Résultats pour "The Bell" dans Science-fiction

In un multiverso infinito, una donna senza ricordi del proprio passato, intrappolata in un matrimonio e in una realtà alternativa, dovrà affrontare pericoli inaspettati e scoprire la verità sulla sua identità. Il ricordo di altre vite in altri luoghi e di un esperimento fantascientifico, porteranno alla luce il segreto legato alla creazione del "Patriarcato".

For 25 years, civilization has survived in meager enclaves, guarded against a plague of the dead. Temple wanders this blighted landscape, keeping to herself and keeping her demons inside her heart. She can’t remember a time before the zombies, but she does remember an old man who took her in and the younger brother she cared for until the tragedy that set her off on her personal journey toward redemption.

2010. The end of the world has begun, but no one is paying attention. People are unaware of the breaking pandemic, code name, The Epilogue Event. Accidentally finding himself at center stage, an unlikely and unwilling hero Peter Finch, must, if he is to survive, awaken powers he has been trying to forget for over thirty years. And time is not on his side. A mysterious Artificial Intelligence, the cause of the plague, is slowly gaining control over everyone Peter loves and everything he values.

Emmanuelle La Belle, à seulement 15 ans, se réveille après 20 ans d`hibernation dans une Paris qu`elle ne reconnaît plus, dans un monde divisé en deux, un hémisphère contre l`autre.

CHRONOS historians Madi, Tyson, and Katherine and their cohorts are on the enemy’s trail, fixing the mess that sociopath Saul Rand has made of history - and of the Temporal Dilemma rules. Another time shift is on the horizon, and this time, it’s one that reflects Saul’s twisted vision. When the shift hits, it plunges the United States into a modern dark age where superstition trumps science and 17th-century witch hunts are no longer a thing of the past. But Saul has added a new hurdle to this insane reality: he’s hunting the Sisters of Prudence.

Revolution machen kann (fast) jeder. Eine neue Gesellschaftsordnung aufbauen: das schaffen nur ein paar Nerds. Und Sibylle Berg. Nach einer gelungenen Revolution, die das Finanz- und Gesellschaftssystem sanft beseitigt hat, wird sie endlich errichtet: die schöne neue Welt nach dem Kapitalismus. In dieser Welt ist alles verschwunden, woran die Menschen zu glauben gelernt hatten, in der jeder erstaunt bemerkt – dass es möglich ist, ohne Angst zu existieren und ohne sein Leben an einen Arbeitgeber zu verkaufen.

Water didn't flow right on Hidrin, not as it used to. It’s been like this for millennia. Rather than rest in basins or canyons, waters rise high into the sky to pierce clouds and race over continents. Bels, they are called. Mimicking the image of a yarn ball, they weave over and under one another, disrupting the already fractured view of the stars. Strange sights, but sights that people have grown comfortable and accustomed to.

Stranded in a work camp in Jackson, Missouri, Dan faces down a dangerous dictator as Abby roams the streets alone, sinking deeper and deeper into darkness. Becca makes a dramatic decision to help her son, but her choice may doom them all to a fate worse than death. Meanwhile, Ozzy and Cormac spread their influence and the consequences may fully turn the tide in their favor, leaving the Porters forever changed.

The attack on Earth is imminent. Nelson can't prevent it. But he can end it. Even if it's the last thing he does.

The Establishment wants Earth. Earth isn't ready to defend itself. So Nelson Newman takes matters into his own hands. Determined to disrupt Oleander's plans, Nelson travels back to Wenua. With SELF alongside him, they have one mission: to buy humanity the time they need to prepare against invasion. Nelson’s life is on the line. SELF knows sacrifices must be made. Earth’s freedom is the prize. Is Nelson willing to pay the price?

The horrors of Texas behind them, the travelers struggle to resolve past trauma as they seek out their next destination, Abby's home city of Tulsa, Oklahoma. However, elements within the government anticipate their next move and Abby may not like what she sees when she arrives.

Traveling north from the blackened wreckage of Houston, Abby, Dan and Rhonda believe the worst is behind them. Heading toward Fort Worth to reunite with friends of Abby's, the trio is entangled in a life or death struggle and not everyone will make it through unscathed. In Wisconsin, politics and survival intertwine, putting the entire town at risk while the malevolent Russian assassin crosses Alaska on his way to the United States, leaving a trail of bodies in his wake.

Heen Gru-Bares has been SERIES 5 for most of his adult life, traveling from planet to planet collecting data and filing reports for the CHAIRS, who run the universe. And then he lands on the planet Firdus for his next assignment, and he meets Borns and Lan Zing and Ziga Mey and Dill Tudd, and something unsettling begins to stir within him, something unnerving and profoundly disruptive.

When a new drilling method enables access to a deep source of renewable energy, all expectations are that Ultilitron will champion a new era in electricity production. When the lights go out and the killing starts, the country's emotions quickly turn from elation to fear.

The Passenger Merchant Ship Wallowing Manatee has been overrun by a horde of honest to god, brain-eating Zombies, and Carlisle Wright's only hope is Bethany Elizabeth McBeth, professional flowchartist, aspiring owl rancher, and acting shift manager of the Andromeda Spaceways Urgent Response Desk. If you happen to know Carlisle's next of kin, you might want to buy them one of those condolence cards, or a fruit basket, or something. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

They promised a cure for cancer, but they delivered civilization's ultimate end. When the world's largest Pharmaceutical company inadvertently unleashes a deadly virus, it plunges society into darkness. Dan Porter must stare into that darkness and try to find the light. Separated from his family by thousands of miles, he must brave the treacherous landscape, doing whatever he can to live to see another day.

It's late in Book 1 of the WHERE'D YOU PARK YOUR SPACESHIP? series when she appears late at night in Heen Gru-Bares's bedroom, deeply unnerving him with her claim to be a SIGN 7, sent to the planet Firdus to sort out a situation involving him. Who is this enigmatic and electric woman who appears to be a step ahead at every turn? And where does she come from and how did she become Noon Yeah? And then how did she end up in that bedroom on Firdus?

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A haunted painter’s past life visions are not the creative inspiration they seemed. They’re a harbinger of her ancient revenge vow, and her FBI husband won’t find the serial killer until she fulfills it. But it may already be too late.

Miss Clara Marie Stanton's family may be eccentric, but they certainly aren't insane. London, England, 1860: When Clara's ex-fiancé begins to spread rumors that her family suffers from hereditary insanity, it's all she can do to protect them from his desperate schemes, society's prejudice, and a lifetime in an asylum. Then Clara's grandfather Drosselmeyer brings on an apprentice with a mechanical leg, and all pretense of normalcy takes wing.