Résultats pour "David" dans Steampunk

London might as well be a world away from Sandsend, a tiny village on the Yorkshire coast. Gideon Smith dreams of the adventure promised him by the lurid tales of Captain Lucian Trigger, the Hero of the Empire, told in Gideon’s favorite “penny dreadful.” When Gideon’s father is lost at sea in highly mysterious circumstances Gideon is convinced that supernatural forces are at work. Deciding only Captain Lucian Trigger himself can aid him, Gideon sets off for London. On the way he rescues the mysterious mechanical girl Maria from a tumbledown house of shadows and iniquities. 

Two new apprentices. One charming engineer. A potential battle with both sea serpents and evil sorcerers. When Sorcerer Adrien Danvers takes on a job that leads him into the slums of England, he never imagined he'd end up with not one but two apprentices. Despite his doubts about himself, he's...

Die Fortsetzung des spannenden Weltraum Thrillers stellt die Crew der Aquarius vor neue Herausforderungen, eine Bedrohung des gesamten Sonnensystems und vielleicht noch viel mehr. Nach der Entdeckung eines riesigen, außerirdischen Kubus - dem Marker - konnte die Aquarius Crew den Ursprung des Uranus Leuchten identifizieren, doch stellen sich ihnen nun mehr Fragen als vorher. Zu welchem Zweck existiert dieses Objekt und wer hat es erbaut? Nachdem die Crew einen Zugang zum Marker gefunden hat und zum Kern vordringen konnte, wird ihnen bewusst, wie viel mehr hinter dem mysteriösen Marker steckt.

Ian und sein Team müssen die Technologie eines Raumschiffes entschlüsseln, um die Menschheit vor dem sicheren Untergang zu retten. Doch sie sehen sich mit einer Flut von Verschwörungen, Fake News und globaler Anarchie konfrontiert. Das Hypernet ist übersät mit gefälschten Berichten und Theorien, die die Welt ins Chaos stürzen. Doch der Kampf richtet sich nicht nur gegen äußere Feinde, sondern auch gegen die Zweifel und Ängste innerhalb der eigenen Reihen.

Back in London, Gideon and his colleagues: journalist Aloysius Bent, airship pilot Rowena Fanshawe, and Maria, the mechanical girl to whom Gideon has lost his heart, are dragged into a case that is confounding the Metropolitan Police. For the city is on the edge of mass rioting due to the continuing reign of terror by the serial killer known only as Jack the Ripper, who is rampaging though London's less salubrious quarters. 

Nachdem der Forscher Ian McTillmann auf eine mysteriöse Anomalie im Europäischen Nordmeer gestoßen ist, entdecken dort hochentwickelte Satelliten ein Objekt, das es nicht geben dürfte. Eine Expedition in die dunklen Tiefen des Ozeans offenbart Unglaubliches: ein uraltes Raumschiff, halb verborgen im Schlamm des Meeresbodens und anscheinend verlassen. Steven Anduras, führender Kopf im Bereich der Robotik und Schöpfer der revolutionären KI SAHRA, wird an McTillmanns Seite in ein Team berufen, das mit der Untersuchung des außerirdischen Artefakts beauftragt ist.

It's 1877 and Russians forces occupy the Pacific Northwest. They are advancing into California. New weapons have proven ineffective or dangerously unstable. The one man who can help has disappeared into Apache Country, hunting ghosts. A healer and a former sheriff lead a band into the heart of the invasion to determine what makes the Russian forces so unstoppable while a young inventor attempts to unleash the power of the lightning wolves.

In 1919 South London, Harry Stubbs is freshly out of the army and dreams of glory as an up-and-coming heavyweight boxer. Afraid of nothing, after a few drinks Harry carelessly takes on a dare to explore a disused amusement park attraction. The fake mine is said to be haunted by something with a craving for human blood, but Harry doesn't believe a word of it. What follows is stranger and more dangerous than Harry could ever have dreamed, but the full horrifying truth does not emerge until a chance encounter years later in a waxwork museum...

In the Wild-West wilderness of the Frontier, a sheriff has been tasked with escorting the captured servant of the vampire Nobility to the authorities in the Capital. Unfortunately, the stagecoach route they must follow crosses into the territory of the servant’s master, the dread Duke Sinistre!

"Work Sets You Free" by David Barnett is an original short story featuring the protagonist of the forthcoming novel Gideon Smith and the Mechanical Girl. Gideon is a young fisherman in Yorkshire, England, in an alternate 1890, who embarks on a journey to find Captain Lucian Trigger, the famed Hero of the Empire, to deal with a mystery plaguing his home village. 

Where potions run technology and passions run deep. A barmaid with a rare talent. Paris, 1882. Barmaid and potions expert Elle Deschamps knows a worrying secret: The supply of the magic serum that gives her potions their potency is running dangerously low. When a mysterious gentleman hires her to help search out new sources for serum, she jumps at the chance to earn her way to a life of less drudgery. A spy on a mission. A love neither can resist.

Wayran wants one thing: the truth behind the Jendar, an ancient technomancer race that vanished overnight, leaving only myths and impossible machines. A sandstorm. A crash. A tower from his dreams. And a journal in the hands of a corpse. The journal flips a dead mystery into a living threat, awakening something that should have staryed buried. Judgment is coming. Nine lives. One design. No escape.

1870. A haven for the blessed and the damned, including a fallen angel, a mad scientist, a pirate queen, and a deputy who is kin to coyotes, Golgotha has come through many nightmarish trials, but now an army of 32 outlaws, lunatics, serial killers, and cannibals are converging on the town, drawn by a grisly relic that dates back to the Donner Party...and the dawn of humanity.

Nurse Mercy Lynch is elbows deep in bloody laundry at a war hospital in Richmond, Virginia, when Clara Barton comes bearing bad news: Mercy’s husband has died in a POW camp. On top of that, a telegram from the West Coast declares that her estranged father is gravely injured, and he wishes to see her. Mercy sets out toward the Mississippi River. Once there, she’ll catch a train over the Rockies. When Mercy finally arrives in St. Louis, the only Tacoma-bound train is pulled by a terrifying Union-operated steam engine called the Dreadnought.

In the early 1900s, Thomas Edison, Nikola Tesla, and Harry Browning each researched devices to contact the dead through scientific means. Only one of them succeeded.

Based on motifs from ''20,000 Leagues Under the Sea''. Radio play with specially produced orchestral soundtrack and cinematic sounds. - A voyage around the world in 80 days has brought fame and recognition to the adventurer Phileas Fogg. But he has no time to rest: when the famous marine scientist Professor Aronnax goes missing on the high seas, Fogg sets out to find him.

With daring and ingenuity, Phileas Fogg has earned the respect and friendship of the enigmatic Captain Nemo and completed his search for Professor Aronnax. But an almost unbelievable discovery keeps him on board the submarine Nautilus: at the bottom of the sea, the crew comes across the remains of the legendary city of Atlantis. Together with Nemo and Aronnax, Phileas Fogg ventures into the ruins, where sunken treasures, enchanted palaces and unspeakable horrors await the adventurers.