Résultats pour "Maria" dans Science-fiction

On the penal colony of Hibiscus Station, no positions are as key as the Pomps, who direct the dangerous mining operations to remove highly valuable—and volatile—crystal from the moon's crust. Young was previously in training to be a Pomp until a depressive episode, mental break, and a suicide attempt. She doesn’t need the other convicts on her work team to suspect she’s unraveling again, so when she suddenly hallucinates visions of the unstable crystals in the tunnel walls around her—along with the potential danger they hold—she keeps her mouth shut.

Thomas Newton aterriza en Kentucky escapando de su planeta, Anthea, que ha sido devastado por las guerras nucleares y cuyos habitantes son el doble de inteligentes que los humanos. Adopta una apariencia humanoide y se pone manos a la obra para traer a sus compañeros alienígenas y salvarlos de la extinción. Pero su trabajo y la avanzada tecnología antheana que utiliza llaman la atención de Nathan Bryce, profesor de química que no tarda en presumir que Newton esconde algo bajo la superficie.

El error es el cuerpo. Morir es fallar. En 2070, una forma nueva de la vida eterna se ha convertido en el mayor logro de nuestra civilización. La palabra china pronunciada tsian -paraíso- es el invento que la gran Samar ofreció al mundo y que ha transformado las vidas y las muertes de miles de millones. Pero más allá de lo que cuenta la mitología oficial nadie conoce su verdadera historia.

Two years after the closing of the Altered Re-Assimilation Centers across the United States, Griffin King is trying to rejoin a vengeful society still nursing its wounds. Even though he has been ostensibly cured, no one is eager to trust an infected-turned-altered.

Un fatídico viernes 13, el anticuario Reidar Folke Jespersen decide poner orden en su vida: se niega a vender el negocio familiar por una importante suma de dinero, contradiciendo así la opinión de sus hermanos; telefonea a casa del amante de su mujer, en el momento en que...

Fuego narra la historia de una joven que pertenece a una raza ancestral de seres que habitan la Tierra, sin que los humanos lo sepan. Esta extraordinaria saga está escrita con agilidad y destreza en la que te llevará a un mundo donde todo puede pasar. Luna C. Grayhard es...

La guerra, iniciada por los dioses, ya afecta a gran parte del Cosmos. Mientras las traiciones y alianzas se siguen desarrollando detrás del combate, las batallas espaciales desangran la población. Y en medio del conflicto, los compañeros de Raleluköides continúan la búsqueda de las memorias de su dios protector, la solución para detener lucha.

Este audiolibro está narrado en castellano.

La tetralogía Raleluköides muestra una guerra cósmica que afecta a humanos, dioses, seres de otras dimensiones y otros entes espaciales...

An alien from a dying planet, Tuyouk has lived for the past 10 years in a primitive dimension near Earth. Disguised as a magical warrior, his mission is to guide and protect his people’s half-human descendants. Several months earlier, he fell in love with Ayana, a magical shaman from an estranged clan. Unfortunately, there is much Tuyouk can’t tell Ayana about who he really is, and it’s difficult to build a relationship based on lies.

Después de años de encierro planetario, los dioses han escapado de su cárcel y, con su huida, una nueva guerra amenaza el Cosmos. Esta emocionante novela de ciencia ficción espacial nos traslada a la vida de varios personajes, cada uno con sus objetivos y sus deseos, cuyas acciones se verán afectadas por los hilos del destino. La acción trepidante de la novela llevará a sus personajes a vivir persecuciones, batallas espaciales, criaturas extrañas y una guerra en ciernes que cambiará el Cosmos entero.

Taelen Jessit is an alien emissary on a mission sanctioned by the U.S. government to search for ancient gods. His hunt leads him to a dig headed by archaeologist Rachel Cruz. When his military entourage forces Rachel's team out of the cave they were exploring, a flash flood hits the riverbed and threatens to tear them through the ravine.

Sixteen-year-old Nate is a Gem - a Genetically Engineered Medical Surrogate - created by Gathos City scientists as a cure for the elite from the fatal lung-rot ravaging the population. As a child, Nate was smuggled out of the laboratory where he was held captive and taken into the Withers - a quarantined, lawless region. He manages to survive by becoming a Tinkerer, fixing broken tech in exchange for food or a safe place to sleep. When he meets Reed, a kind and fiercely protective boy who makes his heart race, Nate finds the family he's always longed for.

For nearly 200 years, the Wrights have controlled the Elements, shaping them to their will. But, the new era of industrialization threatens their extinction. Journeyman Wright Rebecca Fuller has more important things to worry about, though, like paying bills and keeping a roof over her head. Unfortunately, she inherited her father’s debts along with his shop. With the Guild limiting her prices, even a brisk business barely makes ends meet. If only the Guild would consider her application for Mastery.

"Susan Bennett masterfully narrates a stunning retelling of Beowulf that confronts all manner of monsters...Powerful, upsetting, and unforgettable, Bennett's narration is staggeringly potent." — AudioFile Magazine New York Times bestselling author Maria Dahvana Headley presents a modern...

Fake News se desarrolla en un tiempo donde la opresión y el totalitarismo reinarán en el mundo. Dentro del género de ficción, la historia destaca el papel de internet, la ciencia y la tecnología en los planes de opresión de un grupo llamado los MK30. Herederos de las billonarias fortunas acumuladas por los más ricos del planeta, principalmente en las dos primeras décadas del siglo XXI.

Katia Simon spent her entire childhood repressing her desire to feel the embrace of her parents and her entire adult life hiding her lust for even a single kiss from her husband for fear of being rejected by her community and exiled to the Outside. The physical touch laws imposed on this society deprive humanity of the comfort of a warm hug or the calming squeeze of a hand, but Kat refuses to accept that fate.

The world where the straights are hated for hundreds of years is about to turn for the worse and shatter to pieces. The involvement of Eliza X, a police officer, in the killing of a straight, Jeffrey Antinoro, becomes the singular event and the catalyst that sends humanity into a tailspin. A revolution erupts, and Eliza is the sole cause of it. Nevertheless, her journey forces her to rediscover herself and find love in the arms of her professor Linda Pelc.

Antonio Presto had everything - fame, fortune, and prestige. And yet, through a terrible whim of nature, he could not have what he most wanted - ordinary human happiness. One day, he decided to change it all by appealing to one of the strangest physicians available.

Ever since being kidnapped from the Illiais Jungle as a child, Yelena Zaltana's life has been fraught with peril. But the recent loss of her Soulfinding abilities has endangered her more than ever before. As she desperately searches for a way to reclaim her magic, her enemies are closing in, and neither Ixia nor Sitia is safe for her anymore. Especially since the growing discord between the two countries and the possibility of a war threaten everything Yelena holds dear.

Sette pianeti: in un sistema solare parallelo i popoli di sette pianeti fanno una corsa contro il tempo che deciderà le loro sorti. Il destino dei protagonisti si intreccia tra odio, amore e ambizione, tra scienza e mistero, nel tentativo di governare o liberare i popoli del sistema solare di Kic. Pianeti, razze e culture immaginarie e originali uniranno le loro forze in avventure fantastiche per contrastare il desiderio di egemonia di un affascinante nemico.

The first attempt to travel at the speed of light has been successful. Transported thousands of miles in seconds, two young astronauts, Rose and Alex, are on their way to explore Proxima b, a candidate terrestrial planet in the Alpha Centauri System 4.2 light years from Earth. Burning through space faster than any humans in history, they realize the launch into light speed created black holes in their memory, and that all their most recent experiences have vanished without a trace.