Resultados para "Valentino" en Ciencia ficción

Quem você gostaria de encontrar, uma única e última vez, se fosse possível viajar no tempo? Em uma ruazinha estreita e silenciosa de Tóquio, num subsolo, existe um estabelecimento que, há mais de 100 anos, serve um café cuidadosamente preparado. Graças a uma lenda urbana, o local recebe diversos frequentadores que esperam ansiosamente para viver uma experiência única: fazer uma viagem no tempo. Aqueles que retornam ao passado devem estar cientes dos riscos e também das regras.

The planet Majipoor is shared by humans and several alien races, including four-armed Skandars, three-eyed Liiman, and the native, shape-shifting Metamorphs. All are watched over by the King of Dreams, the labyrinth-dwelling Pontifex, and the priestess of the Isle of Sleep, while the Coronal officially rules from atop Castle Mount.

Dark dreams disturb Lord Valentine's sleep, a forewarning of the danger that threatens the peace of Majipoor. The Shapeshifters have set in motion a terrifying plan to regain their stolen world and their allies, the ancient gods rising from their eons-long slumber beneath the oceans of the great planet. Suddenly, Valentine faces the greatest crisis of his reign.

What happens when the apocalypse is over; to love, strained and torn? How do you pick up the pieces, when life stabilises? It's a question our heroes must ask themselves, when they're no longer fighting off swarms of monsters, no longer struggling for Credits and Levels. Valentine's in the Apocalypse is set four years after the System Apocalypse has arrived, between books 5 and 6 of the System Apocalypse and features new characters. The story is set in Vancouver, BC.

Ozark Free Territory, 2071: The Kurian Order has reigned for 50 years. Using the dreaded power of their Reaper avatars, the alien, vampiric Kur hold dominion over the earth and its inhabitants. Yet there are those who would rather die fighting than surrender to the unquenchable thirst of the enemy - those like David Valentine.

Ozark Free Territory, 2071: The Kurian Order has reigned for 50 years. Using the dreaded power of their Reaper avatars, the alien, vampiric Kur hold dominion over the earth and its inhabitants. Yet there are those who would rather die fighting than surrender to the unquenchable thirst of the enemy - those like David Valentine.

After three years of exile from humanity's war against the Kurians, David Valentine returns to battle. The Lifeweavers, Earth's allies in the conflict, have mostly vanished, but those that remain are held captive by an overlord known as the Seattle Kurian. To free them, Valentine must convince the legendary resistance fighter known as Adler to join his cause. But the "Old Man" is something of an overlord himself....

In a valiant rebellion against a half century of occupation by the Kurians, the newly formed Texas Republic and Ozark Free Territory have dealt the vampiric aliens their first major defeat. Resistance member David Valentine is revered as a hero for his part in fighting to regain Earth''s freedom. But a dangerous enemy within his own ranks soon has Valentine facing charges for his handling of the Quisling prisoners - humans who have become pawns of the Kurians in order to survive.

Adrian was born a couple hundred years too late to witness humans ruling the stars. The days of relentless scientific advancement are long gone. Humanity's former cradle has become the birthplace of nightmares, so Adrian lives on a world far from Terra. But Adrian has a secret. His eyes are failing him, and in this age, blindness means death. When the chance arrives to earn a couple quick credits for a new pair of cybernetic eyes, he jumps on it. Only, Adrian gets more than he bargained for.

Ozark Free Territory, 2071: The Kurian Order has reigned for 50 years. Using the dreaded power of their Reaper avatars, the alien, vampiric Kur hold dominion over the Earth and its inhabitants. Yet there are those who would rather die fighting than surrender to the unquenchable thirst of the enemy - those like David Valentine .

It has been three years since David Valentine's forced exile from his friends and allies in the war against the Kurians. But that hasn't stopped him from fighting his own battles and his personal demons. Brought back into the fold by his old teacher, Duvalier, Valentine discovers that the Lightweavers, Earth's allied in the conflict, have all but vanished. Without their aid, mankind cannot possibly stand against the Reapers and other life-forms the Kurians use to subjugate the planet.

In a valiant rebellion against a half century of occupation by the Kurians, the newly formed Texas Republic and Ozark Free Territory have dealt the vampiric aliens their first major defeat. Resistance member David Valentine is revered as a hero for his part in fighting to regain Earth's freedom. But a dangerous enemy within his own ranks soon has Valentine facing charges for his handling of the Quisling prisoners - humans who have become pawns of the Kurians in order to survive.

PARA QUE NOSSAS LEMBRANÇAS JAMAIS SE APAGUEM Aos pés do Monte Hakodate, no norte do Japão, bem no meio de uma ladeira, existe um estabelecimento – assim como o Funiculì Funiculà de Tóquio – onde, apesar das irritantes regras, é possível viajar no tempo. No Café Donna Donna, vamos reencontrar Nagare e Kazu, e conhecer sua adorável filha Sachi, de sete anos. Em Antes que o Café Esfrie 3: a morte não precisa ser o fim da vida, conheceremos quatro pessoas que precisam viver essa experiência.

Os frequentadores do mágico café Funiculì Funiculà conhecem bem a sua. famosa lenda e a extraordinária oferta de uma viagem no tempo. Muitos. clientes já vivenciaram essa incrível experiência, foram até lá com antigas. dores e velhos arrependimentos, fizeram as pazes com familiares queridos. – fizeram, principalmente, as pazes consigo mesmos – e visitaram seus entes. preciosos. Mas essa viagem não é isenta de riscos, e há algumas regras a seguir. Em Antes que o Café Esfrie 4, conheceremos quatro pessoas que precisam. viver essa experiência.

Valentine's last memories were of the brutal last stand on Deimos. It was a battle that costs the lives of thousands, and left the moons of Mars shattered, perhaps never to recover. Valentine lost so much more than just her life. She watched her friends and comrades fall one by one, with many sacrificing themselves in vain to stoop the onslaught until she too fell in battle. They might be gone, but a Nova never really dies. Broken and dying, she has been patched together like so many times before. Valentine has little idea of where she ends and the machine begins.

Le Regine del Giallo si ritrovano in un mondo che non è il loro. Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, Patricia Highsmith e molte altre autrici del passato ricevono in dono uno specchio, consegnato da un fattorino che svanisce nel nulla. Quel semplice oggetto le catapulta nel ventunesimo secolo. Ad accompagnarle c’è Emma, una misteriosa viaggiatrice del tempo.

Cast out by humanity yet burdened with a conscience, Sheni Dupont wouldn’t say he’s found his calling in space piracy. But in the cramped and rusty halls of the ship he shares with reptilian captain Gecki, starfish pilot Xotl and the weird green enigma known only as Alan, he may have found a home. So when a loan shark threatens to repossess their ship if they don’t pay back the credits they’ve borrowed, the crew of the Silver Hart are forced to take the only job going – stealing a crystal egg from a backwater planet on the brink of cosmic destruction.

At just 8 years old, Aaron Sharma’s life was forever changed. After a tragic accident, his father—a brilliant scientist and neuroscience professor—implanted a revolutionary brain chip in his son’s mind to save his life. This experimental device unlocked extraordinary abilities: unmatched intelligence, the power to command supercomputers and quantum systems, and a mysterious connection to the universe’s deepest enigmas. But Aaron’s gift is also a burden.

Often described as an alchemical allegory, John Crowley instead decided this is "the first science fiction novel". After all, "it's fiction; it's about the possibilities of a science; and it's a novel". No matter what else it might be, it's definitely one of the great outlandish stories in Western literature.

Blighted by phonophobia, a history student takes refuge from the London din in a quiet bookshop off Charing Cross Road. There he makes a chance discovery: an old scrap of paper hidden in a dusty book. On that scrap is a code hiding a lost musical score - the last work of the evil Anton Valderberg Drache! With Halloween approaching, the student races to unlock the mystery, unaware of the supernatural powers he is about to unleash.