Résultats pour "Space Opera" dans Fantasy

Afin de participer aux Sectionnels – où s'affrontent les meilleurs cadets des académies du Secteur 9 d'Astra-3 – Rei doit d'abord arracher sa qualification au tournoi Intrascolaire de Galens... et faire taire ses détracteurs. La lutte est acharnée, les heures d'entraînement s'enchaînent et les coups bas pleuvent pour rattraper les hauts Rangs de l'Institut comme Aria et Logan Grant, car pour les premières années, l'enjeu est de taille.

Un vaisseau pas comme les autres. Un équipage inoubliable. Un univers fantastique. Un conflit qui renaît de ses cendres... Voie lactée, 2198. Les Nébuleuses, ces particules aux propriétés miraculeuses, font l'objet d'un conflit religieux depuis leur apparition providentielle dans la galaxie. Ani, une fidèle intouchable, s'apprête à entrer dans l'ordre du Nébularium. Alors que tout les oppose, elle et Storm, mystérieux commandant de la Maraudeuse, se retrouvent malgré eux au cœur d'une ancienne rumeur qui pourrait bien menacer une paix déjà fragile.

Adrian Tchaikovksy's critically acclaimed stand-alone novel Children of Time is the epic story of humanity's battle for survival on a terraformed planet. Who will inherit this new Earth? The last remnants of the human race left a dying Earth, desperate to find a new home among the stars. Following in the footsteps of their ancestors, they discover the greatest treasure of the past age - a world terraformed and prepared for human life. But all is not right in this new Eden.

Reidon Ward porte les stigmates d'une existence brutale. Abandonné par des parents incapables de supporter sa maladie dégénérative, il grandit en regardant les circuits de combat, s'entraînant sans relâche dans l'espoir d'un jour rejoindre ce monde et triompher de ses idoles. Son acharnement ne passe pas inaperçu. Quand l'IA omnisciente qui gouverne l'humanité pose son regard sur lui, tout bascule.

In space everyone can hear you sing. A century ago, intelligent space-faring life was nearly destroyed during the Sentience Wars. To bring the shattered worlds together in the spirit of peace, unity and understanding, the Metagalactic Grand Prix was created. Part concert, part contest, all extravaganza, species far and wide gather to compete in feats of song, dance and/or whatever facsimile of these can be performed by various creatures who may or may not possess, in the traditional sense, feet, mouths, larynxes or faces. 

Quand le ciel s’embrase et que les mondes se taisent, que reste-t-il de la beauté ? Thalerys n’était pas seulement un monde. C’était une harmonie vivante. Un royaume ancien de mers de cristal, de cités suspendues au-dessus des eaux, de flèches lumineuses, de jardins flottants et de cieux ouverts, où la mémoire, la pierre, le chant et la volonté formaient encore une seule et même musique. Ses peuples n’habitaient pas un empire b âti contre la création, mais une civilisation façonnée en dialogue avec elle, dans la patience, la Résonance et la splendeur. Puis les Anuns sont venus.

Nine hundred thousand years ago, something annihilated the Amarantin civilization just as it was on the verge of discovering space flight. Now one scientist, Dan Sylveste, will stop at nothing to solve the Amarantin riddle before ancient history repeats itself. With no other resources at his disposal, Sylveste forges a dangerous alliance with the cyborg crew of the starship Nostalgia for Infinity. But as he closes in on the secret, a killer closes in on him because the Amarantin were destroyed for a reason.

The Last Horizon has been cursed. While Varic and the rest of the crew look for a solution, their enemies have an opportunity. King-Regent Felrex and the Perfected, his army of genetically augmented super-soldiers, see their chance to rule. With the Galactic Union weakened and the Zenith Starship out of the way, the Perfected want to rule the galaxy in the name of Karosha. But the Queen of Karosha has something to say about that.

This audio drama anthology contains seven tales of the Space Wolves. In these stories, you'll discover the moment the Chapter changed forever, ride across the frozen tundra, experience battles with orks, drukhari and more, witness the infamous Lukas the Trickster at work and see the dynamic between the sons of Russ and their rivals in the Dark Angels.

Im Rahmen des Projektes "ExoMars" ist Kapitän Tarik Connar mit einer Besatzung von 27 Männer und Frauen unterwegs, um den Mars des Jahres 2023 mit Nachschubgütern zu versorgen. Durch eine Reihe von Fehlschaltungen und Kurzschlüssen wird der Frachter jedoch aus der Bahn geworfen und fliegt...

The Earth lies in ruins in the aftermath of an extraterrestrial invasion, the land devastated by a desperate war with no winners between mankind and a race of vicious, intelligent creatures. The seas are drying up while the atmosphere corrodes and slowly cooks any life remaining on the now desolate rock. Food is scarce, trust even more so, and the only people left alive all have done horrific things to stay that way.

In the hellish sprawl of Imperial Terra, Ordo Hereticus Inquisitor Erasmus Crowl serves as a stalwart protector, for even the Throneworld is not immune to the predations of its enemies. In the course of his duty, Crowl becomes embroiled in a dark conspiracy, one that leads all the way to the halls of the Imperial Palace. As he plunges deeper into the shadowy underbelly of the many palace districts, his investigation attracts the attention of hidden forces, and soon he and his acolyte Spinoza are being hunted.

In the stunning continuation of the epic adventure begun in Hyperion, Simmons returns us to a far future resplendent with drama and invention. On the world of Hyperion, the mysterious Time Tombs are opening. And the secrets they contain mean that nothing - nothing anywhere in the universe - will ever be the same.

The war was over. So the living were told. The machine gods had fallen. Their thrones of crystal and gold had been shattered. Their white temples had been burned. Their false heavens had gone dark. Across the broken star-realms, mankind began to gather what remained of itself and turn toward a hidden refuge, a world beyond the reach of the machines. But in the deep places between suns, old mercies still whispered. There were worlds where the white doors still opened without hands.

Here, Simmons returns to this richly imagined world of technological achievement, excitement, wonder and fear. Endymion is a story about love and memory, triumph and terror - an instant candidate for the field's highest honors.

Our universe is ruled by physics, and faster-than-light travel is not possible - until the discovery of The Flow, an extradimensional field we can access at certain points in space-time that transports us to other worlds, around other stars. Humanity flows away from Earth, into space, and in time forgets our home world and creates a new empire, the Interdependency, whose ethos requires that no one human outpost can survive without the others. It's a hedge against interstellar war - and a system of control for the rulers of the empire.

The military SF sequel to his extraordinary Old Man's War, John Scalzi's The Ghost Brigades is the second in The Old Man's War series. Who can you trust, if you can't trust yourself? Three hostile alien races have united against humanity, determined to halt our expansion into space. The...

La historia comienza a miles de años en el futuro, en un gran imperio galáctico dividido en cuasi-feudos controlados por familias nobles. La clave para el control del Imperio se encuentra en Arrakis, un planeta desértico también conocido como Dune. El protagonista de la historia es el joven Paul Atreides, heredero del ducado de la Casa de los Atreides. Su padre, Leto Atreides, recibe de pronto la orden de trasladarse a Arrakis, y Paul deberá enfrentarse, por un lado, al emperador y, por otro, a sus antiguos enemigos, la Casa de los Harkonnen.

The Overlords appeared suddenly over every city - intellectually, technologically, and militarily superior to humankind. Benevolent, they made few demands: unify earth, eliminate poverty, and end war. With little rebellion, humankind agreed, and a golden age began.

A century ago, nearly all life in the universe was destroyed by the Starless Horrors. Spanning three decades, the Cataclysm wiped out two-thirds of known galaxies and left the rest broken. But eventually, the survivors of countless civilizations and species banded together and prevailed against the onslaught, and those who remained began to rebuild, reconnect, and rediscover hope.