Resultados para "The Twin" en Ciencia ficción

Melina Franklin was barely 16 when she and her grandfather were kidnapped by an alien trader and sold to an Antrox mining asteroid in deep space. Mistaken for a young boy, she lives the next five years in fear of being found out and sold. She dreams of the day when she and her grandfather will return home.

Barrack and Brogan have memories of their death - and it isn't a pleasant one. When the goddess Aikaterina gives them a second chance at life - and at finding their true mate - they are willing to do whatever it takes to change their destiny. What they don't expect is that it would be so difficult! It turns out their true mate is a human, a species they have limited knowledge about, from a planet they have never visited. With time running out, it doesn't take them long to realize this may be one battle that will take all of their skills to win.

自分たちはいったい何者なのかと問いながら星々を巡るテラとダイオード。宇宙漁師たちの活躍を描く大人気シリーズ、ついに完結！

大人気宇宙SFシリーズ。人類が星々へと拡散した遠未来。故郷の巨大ガス惑星を飛び出して女ふたり、銀河の文明圏を目指すテラとダイオード。

ガス惑星×宇宙漁の物語、第２巻。人類が辺境のガス惑星で生き残るために巨大ロケット宇宙漁技術を編み出したはいいものの、その船を操れるのは男女の夫婦に限ると定められてしまった、遠い未来。

Death was a constant presence in Mya Makade’s life, just like air–invisible, ever-present, assumed. Growing up in the shadow of an impending apocalypse will do that to a person, never mind that everyone she cares about leaves. Mya channels her feelings of loss and abandonment into a singular talent for reimagining life.

1984 by George Orwell and Brave New World by Aldous Huxley are two of the most famous and influential dystopian novels ever written. Both books depict a future world in which individual freedom and privacy are subordinated to the demands of a totalitarian state, and citizens are manipulated and controlled through technology, propaganda, and social conditioning. The two novels have often been compared and contrasted, and both are considered to be among the most important works of literature of the 20th century.

Shea wakes covered in dried blood and bruises, a dark contrast to her pale skin. She also has no memory of the last year of her life. A stranger named John Doe claims to be a friend- and the only person she can trust. The previous year, Shea Murphy is running a team that works on the development of implantable tech hardware. Noticed by the CEO at Crowned Skull Laboratories, she is offered a position that seems too good to pass up. But, every step forward leads deeper into a world she doesn't understand. Now, journeying to the Alaskan wilderness, Shea fights for answers and survival.

Abridged edition. A chilling story of hidden evil, The Third Twin is a heart-stopping, spine-tingling novel from master storyteller and author of Never, Ken Follett. An Impossible Result Jeannie Ferrami, a scientific researcher investigating the behaviour of identical twins who have been raised...

A NEW NOVEL IN THE ICARUS SERIES FROM NEW YORK TIMES BEST-SELLING AUTHOR OF THE ADMIRAL THRAWN STAR WARS NOVELS TIMOTHY ZAHN For years Gregory Roarke and his Kadolian partner Selene worked as crocketts, combing through the atmospheres of uninhabited worlds for places that might be colonized or...

The end of the world didn't come with a bang. It came as a whisper on the breeze.
It could have been any day on Bourbon Street. But it wasn't. It was the day the end began. A sudden mysterious virus sweeps over Orleans Parish and within a matter of hours it seemed that everyone had gone crazy. As the city burns, madness and dissension spread quickly. Desperately trying to identify the root of the illness, mistrust and suspicion surround the scientific community over the murder of a colleague.

Earth is no longer made up of countries and nations. Every bit of land has been privatized, and most of it is owned by five big corporations. Life is hard, and people are struggling. Crime is rampant, and they send serious offenders to Mars to help with the terraforming.

An alien prince needs to produce an heir, and human females are supposed to be pliant and fertile. So he heads to Earth to buy one. But when his perfect match not only refuses to be owned, but also claims to be barren, Arazhi must choose. Will he follow his heart, or fulfill his duty?

When the Intergalactic Dating Agency hires Georgie to plan the first ever human-alien matchmaking soirée, Georgie thinks a charity auction for the local animal shelter will be the perfect icebreaker. But to get the local singles to participate, she has to set an example, so she offers herself as one of the dates. What she doesn't expect is for her alien buyer to be so freakin' hot. A few drinks in, and Georgie finds herself alone on a spaceship with a blue-skinned, musclebound male.

Jacob Miller, a teenager who has lived in the isolated and deeply religious community of New Hope all his life, never believed the old stories about how the devil and his demons would invade their town and carry away souls. Only a few surviving elders could claim to have witnessed these horrors first-hand two generations ago, yet nobody knows for sure what lies beyond the boundaries of New Hope.

He was supposed to be dead, but the man known as Ghost still walks in the land of the living, and now he haunts those who wish to bury the terrible truth about what happened at Area 51. Battle weary, overcome with PTSD and survivor's guilt, and manifesting strange powers, Ghost longs to put his past as a nameless military operative behind him, and begin anew under the assumed identity of Ted Anderson; a man with a history best left buried.

The Doctor has regenerated, having sacrificed his fifth persona to save Peri’s life. But things are not going well... On this occasion the process of regeneration is by no means smooth, for the even-tempered, good-humoured Fifth Doctor has given way to a rather disturbed and unsettled...

Lilibet Trainer is SFL—Single For Life. After getting away from a horrible husband she’s decided to go it on her own. But when an attacker chases her into the arms of two huge Kindred warriors, will she change her mind? Fights Darkness and Treads Lightly—Dark and Light for short—are visiting Earth for the first time. Because emotions are punishable by death on their home world of Z4, they are just now starting to have feelings. And seeing the curvy Lili being chased by an attacker definitely brings up all kinds of new emotions—namely the desire to protect and possess her.

As Jasmine embarks on a thrilling quest to the remote mountains of Tibet, she must learn to trust her intuition and harness her untamed abilities to locate the long-lost Kra-ell royal twins.

Death was a constant presence in Mya Makade’s life, just like air—invisible, ever-present, assumed. Growing up in the shadow of an impending Apocalypse was like that, never mind that everyone she cares about leaves. Mya channels her feelings of loss and abandonment into a singular talent for reimagining life.