Résultats pour "The Future" dans Histoire alternative

A thousand years in the future, human civilisation has been driven to the brink of extinction by the Killers, a mysterious alien race seemingly intent on exterminating every other form of sentient life. Desperately fleeing utter annihilation, a handful of starships use an experimental stardrive in a bid to escape, only to find themselves thrown back in time to the dawn of the First Interstellar War in 2308, where mankind is making its first stand against an alien foe.

I've traveled back twenty-two years to rewrite the future and stop the nightmare threatening Earth. An apocalypse looms, promising total annihilation. No one will be spared. Now the weight of the world rests on my shoulders; I'm the one tasked with changing everything. I have come back to the past, and in five days, on the twenty-sixth of April, the day of reckoning will arrive. The event that will happen will be known as the Eclipse in the future. It will divide the history of the Solar System into a before and after.

I traveled twenty-two years into the past to change the future—to stop the nightmare threatening Earth. I founded the Syndicate, which has now grown into the world's most powerful organization. But recently, another group has risen to challenge us—the Clowns. They didn't exist in my previous life. The Clowns are mysterious, powerful, and dangerous—especially their leader, Lady Black. I can sense that she's hiding something.

In an alternate history of Detroit, the Motor City was never surrendered to the US. Its residents deal with pollution, poverty, and the legacy of racism—and strange and magical things are happening: children rule over their own kingdom in the trees and burned houses regenerate themselves. When Gloria arrives looking for answers and her missing granddaughters, at first she finds only a hungry mouse in the derelict home where her daughter was murdered. But the neighbours take pity on her and she turns to their resilience and impressive gardens for sustenance.

I traveled twenty-two years into the past to change the future and prevent the nightmare that threatens the Earth. I founded the Syndicate, which has by now become the most powerful organization in the world. It comprises the most talented Evolvers humanity has to offer—I selected them personally, guided by the knowledge from the future. I have now assembled a small army of Evolvers under the auspices of the Syndicate to clear the descent from the mountain and reach an incredibly powerful monster—the Silkworm, whose abilities I intend to claim for myself.

I've traveled twenty-two years into the past to change the future and prevent the nightmare awaiting planet Earth. I've started altering the course of events in the present radically, creating every possible advantage for myself and my family. I need power and influence to save Earth from destruction.

They are in your house. They are in your car. They are in the skies…Now they’re coming for you. In the near future, at a moment no one will notice, all the dazzling technology that runs our world will unite and turn against us. Taking on the persona of a shy human boy, a childlike but...

The aliens are back. France is under siege. As the Martians prepare to attack Paris, roving bands of rogue soldiers pillage the country, taking whatever they please. The nightmare has returned. Christian was a child when he lost his family in the first Martian attack. Now, he wants nothing more than to avenge their deaths and punish the murderous aliens and traitors who work with them.

Suffering from writer's block, Michael Schatten books himself into a remote beachside cabin to find inspiration. Exploring the nearby town, he stumbles upon an antique shop, purchases a quaint typewriter, and begins to type a short story. On a walk on the beach the next day, he stumbles upon a dilapidated house just like the one he described in his story. And at lunch in a diner he overhears other patrons talk, using the very lines he composed the night before. What is going on? Has he entered the twilight zone? Gone mad? Or purchased a magic typewriter?

In this darkly humorous and philosophically engaging sci-fi adventure, a wayward young woman and her straightlaced companion awake from 200 years of “suspended life” to a future that challenges many ideas about what it means to be and to remain human. The technological changes that have transpired during their long sleep rattle them, but even more mind-boggling are the startling views they must grapple with regarding sex, family, and regeneration.

Will physicist Martin Riley get the rewards he feels he deserves? He's discovered a way to receive news stories from two weeks in the future but the Government has cloaked the technology in secrecy. Riley sees the danger in altering the Timestream but despite his warnings, politicians on both sides of the Atlantic make radical alterations to political events. The first temporal alteration saves Princess Diana, the next saves the Twin Towers, but ripples travel far ahead and disturb Earth's future civilisation. The Timestream must be realigned, but at what cost?

The Future is Now is a short, mind-bending alternate history about the nature of time and how we all have the power to change the future - how one single act can literally change the course of history. Set in today's world, but with a twist. John Blunt is an ex-Word War Two fighter pilot, living in England. At his wife's urging, he visits an energy healer to get some relief for his aching back.

Deckard O'Shea has come to terms with his family's birthright, even if it is one he would've never chosen. His world as he knows it is in shambles as King Arthur's true nemesis, Jakobus, has orchestrated mayhem and panic. Along with the newly formed Keepers Division of the military, Deckard dons the legendary sword Excalibur in a war torn England and struggles to survive against ruthless axis powers and special forces known as Harvesters led by the devil himself.

The year is 2393, and the world is almost unrecognizable. Clear warnings of climate catastrophe went ignored for decades, leading to soaring temperatures, rising sea levels, widespread drought, and the disaster now known as the Great Collapse of 2093. Dramatizing science in ways traditional nonfiction cannot, The Collapse of Western Civilization reasserts the importance of scientists and the work they do, providing a welcome moment of clarity amid the cacophony of climate-change literature. 

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"Peter Ganim was just the right choice to narrate this audiobook" — AudioFile Magazine A groundbreaking audiobook anthology of science fiction from Iraq that will challenge your perception of what it means to be “The Other.” This collection of short stories is masterfully edited by Hassan...

The old Nazi's being protected, but why? 1977 Argentina and Detective Sergeant Emil Vazquez of the Buenos Aires police is investigating illegal abortion. A routine case until he discovers the world's most wanted Nazi is involved - Doctor Joseph Mengele. Worse, Argentina's ruling military junta is protecting the monster. And why does the church also seem keen for Auschwitz's infamous Angel of Death to succeed in his twisted medical experiments? The stakes couldn't be higher.