Resultados para "Twist" en Ciencia ficción

A devastating injury takes Titan's arm and leg, but a chance encounter with a woman in the Wasteland sees them replaced with a bionic set. These are no simple metal limbs. His body speaks with him. The alien presence forces a bond that he struggles to accept. Changes him in ways he doesn't understand, making him fear he's losing sight of himself. Riella has been looking for acceptance her whole life. However, certain skills make her not only valuable but hunted. If she were to fall into the wrong hands, or decide to fight back, she might hold the key to bringing down the Emerald Queen.

Twenty years ago a deadly virus swept the globe, ravaging the population. People died and came back as monsters, and through the tragedy that rocked the world, survivors were born.

Three years ago, Rosalind Courtenay stumbled from the 19th century to the 21st, where she has been trapped ever since, leaving her husband and infant son behind. Now she's found her way back. The problem, of course, is how to explain her absence to her husband. Does he think she abandoned him? Has he remarried? Is he happy in a new life? Rosalind decides to don a disguise in hopes of answering her questions before showing up on his doorstep. Instead, a twist of fate has her mistaken for her young son's new governess.

Emry's devotion to her husband never sways, but the pull between her and Theo may be too much. The three of them battle the laws of nature, wanting a happy ending on their own terms. When challenges arise that threaten everyone's future, both men decide their love for Emry might just change the rules.

Former FBI agent Kendra Donovan's attempts to return to the 21st century have failed, leaving her stuck at Aldridge Castle in 1815. And her problems have just begun: in London, the Duke of Aldridge's nephew Alec - Kendra's confidante and lover - has come under suspicion for murdering his former mistress, Lady Dover, who was found viciously stabbed with a stiletto, her face carved up in a bizarre and brutal way.

An ordinary mom from Earth, thrust into the life of an evil mistress...A kindred warrior, desperate to save his people...Can they restore Malik's world? Or will the two of them become trapped in a reality which has become forever...twisted? Nikki Davis is having a terrible time. Her three sons are in trouble in school, and her husband is divorcing her, while a nasty coworker steals her best commissions at work. Is it any wonder she's thinking of offing herself? But when she steps into the foaming surf of Clearwater Beach, she feels something hard under her foot.

In this collection of short stories, you’ll meet vampires, zombies, elves, and aliens. You’ll step into an old haunted house. You’ll even witness a trial of the Kafkaesque sort, set in the distant year 2668. But you’ll never guess how any of these stories are going to end. Twisted Tales from the Northwest are chilling, subtle stories of latent horror. There’s not much blood spilt, but still, maybe you should refrain from listening to this one at night.

The sea is the only life Juan's ever known - not counting the decade he spent as a vampire. Those years gave him a healthy aversion for anything supernatural, but he's a shifter now. It's way better than being one of the undead, but he still doesn't trust magic. Paired up with Aura to teach him, he falls and falls hard, but she spurns his advances.

Since he was crippled by rebel treachery on Sixty-Three Nineteen, Maloghurst the Twisted has continued to serve Warmaster Horus as his closest aide and confidant. His loyalty has remained constant, but the XVI Legion has changed. Rivalry and personal ambition run rife, and although Horus' authority is supreme, his equerry's is certainly not. When a daemonic plot to infest the Vengeful Spirit comes to light, Maloghurst reluctantly turns to the few allies he has left: the mysterious Davinites.

Twisted Life is a heartfelt love story of pain, despair, and loss. The main character only wants a normal life but can not have one because of an alien species called the insectoid's that seem to be manipulating everything going on in his life. They are the ones behind his time travel ability's and seem to point him in the direction that they want him to go in their experiment. There's fast action, a bit of fun, and lots of imagination in this story of time travel.

Lyrica is the usual final year university student, except that she has the ability to see Rifts–portals to other worlds in this Universe. When her acquaintance Basil, a time-travelling archaeologist from the future shows up and needs her help, well, why would she resist the call of adventure? But what of these new aliens that have joined their group–will they draw Lyrica out of her self-justified, self-imposed loneliness? What will happen when the adventure turns more dangerous than anticipated?

"I'm a time pirate - born in 1810, now a 21st-century woman. I travel through time trying to right wrongs without disrupting the fragile balance between what is and what can never be. That's why it's vital that I go to 1836 and find the man who conned my brother out of his Time Travel Mechanism as quickly as possible. If the technology falls into the wrong hands, it could change the world as we know it."

Discover ten unforgettable short stories that will captivate your imagination, challenge your thoughts, and take you on a journey through the unexpected. In this genre-spanning anthology, each story begins with a single striking image and unfolds into a vivid world of adventure, emotion, and intrigue. Whether you're a fan of science fiction, fantasy, dark humor, or philosophical musings, this collection offers something for everyone.

When the daughter of Greece's premier singer fails to sing as expected, she finds out about a biker group of women. But will she manage to find the elusive Orosa, the bikers' motovlogger, when all she has to go on are random street-sightings of criminal behavior, when her family is opposed to her following this path, and when her dad's employer wants to keep her as she was for marketing purposes?

Joe Slade is a detective with a hot lead and no idea where he is. Fallen from the world of fiction, Joe journeys through a hellscape of conflicting happy endings. There, he must confront the story–and the life–he left behind. His last chance to escape his fictional existence is to navigate an impossible labyrinth of genre tropes and reunite with his mentor Ellodrine, a wizard who suffers from reinterpretation. Their quest will take them through genres dark and deadly: Treacherous Spy Fiction, Gothic Horror, Gritty Cyberpunk, Urban Fantasy, and others too terrible to tell.

What if aliens were to invade our planet, stealthily and determinedly, in order to rid it of its human population and prepare it for the needs of their own reptilian race? Would they come surging out of their spaceships, bent on the immediate murder of everyone in their path? Not if they were smart enough to have reached our solar system in the first place. Instead, they'd transport themselves to the seats of government power and see to it that we did away with ourselves, using our own methods.

The end of civilization is fast approaching, and the family in the remote cottage in the woods is ready. They are prepared for anything that may happen--except for the one thing that nobody predicted. Against the background of the Coronavirus pandemic another, more sinister threat is slowly gripping the world. Will the people find out before it's too late?

A desperate scientist's radical attempt to cure his dying daughter unleashes an ancient, predatory potential within humanity, forcing him to confront a shadowy conspiracy and the monstrous consequences of playing God before his creation reshapes the world. Dr. Marcel Johnston, a brilliant scientist driven by the imminent loss of his terminally ill daughter, Calista, stakes everything on Project Fledge—a revolutionary serum designed to unlock humanity's ultimate potential and conquer disease.

SHORT STORY: A very short story about the cost of cutting down a tree. I Came Home From Saving the Rainforest is one of six short solarpunk stories in the Halfway to Better collection. If you enjoyed the optimistic climate solutions in Kim Stanley Robinson's Ministry for the Future or the cozy cooperative future in Becky Chambers' Monk and Robot series, you will enjoy Halfway to Better.

SHORT STORY: At the bottom of the sea, a trawler crawls across an abyssal plain, carefully cleaning microplastics off the ancient mineral-rich nodules, when the crew finds something that shouldn't be possible. Slimy Things Did Crawl is one of six short solarpunk stories in the Halfway to Better collection.