Resultados para "Vox" en Ciencia ficción y fantasía

Jean McClellan è diventata una donna di poche parole. Ma non per sua scelta. Può pronunciarne solo cento al giorno, non una di più. Anche sua figlia di sei anni porta il braccialetto conta parole, e le è proibito imparare a leggere e a scrivere. Perché, con il nuovo governo al potere, in America è cambiato tutto. Jean è solo una dei milioni di donne che, oltre alla voce, hanno dovuto rinunciare al passaporto, al conto in banca, al lavoro. Ma è l'unica che ora ha la possibilità di ribellarsi.

Written by number one New York Times best-selling author Marieke Nijkamp, Critical Role: Vox Machina - Kith & Kin follows a brand-new story, featuring the cunning ranger Vex'ahlia and the conning rogue Vax'ildan (and, of course, Trinket) years before they meet Vox Machina. After leaving the unwelcoming refuge of Syngorn, the twins become entangled in a web spun by the Clasp, and for the first time Vex and Vax find themselves on opposite sides of a conflict that threatens the home they have carried with each other for years. 

Ihr könnt uns die Wörter nehmen, aber zum Schweigen bringt ihr uns nicht! Als die neue Regierung anordnet, dass Frauen ab sofort nicht mehr als einhundert Wörter am Tag sprechen dürfen, will Jean McClellan diese wahnwitzige Nachricht nicht wahrhaben - das kann nicht passieren. Nicht im 21. Jahrhundert. Nicht in Amerika. Nicht ihr. Schon bald jedoch kann Jean ihren Beruf als Wissenschaftlerin nicht länger ausüben. Schon bald wird ihrer Tochter Sonia in der Schule nicht länger Lesen und Schreiben beigebracht. Sie und alle Mädchen und Frauen werden ihres Stimmrechts, ihres Lebensmutes, ihrer Träume beraubt.

An engineer, she designed and built bleeding edge combat starships, the kind that kept Earth safe from alien invasion. Focused on her work, she lost her fiancé and her job on the same day. She volunteered to be matched to a Mahdfel warrior. Being in space with the warrior aliens was the only way to pursue her research. Face to face with her muscular new husband, their instant chemistry took her breath away. Falling into bed was easy but falling in love? And what were they going to do now that she was pregnant?

Christina Dalcher nous offre avec "Vox" un roman dystopique glaçant qui rend hommage au pouvoir des mots et du langage. Jean McClellan est docteure en neurosciences. Elle a passé sa vie dans un laboratoire de recherches, loin des mouvements protestataires qui ont enflammé son pays. Mais, désormais, même si elle le voulait, impossible de s'exprimer : comme toutes les femmes, elle est condamnée à un silence forcé, limitée à un quota de 100 mots par jour.

Jean McClellan spends her time in almost complete silence, limited to just 100 words a day. Any more, and a thousand volts of electricity will course through her veins. Now the new government is in power, everything has changed. But only if you’re a woman. Almost overnight, bank accounts are frozen, passports are taken away and 70 million women lose their jobs. Even more terrifyingly, young girls are no longer taught to read or write.

THE NATIONAL BESTSELLER ONE OF ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY'S AND SHEREADS' BOOKS TO READ AFTER THE HANDMAID'S TALE “[An] electrifying debut.”—O, The Oprah Magazine “The real-life parallels will make you shiver.”—Cosmopolitan Set in a United States in which half the population has...

Carter. I couldn't remember the last time I'd craved the touch of a living person so badly. This woman was irresistible to me, and yet I couldn't allow myself to have her. Supernaturals like her didn't belong with a thing like me. While I didn't take the souls of the dead to the afterlife or drag the evils of the world into Hell, I did something much worse. For her safety, it was paramount for me to stay away. Then, her father came to me, demanding I bring her home. As a member of the vampire council, telling him to go shove it wasn't an option nor a war I wanted to wage.

Rin Yamada, a struggling writer, wakes up to find himself trapped inside his own failed novel— The Emperor's False Consort . But instead of arriving as the protagonist, he's been reincarnated as Prince Kael Varenth, the story's doomed anti-hero who is sentenced to death for treason. In his own writing, Kael dies at the hands of Emperor Aldric Varenth, his former lover, now turned ruthless ruler. But faced with execution, Rin refuses to accept his fate. Using his knowledge of the plot, he fights to change his destiny and uncover the true traitor behind the empire's downfall—Duke Reynard Hale.

In this lighthearted, sci-fi homage to the late, great, P.G. Wodehouse, Bertram Wooster stumbles upon his own, deceased doppelganger. Jeeves, upon being asked his assessment of the situation, remarks upon the body's "most unfortunate" choice of attire.

When the Fenris system is overrun by the forces of Chaos, the Imperium rallies to its defence, and Space Marines from many Chapters arrive to lend their aid to the beleaguered defenders. The battle to reclaim the worlds of the Space Wolves is waged on many levels - in space, on land and in the very seas themselves. A Space Wolf and a Dark Angel must join forces when the rest of their strikeforce is slaughtered by daemons, deep underground.

Brought to you by Penguin. Celebrate a decade of Critical Role with this anthology featuring the perspectives of ten characters who fought alongside – and against – Vox Machina, with a foreword by cast member Liam O’Brien. In these ten stories, see the legendary adventuring party anew...

One choice could cost him everything. His career. His family. His soul. Captain Flick Alastar has always been a man of duty, sacrificing his own desires for the greater good of his people in Zanther. As he stands on the brink of securing his future as High Inquisitor, he believes that he has finally found the stability and protection he has fought for. But then he meets Anca Cassy, a woman who challenges everything he thought he knew about himself and the world around him. Anca is a follower of the outlawed god HaMelech, a deity that Flick and his people have been taught to fear and despise.

What if your deepest desires and buried regrets could sculpt reality? What if the universe mirrored your soul's unseen landscapes? Skeptical journalist Evan Carter, haunted by tragedy, and brilliant scientist Dr. Lara Hayes, seeking consciousness's secrets, collide at the Nexus, an experimental quantum field. A catastrophic surge pulls them into a "dual Trance," trapping their consciousnesses in a boundless realm where thought shapes matter and memories become terrifyingly vivid.

In 2205, Earth’s ruin drives Dr. Alex Reynolds to chase quantum salvation—until his navigation module shatters in orbit, plunging into Dr. Rally Thompson’s ocean sanctuary. His frantic dive to reclaim it sparks a clash with her fierce vow to shield life, their voices crackling through the deep: “Time’s my stakes!”—“Life’s worth more!” Then Dr. Harry Chen, a Zen-steeled astronomer, unveils Elythia—a golden enigma beyond Neptune—his meditative gaze piercing the cosmos to summon them aboard the Stellar Dawn.

Woltans Pläne gehen auf und er ist seinem Ziel so nah wie nie zuvor. Tief in den Wäldern bereitet Mira sich darauf vor, die eisigsten Wochen des Jahres allein zu überstehen. Sie ahnt nicht, dass sich die Ereignisse in der Hauptstadt überschlagen. Schildmaiden und Waldfrauen, Clans und Bauern, sie alle müssen entscheiden, auf wessen Seite sie stehen, während die Tage wieder länger werden.

Erlebe nordische Fantasy in Höchstform mit dem Auftakt der Lyrén-Saga über vier Frauen, die über sich hinauswachsen müssen, um die härteste Probe ihres Lebens zu bestehen. Die Autorin lebt seit 15 Jahren in Norwegen und verwebt auf clevere Weise nordisches Mittelalter mit epischen Fantasy-Elementen. Hinweis: Eine Karte von Lyrén und ein Glossar der verwendeten norwegischen Ausdrücke findest du auf der Autorenseite elinpmortensen.com/hoerbuch/. Klappentext: Mira steht kurz davor, als Schildmaid in die Leibwache der Königin aufgenommen zu werden, die sogenannte Hirde.

Er muss eine magische Welt heilen, um die Liebe seines Lebens zu retten. Dabei glaubt Siegfried überhaupt nicht an Magie. Schließlich arbeitet er bei einer Versicherung und ist überzeugter Logiker. Aber eines Tages überrascht ihn seine Frau Veronique mit der Information: Liebling, ich komme gar nicht von der Erde, sondern von der magischen Welt Vancor. Bitte was? Doch es kommt noch dicker: Angeblich ist die Welt Vancor krank und liegt im Sterben - und Siegfried soll der einzige sein, der sie retten kann. Und damit auch Veronique, denn sie wird sterben, wenn Vancor stirbt.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER Explore the past of Critical Role’s daring half-elf twins, Vex’ahlia and Vax’ildan, in this original prequel novel to their adventures with Vox Machina. Vex and Vax have always been outsiders. A harsh childhood in the elite elven city of Syngorn quickly taught...

Celebrate a decade of Critical Role with this anthology featuring the perspectives of ten characters who fought alongside—and against—Vox Machina, with a foreword by cast member Liam O’Brien. In these ten stories, see the legendary adventuring party anew through the eyes of some of the...