Resultados para "The Moor" en Ciencia ficción y fantasía

El esperado retorno de Alan Moore a la novela, una oda a Londres y un tour de force lleno de magia e historia que será adaptado a la televisión. Corre el año 1949 en Londres. Entre la niebla tóxica de la ciudad deambula Dennis Knuckleyard, un joven librero especializado en el negocio de segunda mano. Un día, en uno de sus encargos, Dennis descubre un libro que no existe. Es una obra ficticia, creada en una novela. Sin embargo, él la tiene en sus manos. ¿Cómo es posible?

Ellen Ripley regresa a la Tierra sólo para descubrir que LV-426 (el lugar donde la tripulación de la Nostromo se encontró por primera vez con los letales xenomorfos) hasido rebautizada como Aqueronte. Protegidos por los Colonial Marines, los colonos pretenden transformar el planeta azotado por la tormenta. Pese a las brutales condiciones de vida y las luchas diarias en un nuevo mundo, hay humanidad y esperanza. Anne y Russell Jorden son dos de esos colonos que buscan la suerte que no encontraron en la Tierra. Además, esperan a su primer hijo.

En su primer libro de cuentos, que abarca cuarenta años de su trabajo, el legendario creador de "Watchmen", "V de Vendetta", "From Hell" y otros clásicos modernos presenta nueve relatos que se adentran en el componente fantástico que subyace en la realidad. Un grupo de estudio paranormal sufre la infiltración de uno de los seres de otro mundo que pretenden investigar. En un burdel para especialistas fantásticos, dos concubinas se enamoran con consecuencias trágicas. Un anciano nostálgico decide visitar un balneario de su juventud y se topa con su pasado a la vuelta de la esquina.

En el espacio, nadie puede oírte gritar. En esta emocionante presentación original de Audible, Ellen Ripley, la única sobreviviente humana de la nave Nostromo se enfrenta de nuevo con los imparables Xenomorfos: salvajes e inteligentes extra-terrestres conocidos por matar humanos . Cuando su nave de escape, la Narciso llega a la nave minera Marion, ella despierta del híper-sueño a una pesadilla: las temidas criaturas acechan , moviéndose a bordo de un transbordador después de asesinar a su tripulación.

The Avengers journey into deep space, where they unite the intergalactic races against the Builders - deadly aliens who seek to destroy the known galaxy. While the heroes are gone, Thanos sets his sights on Earth, sending the Black Order to launch the assault. It falls to the other heroes of Earth - the Inhumans, the Black Panther, Namor the Sub-Mariner, Doctor Strange, the X-Men, and more - to defend Attilan, Wakanda, Atlantis, and the rest of the planet. To defeat Thanos, the defending forces will need to deploy a new weapon - one that may be as deadly as the invading force.

Ubicada trescientos años después de los eventos de Alien: Desde las sombras y Alien: Rio de Dolor, Alien: Mar de pesares trata del redescubrimiento de los xenomorfos (Aliens) dormidos en las minas abandonadas de LV-178, el planetoide de Alien: desde las sombras que ahora ha sido transformado y llamado 'Nuevo Galveston'.

After technically being dead for twenty-six years, Marcus might be an old dog with some old-school ideas, but he's got some new tricks up his sleeve. Now that he's learned all about the modern world and his new abilities, he's ready to make his move. Thanks to the women he lured to the dark side, he's going to start things off with a bang. That's why he's going to rob a bank. He's ready to put Arch City on notice. There is a new player in town and it's time he got the respect he deserved.

¿Quién no se ha preguntado por la existencia de otros mundos y ha imaginado cómo descubrirlos? Escritos en la primera mitad del siglo XX, los cuentos de Judith Merril, Zenna Henderson, Joanna Russ, Doris Pitkin Buck, Wilmar H. Shiras, C. L. Moore y Mildred Clingerman muestran posibles vías para llegar a ellos.

In the aftermath of the events of Predator 2, US Marine Scott Devlin is assigned to the clean-up operation in Los Angeles. He is soon thrust into a world of secretive government agents, highly-advanced technology, and an unstoppable juggernaut lone agent, Alan "Dutch" Schaefer.

With Pack defeated, Marcus is now King of the Therians, but he quickly learns there is a difference between sitting on the throne of your defeated foe and running a kingdom. Before Pack's body is cold, he faces resistance from the Chosen and needs to find those he can trust among the conquered masses. Balancing expectations while charting a new path for all Therians is more difficult than he expected.

Set 300 years after the events of Alien: Out of the Shadows and Alien: River of Pain, Alien: Sea of Sorrows deals with the rediscovery of dormant Xenomorphs (Aliens) in the abandoned mines of LV-178, the planetoid from Alien: Out of the Shadows, which has now been terraformed and renamed New Galveston. The Weyland-Yutani Corporation, reformed after the collapse of the United Systems Military, continue their unceasing efforts to weaponise the creatures.

In a city haunted by unmarked graves and forgotten names, the cries of the missing refuse to stay silent. Gideon Samuels was once a pastor—until a brutal trafficking network stole the life of a young woman from his community and exposed a darkness deeper than he ever imagined. When the system fails, the law looks away, and the blood of the innocent is buried beneath bureaucracy and lies, Gideon is thrust into a war he never asked for.

In the walled city of Edin, Spike's carefree childhood has always had an end date. His protection from the wasteland of death on the outside is about to change on his 18th birthday. But while only half of the cadets survive their mandatory time on national service, Spike's goal goes far beyond making it out alive. He's betting everything on being chosen as the top candidate, rising to the role of Protector, and securing a spot beside his beautiful best friend.…

War hero Basuin doesn't know what to believe in anymore. All Basuin knows is life as an army captain and the pain, loss, and disgrace it has brought him. Demoted and humiliated by his legion commander, he is led into the forest for one more mission: capture a god. But when his commander uses innocent wolf pups as bait, Basuin dies saving them. The Wolf God, impressed by his sacrifice, deifies Basuin to protect the forest and its beautiful, sharp-tongued god from the legion's deforestation.

A normal, if not rebellious, human, Cameron Dupree has spent the last three years finding his way through a school of the rich and powerful...literally. He's surrounded by the supernatural cream of the crop: children of alpha werewolves, banshees with ties to the United Nations, a faerie princess from another realm of reality, and a teenage succubus who might be the scariest, and sexiest, of them all. Everything is going as great as can be for a vanilla human...until one misstep lands him in trouble with a noble of the Unseelie Fae.

Meet Percy Thunderpops before the Old West turned him into a legend. In this outrageous prequel novella to The Legend of Thunder Pops, Percy is younger, dumber, and livestreaming his way into fitness folklore. Welcome to Thunder Nation Live—the most chaotic workout show ever broadcast to an audience of zero and a future cult of millions.

This audiobook is the official prequel, introducing key concepts that then will explode onto the screen in the movie The Predator. The official prequel novel leads into the summer blockbuster The Predator, Shane Black's new movie set within the universe of the previous films. With a screenplay by Shane Black and Fred Dekker, the film stars Yvonne Strahovski, Boyd Holbrook, Olivia Munn, Alfie Allen, Thomas Jane, Sterling Brown, Keegan-Michael Key, Edward James Olmos, Jake Busey, and more.

As their bond grows and their powers evolve, The Unfortunates will face rogue memories, buried loops, and a predator hiding behind a friendly smile. To survive, they'll need more than bathroom humor and trauma—they’ll need each other.

The people of High Moor are united in horror at the latest tragedy to befall their small town. As dawn breaks, the town is left to count the cost and mourn its dead, while breathing a collective sigh of relief. John Simpson, the apparent perpetrator of the horrific murders, is in police custody. The nightmare is over. Isn't it? Detective Inspector Phil Fletcher and his partner, Constable Olivia Garner, have started to uncover some unsettling evidence during their investigations of John Simpson's past - evidence that supports his impossible claims: that he is a werewolf....

When the Ascension Protocol triggers, the world erupts into chaos as ordinary people suddenly awaken extraordinary abilities. In the aftermath of this cataclysm, society fractures, and the rise of superhumans plunges cities into anarchy.