die Crew der Black Sheep können Deg und diese enorme Macht aufhalten.

Pursued by a relentless assassin, Alan and Jinny race across the galaxy in search of a secret truth that has eluded humanity for centuries. The 47 colonies have been at peace for over 700 years. But nothing is as it seems. The Council government of all humanity controls the populace through lies, fear, and genetically-engineered agents who do its terrible bidding.

In Opulas, Malick and his team tackle the last two quadrants on Sworld, armed with more questions than answers. What adventures await them? Can they survive the perils that lie ahead, including two of the most formidable opponents they have ever encountered? What sentient creatures await them? Is the One still alive? Can they make a home on Sworld, or will they stay forever alien? All the answers Malick seeks and more, are revealed in the final book of the tetralogy, The Chronicles of Malick.

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.

C'est-à-dire, jusqu'à ce qu'ils découvrent la raison pour laquelle tant de notre passé a été enterré. Shrina est passée d'agent du FBI à demi-dragon redoutable, mais un nouveau pouvoir émerge et c'est à elle de l'arrêter. Dans l'espace, Espinoza et son équipe ont un nouveau monde à explorer, tandis que Trent a porté la guerre intergalactique à de nouveaux niveaux. Shrina sera-t-elle capable de tenir tête au dragon ressuscité ? Quel rôle jouent les Goldies et leurs hôtes dans la guerre ultime pour le destin de l'univers ?

This is the movie Con-Air in Space . . . as only Adam Cain can live it. He's simply hitching a ride aboard a Unidor Prisoner Transport when everything goes to Hell. Now it's Adam Cain against . . . everyone. Too bad for . . . everyone. Adam Cain—AKA: The Human for Hire—has a simple...

A corporate aristocracy descended from Africa rules a colony on a distant planet. Life here is easy—for the rarified and privileged few. The aristocrats enjoy a powerful cybernetic technology that extends their life spans and ensures their prosperity. Those who serve them suffer under a heavy hand. But within this ruthless society are agents of hope and change. In a secret underwater laboratory, a separatist cult has created a threat to the aristocracy. The Primes are highly intelligent, manipulative products of genetic engineering, designed to lead a rebellion.

They once thought dark energy was the ultimate power in the universe. They were mistaken. And now a desperate race is underway to be the first to discover how The Formation helped create life in the universe. But with the power to create life also comes the power to destroy it. This was power even the wise and ancient Aris knew was too great for them to possess. Now imagine what it could do in the hands of a mere mortal...such as Adam Cain. 

Humanity is falling. She has little hope of survival. Charlus Vaughn, a teenage refugee on the run from machine judgement and haunted by her mother's secrets. When a rogue data-pirate crew pulls her from the brink of execution, Charlus finds a place to belong, but something far older and far more dangerous is watching. Entangled in the schemes of an ancient arachnid intelligence, Charlus begins to uncover powers within herself that unravel what she's been told. Her past was hidden for a reason.

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.

Exiled mutants and mind-controlling telepaths invade Human Space. Langston Wheeler is the only thing standing in their way. But the threat is worse than he ever imagined—war is coming, and no one is ready for it. A hero haunted by his past. A woman who has everything. Hard core military science fiction with a dose of forbidden love. Onslaught kicks off the 100% complete seven-book Exile War series.

Some fifty thousand years ago, a race of extraterrestrials visited Earth. In their quest to seed the cosmos with sentience, alien scientists created the first modern humans by altering Homo sapiens’ DNA. However, the alien race’s noble intentions were derailed by greed and power lust, leading to the birth of a galactic slave trade and a war that spanned multiple worlds. In the midst of this chaos, a miscalculation by Domhanian scientists produced a vicious race of giant humans known as the Nefilim.

The powers of chaos are working through the evil leader Helmuth, and his space pirates threaten every civilised world in the galaxy. The Patrol and its Lensmen officers are stretched to capacity trying to fend them off. Lensman Kinnison, is ready to progress to the next stage, and is promoted to the Gray. It may be that this one Gray Lensman is all that stands between chaos and civilisation.