Résultats pour "Sand" dans Science-fiction

The old world is buried. A new one has been forged atop the shifting dunes. Here in this land of howling wind and infernal sand, four siblings find themselves scattered and lost. Their father was a sand diver, one of the elite few who could travel deep beneath the desert floor and bring up the...

On the planet of Taldain, the legendary Sand Masters harness arcane powers to manipulate sand in spectacular ways. But when they are slaughtered in a sinister conspiracy, the weakest of their number, Kenton, believes himself to be the only survivor. With enemies closing in on all sides, Kenton forges an unlikely partnership with Khriss - a mysterious Darksider who hides secrets of her own.

Fleeing a life of abuse, Sheri climbs aboard a mail-order-mate spaceship bound for a distant station but never arrives.... Fate intervenes, and her trip takes a quick, deadly turn when she crashes on the planet Atera. She's surrounded by endless sand dunes, dangerous creatures, and alien beings that remind her of Earth lizards. But one particular lizard hardly leaves her thoughts - a sexy, two-legged, muscular male bent on protecting and caring for her at all costs.

“Hugh’s imaginative worlds and tales within them never fail to entertain!” —Andy Weir, New York Times bestselling author of Project Hail Mary The first original novel from author Hugh Howey in six years, Across the Sand takes us back to the world of Sand, to a far future many generations...

Volunteering herself as tribute to the aliens was the only way Holly could ensure the safety of the rest of her bounty hunter crew. Problem is now she’s locked in the alien city and engaged to marry a guy she’s never even met. All she wanted to do was save her friends, so they could get off the sand planet. She never dreamed she’d end up as some huge alien’s mate. She’ll play along until she can find a way to escape, and then she’s gone, and he’ll be nothing but a memory. What could go wrong with this plan?

The story of a truly galactic civilization with more than 6,000 inhabited worlds. Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand is a science-fiction masterpiece, an essay on the inexplicability of sexual attractiveness, and an examination of interstellar politics among far-flung worlds. First published in 1984, the novel's central issues - technology, globalization, gender, sexuality, and multiculturalism - have only become more pressing with the passage of time.

The manhunt has officially begun. Now the target of a game-wide Holy War, Ned is forced to flee the Onyx Sands. The odds are stacked against him; Tyrann has tens of thousands of followers, a religion that’s spreading like wildfire, and a powerful god that will be stepping into the world of EBO in a matter of days. Meanwhile, Ned’s allies are a squirrel-exploding bard, a repurposed home security system who takes her instructions far too literally, and a wildly unreliable talking axe named Frank. But even as the inevitable conflict draws closer, change is coming to EBO.

Caro thought the Dothveks, who helped them when they crash-landed on the planet, were big and brawny and intimidating. But the barbarian who kidnaps her is even scarier. He’s a disgraced Dothvek who’s been exiled from the clan for murder, and he’s been living by himself in the desert. Apparently, he thinks she’s his to take. Not if she has anything to say about it.

Çeda, now a Blade Maiden in service to the kings of Sharakhai, trains as one of their elite warriors, gleaning secrets even as they send her on covert missions to further their rule. She knows the dark history of the asirim - that hundreds of years ago they were enslaved to the kings against their will - but when she bonds with them as a Maiden, chaining them to her, she feels their pain as if her own.

En «El otro», el propio Borges se encuentra con su alter ego. «Ulrica» -su único relato de amor- cuenta la historia de un enamoramiento en apariencia efímero. «El Congreso» describe una empresa tan vasta que se confunde con el cosmos. «Undr» y «El espejo y la máscara» imaginan literaturas que constan de una sola palabra. «El libro de arena», en cambio, se centra en un volumen de incalculables hojas, monstruoso, que anida en la Biblioteca Nacional de Buenos Aires: sin principio ni fin, infinito y eterno como toda la obra borgeana.

It all comes down to this: Feroz and the conspirators have chosen to make a last stand. Treading carefully, Jace, Onima, Kara, and the rest of the CBI team have an opportunity to pull the proverbial rug out from under them. The team is under the gun. The opposition has forces preparing to strike. They only have a few days before more attacks on clones take place as part of the effort to unravel the Confederation and sow further chaos and spread more disinformation.

Indian scientists discover mysterious underwater ruins at the West Coast of India. Have they found Atlantis, the fabled sunken continent? Marine archeologist Amrita Desai and the Ukrainian submarine expert Sergei Savelnikov investigate the underwater ruins and discover a mysterious field of human skulls and skeletons. At the same time scientists realize that a huge meltwater lake has formed inside the Greenland ice sheet. Is the ice sheet about to slide into the ocean? Are our own cities in danger of becoming the New Atlantis?

A Final Fantasy 14 companion podcast, where we explore the lore and story of Hydaelyn and beyond. We take a close look at the story and history from the start of a new character’s trek through the Main Story Quest, job quests, dungeons, and more in this FFXIV podcast.

Wrimmad City, the largest settlement on the remote island of Botzis, is in many ways a low technology backwater fishing village, but for one detail: it boasts the seat of Unitism, the world’s second-largest religious order. Polister Calidon, the leader of that order, has lived a politically complicated but otherwise decently tranquil existence, up until the day an old friend shows up at his door. The friend, Professor Damid Magly, and his companion, Princess Battine Alconnot, are fleeing an international warrant, and demand sanctuary.

Dicono che prima della Caduta uomini e donne nascessero più o meno con la stessa probabilità, ma le radiazioni hanno fatto qualcosa ai nostri geni e ora il rapporto tre femmine su dodici sembra un vero colpo di fortuna. La razza umana sopravvive in poche città isolate da chilometri e chilometri di deserto cocente, abitato solo dai mutanti, gli Zendar.

"One Grain of Sand" by David Somerfleck is a speculative novel set in a climate-ravaged America where democracy and equality have crumbled under corporate rule. Noah Harpster, a pickpocket sentenced to a brutal prison system, volunteers for a dangerous experimental procedure—one that could kill him, maim him, or grant him a second chance. Emerging into a world fractured by failed genetic experiments and weaponized media, Noah finds himself entangled with a resistance movement branded as terrorism.

The world of Dune has shaped an entire generation of science fiction. From the sand blasted world of Arrakis, to the splendor of the imperial homeworld of Kaitain, readers and listeners have lived in a universe of treachery and wonder. Now, these stories expand on the Dune universe, telling of the lost years of Gurney Halleck as he works with smugglers on Arrakis in a deadly gambit for revenge; inside the ranks of the Sardaukar as the child of a betrayed nobleman becomes one of the Emperor’s most ruthless fighters.

With the Carthaginians pushed inside the walls of Londinium, the Britannians can finally stop reacting and take the fight to them. Hoping to retake the British Isles and even add new allies to the Alliance, legions are dispatched to Ériu, the emerald isle, to push back Carthaginian expansion there. Ky, a test pilot from the future and now Consul for the Britannic Empire, knows that Carthaginian retaliation is coming and prepares an explosive new surprise for the invaders.

Am Rande des Universums sind Menschenleben nicht viel Wert. Vee hat schon ihr ganzes Leben auf dem kleinen Planeten "Cato" verbracht und von einem besseren Leben geträumt. Seit sie denken kann, umhüllen schwarze Staubwolken den Planeten und machen das Leben dort zur Qual für jedes atmende Wesen. Als sich für Vee die einmalige Chance zur Flucht aus der sandigen Hölle ergibt, lässt sie sich auf einen gefährlichen Job ein: Etwas von dem am besten gesicherten Ort auf dem Planeten stehlen. Doch mit einem Mal geht alles schief …

After crash-landing on an unfamiliar desert planet, an all-female bounty hunter crew is rescued by a gorgeous, telepathic alien race of barbarians. And while the natives of the sand planet vow to help the females return to space, the barbarians can’t fight their attraction to the fascinating women. Marooned on a sand planet, injured, and separated from her crew, Captain Danica Miller is not having a good day. When she’s rescued from the desert by a huge, gold-skinned alien, she doesn’t know whether to be relieved or to panic.