Résultats pour "Miles" dans Space-opera

A los veinticuatro años ha de ser muy difícil mantener dos identidades, teniente de Barrayar y comandante en jefe de los mercenarios Dendarii. Pero esa es la maldición secreta de Miles Vorkosigan, quien deberá hacer verdaderos juegos malabares para cumplir con esa imprevista e indeseada duplicidad de obligaciones. Existe un peligroso complot para reemplazar a Miles por un doble, su clon Mark.

Fronteras del infinito es una recopilación de tres relatos en los que se exploran temas de gran interés social: los prejuicios sociales y sus consecuencias, el antirracismo nacido en torno a la manipulación genética y una conjunción de religión, supervivencia y estrategia militar.

The dwarfish, fetally damaged yet brilliant Miles Vorkosigan has more than his share of troubles. Having recently escaped an assassination plot whose tool was a brainwashed clone of himself, Miles has set the clone, Mark, free for a new chance at life. But when he decides to let his clone brother assume his secret identity and lead the Dendarii Free Mercenary on an unauthorized mission to liberate other clones from the outlaw planet of Jackson's Whole, things get really messy.

Marine war vet Tyson Gage and the Gambit's crew embark on their most ambitious mission yet. The clock's ticking down on his son's condition when a research team working on a cure for the Owari is hit in a military strike. Their lead scientist has been captured. Gage and his team must make the extraction… if they can find him before it's too late. They're not the only ones who want the cure. The mission will take them to uncharted worlds and alien wonders that turn into battlefronts since old friends and enemies have reached a showdown for the same reward.

Invading the planet where his child's a captive… It's a mission fraught with such grave risks that only the best Special Forces can go. After months of proving his skills, Gage has finally gained the opportunity. But little does he know what steel is forged by this solemn duty. His kid's at the center of a war between factions that could spell the end of galactic empires. Fleets are inbound. Weapons are ready. No expanse is too great a chasm for a Marine to cross for his son.

Tyson Gage's four-year-old was kidnapped from Earth by the most notorious criminal syndicate in the galaxy when they traveled eight hundred years back in time. To mount a rescue, Gage must fly behind enemy lines. Outgunned and outclassed, he's being hunted by Yakuza's fleet, and details emerging from Tess' past could break up their crew. His last hope? Become a Centurion to uncover the secret the League is keeping from the civilized worlds.

The brutal war of extinction enters a horrifying new round as the cyborgs arrive from the Neptune System, in this, the third book of the series. The Highborn are remorselessly crushing the obsolete Homo sapiens. Gambling with humanity’s existence, Supreme Commander James Hawthorne attempts to lure the dreaded Doom Stars into a trap. Social Unity’s combined Battlefleet is the bait. The cyborgs are Hawthorne’s secret weapon. Unfortunately, for Marten Kluge, a vast space battle threatens to take place around Mars.