Résultats pour "Adam" dans Anthologies et nouvelles

After learning he has only months to live, Gemini Fowler is granted one shot to cheat death when a billionaire game-developer offers to transfer his consciousness into a virtual realm using a technology that could end death as we know it. The catch: The only current VR with the capability to receive him is the unreleased video game, Enora Online, and Gemini must survive until level ten or be completely wiped from the servers… and existence.

A collection of the year’s best science fiction and fantasy short fiction selected by Olivie Blake, author of the bestselling Atlas Series, and series editor John Joseph Adams. The Best American series, launched in 1915, is the premier annual showcase for the country’s finest short fiction...

The day after Hugo gains access to magic, his train explodes. Unknown magic flings him back in time, and he narrowly avoids death this time. While he is trying to unravel the mystery of this unexpected second chance, life goes on. His new gifts lead him to the magic academy. At the school, he will face off against noble students that don’t want him to be there, teachers that expect him to already know everything, and literal monsters that want to kill him. To survive and thrive he will need weapons, friends, and a healthy danger sense.

What if the Frankenstein creature didn't die in a fire, on a crumbling castle, or on a glacier? What if he never died at all? Adam Frankenstein, a product of science and magic. A creature of horror, come to life. In this re-imagining of Mary Shelley's famous creature, Adam is still alive and his stories are that of legend. A lonely and reluctant hero looking for redemption and salvation through the ages.

London's Maxwell Towers have long been under the control of Max—an all-seeing AI intent on punishing wrongdoers and wicked tenants by sending them to the Thirteenth Floor, where unspeakable horrors come to life. Now, Max's coding has been embedded in computer systems all over the world, and there is no escape from his nightmarish reign.

Ten exciting and unique stories! This collection features stories by James Agee Jr., Adam Rose, Lorraine Bradner, Katie Johns, Damian Stevenson, Chris Manning, and Ted Garcia.

A collection of eight stories, Digital Extremities shines a spotlight on ordinary people in a callous yet hopeful future. Set across small towns and remote islands, where neon flickers against old buildings and oaks, this collection paints a unique view of a traditionally cyberpunk setting. In 2089, a woman miscarries and seeks a way to find peace amidst overwhelming grief.

Symposium of the Reaper: Volume 2 continues as the second entry in the trilogy. Picking up where the first volume left off, only with even more venom and absurdity, the listener can expect pitch black humor and an experience that will chill them to the bone like the Reaper's touch itself. Symposium of the Reaper is for fans of horror anthologies with vast variety and from a single author.

This collection contains all-new stories of coulrophobia (fear of clowns) from some of the most talented horror writers alive!

From one of the 20th century's greatest voices comes the complete volume of his short stories featuring Nick Adams, Ernest Hemingway's memorable character, as he grows from child to adolescent to soldier, veteran, writer, and parent—a sequence closely paralleling the events of Hemingway's life...

Four classic TV novelisations in which the Doctor and friends are witnesses to alien invasion. In Doctor Who and the Tenth Planet, by Gerry Davis, the First Doctor, Ben and Polly help the crew of an Antarctic tracking station as they resist invasion by the Cybermen, intent on enslaving humanity...

It was a killer year for horror fiction of the harder kind. Authors, editors, and publishers presented readers with some startling works of horrific imagination, stories graphic in the extreme yet with subtleties suggesting larger meanings, tales that explore humanity by plumbing depths of soulless inhumanity and, in some cases, outright depravity. The stories here represent the best of them, disturbing tales that dig deep and take you into the dark heart of horror itself, unrelenting and unapologetic.

Questa storia inizia un lunedì, come ce ne sono tanti, quando il protagonista esce di casa dopo l'ennesimo litigio con la moglie. È una serata di pioggia, e dopo aver girato per la città nel tentativo di sbollire un po' la rabbia, si ritrova in uno strano centro dove promettono soluzioni efficaci per combattere lo stress. Il passo che compie per varcare la porta di quel luogo lo porterà a essere risucchiato in una spirale di crescente follia, dove il prezzo da pagare per ottenere sollievo, sarà sempre maggiore.

A collection of the year’s best science fiction and fantasy short fiction selected by New York Times bestselling author of the Silo series Hugh Howey and series editor John Joseph Adams. “These are dangerous stories. The kind that warp reality and threaten to change the world” warns guest...

Gretel is a blood-curdling serial killer thriller, that tells the story of seventeen-year-old Lucy, taken against her will five years ago. Caged up with no one left to protect her she must survive the night or become the killer’s latest victim. After he killed her, she wept. Body bags and chainsaws stripped the night clean. Her mind was a mess of revulsion, as the silence took over and the girls pleaded for their lives. Had it been five years already?

Humans beware. As the robotic revolution continues to creep into our lives, it brings with it an impending sense of doom. What horrifying scenarios might unfold if our technology were to go awry? From self-aware robotic toys to intelligent machines violently malfunctioning, this anthology brings to life the half-formed questions and fears we all have about the increasing presence of robots in our lives.

The weird, wild west - an American frontier populated by gunslingers, rattlesnakes, outlaws, zombies, aliens, time travelers, and steampunk! Twenty-three of science fiction and fantasy's hottest and most popular authors create all-new tales, written exclusively for this anthology. Aliens and monsters, magic and science are introduced to the old west, with explosive results.

A glittering landscape of twenty-five speculative stories that challenge oppression and envision new futures for America - from N. K. Jemisin, Charles Yu, Jamie Ford, G. Willow Wilson, Charlie Jane Anders, Hugh Howey, and more.

Tony Vlachic, a ruggedly handsome Navy SEAL, has kept his sexuality a secret for years under the threat of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell". That is until he meets Adam Wyndham, a charismatic yet troubled film star. Tony knows that by approaching Adam in front of his teammates, he's jeopardizing his military career. And Adam, nursing a broken heart, has no interest in a relationship. Still, neither man can deny their instant attraction.

If you ask most men, they’ll tell you my name is Jason. If you ask most women, they’ll tell you my name is Maximum, ‘cause I’m maximum in bed. Yeah. I like a little action in the sheets, but it doesn’t change the fact that I have responsibilities. I’m a single dad. My little girl’s sweet mother didn’t live to see her grow up, so now it’s all on me to do by right by our daughter. Maybe because of that I’ve never let myself get too close to any woman. But I just moved into this new town, and my neighbor, Lucy, she calls to me in a way no one has since my wife was alive.