Résultats pour "David" dans Science-fiction

Druss est une légende. Ses exploits sont connus de tous. Mais il a choisi de vivre retiré loin des hommes, au sommet d'une montagne. Là, il attend son ennemi de toujours : la mort. Dros Delnoch est une forteresse. C'est le seul endroit par lequel une armée peut traverser les montagnes. Protégée par six remparts, elle était la place forte de l'empire drenaï. C'est maintenant le dernier bastion, car tous les autres sont tombés devant l'envahisseur nadir. Et le vieux guerrier est son seul espoir.

Son nom est Druss. Bûcheron hargneux le jour, époux tendre le soir, il mène une existence paisible au milieu des bois. Mais un jour une troupe de mercenaires envahit son village pour tuer les hommes et capturer les femmes. Druss arrive trop tard sur les lieux du massacre. Son père gît dans une mare de sang et Rowena, sa femme, a disparu... S'armant de Snaga, une hache ayant appartenu à son grand-père, il se lance à la poursuite des ravisseurs. La route sera longue pour ce jeune homme inexpérimenté et sa quête le mènera jusqu'au bout du monde.

Le Roi de Drenaï a été assassiné. Une armée d'envahisseurs déferle sur le pays, avec pour mot d'ordre de tuer hommes, femmes et enfants. Mais tout espoir n'est pas perdu. Il repose sur les épaules de celui que la nation surnomme Waylander. Seul, il va s'aventurer en territoire nadir pour retrouver la célèbre Armure de Bronze, symbole de liberté. Mais peut-on faire confiance à ce Waylander ?... Après tout, c'est lui qui a assassiné le roi.

The fifth chapter in David Moody's epic Autumn zombie series — available in audio for the first time. Contains bonus stories not included in the original release. It's been almost one hundred days since a killer disease wiped out 99% of the population. Three months since the dead reanimated. Survivors are few and far between now, and those who remain stick together to give themselves the best possible chance of continuing to stay alive. They are the last of the living. A band of refugees has taken shelter in a medieval castle — a fortress that has stood strong for hundreds of years.

Un siècle s'est écoulé depuis l'incroyable résistance de la forteresse de Dros Delnoch. Mais aujourd'hui, le tyrannique empereur Ceska a pris le contrôle du territoire drenaï. Dans sa quête de pouvoir, il a trahi ses plus fidèles soldats, le corps d'armée du Dragon. Le massacre fut terrible et Tenaka Khan est le seul survivant. Il n'est pas près d'oublier la trahison de son maître. Dans ses veines coule le sang d'ancêtres mythiques : Regnak et Ulric, qui guerroyèrent l'un contre l'autre au temps de Druss la Légende.

McBride’s Magical Munchies: Volume 1 collects the first five episodes of the light novel series. From McBride’s Magical Munchies: Episode 1: Conner McBride was still finding his way in the world when it all changed. Traveling home late after a long day of slinging tacos, the very used food truck that he'd spent the last of his savings on broke down. Tired and desperate, it was only then that the multiversal entity known as the Framework made itself known. For better or worse, Conner's entire world changed in that moment.

The sixteen stories and two screenplays that make up Volume One of the Emmy® Award–winning Netflix Original series Love, Death & Robots.

Lorsqu'un autre groupe d'agents de l'Inquisition se fait massacrer, Ravenor et son équipe coupent les ponts avec leur organisation et adoptent volontairement le statut de renégat afin de poursuivre leur proie, violant ainsi tous les commandements de leurs supérieurs. Catapultés à travers l'espace et le temps, confrontés à des ennemis d'une puissance et d'une malignité sans limites, quels sacrifices seront-ils obligés d'accepter pour remporter la victoire ?

The Vallance War Series resumes with Book Five. The return of war has taken its toll on Vallance. Assailed by an unrelenting enemy, the country’s thinly spread forces are pushed past their limits. General Darius Cresul leads his swelling armies deep into the heart of Vallance, offering no quarter as he aims for the total obliteration of his enemies. Yet, through the darkness and turmoil, the people of Vallance stand ready to take the fight back to a formidable, if not unstoppable, enemy. With his choice made, Norryn Ashener ventures forth to bring Serra Landring home at any cost.

What if the greatest threat to humanity isn't coming from above… but from below? On his 49th birthday, Rex Lassiter decides he's done with danger. After surviving the battlefields of Afghanistan as a Navy SEAL, then fighting blowouts, hurricanes, and armed revolutionaries, on deepwater...

2025. Une intelligence artificielle est chargée de trouver une réponse à un risque d'épidémie d'Ébola en plein cœur de Paris. Toutes les hypothèses circulent sur l'origine de la contamination, y compris celle du terrorisme biologique. La Machine administrative, politique et médiatique est prête à s'emballer.

A man awakens, adrift in deep space, with little memory of who he is - only to discover that he is the commander of a space mission; the rest of the crew is gone; and he is apparently a writer of some small renown named Neil Gaiman.

Francis n'aurait jamais dû descendre de ce train, voilà ce qui arrive quand on sort des rails, il aurait pu rejoindre son bureau comme chaque matin, mais il a voulu faire le malin, bravo, chapeau, il est bien avancé maintenant... Adieu, chère routine... Le voilà qui erre, pauvre bougre, un pied devant l'autre, mais où sont les villes, les gens ? Et ce gamin avec un sac sur la tête, il lui veut quoi au juste ? Oscar qu'il s'appelle. Et lui n'est pas seul, il y en a des tordus par ici... Tout est tellement étrange... Ce que Francis voudrait ? Rentrer.

200 years in the future, environmental catastrophe has befallen the Earth, leaving the skies and weather systems transformed into a nightmarish maelstrom of rainbow chemicals, and the city of London wiped off the map (opinion remains divided on whether or not this was the best outcome for the country).

Attorney Cameron Thorne is thrust into a bloody tug-of-war involving secret societies, treasure hunters, and keepers of the secrets of the Jesus bloodline. Joined by Amanda, an enchanting British researcher with secrets of her own, Cam races around New England with only two choices - unravel the 600-year-old mysteries encoded in the ancient artifacts, or die trying. 

It is a simple question that is as profound as any we can ask: “Who am I?” Dr. Vikram Anthony is that rare person who believes the answer is relatively simple. I am my work; I am my skill; I am my mind. It is only when the noted surgeon faces his own mortality that the answer gets more complex. And the opportunity for a new life–a decidedly different life–opens a world of possibilities he’d never imagined.

A window is but a piece of glass through which we view the world outside. It is not meant to distort. It is not intended to do anything but show us things as they are. At Oxford, though, there is a very particular window that reveals a very particular view. It is a view that defies all laws of nature and science. And when a detective is called in to investigate, he is startled to find that view opens a window into his own life–and a mystery he has never been able to solve.

It is June 1940. The war against Hitler’s forces is raging. And the tide is turning against the British. In this hour of despair, Prime Minister Winston Churchill receives a mysterious letter from an even more mysterious woman, offering a Faustian bargain and a promise of victory. But if Churchill accepts, will he be condemning his nation’s very soul?

When does one become numb to pain. Can it truly become just a part of who you are. Is there an extent to which you won’t feel it anymore. I didn’t know there is pain beyond what I have already experienced. But when confronted by true evil, I find there is no limit to pain. The third book in The Gem Keepers Saga, continues where Emma made her choice. Our heroes discover new powers and allies from unlikely events. Horrors of the human race, betrayal, and manipulation await our heroes. But those pale in comparison when an enemy from their past arises.

Having made a superior look a fool, Honor Harrington has been exiled to Basilisk Station in disgrace and set up for ruin. Her demoralized crew blames her for their ship's humiliating posting to an out-of-the-way picket station. The aborigines of the system's only habitable planet are smoking homicide-inducing hallucinogens.