Résultats pour "Aphrodite" dans Science-Fiction et fantasy

From the author of Herc, a Waterstones Best Book of the Year. For fans of Greek mythology, Glorious Exploits and The Odyssey ‘Particularly skilled in evoking the strangeness and contradictoriness of Greek myths’ Sunday Times ‘A joyful exploration of one woman's quest for home, power...

Aphrodite, la première intelligence artificielle globale, a pris son envol au cœur des processeurs de la Silicon Valley. Si cela peut sembler anodin pour le non-initié, Julie, sa jeune conceptrice, découvre que le monde tel que nous le connaissons aujourd'hui est sur le point de basculer... Au même moment, de l'autre côté du Pacifique, les esprits de sa tribu millénaire poussent Daya, un navigateur-chaman, à venir révéler son savoir ancestral au monde occidental.

Sans cesse, ils meurent et reviennent. Sans cesse, ils vivent et dérivent. Les dieux oubliés de la mythologie grecque existent. Et ce monde leur appartient toujours... Brook peut l’attester : il y a pire que de mourir. Par exemple ? Se réveiller au cœur du désert après que Zeus l’a séquestrée pendant deux mois. Elle n’a plus aucun souvenir de cette période, mais elle est certaine que ça a un rapport avec la pagaille qu’il a semée en révélant l’existence des dieux aux mortels.

It's not easy being perfect.... But Aphrodite is determined to prove that she's more than just a pretty face. When she's asked to investigate strange events occurring on cruise ships, she's all over it. Little does she guess just how much this mission is going to cost her.

From the award-winning author of Herc, an enrapturing feminist tale that brilliantly reimagines the story of Aphrodite and how she transformed herself from a lowly outsider to the darling goddess of love, for readers of Madeline Miller and Jennifer Saint. Aphrodite saw the gods on Mount Olympus...

Commander Mariucci and his hand-picked research team know they will have to muster all of their expertise, creativity and teamwork to survive the very harshest of conditions in orbit around the king of planets. But when they intercept a peculiar radio transmission, they have to investigate. Nothing should work in these impossible conditions, so what is sending the signal...and why? With a degrading ship and crew at breaking point, there's every chance they will tear themselves apart before they ever find the answer to the ultimate question.

Experience the myth and magic of antiquity's most alluring—and provocative—goddess as never witnessed before, in this gorgeously rendered, unflinching, and deeply vulnerable retelling from the author of Mother of Rome and Medusa's Sisters. Two hundred years before the common era, Aphrodite...

“A pure delight . . . Romantic, poignant, and spellbinding.”— REBECCA ROSS, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Divine Rivals “Fiercely feminist and deeply romantic, Psyche and Eros has the allure of an old fable and the epic quality of ancient myth, tinged with a provocative, modern...

Experience the myth and magic of antiquity's most alluring--and provocative--goddess as never witnessed before, in this gorgeously rendered, unflinching, and deeply vulnerable retelling from the author of Mother of Rome and Medusa's Sisters. Two hundred years before the common era, Aphrodite...

Roland Tankowicz hates Venus. The last time he went there, he died. So, no one could really blame him if he never went back. Nevertheless, when a squad of assassins ruins date night, everybody's least-favorite Army-surplus cyborg decides to take a trip to Earth's sister planet and have a sit-down with an infamous group of terrorists. Perhaps it's because he really likes date night. Maybe he just wants to keep the promise he made to a troubled young man. It is even conceivable that he might still have a heap of unresolved issues with the separatists who blew his body apart years ago.

Aphrodite's Girdle is missing, and the magical artifact will take all of Hale's superpowers to retrieve. The woman who found the belt-one Tracy Tannin-wasn't exactly Ms. Popular before donning it. Now everyone wants her, including some very nasty bad guys.

Jason Murphy can talk to creatures of the sea. He can also change into a dolphin and, like all Protectors, has a bunch of other superpowers. None of them really help his situation: the love of his life doesn't trust him anymore. Lane thinks his promises of devotion are... well, fishy. When she needed him most, he was gone. She didn't know he was secretly fighting crime.

Isole isn't used to dark and dangerous types-at least, not this way. Usually she freezes them cold, literally. That's her superpower: ice. But Mordi has a way of making her lose her cool. With his dark hair and sweet green eyes, it's tough to remember that his father's the superest villain in all the world. Or, was. The pair joined in countless evil plots before now, but Mordi and Hieronymous are turning over a new leaf. They joined the Protectors to defend the innocent - and to give themselves a chance at happiness.

Ever wonder what it would be like to live on the Moon? Just ask Aphrodite Kim, a teenage genius who was born on Luna and has lived there all her life. She knows TerraNova City well; in fact, she’s a certified tour guide, making extra money guiding rich Earthworm tourists around the Lunar Free State’s capital.

From New York Times bestselling author Ayana Gray comes a new kind of villain origin story, reimagining one of the most iconic monsters in Greek mythology as a provocative and powerful young heroine. Meddy has spent her whole life as a footnote in someone else's story. Out of place next to her...

Seit Jahrhunderten folgt Lyana, Tochter der Aphrodite, jenen flüchtigen Momenten, in denen Geschichte ihren Kurs ändert: Waterloo, Arsinoës drohende Auslöschung, die Geburt des Buchdrucks und die Machtspiele der Medici. Auf ihren Wegen begegnet sie Menschen, deren Entscheidungen Epochen prägen und solchen, die aus der Erinnerung getilgt werden sollen. Gegen sie wirkt Ferratus, Sohn des Mars, dessen Einfluss in jeder Zeit neue Gestalt annimmt und Lyanas Schritte immer wieder kreuzt.

Vor über dreitausend Jahren kämpfte Apoll an der Seite der Trojaner, um die Stadt vor den Griechen zu schützen. Doch seine Schwäche für das weibliche Geschlecht ließ ihn diese Aufgabe viel zu oft vergessen. Als Troja unterging, gab Aphrodite ihm die Schuld daran und verfluchte ihn. Nie wieder sollte eine Frau sich in den Gott des Lichtes verlieben. Nun hat Zeus Apoll aus Mytikas, der Heimat der Götter, zu den Menschen verbannt und ausgerechnet Aphrodite soll ihn unterstützen, den Fluch zu brechen.

The epic, captivating tale of Aphrodite, the goddess of love, who must reconcile her mind and heart when she is drawn against all odds to Ares, the god of war, from the internationally bestselling author of Ariadne and Hera. “Mythological reimagining at its finest . . . I loved Aphrodite’s...

Dakota Cassidy, USA Today best-selling author of The Accidental Dragon, brings you a laugh-out-loud romantic comedy in the Accidentally Paranormal series. Get swept away to Greece in this international romp where you'll meet a few gods and goddesses and fall in love with Quinn Morris as she transforms from a heartbroken mess to the goddess of love.

Mainz im Zeitalter Gutenbergs. In einer Werkstatt am Rhein entsteht eine Erfindung, die die Ordnung Europas verändern könnte: Bücher lassen sich erstmals drucken und Wissen beginnt sich zu vervielfältigen. In diesem entscheidenden Moment erscheint Lyana, Tochter der Aphrodite, gesandt, um die Geburt dieser neuen Welt zu schützen. Zwischen Druckpressen, Metalllettern und dem Geruch frischer Tinte begegnet sie dem jungen Drucker Peter Schöffer, der ahnt, welche Macht in der Schrift liegt.