Résultats pour "Space Opera" dans Humoristique

Plus bas que Terre ! Ayant - plus ou moins - survécu à son édifiante promenade cosmico-temporelle, le pauvre Arthur Dent savoure l'indicible plaisir de fouler à nouveau le sol de sa planète natale. Une planète jadis détruite par les terribles Vogons, sous le prétexte fallacieux de laisser passer une autoroute intergalactique... Pas de panique ! Car l'universellement exhaustif "Guide galactique" saura sans doute répondre à cet étrange paradoxe. Et peut-être élucidera-t-il un mystère plus angoissant encore : pourquoi les dauphins ont-ils disparu.

Stephen walked into the office which Barnabas was using as his judge's chamber. While the massive amount of data Bethany Anne's team was throwing at him was more than enough to assuage his curiosity, he had never felt this way in the last 152 years. He wanted a vacation. He pulled the top manila-folder and took a look at the name, "Clarissa Bernier, CEO". He opened the folder, and it was now in the agreed upon fashion.

The crew of your starship are being systematically slaughtered. What do you do? The galaxies ruling council have lost two ships, thousands of light years distant on the outer fringe of the Milky Way. A civilian exploration vessel and the military ship sent to find it have disappeared without a trace.

Return to the greatest contest in the galaxy in this “beguiling, bewitching” (Seanan McGuire, New York Times bestselling author of the October Daye series) sequel to the hilarious USA TODAY bestseller Space Opera from New York Times bestselling author and finalist for the Hugo, Nebula, World...

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...

When the station board of directors sends former maintenance technician Triana Moore to Lewei, she expects to bump knuckles with a few dignitaries, tell a couple of white lies, and drink some substandard cocoa. Her friend—son of the former dictator—tells scary stories of the planet, but Triana’s not afraid of the Leweian secret police. She’ll be on her best behavior with Ty and Vanti to watch her back. With the might of SK2 behind her, Triana should be untouchable.

The galaxy is at war, and Space Team just can't seem to stay out of trouble. Following one close-call too many, the team hides out on a tiny backwater moon, hoping the hostilities between Zertex and the Symmorium will all just blow over. But when first officer Loren's brother is taken prisoner and sentenced to death by the Symmorium, Cal and the others must make a choice — a choice that could spell the end of Space Team forever...

When Brad Mendoza and Jessica Lin discover a traitor among their closest friends, they’re devastated. But they’re also on a mission to rescue a duke’s little sister, so they don’t have time to deal with it right now. Until that mission proves to be anything but what they expected, and they find themselves caught between royalty, their sworn enemy, and a particularly annoying 17-year-old with visions of revolution. Now, the traitor in their midst might prove to be their only hope to get out this alive!

Hard-core military science fiction at its very best, John Scalzi's The Last Colony is the third in The Old Man's War series. They must save themselves – or die trying. John Perry was living peacefully on one of humanity's colonies – until he and his wife were offered an opportunity these...

May’s humdrum life is flung into hyperdrive when she’s rescued from an alien abduction by Xan, an alien with a fondness for I Love Lucy who lives on the Audacity. But when Chaos incarnate decides to turn Earth into her personal sandbox, the Audacity and May’s new love of rocket racing are the only things that can stop her.

Quentin Tipper enlisted because he didn’t want to stay a two-bit hustler like his father. Alvin Phish enlisted to impress his fiance’s father, the Admiral. Together, two nobodies become members of the Intergalactic Space Force and become...still nobodies. But when the ISF is attacked by the mysterious Femen, these two nobodies must answer the call to action.

Letzter und abschließender Teil der Military-Science-Fiction-Serie "Die Letzte Flotte". Akwa Marquands Flotte ist besiegt, doch ihr Vater hält noch immer das Herz der Menschheit besetzt. Während Prinzessin Elayne Hartholm-Harrow mit Janus Darishma ins Orb-Territorium aufbricht, um ihre vor langer Zeit verschollene Schwester zu finden, muss Gavin Andal entscheiden, wie er diesen Bürgerkrieg für sich entscheiden und den Verräter auf Terra zur Rechenschaft ziehen will.

Cal Carver's time is about to run out. He and his Space Team are broke. Forced to take low-paying gun-for-hire jobs just to keep the food replicator working, their prospects are not looking good. When they pick up a distress signal from a luxury space cruiser, they think their luck might be about to change. And it does. Sadly, not in the way they'd hoped. Someone has detonated a Time Bomb aboard the cruiser — an experimental device designed to shatter time itself.

While trying to stop a cyber-attacker stealing all Space Team's hard-earned money, the cyborg, Mech, unlocks a secret partition in his hard drive, revealing a mysterious set of co-ordinates. The co-ordinates lead the team to Funworld, a planet-sized theme park with a worrying number of artificially intelligent clownbots, and a shocking disregard for Health & Safety.

It isn't just war. It's space war! Geronimus Krone, the most dangerous man in existence has altered the course of time, appointed himself King of Space, and now rules the galaxy with the help of his four monstrous generals and their armies. Cal Carver and his crew are the galaxy's only hope. But, reeling from their recent loss, they can't stop Krone on their own. Fortunately, they've got a whole bunch of friends they can call on for help.

Vom Bestseller-Autor der Schwarze-Flotte-Serie und des Riesenhits „Kriegsschiff.“ Jason Burke war ein Mann, der sich in einer kleinen Hütte hoch in den amerikanischen Rocky Mountains vor sich selbst versteckte, als sein einfaches, ruhiges Leben eines Nachts von etwas erschüttert wurde, von dem er zuerst annahm, dass es sich um ein Flugzeugunglück handelte. Aber als er den Absturz untersucht, zwingt ihn das, was er findet, aus seinem selbst auferlegten Exil und stößt ihn in eine Welt, die er sich nie hätte vorstellen können.

Old flames, new rivals, and one droid who refuses to stop watching. Sam Kretcher finally meets someone worth losing his composure over — right as an old Academy buddy with an unfair amount of charm checks in and starts stealing her attention without even trying. Captain Vorn is doing her best impression of a woman who is absolutely not starstruck by a guest she's quietly adored since childhood.

When a reality-crushing anomaly called the Cosmic Squeeze begins collapsing digital and physical worlds into a single point, the lines between player and code shatter. Cassidy Delgado, sharp-tongued commander of the USS Rammedass, finds herself dragged into a cosmic contest where game admins conspire, Al fleets wage holy war, and sentient code hungers for more than just data. What started as interstellar chaos becomes a battle for the fate of existence itself.

One captain, one alien sidekick, and a galaxy full of trouble and punchlines. Fresh off his promotion by his childhood hero, Geddy's celebration is cut short when he discovers his girlfriend has been kidnapped and his crew has vanished. Talk about a rough first day on the job. As Geddy races...

Saving the Earth is just the beginning in this comedic free-for-all. “Darkness travels at the speed of light” so the gang needs to get ready, stop getting distracted, stay on budget, and what were those other things? Right, stop getting distracted.