Résultats pour "The Double" dans Science-Fiction et fantasy

One minute, down-and-out actor Lorenzo Smythe is, as usual, in a bar, drinking away his troubles while watching his career circle the drain. Then a space pilot buys him a drink, and the next thing Smythe knows, he’s shanghaied to Mars. Smythe suddenly finds himself agreeing to the most difficult role of his career: impersonating an important politician who has been kidnapped. Peace with the Martians is at stake, and failure to pull off the act could result in interplanetary war.

When the elite fighter pilots of the Phantine XX arrive on the beleaguered world of Enothis, they know it is a desperate hour. The forces of Chaos are closing in, and their final push could well wipe out all human life on the planet. Thousands of refugees flee the dark armies, and the infamous Chaos fighter pilot Khrel Kas Obarkon is always hunting the skies for more prey....

Host Ava Grey explores the darkest betrayals in Fallout 76's high-stakes heists, where greed and survival shatter partnerships at the worst possible moment. From vault gold fever to information manipulation, each episode dissects real double-crosses, examining the psychology of trust and the devastating choices that destroy criminal alliances. For more content like this, visit QuietPlease.ai

L et son équipe d'enquêteurs parviennent à infiltrer Misa dans la société de Kyosuke Higuchi en tant que nouvelle image publicitaire et agent double. Mais ils ne savent toujours pas exactement qui est le détenteur du Death Note. Kyosuke, cependant, n'a aucune idée que l'étau se resserre autour de lui et se vante de ses pouvoirs mortels devant la séduisante Misa.

Choosing a college when your family is struggling can be difficult, but it isn’t supposed to be world ending. And the falling meteor is seriously limiting Matt’s options. Now in the aftermath, his home city is locked down by a mysterious dome, corporations are looking to monopolize a wealth of new untapped resources, and people are suddenly developing powers via a System that seems to have borderline sinister intentions.

Depuis la disparition de son père, Teddy Meyer tente de mener une vie normale à Limoges. Mais à dix-huit ans, il découvre l’existence d’univers parallèles. En cherchant à retrouver Claire, son amour de toujours, dans une autre dimension, il déclenche malgré lui une instabilité entre les mondes. Accusé par un double venu du futur d’être responsable de la mort de Claire dans un univers alternatif, et suivi par un prétendu fils, Teddy se retrouve confronté à des choix qui dépassent sa réalité.

Layla, a recovering drug addict, reformed kleptomaniac, and general troublemaker, believes she has a one-way ticket straight to hell to go with her general rap sheet. Instead of jail time, she’s ordered to perform 90 days of community service.

Corruption. Power struggle. Malevolent deities. All this is topped off by a mysterious golden tower that appeared overnight, drawing adventurers from far and wide. Still recovering from the events of Transposition and struggling with his nature, Matt sets out to rescue his best friend from the...

Becky Chambers meets Miss Marple in the third entry of this cozy sci-fi mystery series, helmed by a formidable no-nonsense auntie of a detective. As the Fairweather approaches the halfway point of its journey, Dorothy Gentleman may have reached the end of hers… It’s been a long lifetime, and...

Daniel Faust - sorcerer, thief, and newly-minted Las Vegas crime boss - has debts to pay. One of those debts has just come due, an IOU to be paid in the form of a high-risk heist, and it's a job he can't refuse. The mark? Daniel's arch-nemesis, a man with a Cheshire smile and the powers of a living god. The score? A sacrificial dagger buried under layers of electronic, occult, and human security, snug on the far side of a custom-built deathtrap.

If you fall into the latter category, you get me. There I was, simply working to program my visual novel and find my muse, when BAM! Monster girl in my closet. Needless to say, she changed my life. For the better at first, sure. But then there was the hunter, and the crazy lady who spoke of another world where the monsters live.

'Sixteen's an interesting age: not quite a fully grown man, but not a kid either. Anything is possible when you're sixteen.' Finmere Tingewick Smith was abandoned on the steps of the Old Bailey. Under the guardianship of the austere Judge Harlequin Brown and the elderly gentlemen of Orrery House...

Richard York is exhausted. His insomnia is causing him to nod off at work, and he’s close to getting fired if he keeps failing at his job. He just needs some relief and is willing to do anything to get some rest. Samantha, a struggling actress, is suffering from the same affliction, so when the two of them collide, literally, in a car accident, it seems like fate has stepped in to bring them together. Both of their lives are going off track, and to add to their misery, news reports are coming in about an impending asteroid collision with Earth.

Айлин Ревенгар предстоит стать избранной Претемнейшей Госпожи, но найти деньги на учебу в Академии нужно сейчас. Неважно, что для этого придется разогнать кладбищенскую нежить и вскрыть склеп - для отважной не-леди это не проблема. Сложнее не попасться строгим учителям.

In his first assignment as an officer, Ishmael Horatio Wang finds himself fresh out of school, wet behind the ears, and way out of his depth. Aboard the William Tinker the senior officers are derelict and abusive, the crew demoralized and undisciplined, and change unwelcomed and dangerous. Can Ishmael use what he learned aboard the Lois McKendrick to help the crew find the ship's heart? Or will he discover that bucking the system may come at too high a price?

KurtisP385XL47Ruth: Game Changer. Prodigal daughter. Spy. The Cybers detect an alien signal from the water-world Cyvrus, a violation of its WorldPlan and another sign that their control of a peaceful but static humanity is slipping. They send Agent Kurtis to investigate, still unaware that she's a double agent for the human Resistance. What she finds could tear apart the fragile balance of the galactic system: a laboratory of human clones prepared by alien invaders in the Cyber system....

Recently divorced, Quinn has enough on her hands trying to win a culinary contest to put her new cafe on the map. One cordial short of an entry, she doesn't have time to help her new renter exorcise an evil spirit from her house. And then she finds the woman's body face down in her kitchen. As Quinn begins to unravel the mystery behind her tenant's murder and her brother's sudden avoidance, she suspects something far more sinister is at play in Bookend Bay.

Justine Jones lived her life as a fearful hypochondriac until she was lured into the web of a mysterious mastermind named Packard, who gifts her with extraordinary mental powers - dooming her to fight Midcity’s shadowy war on paranormal crime in order to find the peace she so desperately craves.

Rent in New Metta is through the cavern ceiling. When Granu barely survives her first gig teaching students who attempt to fillet her for lunch, the baby-eating troll ends up unemployed and facing eviction. Granu's only prospect for income is grueling work in the tar pits. That is, until her playboy best friend devises a perfect, if suicidal, scheme—a heist!

In Book 3: Double Lives, MeeMa, the family's wise matriarch, takes center stage in this installment, revealing her deep spiritual gifts and the secret practices she weaves into her Pentecostal faith. Set against New Orleans mysticism and modern-day tensions, MeeMa bridges ancient traditions and the restrictive church. The novel explores her powers as she uncovers hidden truths about the family, including the secrets of her grandson, Jr., and his fiancée, Nicole.