Résultats pour "Angels" dans Premier contact

Arnie’s Angels is a fascinating book. Although science fiction, it is set in the near future: farmers still carry shotguns, criminals go to court in police vans, and people travel to Amsterdam by train.

When a ship carrying diplomats and a member of the Arisani monarchy are captured by Vestalian pirates, the Galactic Alliance must make a choice. Meet the pirates demands or send in Special Forces on a desperate and deadly rescue mission. Enter the Nighthawks. Newly promoted Lieutenant, junior grade, Helga Ate and her crew must fight against a ticking clock to track down the stolen ship and rescue the hostages undetected. With only five active members left in the Nighthawks and in the middle of an ongoing war, Helga's first test of leadership may be her last.

With the Destroyer of Worlds still missing and evil lurking around every corner, the Guardians and their human helpers find themselves in a brutal fight to save The Dahn. With creature attacks on the rise and a shocking betrayal within their own ranks, time is running out.

Angels of the Quantum Gate is science fiction with a twist. It is certainly science fiction with fantasy elements, but it is encapsulated in a wry, ironic, satirical first person narrative that is very convincing. It involves a simple man who is swept into galactic encounters, universal truths, and purposes that are beyond understanding. The sardonic evolves into the spiritual in a work that, somewhere, may require belief.

A wave of death is spreading through the Milky Way galaxy, an expanding sphere of lethal gamma radiation that erupted from the galaxy's core 28,000 years ago. Every world it touched was wiped clean of all life. But it's possible to protect a planet from gamma radiation. Now, guided by the ancient intelligent machines called the Predecessors, men and women from Earth seek out those precious, rare worlds that harbor intelligent species, determined to save them.

Jaisa’s running out of time. Her husband has created a serum that will solve all the aliens’ problems and destroy the rebellion for good...by removing everyone’s memories of the world before. Without recalling the old world or her secret rebellions, Jaisa will no longer be pretending—she’ll become the perfect little doll, and forget what it means to be human at all.

In the not too distant future, 10-year-old Kevin Finley (Fin) receives a narrow-bandwidth radio signal on his home holo-system from deep space. Before long, Fin becomes an international celebrity, appearing on talk shows and late night holographic programming. Fifteen years later Fin is about to embark on a deep space mission to find the source of the signal.

First Contact has not been going well. The nations of Earth are rapidly militarizing against the arrival of the Superorganism, an alien civilization that promises to destroy humanity before it can develop into a real threat. The Superorganism has done it before–to their distant transient relatives–and they could easily do it again. But the alien Ampersand and his human interpreter Cora Sabino are done with trying to save humanity from both the Superorganism and itself; to them, this is a civilization that does not deserve to be saved.

When a commercial passenger flight comes down, killing all on board, footage from the scene displays the shocking cause of the disaster. A small-town sheriff and two big city detectives soon find themselves tangled in an intergalactic battle to protect The Destroyer of Worlds.