Résultats pour "Just" dans Science-fiction

Behind the seemingly innocuous façade of St Mary's, a different kind of historical research is taking place. They don't do 'time-travel' - they 'investigate major historical events in contemporary time'. Maintaining the appearance of harmless eccentrics is not always within their power - especially given their propensity for causing loud explosions when things get too quiet. Meet the disaster-magnets of St Mary's Institute of Historical Research as they ricochet around History.

After his son gives him a pair of "X-ray" glasses as a gift, Martin Blackstone tries them on just for the hell of it - and all they do is give him a headache...until he sees things he can’t possibly be seeing. Glimpses of things on the other side of a wall or beneath someone’s clothing. He wants to believe it’s just his overactive imagination, but the “X-ray” specs actually work.

Perry’s adventure continues in book 2! Dive into an epic adventure that follows a mage-engineer MC carving out a domain on the frontier. Perfect for fans of Ends of Magic and Bog Standard Isekai!

From a single short story written in 2001 to a sprawling series of more than 20 books, the Just Cause Universe is a superheroic reflection of our times. Encompassing more than 60 years of history, these tales fill in the gaps, tell the side stories, and broaden the depth of the JCU. Although all these stories have appeared in previous publications, this is the first time they have been collected into a single volume.

When a stolen device disguised as an old VHS tape threatens the entire planet, two high school burnout employees from a dusty video resale store in Hollywood, Indiana, are Earth’s last (and let’s be honest, worst) hope. The rules are simple: Find the tape. Save the world. Try not to die. With the Nibbarexian Empire’s royal armada orbiting Earth, a cartel on their trail, and a broken friendship weighing them down, Ethan Smith and Cruz Martinez have just three days to fix everything—or watch the world go boom. Alien bounty hunters. Road trips and regrets.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Mira lives by the rules of logic and data, but she never expected her life to become a literal glitch in the system. After a birthday wish for time to stand still comes true in the most terrifying way possible, Mira finds herself trapped in a world that...

In a space-faring future, janitorial engineer Casey Cassandra spends her days fixing robots on an ambassador’s spaceship. But when one of her robotic cleaning cubes happens to be in the wrong place at the right time, Casey overhears an ominous threat. Someone is plotting to kill the ambassador, and that someone is a traitor within their own fleet. Armed only with a hefty cleaning cube (named Charles) and her eccentric engineering knowledge, Casey must go against all fleet standards. She’ll have to risk her life to warn her boss that he’s in imminent danger—from his own people.

A haunting, provocative audiobook, You Feel It Just Below the Ribs is a fictional autobiography in an alternate twentieth century that chronicles one woman's unusual life, including the price she pays to survive and the cost her choices hold for the society she is trying to save. Born at the end...

Welcome to Mostly Just Nintendo! This podcast covers news about video games with a focus, primarily, on Nintendo. Expect opinion pieces from Ginja, senseless rants, and hot takes on games both new and old, both Nintendo and nontendo. MJN is a solo project, ran by YouTube personality, Ginja (@GinjaMC). There may still be guests on the podcast at some point. If you'd like to be a guest on the show, contact Mostly.Just.Nintendo@gmail.com Email Questions at Mostly.Just.Nintendo@gmail.com

Professor Blip Korterly is arrested, his friend Dr. Flake Fountain is drafted into a shadow-government research project to develop the ultimate biological weapon, and an accidental outbreak turns into a merry-hearted, babble-inducing apocalypse that will either destroy humankind or take it to the next step in evolution.

TRAPPED IN THE GAMEVanitha is a parahuman hacker who can physically enter computer systems to control them from the inside. For her own amusement, she's created an online RPG called The Path. When a new in-game mystery presents itself, she goes to investigate it. The strange Malevolence traps...

Left with few choices after the murder of her father, a young assassin teams up with a brutal alien race to expose an 8,000-year-old plan to destroy Earth. Nothing about Junco’s world is what it seems. She has been trained to kill from the day she was born and her life has been nothing but a long string of secret missions interspersed with long bouts of insanity and insubordination. But now that her father is dead every military faction wants a piece of her. Especially the ruthless alien soldier, Tier, and his team of murderous brothers.

Created as an experiment by the time-traveling goddess Pallas Athene, the Just City is a planned community populated by over 10,000 children and a few hundred adult teachers from all eras of history, along with some handy robots from the far human future - all set down together on a Mediterranean island in the distant past.

Ensign Paul Sinclair has been assigned to the orbiting, military spacecraft, USS Michaelson, as its sole legal advisor. But when the ship's captain faces court-martial following the destruction of a civilian research vessel, Sinclair finds himself defending a doomed officer.

Vic follows a simple code of life—when stuck between certain death and certain death, always chose a third option. Ready to renounce his criminal ways, Vic needs to pull one last heist—transporting a rare and valuable albino friklar across a short section of space without detection. Easy money. However, when the animal escapes on a primitive planet called Earth, Vic must either settle accounts with his boss—ruthless Axle Prim—or endure his wrath.

Patricia Teller, an RN in the year 2000, yearns for simpler times where nurse’s efforts in support of their patients were primary. Despite the advantages of modern medicine, Pat fears the loss of nursing’s essence, the support for the living, and a smooth transition for those at the end of their lives. When she engages with an ancient sepia photograph of a nurse in 1937, she’s drawn back in time to an unexpected reality. The recent COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the values that healers possessed in the past that are even more important today.

When most kids go to college, they think freedom, excitement, and maybe they are just a bit terrified. My experience was different. In addition to getting to know the new roommate and some serious test anxiety, I found out I was the daughter of Death. But learning that three others and I are supposed to stop the apocalypse from happening was more than just a little terrifying

Hal Spacejock has a problem. His cargo hold is packed with expensive food, and the freezer equipment he bought from Bent Jimmy's bargain bin has just failed...exactly as Clunk predicted. Hal needs replacement parts before the cargo rots, and he's forced to abandon his precious ship at the spaceport to go looking for them. Which is a pity, because a secret agent has just decided Hal's ship will be ideal for her mission...with or without his permission.

My name is Huff, and I used to be a wimpy nerd, but after an unfortunate event, I now have the strength of 100 men, along with other interesting abilities.

From the author of Return to the Dirt comes an outlandish collection of stories, including "Anything for my Bubela", "Jar Baby", and "Night Fright".