Resultados para "The Melody" en Ciencia ficción

The Ultimate Melody was first published in the February 1957 issue of If. Sir Arthur C. Clarke (1917-2008) is regarded as one of the most-influential science fiction writers of all time. He was named a Grand Master by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, and was inducted into the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame.

They call him father, liberator, warlord, Slave King, Reaper. But he feels a boy as he falls toward the war-torn planet, his armor red, his army vast, his heart heavy. It is the tenth year of war and the thirty-third of his life. A decade ago Darrow was the hero of the revolution he believed would break the chains of the Society. But the Rising has shattered everything: Instead of peace and freedom, it has brought endless war. Now he must risk all he has fought for on one last desperate mission. Darrow still believes he can save everyone, but can he save himself?

Childhood therapy cured Stephen Fisher of disturbing visions and the delusion of having come from another world. But when his daughter obsesses over a star in the night sky, he fears that his genetic legacy may have burdened her with the same illness. His sanity is then shattered when he loses his child and the military abducts him claiming that she recorded a song broadcast from another world.

Oxford Street burned for three weeks; the Regent's Park camps have been bombed. Lalla, 16, has grown up sheltered from the new reality by her visionary father, Michael Paul. He has promised Lalla and her mother that they will escape. Escape on a ship big enough to save 500 people. Once onboard, as day follows identical day, Lalla's unease grows. Where are they going?

Lyrek brought his people to earth looking for their abraza; the one woman whose melody resides with their own. If they can’t find at least a spark they will leave and continue their search through the galaxy.

On some days, New York is one of the most beautiful places on Earth. This was one of the other days... Melody Malone, owner and sole employee of the Angel Detective Agency, has an unexpected caller. It's movie star Rock Railton, and he thinks someone is out to kill him. When he mentions the...

Donatella Velargo starred in a galaxy-spanning holodrama called Earth's Melody. She had it all—fame, fortune, drama in front of the camera and behind. Then came "The Scandal," a vendetta from one petty planetary tyrant that got a bounty placed on her and her whole cast.

In the early 1900s, Thomas Edison, Nikola Tesla, and Harry Browning each researched devices to contact the dead through scientific means. Only one of them succeeded.

Caitlin drops into the 21st century, flooding her with relief and not a small amount of confusion. The stone ripped her out of France and threw her into the field where best friend Sean waits. She should be happy to be home but the trauma from events in France haunt her. Worse, subtle changes to the world she left behind unnerves her.

She's a no-holds-barred, kick-butt, don't-cover-the-ugly-parts archaeologist. History wants to teach her a lesson. Sinister Parisian streets greet Caitlin in 1785. With no money, she scrambles to find shelter, settling in tunnels she knows will eventually become the Paris Catacombs. The dark, empty shafts provide protection as she figures out what to do next.

Before Commander Torek Renaar can return to active duty, he’s ordered to purchase an animal companion to help relieve his PTSD symptoms. But having been a caretaker for and lost a loved one, keeping even one little human alive is a challenge he feels doomed to fail. After witnessing the murder of her domestication specialist, Delaney McCormick allows her new owner to treat her like the pet he believes her to be. But in Torek’s care, she finds something unexpected on this planet, something she never had in all her years on Earth while house-hopping between foster families: a home.

On a dying world, salvation lies 87 light-years away. As Naratu's atmosphere fails, geneticist Ayathesti holds the key to her people's survival: creating a hybrid species on a distant planet called Earth. The mission is clear - collect DNA, establish a colony, and secure a steady supply of gold to save their world. But what begins as a desperate bid for survival will unlock an adventure spanning two worlds.

The story of the intellectual and spiritual Astrid Goldstone’s lifetime of loving, devastating loss, and abuse who, in her refuge, is offered an unsurvivable covenant for a noble cause and boldly bargains for an impossible personal demand should she survive. The cat who has become her companion is her only tenuous tether to reality. It’s only through her concern for his well-being that she finds unorthodox help for him and inadvertently for herself so that she can re-live her own harrowing life, fulfill promises and realize all who she is and her very important role in womankind.

Archaeologist Caitlin Benoit’s mind has been left broken from the trauma of time traveling through the centuries. Now unable to grasp the world around her, Elizabeth and John are forced to take the lead as they struggle to meet basic needs while taking cover in the forests.

She's a no-holds-barred, kick-butt, don't-cover-the-ugly-parts archaeologist. History wants to teach her a lesson. Caitlin lands hard on the decks of an infamous ship - with only 24 hours before it sinks, and John is missing. Trapped in 1912 on the Titanic, sand is slipping through the hourglass as she tries to jump ship before it plunges to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean.

The Beacon has been activated, and only a child can challenge what comes through... Astrobiologist Megan McCullough, a member of the council that built the alien device known as the Beacon, now leads an international consortium to detect a second extraterrestrial transmission. What she uncovers defies understanding and thrusts a mysterious church into power. Stevie Fisher, a young boy haunted by dark deeds from a forgotten past, is drawn into a confrontation with an old foe.

When a young White user and her party wander into a high-level zone, things quickly go awry. Now, in order to survive, she is forced to cultivate her strength in a hostile place filled with monsters lurking in every corner. Will Ayana obtain the strength she needs to survive or end up as another skeleton by the wayside?

Wisteria Elken (she/her) has always wanted to be a stellarnaut, to be entrusted with the monumental responsibility of linking the terrestrial world with the millions living in the zero-g environments of spacesteads. To do so, she’ll need to leave the only home she’s ever known and journey to the whirling lights and towering spires of humanity’s greatest metropolis, the City of Poets. One problem. Well, a million problems, but one particularly pressing problem: Wist is transgender.

In a world where scientists have become the new superstars, Rick Hamilton, once a celebrated rock icon, has lost his passion for music amid the clamor of shallow fame. One night, in a haze of disillusionment, a portal from a parallel universe brings back his long-lost college roommate, Andy. The visitation offers Rick a chance to explore a reality where his life took a different turn.

I’m a soldier, the leader of a rebellion. All that matters is my crew and our mission to take down an empire. Until this big, brooding, gold alien commander destroyed my ship. Now he and I are stuck on a planet where everything, even the air, is an aphrodisiac. I should want to kill him. But instead, all I want is him.