Résultats pour "Rose" dans Science-fiction

Ce monde, devenu cauchemar climatisé sous la dictature du Bien-Être, valait-il d'être sauvé ? Finalement, la Bombe Universelle a explosé. La planète n'est plus qu'une plaine de cendres d'où les espèces vont disparaître. Monsieur Gé, qui depuis son harem somptueux du parc de Saint-Cloud régnait sur l'univers, a laissé faire. Mais, tyran bienveillant, il souhaite aussi que l'aventure humaine se poursuive.

THE INSTANT NO. 1 SUNDAY TIMES and NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER HE'S HER GREATEST ENEMY … AND HER DEEPEST DESIRE 'A dark fever dream of a fairytale. Rose in Chains is a heart-pounding, spellbinding, forbidden love story that kept breaking my heart and putting it back together again' Stephanie...

Izar se retrouve propulsée au cœur du Monde Oublié où tout lui est étranger. Ses croyances volent en éclats à l'apparition de ses pouvoirs et un ultimatum s'impose à elle : choisir son camp. Tâche rendue d'autant plus difficile à cause de Lui. Vega. Désigné comme son Protecteur, il est censé lui apprendre à maîtriser ses facultés, qu'elle peine à canaliser. Il est l'homme de ses songes, celui qui hantait ses cauchemars. Aujourd'hui, il hante sa réalité.

Paris 2250. Le monde tel que nous le connaissons a été réduit en cendres. L'humanité est alors divisée en deux : les humains et les mutants. Izar se bat pour survivre dans la Sphère, une réplique de l'ancien monde où tout est factice. Lorsque le gouvernement l'accuse d'être une mutante, un être agressif et sanguinaire, sa vie bascule en enfer. Enrôlée par les dirigeants de la Sphère, Izar va découvrir ses pouvoirs, qui elle est réellement mais va aussi se heurter à de nombreux secrets.

This series of eight stories relates the tale of Sister Superior Augusta Santorus of the Order of the Bloody Rose as she battles against the horrors of the galaxy. She’ll encounter heretics, xenos, and everything in between. This collection includes five short stories and three novellas, one of which is available for the first time in this audiobook.

In the second volume of the Native Tongue trilogy, the time has come for Láadan - the secret language created to resist an oppressive patriarchy - to empower womankind worldwide. To expand the language's reach, female linguists translate the Bible into Láadan and a group of Roman Catholic nuns are tasked to spread the language. But when outraged priests detect their sabotage, they send a double agent to infiltrate and destroy the movement from the inside. 

Opal is a gleaming shrine world of saints and soldiers, beloved of the Emperor Himself. Sent to retrieve the skull of the revered Saint Veres, Sister Superior Augusta of the Order of the Bloody Rose and her squad find themselves in the midst of the capital’s holiest festival, a time of reverence and celebration. But all is not well – despite what its planetary leaders would have Augusta believe, political danger bubbles under the surface, and rebel attacks gnaw away at the city’s outskirts. The greatest threat, however, is yet to come.

In a world where ancient fantasy meets cutting edge science, Rose is a strategist who risks everything for a man who is both her greatest love and her deadliest liability.

Accepting employment as a governess after hard times hit her family, medieval scholar Rosalind Hawkins is surprised when she learns that her mysterious employer has no children and only wants her to read to him through a speaking tube.

When you’re a djinn, fixing all your problems can be as simple as snapping your fingers. This isn't one of those times. We all have our crosses to bear. The demons of our past haunt the corners of our minds. More often than not, those demons stay locked away, never to see the light of day. Rosie is not so lucky.

Mickey is startled to find a statue of Rose in a museum; a statue that is 2,000 years old. The Doctor realises that this means the TARDIS will shortly take them to Ancient Rome, but when it does, he and Rose soon have more on their minds than sculpture.

Dreamer's Riot presents Book 1 in the Cruel Violet series. Contains mature themes...

One could understand why Liam was angry. He was orphaned at the age of two by a group of giant carnivorous insects called the chitin. Taken in by High Councilor Marcus and his wife, Lidia, Liam was raised with their older son, Randolf, in New Olympia, the last remaining city on the planet Etrusci.

A “designer baby” girl is born with mysterious growth spurts. Her minimalist parents watch their simple life unravel when she outgrows their tiny house. The medical team responsible for her condition race to find a cure and keep her a secret.

After Mike goes through a gut-wrenching betrayal by his fiancée, he finds himself in what he thinks might be the afterlife. But this is no heaven. The gods made a mistake and created another Earth in a parallel universe, putting both universes in peril. They need someone from his planet to destroy the alternate, and Mike is randomly selected for the job. Trapped in an impossible choice, Mike accepts his mission and is returned to an Earth - and a body - so unlike his own.

Some loves never fade. Some break you open. Some build you into something that cannot be erased. Before she was a war hero. Before the Artemis War. Before the Terran Federation. Kendra Foster-Briggs was a sensie star, a survivor, and a woman falling in love with someone she wasn’t supposed to keep. Rose Emmons was everything Kendra didn’t know she needed—brilliant, brave, and burning with a fire that refused to be controlled. Their connection was electric, dangerous, and real in a way nothing else ever had been.

These 18 darkly complex short stories and novellas touch upon human nature and perception, metaphysics and epistemology, and gender and sexuality, foreshadowing a world in which biological tendencies bring about the downfall of humankind. The Nebula Award-winning short story "Love Is the Plan, the Plan Is Death", the Hugo Award-winning novella The Girl Who Was Plugged In, and the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning novella Houston, Houston, Do You Read? are included.

Amidst the triumphs of Nyssa Volari, an army of beasts rampages across the Broken Plains, seeking a totem of necromantic power. As this mysterious force corrupts her empire, threatening allegiances and exposing mortal enemies, Nyssa soon discovers that the Rose Throne is ever uncertain. To prove her sovereignty once and for all, she must confront the long-lost ghosts of her past to acquire a new power, one that will enable her to claim dominion over both the living and the dead.

Reese is only just getting used to running the Earthrise in the black-and with an Eldritch in her crew-when a trip to a colony world gives rise to a whole new problem: Hirianthial is showing powers that even the Eldritch rarely have, and that only in legend. He badly needs training, support and advice, and the only place he can find them is... at home. To see the world of the Eldritch is a once in a lifetime opportunity, a thing of fantasies and rumor. And to finally meet the Eldritch Queen, the author of so many of Reese's windfalls!

Frankreich, 1815. Während Napoleon zur letzten Schlacht seines Lebens aufbricht, erscheint sie: Lyana, Tochter der Liebesgöttin Aphrodite: gesandt, um das Gleichgewicht zu wahren. Ihre Waffen sind Verführung, Verstand und ein Amulett, das mehr weiß als jede Armee. In den Salons von Paris verstrickt sie sich in Machtspiele, Intrigen und eine gefährliche Liebe zu einem Künstler. Doch ihr Gegner ist kein Mensch, sondern Ferratus, Sohn des Kriegsgottes Mars.