Resultados para "The Trail" en Ciencia ficción

The sudden rising waters of a climate apocalypse have destroyed most of the planet…yet out of these waters, Dinétah, a former Navajo reservation, has been miraculously reborn. Listen along as Tanis Parenteau's impeccable narration, capturing the rhythms of Navajo speech, fully envelopes you into the Sixth World. Trail of Lightning follows our heroine as she walks the land alongside gods, heroes of legend, and monsters alike.

Ryan Cawdor is gunned down and left for dead by the new Provisional US Army, commanded by a brilliant general with a propensity for casual mass murder and a vision to rebuild America. Waging war from his pre-Dark, fusion-powered armored locomotive, he's poised to unlock the secrets of the Gateways — as the rest of Ryan's group stand powerless. All except one. Hope may be lost for Krysty Wroth. But revenge is enough.

Jenny and Megan went on the bird-watching expedition to get some much needed R&R. But when they hit the trails they find nothing but an eerie silence and dead birds on the ground. Investigating further, the two young Biology students can find no explanation for the lack of life until they stumble upon the decayed body of a dead man.... Who then springs to life....

She must leave her home with almost no supplies when she is attacked by a neighbor. Now she's forced to set out on the Appalachian Trail with only her backpack, two guns, and a turkey carving knife. Will it be enough for one woman alone in the wilds? On a mission to find safety and a place to survive, Beth finds others in an unlikely trio struggling to find a new life. A young girl, mute with eyes blue as glass; a convict with a rage against evil; and a dog left abandoned by the merciless virus.

In this adventure, pirates have cracked the security of the Solar Alliance and war has broken out in space. Tom, Roger and Astro are trapped tight in the center of all the action when Tom goes undercover on the pirate leader's spaceship. In their most dangerous and action-packed adventure, yet, the cadets must save the Solar Alliance and themselves.

Lynne McBriar swore her vintage trailer would stay in a museum where it would be safe from further time travel. But when a museum in Texas wants to borrow it, she determines that she must deliver it herself. Her husband Kurt convinces her to take it along Route 66 for research he is doing. What starts out as a family vacation soon turns deadly.

Grand Adventures is pulled from The Urantia Book-inspired Urtu 313 series as a stand-alone short story. Follow Mason and Bella from Rantulia to Earth and beyond! Great fun and a great, quick listen!

In the newest volume of this exhilarating series, Eric Flint continues to reshape American history, imagining how a continent and its people might have taken a different path to its future. With 1824: The Arkansas War, he spins an astounding and provocative saga of heroism, battlefield action, racial conflict, and rebellion as a nation recovering from war is plunged into a dangerous era of secession. Filled with fascinating insights into some of America’s most intriguing historical figures, 1824: The Arkansas War confirms Eric Flint as a true master of alternate history.

In this alternate history of the American frontier and the Jacksonian era, a small change takes place in the Battle of the Horseshoe Bend during the War of 1812. What results is a cascade of new developments that becomes an avalanche. In our world, Ensign Sam Houston, just turned 21, led the charge on the creek barricade in that battle and almost died from a terrible wound that took him a year to recover from. In this world, his wound is minor, so he is able to continue fighting the British—and develop his close relationship with Andrew Jackson much sooner.

The Terran Republic is falling apart. Former colonies declare their independence, plunging the galaxy into chaos. In a devastating battle, the Terran star cruiser Proxima barely escapes the combat zone. On the retreat, the Proxima fights for survival and becomes a pawn in a confusing war. But Captain Zadiya Ark and her crew have no idea that fate has even harsher blows in store for them...

A century and a half after the Martian Separatist Wars, and the final defeat of insane terrorist leader El Ahmi, Alexander Moore returns to the stars with the Sienna Madira, a United States Navy supercarrier spacecraft outfitted with advanced FTL and endlessly strange, extremely effective, quantum-based weapons and remote sensing technology. And, of course, he's brought marines and lots of them.

A 1937 vintage camper trailer half hidden in weeds catches Lynne McBriar's eye when she is visiting an elderly friend, Ben. Ben eagerly sells it to her and she just as eagerly embarks on a restoration. But after each remodel, sleeping in the trailer lands Lynne and her daughter Dinah in a previous decade - exciting, yet frightening. Glimpses of their home town and ancestors 50 or 60 years earlier is exciting and also offers some clues to the mystery of Ben's lost love.

St Mary's is back and is facing a battle to survive in this, the fourth installment of the Chronicles. Max and Leon are re-united and looking forward to a peaceful lifetime together. But, sadly, they don't even make it to lunchtime. The action races from 17th century London to Ancient Egypt and from Pompeii to 14th century Southwark as they're pursued up and down the timeline.

Doctor Anna Hastings is no stranger to disasters, having spent much of her career as an aid worker in conflict zones around the world. Yet when an electrical phenomenon known as an EMP brings down the power grid, Anna faces catastrophe on a scale she never imagined. She must learn what it means to be a doctor in a world deprived of almost all technology.

Captain Tee de Klerk, Space Guard, is headed to Europa—It’s a five-year sleep. Someone has already tried to kill him. He’s trying to figure out how splyme is getting from its home, under the ice to the black market on Earth. The market is worth trillions, and why wouldn’t it be? The splyme organism unlocks vestigial senses in humans unused in eons. Chief among them is the ability to see emotions represented as colors and patterns on living skin.

The legend dates back to Roman times, at least: a great White Worm, as wide as a man, slithers out of the rocks of the Dark Peak Gap to take animals, sometimes even children, for its food. When the Doctor and Leela arrive in the wilds of Derbyshire only to get caught up in the hunt for a missing girl, they soon discover that the legend of the Worm is very much alive - even now, in 1979. Worse still, it seems that the Doctor isn't the only renegade Time Lord on the trail of this deadly and mysterious Worm....

Follow Spike as he struggles against the demons of war that are chasing him and descends into a hell that he may not find his way out of. Can there ever really be any peace for him or others with the Alliance growing in power and determined to bring the devastated nation to its knees? Will he be sucked into the dark abyss? Or will he come back stronger? Find out.

Brian, Spike, Beth, and Sarah face their biggest challenge yet. Their journey so far has been fraught with peril. Can they do what it takes to keep their community from being overtaken by the Alliance? Their choices are simple: Stay and fight or abandon the compound and run. If they run, the Alliance will track them down. Staying they will face an enemy that outnumbers and outguns them. All the odds are against them...and time is running out.

Brian must act. Beth lay injured, Sarah is missing, and Brian faces the incredible challenge of rescuing his favorite blue-eyed girl. Beth is cared for by those at the compound; he leaves with Jessie and Spike to find Sarah. Bobby proves to be crazier, more dangerous, and evil than Brian could ever imagine. Can he save Sarah, keep Beth safe, and help keep the compound from falling to the Alliance? How many have to die in this battle with Bobby and his Alliance?

A routine air medevac mission turns deadly when an electro-magnetic pulse (EMP) renders most technology useless in an instant. National Guard flight medic Julia Song and her crew crash-land deep in the rugged Maine wilderness. With limited resources, no way to call for help, and no rescue in sight, it’s up to Julia to get her wounded crew home alive.