Résultats pour "The Dreaming" dans Science-fiction

Though only eight years old, little Horton "Horty" Bluett has known a lifetime of sadness. Tormented and abused by his adoptive family, he's had enough - and with a beloved broken toy he calls "Junky" as his sole companion, the desperate little boy runs away to join a carnival. There, among the fortune tellers, fire-eaters, sideshow freaks, and assorted "strange people", Horty hopes to find acceptance and, at long last, a real home. But disgraced Doctor Pierre "Maneater" Monetre's traveling show is no ordinary entertainment, and its performers are not what they appear to be.

In AD 60, Boudica, war leader of the Eceni, led her people in a final bloody revolt against the occupying armies of Rome. It was the culmination of nearly 20 years of resistance against an occupying force that sought to crush a vibrant, complex civilisation and replace it with the laws, taxes and slavery of the Roman Empire.

Live out your dreams in the vU! You can go on a lavish vacation, live on a starship or explore magical lands in a vast, virtual reality that feels just like real life. Every taste, every touch, every smell—and it all comes free with your purchase of a vChip, plus installation fees. Join the billions of others Dreaming Under an Electric Moon.

Philip K. Dick meets the Coen Brothers in this genre-bending near-future tech nightmare that is as bitingly funny as it is horrifically believable from the New York Times bestselling author of Horror Movie. Meet Julia Flang, a twenty-something former semi-professional gamer, living with her...

What would you do if one day you found out that your loved ones had once lived on another planet? That they lived entire lifetimes before reincarnating here? Dr. Riley MacPherson faces that dilemma when Tessa, his girlfriend, reveals in a past life regression that she's originally from another world. One with orange-colored trees with blue leaves. This sends him on a quest to uncover all he can about this other world, Xeres.

Kalypso Deed is a shotgun, riding the interface between the AI Ganesh and human scientists who solve problems through cyber-assisted Dreams. But she's young and a little careless; she'd rather mix drinks and play jazz. Azamat Marcsson is a colourless statistician: middle-aged, boring, and obsessed with micro-organisms. A first-class nonentity - until one of his Dreams implodes, taking Kalypso with it. Now Ganesh is crashing, and nothing could be worse.

As students at university of Makhanda, South Africa during the #RUReferenceList campaign, Langa and her lover Khwezi have a passionate and complex relationship. Puzzling gaps in her memory haunt Langa, yet her dreams are vivid with colors and symbols that hint at a nightmare of forgotten violations and losses. So many secrets—and Langa has had enough of secrets and silences. Who can she turn to? Her mother? Her grandmother? Khwezi? Or herself?

A killer stalks the streets of Dockside, and he has a bone to pick with Roland Tankowicz. Old friends, former clients, and even rivals find themselves in the sights of a murderer who loves his work a little too much and seems custom-built to take on New Boston’s most famous Army-surplus cyborg. Roland and his team will have to play detective to piece together the identity of this strange assassin before all his associates end up face down in the street.

Eva ist verzweifelt. Von der Forschungsmission auf die dunkle Seite des Exoplaneten Proxima Centauri b ist sie als letztes Crewmitglied übriggeblieben. Dann hat sie auch noch aus Versehen einen verhängnisvollen Prozess in Gang gesetzt, der das gesamte System zerstören wird. Während sie lediglich auf ein schnelles Ende hofft, erwacht in unmittelbarer Nähe ein außerirdisches Wesen, das viel zu lange geschlafen hat - und nun den Auftrag bekommt, die zerstörerischen Eindringlinge von der Erde zur Strecke zu bringen.

It is November 1963 - 13 months after the Cuban Missile Crisis went horribly wrong. In this timeline the swinging sixties are not going to happen and the survivors, far from counting their blessings are beginning to wonder exactly what sort of world they have created.

From astronauts in deep space to the ghosts of the Civil War, New York Times best-selling author Alethea Kontis creates worlds of wonder and delight, of weirdness and despair, of whimsy and darkness. Here are 20 stories and poems that will transport you to the magical dangerous worlds you've always known should exist, but have never quite been able to find.

A post-apocalyptic sci-fi world set in the distant future, where machines control the fate of humanity. Intelligent machines have enslaved humans for centuries, but one human, Jane, who is eight months pregnant, finds herself on the run from her captors. The story is told using cycles of multiple characters’ points of view, where we also meet Azar, a man whose life decisions lead up to the cause of the machine's apocalypse. We also meet Ace, a bedraggled recruit to the rebellion. Lastly, we meet Enzo, one of the machines commissioned to find Jane and bring her to the all-powerful leader of...

Jessa is an officer on Lyra tasked with guarding the space station. She's professional with her Bio-mech partner, following procedure and keeping her lustful thoughts to herself. It's easy enough to do, knowing that the Bio-mech units don't have human reproductive organs. MCK-397 notices Jessa's arousal after they encounter a couple having a sexual liaison in the E Deck. When he goes to question his technician, Godfrey, he comes away with certain upgrades and enhancements.

A young aspiring wizard in their early 20's, takes you on a magical journey through the mystical nonsense that is my mind. I think it will be entertaining, dear listener. I think you shall walk away stunned, so I do dare you, come and listen to my podcast!

Dreaming of streaming is the podcast we chat to interesting gaming content creators from around the world who are just starting out in their online journey! Come meet these amazing people with interesting and funny stories and fantastic insights into the online gaming community!

All Good People (Are Asleep & Dreaming) - A new show by TheUIS. We will be covering the weird & wonderful world we live in (or are programed to live in).

Welcome to Dreaming Machine - a show dedicated to the glorious medium of animation in all of its forms, from anime and cartoons to stop-motion and more! Now the more observant among you will have noticed the slight alteration of our original name of Keyframe to include our new name, and this is in fact purposeful as Keyframe will be moving to Youtube while Dreaming Machine remains as a podcast, There's exciting things ahead in this new and revamped version of our classic podcast.

Her exile ended, Melinno Vaasa, poet and troublemaker, returns to the city of Thurn seeking to repair the shattered pieces of her life. In need of a powerful patron, she attends a masked ball hosted by High Magister Oswal, the infamous Headsman of Thurn. But Melinno finds more than she bargained for as the evening’s revels take on an unsettling air and an ancient nightmare threatens to swallow her whole. Written by Josh Reynolds. Performed by Phillipe Bosher, Steve Conlin, Sean Connolly, Eva Feiler and Genevieve Swallow.

'I promise you, I'll be waiting for you.' Sebastian Shaw shouldn't be here. The last thing he can remember is driving his friend, Maggie, to the local asylum.... And now he's woken up to find himself a patient. Is Sebastian going mad or has he fallen into a trap? Can he trust his new psychiatrist, Laurie Norris? And just what is causing his dreams of the future? Dreams that are becoming nightmares for them both.