Résultats pour "Lisa" dans Science-fiction

"Un secrétaire vêtu de noir était venu lui apporter le fantôme, cadeau d'adieu de son père, dans une salle d'embarquement de Narita". Trois femmes que tout sépare, Sally, ancienne mercenaire, Mona, prostituée et Angie, superstar, se retrouvent autour de l'Aleph, fantastique instrument de pouvoir... Après "Neuromancien" et "Comte Zéro, Mona Lisa disjoncte" conclut une trilogie qui a révolutionné la science-fiction.

Prisonnière de sa vie et de sa caste, Ehsan porte la terrible marque de l’esclavage depuis ses huit ans. Servante au palais royal, son quotidien est rythmé par les injustices qui la révoltent. Mais une femme de sa condition peut-elle y changer quelque chose?

Que feriez-vous si vous appreniez que vous étiez capable de créer des illusions ? De supprimer la peur ou la douleur ? De recouvrir votre corps de glace par la simple force de votre esprit ? Seriez-vous de ceux qui se laisseraient griser par l’excitation ou au contraire, de ceux qui s’en méfient ? Rechercheriez-vous de l’aide auprès des personnes comme vous qu’on appelle les Suppdonns ? Ou est-ce que vous préfèreriez vous débrouiller seul ? Les traqueurs rôdent alors décidez-vous rapidement : de brûlants tourments guettent et vous pourriez n’être à l’abri nulle part.

The award-winning William Gibson goes beyond science fiction to the broader mainstream fiction audience. His unique world features multinational corporations and high-tech outlaws vying for power, traveling the computer-generated universe.

Brady Garrett needs to go home. He's a conscripted recruit on Defender Three, one of a network of stations designed to protect the Earth from alien attack. He's also angry, homesick, and afraid. If he doesn't get home he'll lose his family, but there's no way back except in a body bag. Cameron Rushton needs a heartbeat. Four years ago Cam was taken by the Faceless - the alien race that almost destroyed Earth. 

The prequel tale to Tosha Shorb, featured in Dying Days 2 zombie novella as well as short stories set in the Dying Days world. Includes two bonus stories: "Dying Days: Randy Jackson", featuring the main character from the Highway to Hell zombie novella; and "Dying Days: Eric White", the origins short for the character featured in the Dying Days series and written by Lisa McKinney!

Lady Tiliani Forelli is the epitome of the She-Wolves who raised her, an adept archer with a mind of her own. It is long past time for her to wed, but she deems each young lord who comes to bid for her hand lacking. With battles upon their border, and rumors of war growing louder on every front, Lady Forelli’s decision could secure her kingdom’s peace...or bring about its destruction.

A secret society of witches and the wolf-human hybrids they protect. The remnants of a scientist’s notebook and a mysterious journal written in Italian. A strange elixir discovered and the disappearance of a beloved great aunt. But how are they all connected?

Angie Mitchell is a famous Hollywood Sense/Net star with a special talent. And despite the efforts of studio bosses to keep her in ignorance, Angie's started remembering things. Soon she'll discover who she really is...and why she doesn't need a deck in order to enter cyberspace. From inside the matrix, plots are set in motion and human beings are being played like pieces on a board. And behind the intrigue lurks the shadowy Yazuka, the powerful Japanese underworld, whose leaders ruthlessly manipulate people and events to suit their own purposes.

When Lainie Lanahan’s daughters discover a hidden journal from 1994, they uncover a secret their mother never intended to reveal. Confronted with the truth, Lainie is forced to revisit the extraordinary events that changed her life forever. It began at a new age party, when Lainie was chosen to be hypnotized. Instead of relaxation, she is transported back to 1941 Hollywood, where she awakens in the body of Lorraine Larue, a beautiful singer and rising movie star.

Following seventy thousand years of undisturbed slumber, the vessel of a planetary empire that had followed its own predetermined path to destruction eons earlier had finally reawakened, bringing with her the potential to change everything. Embodying all that was benevolent and beautiful from innumerable long-forgotten cultures, this lifeform in suspended animation also possessed the power necessary to prevent her gifts from being corrupted by those who will eternally thirst for dominion over others.

This collection includes Survival, Hunted, and Frequency. Survival: When one of the men in charge of storing food for the town of Shadow Ridge is found murdered execution style, it's up to Jace McQuaid to find the killer. Hunted: Levi McQuaid searches for the sister of an old friend, Ava Solomon, but the situation takes a deadly turn when the search leads them on a dangerous trek across the west Texas desert. Frequency: Four deaths, likely tied to arsenic-tainted water, leave the town of Shadow Ridge frantic for answers. But that isn't the only nightmare Tess McQuaid is facing.

The Inquisition is the most powerful and secretive organisation within the Imperium. Its agents, the Inquisitors, are the last line of defence for mankind. Gregor Eisenhorn, dedicated servant of the Inquisition, takes to the field again in three audio dramas: 'Regia Occulta', 'Master Imus's Transgression' and 'Thorn Wishes Talon'.

The Bettarinis and Forellis have found rich fulfillment, together in medieval Italia. But after fighting off countless enemies, they now must face the worst foe of all. As the Black Death closes in upon them, threatening everything and everyone they hold dear, Lia and Gabi–and the knights they love–must dig deep within to decide how they might remain safe…and if they need to risk it all in order to truly live as they’re called.

Die Megakonzerne streiten in der Matrix weiterhin um die neueste Technologie, doch im Hintergrund wird ein ganz anderes Spiel gespielt. Die KIs haben sich unbemerkt längst verselbstständigt und machen sie sich nun auf die Suche, nach der nächsten Stufe ihrer Existenz. Mona ist ein junges Mädchen mit einer dunklen Vergangenheit und einer unsicheren Zukunft.

The aliens are savage animals. Zandra wants nothing to do with them. She has plans for her life. But when she gets kidnapped by TerraMates, she doesn't have a choice. Suddenly, Earth is far away, and she's expected to be a wife and a mother. Her husband? He's bloodthirsty and ruthless. He's the feral leader of the tribe. And now, Zandra belongs to him.

In the future, the leaders of Hive nations–nations without fixed location–clandestinely committed nefarious deeds in order to maintain an outward semblance of utopian stability. But the facade could only last so long. The comforts of effortless global travel and worldwide abundance may have tempered humanity's darkest inclinations, but conflict remains deeply rooted in the human psyche. All it needed was a catalyst, in form of special little boy to ignite half a millennium of repressed chaos.

Some had called the attacks on the country by the Realm a second civil war, and Chase Beckett agreed. What he'd seen firsthand had turned into the largest and most destructive conflict on US soil since that era. Not only had the organized group behind the damage taken down the grid and infrastructure, they'd also continued to raise havoc across the country. But just because the good guys had finally won and the power was finally coming back on, didn't mean that the chaos that had erupted across the country had vanished. No. That was going to take time.

Ready Player One meets The Fault in Our Stars in this gripping blend of science fiction and fantasy about a couple’s desperate attempt to hold onto one another against the greatest enemy of all. An experimental new technology called the SynAPP, developed by the company Synerdyne for palliative care, allows users to enter a simulation generated directly in their mind. There patients escape to a virtual environment, dubbed Elysium, where they participate in a communal structured dream, experiencing a life free from injury, illness, and physical limitations.

¿Quién no se ha preguntado por la existencia de otros mundos y ha imaginado cómo descubrirlos? Escritos en la primera mitad del siglo XX, los cuentos de Judith Merril, Zenna Henderson, Joanna Russ, Doris Pitkin Buck, Wilmar H. Shiras, C. L. Moore y Mildred Clingerman muestran posibles vías para llegar a ellos.