Resultados para "Was" en Ciencia ficción

Alexis Spencer will use any inspirational quote to rationalize her failures and shortcomings. Her closest friends are a distant memory, and her college debt is still as high as the day she left. But that’s all fine and dandy, because “whatever will be, will be.” However, when Alexis loses her job and her relationship on the same day, there’s no quote strong enough to get her through that. In typical fashion, she blames the world for her problems, including her younger self, who should have tried harder.

A quirky English chap with a taste for fine scotch, Dr. Phineas Templeton builds a time machine at the behest of his mysterious benefactor. His mission? To meet Jesus Christ Himself, and garner all of the fame, recognition, and accolades that writing an epic time travelogue would bring. Unfortunately for Finny, Jesus is actually a fellow time traveler, a hippie named Trent from Colorado in the future. While Trent explains that the past is fixed and immutable, Dr. Templeton realizes that he's made a horrible oversight in his calculations, and can't return to his own time period.

Join Nathaniel Alloyway, one of the last two earthlings, on a Noverecian odyssey away from humanity's last refuge, the continent of Gera. Despite technological wonders and genetic enhancements, the colonists face an underestimated loss with the disappearance of its best, the loaders, during a daring rescue expedition.

Als die Gaming-Junkie Silver am Vorabend ihres sechzehnten Geburtstages nicht nach Hause kommt, machen Kate und Keke sich auf die Suche, um sie zu finden. Es ist eine gefährliche Reise durch eine Stadt mitten in einem aufflammenden Bürgerkrieg. Eingehüllt in Elektrosmog und Panik wurde sie von Selbstschutz Bot-Jägern übernommen, als ein gewalttätiger KI-Aufstand jeden in Gefahr bringt, den Kate liebt, hauptsächlich Mally und seine Anthrobot-Freundin.

FNH Audio presents a reading of this classic science fiction story, lifted directly from the pages of the April, 1930 issue of Astounding Stories of Super-Science. Astounding Stories was a magazine that had its zenith during the "classic" age of science fiction. This short tells contains all the classic elements of such stories: a brave protagonist, an evil enemy, and amazing Super Science. Set in the backwoods of the United States during a cold dark night, a stranger has a horrid tale to tell.

As her brother lies in a coma after a near-fatal car accident, twenty-two-year-old Grace Brighton climbs the Hollywood Sign to make a desperate wish for his recovery. She loses her footing and plummets to the ground below—only there is no impact. Instead, she finds herself the center of attention at a film studio . . . in 1953 Hollywood. Everyone believes she's Alice Montgomery, a rising star she bears an eerie resemblance to, who disappeared just days earlier.

Almost 400 years the Terran Imperium has languished, an Empire in name only. The young colonies exploded out of the Diaspora Era, supplanting the homeworld in importance as they left a broken world in their wake. Earth's people, guided by the Conwin line, have clawed and climbed from the darkness left the night the lights went out. They built and rebuilt the weary and weakened world they inherited, even when it seemed bent on killing them from sheer spite.

Extra! Extra! Read all about it! The Empire State Building has vanished into thin air! Gone, too, are Grant’s Tomb and Grand Central Station, and all hell is breaking loose in New York City! What’s the story? One grizzled old newspaper reporter known simply as Pop - a role made for Walter Matthau - is on top of it...and better stay there, because his livelihood is on the line. If Pop fails to get to the bottom of the vanishing landmarks, his job will disappear as well - and land in the hands of the newspaper publisher’s son-in-law.

Canna III is a water planet with a single large island. The island is bordered by a high cliff. Civilians irrigating the land has caused issues where soil and bedrock meet. The land has been turned into a saltwater swamp, turned upside down. The swamp is sliding into the ocean, taking inhabitable land with it. Compounding the problem is a fuel leak from underground tanks threatening to detonate. Two Colonial Survey troubleshooters have been called to the planet to try and rectify the situation.

HARLIE is the first self-aware intelligence engine. But instead of answers, he has questions—too many questions, and most of his questions have no answers at all. First published in 1972, When HARLIE Was One was immediately hailed as a groundbreaking debut novel, examining the most fundamental question of all: What does it mean to be human?

Things are disappearing. Parts of buildings, parts of people, parts of the whole world - they’re here today, gone tomorrow. Old Shellback thinks he needs glasses. But all he really has to do is open his eyes...and see the light. Or so says George Smiley - otherwise known as the Messiah. George claims that the reason things are vanishing is because he wants them to go away. He has no more use for the world...and so it goes. Say goodbye. But Old Shellback has a different idea, and since he is the most stubborn man in the universe, you might want to hear him out.

It was supposed to be an easy jaunt to observe the stick-like aliens of Deep Valley Universe. But Ansegwe - perpetual student, aspiring poet, and scion of the (allegedly criminal) Varayla Syndicate - well, he just has to ruin everything. As everyone knows, Ansegwe may have sensibility, but he’s not long on sense. When a weird, twitchy little creature attaches itself to him, Ansegwe violates every protocol in the handbook to save its life. Finding himself in all kinds of trouble, Ansegwe needs to make some serious life changes, starting with that complicated family of his.

Once There Was a Way: What if The Beatles Stayed Together? is a story of another reality, the one we wish had happened, where the Fab Four chose to work it out rather than let it be. This book is no mere fairy tale but a chronicle crafted from the people and events of our own history, shaped to create a brand-new narrative in which John, Paul, George, and Ringo find a way to stay friends and keep the band together. Imagine there was more. Lots more. It's easy if you try.

Fountain of Youth, or Valley of Death? While eating his supper of microwave popcorn, PhD student-genius Salinger Jacobs is grabbed from his apartment in California, stuck on a C-130 military plane, and sent to the Sahara Desert to witness the reality of the ZOO for himself. With the life expectancy of untrained scientists working inside the ZOO measured in hours, he has a lot to learn. Fast. First order of business? How do you shoot a gun, and just how much is that plant worth? 

Was wir suchten, war ein Zuhause. Was wir fanden, verändert alles. Ein Roman über Aufbruch, Vertrauen – und das Geheimnis der eigenen Herkunft. Dort, wo Sterne verblassen, beginnt ein neuer Traum – auf einem fremden Planeten, fern der Erde. 350 Pioniere und die Crews der Orion, Titan und Silberpfeil wagen den Neubeginn. Admiral Lothar und Kerstin betreten Neuland – entschlossen, eine neue Heimat zu schaffen. Doch in den Tiefen der Welt lauert ein Rätsel, das alles infrage stellt.

Returning with his distinctive brand of unsettling fiction, J. R. Hamantaschen presents a new collection of unsettling and dark tales. These 11 stories refuse to shy away from the profound depths of human desperation and unyielding perseverance. Echoing the voices of weird fiction legends like Thomas Ligotti, H. P. Lovecraft, and Chuck Palahniuk, Hamantaschen’s narratives are a masterful blend of the uncanny and the profoundly insightful. Prepare for a journey that challenges the boundaries of dark fiction and leaves you questioning your sanity.

Die Zurückweisung durch seine Jugendliebe Heike hat Jörg Köster nie überwinden können. Dies ist der Antrieb für ihn, der mächtigste Mann Central States zu werden, um sie dann doch noch für sich gewinnen zu können. Mit seiner Promotion, die ein bahnbrechendes wirtschaftliches Konzept für die Praxis entwickelt, und der Realisierung dieses Konzepts gelangt er zu Reichtum, Ansehen und Macht. Doch sein größter Coup folgt dann. Mit Hilfe seines Einflusses in der Politik gelingt es ihm, Gesetzesänderungen herbeizuführen, die den Verkauf von "Zeitschellen" erlauben.

It was just supposed to be a small, friendly prepper group get-together for some fun in the sun at an Airbnb in Panama City, Florida. However, what it turned into was a mega disaster so large that the attendees, even with their survivalists’ mindsets, had difficulty fathoming its scope and coping with it. The electrical grid was shut down, with no communications and no return flights back home for many of the guests the host had invited. Space weather wasn’t the culprit, so what was impacting the technological world so decisively?

Deep Space One was sent on a one-way mission to save the people of Earth. Their mission was to find a new home for the survivors of a dying planet. They trusted each other and in the importance of their mission. What they found out en route was not expected, and the information they learned changed everything for them and the people they left behind.

Brought to you by Penguin. Marc Spector and Venom engage in a battle of wills in the next adventure of an epic multiversal series reimagining iconic Marvel origin stories. So many worlds, so little time. Infinite possibilities, creating infinite realities. Long have I watched Marc Spector cheat...