Résultats pour "Helena" dans Science-fiction

Thomas drückte an der Seitenwand auf den Öffnungsknopf der Bodenluke und zischend öffnete sich ein zwei Meter durchmessendes Loch im Boden. Sofort zogen gelb-bräunliche Schwaden eines entsetzlich stinkenden Gasgemisches in den Raum. Thomas trat an den Rand der Öffnung und sah nach unten. Durch die Wolkendecke war nichts zu sehen, außer diffuser Dämmerung. Beherzt holte Thomas noch einmal Luft und sprang dann mit den Füßen zuerst durch die Luke. Zwei Jahre später haben es die Siedler noch immer nicht geschafft einen Weg zurück zur Erde zu finden.

In magical 1899 San Francisco, the new millennium is quickly approaching. Of course, new inventions happen every day, some wondrous, some mundane, while the streets produce a new murder every night. Set against this backdrop, a debutante goes missing, and socialite Helena Brandywine takes it upon herself, along with her trusted manservant, to discover what happened. Did the woman run afoul of the Tongs in Chinatown? What horrors might she have exposed?

In this postapocalyptic story of mystery, suspense, grief, and loss, a girl processes her mother’s death as a serial killer’s presence makes her already dangerous world even more deadly. The climate apocalypse has come and gone, and in the end it wasn't the temperature climbing or the waters...

http://www.adfreebooks.com - 1000+ audiobooks, all ad free!Madame Blavatsky is perhaps most well known as a scholar of Theosophy and co-founder of the Theosophical Society. Her studies of religion, mysticism and philosophy converges in this collection of weird fiction, stories that Blavatsky considered lighter fare compared to her usual writing. In this strange collection, you will find the story of a living ghost tormenting an ex-lover from hundreds of miles away, a revelation of a murder in a most unusual way, a tale from the far east of a seer who allows the visualization of events ...

Don't look back. That's where the danger lies. With Grace left reeling from choosing between Hayden and her family, she knows she needs to accept her decision. Meanwhile, as the youngest leader of Blackwing, Hayden is coping with the demands placed on him to keep the camp alive. Can he protect his friends from their violent rivals? And should he trust himself to do the right thing? Demand loyalty. Protect your family. Trust no one.

Long ago Tamarith fell in love with a man she can never have and is convinced she will never love another. However, she cannot help but be intrigued by a handsome stranger whose psychic powers exceed even her own. Vidarh seeks only to find his true purpose in life and to win the regard of his father, who eschews his son's psychic abilities. Thrown together by a common threat to their planet, then torn apart by an evil greater than any they could have imagined, can Vidarh save the lovely Nifl woman who has captivated him before it is too late?

Quite long after the world we occupy, when man reaches the very heights of decadence and treachery, the first great breaking upends dominance and sends us into the ashes of failed greatness. Fire and stone ground down the vast masses into flickering tribes of roving survivors, the world unfriendly to those solemn few who so tirelessly remain. And yet, as always, humanity survives...