Résultats pour "The Prince" dans Science-fiction

Reidon Ward porte les stigmates d'une existence brutale. Abandonné par des parents incapables de supporter sa maladie dégénérative, il grandit en regardant les circuits de combat, s'entraînant sans relâche dans l'espoir d'un jour rejoindre ce monde et triompher de ses idoles. Son acharnement ne passe pas inaperçu. Quand l'IA omnisciente qui gouverne l'humanité pose son regard sur lui, tout bascule.

Afin de participer aux Sectionnels – où s'affrontent les meilleurs cadets des académies du Secteur 9 d'Astra-3 – Rei doit d'abord arracher sa qualification au tournoi Intrascolaire de Galens... et faire taire ses détracteurs. La lutte est acharnée, les heures d'entraînement s'enchaînent et les coups bas pleuvent pour rattraper les hauts Rangs de l'Institut comme Aria et Logan Grant, car pour les premières années, l'enjeu est de taille.

Un amnésique s'échappe d'une clinique psychiatrique et découvre qu'il détient des pouvoirs quasi divins. Il serait Corwin, l'un des 9 princes d'Ambre, le monde originel dont tous les autres mondes parallèles sont des reflets, des ombres ! Recouvrant peu à peu la mémoire, il entreprend d'ombre en ombre un périlleux retour vers Ambre pour y disputer le trône à son ambitieux et redoutable frère, Eric.

The Broken Gospel is the powerful second novel in The Black Prince of Suex trilogy, set in the world of The War for the Adamite Throne.Five years after ending a devastating war, King Æthelson of Suex and the Order of the Black face a new and insidious enemy. Led by the fallen brother Malachi...

Reidon Ward will become a god. He doesn't know it yet, of course. Reidon was born weak, sickly, and small. Afflicted with a painful disease and abandoned by his parents because of it, he has had to fight tooth and nail for every minor advantage life has allowed him. However, his perseverance has not gone unnoticed, and when the most powerful artificial intelligence in human history takes an interest in him, things began to change quickly. 

I was reborn . . . inside a painting. My own portrait. For eight hundred years, I was forced to watch my bloodline decay—generation by generation—helpless, forgotten, doomed to fade into irrelevance. Everything changed when a kid named Anatole got curious. "I read in a book that our great...

I was reborn . . . inside a painting. My own portrait. For eight hundred years, I was forced to watch my bloodline decay—generation by generation—helpless, forgotten, doomed to fade into irrelevance. Everything changed when a kid named Anatole got curious. "I read in a book that our great...

In a world scarred by an apocalyptic past, evoking a time both 2,000 years past and 2,000 years into the future, untold thousands gather for a crusade. Among them, two men and two women are ensnared by a mysterious traveler, Anasûrimbor Kellhus - part warrior, part philosopher, part sorcerous, charismatic presence - from lands long thought dead. The Darkness That Comes Before is a history of this great holy war, and like all histories, the survivors write its conclusion.

Steering souls through the subtleties of word and expression, Kellhus strives to extend his dominion over the Men of the Tusk. The sorcerer Achamian and his lover, Esmenet, submit entirely, only to have their faith - and their love - tested in unimaginable ways. Meanwhile, the warrior Cnaiur falls ever deeper into madness. Convinced that Kellhus will betray their pact to murder his father, Cnaiur turns to the agents of the Second Apocalypse and strikes an infernal bargain. The Holy War stands on a knife edge.

Afterwards, Basil Castellan was always certain that it had all begun the day he'd been rescued by the dragon. Oh, it hadn't been a real dragon, of course, or so he hastily assured everyone to whom he told the story. Only...it had been a real dragon....The Empire had preserved peace and order throughout human-inhabited space, but it had grown weak with the passing of the centuries, and now the self styled New Humans were rising in open rebellion, striving to seize control and impose their fanatical grand design on all humans everywhere. 

The Thramas Crusade draws to its inevitable conclusion, with the forces of the Dark Angels and the Night Lords locked in a struggle which neither side can abandon. The Night Haunter lies comatose after being mauled by his primarch brother Lion El'Jonson, and in his absence it falls to Sevatar and the remaining members of the Kyroptera to command the Legion. But the self-styled 'Prince of Crows' has his own plans to save the Night Lords from annihilation - plans he intends to follow, with or without his comrades in tow.

To find a demon, he must play the devil's game. Gabriel's hunt for Nepherenti has led him to Lorest, a lawless city of power-mad mages where might makes right and mercy is a myth. He hoped to find a civilization of arcane scholars to learn from. Instead, he found an anarchist meat-grinder. With...

After a long time away, I find myself walking straight back into trouble! I've got boys scheming against me, and girls . . . scheming against me too. I can't get a moment's rest! And as if that wasn't enough, now I've got to help fight for Baal's Domain too! Down in the Abyss! At least after...

Nova Martin is a simple smuggler trying to get away from her crime boss to make a life of her own. But after she stows away on an errant ship and kills an assassin in self defense, she's forced to take his place, finding herself embroiled in the political machinations of a galactic regime and tasked with assassinating princeling playboy Drace, heir to the Sovereignty. Nova just wants to keep her true identity secret and get out of the situation alive, but the deeper she gets, the more she learns that nothing is quite as it seems, and Drace is keeping secrets of his own.

Separated as a child from his family, Theo has always had a feeling that he’s made for something bigger than the suburban life he seems to be headed for. When a bully threatens his best friend, he can’t help but step in the way. The problem is that Theo’s just not much of a fighter. Bruised and broken, Theo wakes up to a massive headache and what appears to be floating game text inviting him to become a dragon. While ludicrous, no matter how often he rejects the prompt, it simply returns. Knowing that his life can’t get any worse, he finally accepts...

Brennan, Hart and Corin were the three Cheysuli sons of Niall, ruler of Homana, and the next link in the generations-old prophecy of the Firstborn. Now the time had come for all three to take the paths for which they were fated: Brennan, heir to the throne of Homana, would face the menance of unknown assassins and trecherous Ihlini magic.

The Bloodline Feud by Charles Stross includes The Family Trade and The Hidden Family - the first two instalments of The Merchant Princes series combined in one volume. Miriam Beckstein is a successful reporter for a hi-tech magazine. So when she discovers a huge money-laundering scam, she thinks...

The Traders' War by Charles Stross includes The Clan Corporate and The Merchants' War, the third and fourth instalments in the spellbinding The Merchant Princes series combined into one volume. The journalistic instinct runs deep - and comes with a fatality warning. Miriam was an ambitious...

After escaping the government lab where they had spent most of their life with Chase’s brother and three powerful young girls, Daniela and Chase are on the run while the world burns down around them. They’re safer than they’ve ever been but that could change at any moment when Daniela...

With all that is happening in his land, the upcoming shifter mating ceremony is the least of Grier’s concerns. Even though he is heir prince of the dragon-shifters, he doesn’t have the authority needed to help the humans stranded in dragon territory, nor can he banish those who ruthlessly control them. Yet honor demands he finds an opportunity to intervene, and he hopes that doing so won’t start a war the shifters can’t win.