Resultados para "Trouble" en Aventura

Dalton Thorne never asked to be the chosen one. He was just a cargo hauler trying to make a living. Now he's stuck saving humanity whether he likes it or not. Little Earth is finally free from the Consortium's iron grip, but the celebration is short-lived. A mysterious and powerful faction called the Chi Hunters has swept in to fill the void, and they've got grand designs for the galaxy—with Dalton as their unwilling pawn. When a long-hidden fragment of Earth is discovered, Dalton and the crew of the Iron Horse are dispatched on a mission to unite it with Little Earth.

Cassandra Blake, an employee for the Ascension Planetary Holdings Group-the largest and most powerful corporation in Nova Columbia-has gone missing. And her sister wants to know why.

Adventurers journey into the foreboding unknown regions of outer space in these two classic science fiction tales from the Hugo and Nebula Award winning author.

In the four years since he traveled through time to save the world, Quinn Black has settled happily into life as a new space race billionaire, despite the fact he’s no longer able to travel or loop time. But before long, things start to go horribly wrong. The system he created to save the planet mysteriously begins to malfunction. His team receives a cryptic message, and he’s hurled back into the past once again...but with a twist. Now, instead of trying to go back in time, he’s desperate to travel in the other direction and get back to the future.

Dalton Thorne just wanted his cargo ship back. Maybe a bowl of noodles. Definitely some peace and quiet on humanity's newly liberated fragment of Earth. But when Little Earth's miraculous transformation starts turning deadly, he discovers that saving the world was the easy part. Now he has to survive in it. Which would be a lot easier if a faction of powerful beings known as Chi Hunters weren’t hell bent on hunting him down.

Long after Earth's destruction, Humanity is an endangered species ... When freighter pilot Dalton Thorne reunites with his old friend Kota at Little Earth's best noodle shop, he's expecting a straightforward job. Instead, he finds himself embroiled in a centuries-old mystery that could change humanity's place in the universe forever. Little Earth is a decaying city carved into an alien planet where humans live as refugees. Beneath its neon-lit streets and crowded markets lies a secret: fragments of Earth's past, preserved by a mysterious race of aliens and hidden from the ruling Consortium.

An alien thief. A human genius. Which would you trust? From planet Elmar, Kormèr Lezàl has a deep-rooted wanderlust... and a secret: the unique means to travel to any place and any time in the universe. Fleeing from trouble, Kormèr lands far from home, and embarks on a journey unlike any he's had before. Jeransy is a thorny English rose seeking escape from her dystopian, oppressive home. When Kormèr crosses her path, she sees her chance, and she intends to never go back. Anndrew is a bored American teenager seeking a break from her ordinary life.

This series is about the things one would need to do and know to survive a civilization-killing event. The main purpose outside simple entertainment is that if it makes the listener think 'what if?' then it's started working. If it gets the listener doing more than thinking it's done its job. We think if the lights go out for an hour that things are rough- what if they were to go off and not come back on? Do you have food enough to carry you over until you can grow a garden?

In this dazzling new novel, Flinx confirms his status as the galaxy's greatest magnet for big trouble. Wandering out there in some remote region of the galaxy is a gargantuan sentient Tar-Aiym weapons' system. All Flinx has to do - while his pals look after his injured love Clarity Held - is find the hefty object and persuade it to knock out the monstrous evil that is hurtling through space to waste the entire Commonwealth.

When Maria and Clay leave Rio De Sangre one jump ahead of a deadly order of holy warriors, they must strike east to buy each day anew by their wits and the strength of their bond. A sinister band of vampire hunters stalk them up and down the Mississippi, led by an ancient being of immeasurable power. A honeymoon spent on the dodge is no easy thing for the newlyweds, but Maria's growing thirst for blood presents problems all their own.

April Kek and James Wallace have each other—and not a hell of a lot else. Each the only one who understands the other, they're bound together by a friendship that endures everything the future can throw at them: horrific family lives, war, mental illness, bad marriages, and a global monetary system whose value is predicated on never-ending population growth.

Responding to the Federation demand for the planet Kaùsan to become a member of the United Federation of Planets, Counselor Tõkor, his wife, Leanne, and their infant son travel to Vida-7 to negotiate the terms of the agreement. Unknown to them, a powerful consortium plans to use Federation membership to replace the native Kaùsan government and open the planet’s lucrative mining operation to foreign control.

All Cue wanted was to design tech in the basement of Seattle's Superhero headquarters and maybe watch some classic sci-fi with his new telepathic girlfriend, Cogs. Unfortunately, an old flame needs help, and he must strap on his gear and go to the rescue. This time, he'll bring his neurotic robot buddy, Caan, along for backup. It would be easy if it weren't for the drunk teleporter, beast-shifters, a Vegas crime lord, and tangling with a foreign super soldier. Despite his wishes otherwise, it seems that Cue has a Knack for trouble.

Prescott stood to make a young fortune if he could capture a Martian zloor - dead or alive! Was there a catch to it? Only for the hunter!

Captain Rask is broke, hunted, and very nearly out of oxygen. When a botched heist lands him a legendary ship with a damaged AI—and a crew of misfits who can’t agree on breakfast, let alone survival—he does what any half-decent pirate would: runs. But The Meridian is more than a getaway vehicle. It’s carrying secrets the Empire would kill for, and worse—its new passengers might actually start trusting each other.