Résultats pour "John" dans Space-opera

"J'ai fait deux choses le jour de mes soixante-quinze ans : je suis allé sur la tombe de ma femme. Puis je me suis engagé." À soixante-quinze ans, l'âge requis, John Perry n'est pas le seul à intégrer les Forces de défense coloniale, billet pour les étoiles, mais sans retour. Rien ne le retient plus sur Terre. Combien d'années peut-il espérer vivre ?

Tu t'appelles Jared. Ta mère est une cuve et ton esprit n'est pas le tien. Tu as parlé à soixante secondes, marché à deux minutes et pris la navette à une heure dix. Ton avenir ? Il ne t'appartient pas. À deux semaines, tu intégreras le corps d'élite des Forces de défense coloniale, les "Brigades fantômes". Au nom de l'humanité, toi qui n'es pas vraiment humain.

John Perry a vendu la mèche : confinée sur sa planète, tenue à l'écart des progrès technologiques, l'humanité de la Terre n'est qu'un vivier où l'Union coloniale, l'humanité des étoiles, puise ses soldats et ses colons. Outrés par cette révélation, quitte à rompre avec leurs protecteurs en disgrâce, les peuples de la Terre ne seront-ils pas tentés de se rapprocher du Conclave, la puissante fédération d'extraterrestres qui a décrété l'arrêt de l'expansion coloniale interstellaire ?

Hadrian Marlowe, privileged first son of a Duke, was destined for greatness, and he has become a legend. The Sun-Slayer. The Breaker of Sieges. The Crusher of Civilisations. His is a story which defined the course of worlds. This novel is not that story - not the only laid out in the history books, charting the 300 years of his life. Rather this is Hadrian's story, told in his own worlds.

Le temps a passé depuis l'époque où la Terre alimentait docilement les Forces de défense coloniale en main-d'œuvre. Bientôt, l'Union sera à court de soldats, laissant les colonies humaines vulnérables face aux peuples du Conclave, qui n'attendent que le premier signe de faiblesse pour détruire l'humanité à genoux. Mais dans les tréfonds de l'espace se profile également un groupe anonyme, dressant les humains les uns contre les autres et manipulant le conflit imminent contre le Conclave.

After seven years of bitter war, the end has come at last for the conflict known infamously as the Horus Heresy. Terra now lies within the Warmaster’s sights, the Throneworld and the seat of his father’s rule. Horus’ desire is nothing less than the death of the Emperor of Mankind and the utter subjugation of the Imperium. He has become the ascendant vessel of Chaos and amassed a terrible army with which to enact his will and vengeance. But the way to the Throne will be hard as the primarch Rogal Dorn, the Praetorian and protector of Terra, marshals the defences.

John MacAlister finally has a respectable life. Naturally, he's about to ruin it. Steady work. A budding relationship. A reason to stay put. None of it's enough to kill the itch. When an encrypted message arrives from Bernie Jennison—the scientist who built Alvis and vanished years ago—John can't help seeing it as a sign that his days as a space adventurer aren't over. Bernie is alive. He's in trouble. And Castor—the rogue AI everyone believed destroyed —was never gone. The Star Corps won't intervene. John sees a mission too important to ignore.

The Ghost Brigades are the Special Forces of the Colonial Defense Forces, elite troops created from the DNA of the dead and turned into the perfect soldiers for the CDF's toughest operations. They're young, they're fast and strong, and they're totally without normal human qualms.

Horus has rebelled against the Emperor by purging his and his brother's Legions, but what was supposed to be a secret act of murder has been revealed. In the Emperor's name, Rogal Dorn and Malcador the Sigillite dispatch the largest force of legionaries and primarchs ever assembled to end Horus' rebellion before it can begin. But the loyalists, on their way to enact vengeance, do not know the depth of the betrayal they face. They will not be the perpetrators of a massacre, but its victims.

John Perry did two things on his 75th birthday. First, he visited his wife's grave. Then he joined the army. The good news is that humanity finally made it into interstellar space. The bad news is that planets fit to live on are scarce - and alien races willing to fight us for them are common. So, we fight, to defend Earth and to stake our own claim to planetary real estate. Far from Earth, the war has been going on for decades: brutal, bloody, unyielding.

The war is over, and the Lunar Free State has recovered and is moving forward with its colonial efforts on Xanadu. On Tatanna, the relationship between Luna and the ruling monarchy has never been stronger. For the Confederated Nations of Earth, however, defeat by the LFS fleet was only a...

After the betrayal at Isstvan, Horus begins his campaign against the Emperor, a galaxy-wide war that can lead only to Terra. But the road to the final confrontation between father and son is a long one - seven years filled with secrecy and silence, plans and foundations being formed across distant stars. An unknown history is about to be unveiled as light is shed on the darkest years of the Horus Heresy, and revelations will surface that will shake the Imperium to its very foundation....

Listed by the Guardian as one of the top 100 science fiction books of the 21st century. On the barren surface of an asteroid, located deep in the galaxy beneath the unbearable light of the Kefahuchi Tract, lie three objects: an abandoned spacecraft, a pair of bone dice covered with strange...

The epic conclusion of the Archimedes Engine duology by legendary author Peter F. Hamilton. Set in the universe of EXODUS, a new sci-fi action-adventure RPG coming soon from Archetype Entertainment. For millennia, the Crown Dominion has been at relative peace, with the Celestials in control and...

Anno 2066. Un tirocinante della Caltech Astrofisica nota un'anomalia nei dati forniti da un potente telescopio spaziale: qualcosa si sta approssimando all'orbita di Saturno. La sua velocità è in diminuzione, la traiettoria di avvicinamento sotto controllo... A quanto pare non si tratta di un semplice oggetto orbitante nello spazio. Il governo degli Stati Uniti giunge all'inevitabile conclusione: quell'oggetto è un'astronave aliena, e chiunque l'abbia costruita deve avvalersi di una tecnologia molto avanzata.

Fell times have come to the galaxy. Cadia has fallen, destroyed by the onslaught of Chaos. A Great Rift in the warp has opened, and from its depths spew daemons and the horrors of Old Night. But all hope is not lost… A hero, long absent, has returned, and with him comes the wrath of the Ultramarines reborn. Roboute Guilliman has arisen to lead the Imperium out of darkness on a crusade the likes of which has not been seen since the fabled days of the Emperor. But never before have the forces of Ruin amassed in such numbers, and nowhere is safe from despoliation.

Retired from his fighting days, John Perry is now village ombudsman for a human colony on distant Huckleberry. With his wife, former Special Forces warrior Jane Sagan, he farms several acres, adjudicates local disputes, and enjoys watching his adopted daughter grow up. That is, until his and Jane's past reaches out to bring them back into the game.

In the void and upon the worlds of Greater Ultramar, the battle for the Imperium continues. Intent on rebuilding his home realm and using it as a base to reconstruct the ravaged stellar empire of mankind, the returned primarch, Roboute Guilliman, proceeds with his war to drive Mortarion and his Death Guard Traitor Legion from the domain of the Ultramarines. But when Guilliman brings his brother to battle upon the diseased plains of Parmenio, the intervention of a greater power in their fraternal struggle threatens to upend the Imperial Regent’s understanding of the galaxy.

The Emperor's vision of mankind ascendant lies in tatters. The Great Crusade is naught but a fading memory. The dream of Unity is no more. But with Horus's rebellion spreading to every corner of the Imperium and war engulfing new worlds and systems almost daily, there are some who now ask: were the signs there to be seen all along?

As the Warmaster's campaign of galactic domination continues, his generals seek out fresh battlefields to conquer. After leaving the Crone World of Iydris behind, Perturabo strikes for Tallarn. A bitter, vengeful primarch, the lord of the Iron Warriors unleashes a deadly bombardment against the world, killing millions but entrenching the survivors. A brutal, all-consuming armoured conflict ensues, the greatest of the war and one that grinds down all combatants over more than a year of relentless battles.