Résultats pour "identity" dans Science-Fiction et fantasy

This all-new Star Trek novel celebrates the 60th anniversary of Star Trek: The Original Series—continuing the legacy of Captain James T. Kirk and the crew of the USS Enterprise. 2269: The prospect of peace had seemed unattainable until the assistance of the Federation. Finally, countless...

Genetically engineered to be the perfect weapon, Cooper Fox must now use those abilities to stop a shadowy cabal from rewriting the future of humanity. Cooper was created by a clandestine government program, imbued with superhuman speed, strength, and reflexes. But when the program was sold off to the highest bidder, he has found himself caught in a deadly game of cat and mouse with the Consortium, a cabal of billionaires determined control of the world through any means necessary.

Daith Tocc has discovered some incredible things about herself while aboard the spaceship the Horizon: She is smart and charming and has psionic powers that allow her to sense emotions, melt physical objects, even heal or injure with a thought. The problem is, she doesn't have any memory of who she used to be.

Featured in the Netflix series Love, Death & Robots Bestselling author Ken Liu selects his multiple award-winning stories for a groundbreaking collection—including a brand-new piece exclusive to this volume. With his debut novel, The Grace of Kings, taking the literary world by storm, Ken Liu...

Joseph is a quiet man. The only thing he enjoys more than nature and the hunt is being left alone…but when a refugee elf appears in his forest with a war band at her heels, this solitary hunter has only moments to decide whether he wants to become something more. Unfortunately, he quickly learns that the entire clan of refugee elves has already made that decision for him.

Der Triumph der Dämonen hat Lethia erschüttert. Hinter feindlichen Linien gefangen, beginnt für Scarlett ein grausamer Überlebenskampf. Nur wenn es ihr rechtzeitig gelingt, eine Heilung für Rens Fluch zu finden, kann sie eine Katastrophe verhindern. Doch der König von Lethia kennt ihr dunkelstes Geheimnis, und je tiefer Scarlett gräbt, desto mehr verschwimmt die Grenze zwischen Liebe und Feindschaft. Um das Königreich zu retten, muss Scarlett sich der alles verschlingenden Dunkelheit stellen, die Rens Herz innewohnt.

From USA Today bestselling author Nghi Vo, this all-consuming tale of ballrooms and bloodshed weds The Gilded Age with the Gothic vision of Guillermo del Toro. Pick a face, pick a fate. Judith Ban, former convent girl, courtesan, and failed thief, is on the lookout for her next identity. The...

A boy is plunged into a quest within a mysterious world. When he uncovers a dark conspiracy, he realizes he must find his true identity to find his way home...

The war is not going well for Captain McNair and the only way to get the battle off the front doorstep of the planet of Pacifica is to save a mortal enemy. Fleet Captain Lomar has information that will help with the war. Can McNair put aside his hate long enough rescue Lomar from certain death? Find out what happens in the thrilling conclusion of the trilogy The Veterans of the Psychic Wars.

How are you supposed to survive when you are already dead? Ben Stone has one aim: discover the cure for genetic disease. He watched his father die and promised himself that it would never happen again, especially to his own son. After his appointment as lead researcher in Bionics Laboratories, he begins his desperate research. It takes four years, but he succeeds. He discovers NEMREC, a serum able to reconstruct DNA and cure the diseases that have driven him.

Lily is in trouble. Deep, deep trouble. Alone and without her magic, she doesn’t know where she is or how she got there. All she wants is to go home and be left in peace. But what part of her will she have to sacrifice to get there? Sebastian is doomed. Spent, wrecked, devastated. Everything he ever had going for him is lying in ash and ruin, and he can’t shake off the doubts in his head that are driving him mad. Is what they’re saying true? How is he supposed to tell truth from lie?

It’s 1975, and the comic book industry is struggling, but Carmen Valdez doesn’t care. She’s an assistant at Triumph Comics, which doesn’t have the creative zeal of Marvel nor the buttoned-up efficiency of DC, but it doesn’t matter. Carmen is tantalizingly close to fulfilling her dream of writing a superhero book. That dream is nearly a reality when one of the Triumph writers enlists her help to create a new character, which they call “The Lethal Lynx”, Triumph's first female hero.

Aahz gets an unwelcome visit from two blue-skinned bruisers and a small magician wanting Skeeve to cough up the dough for an extremely large bill that he skipped out on. Knowing that Skeeve has many faults, but welshing on a debt is not one of them, he enlists the aid of Chumley and Massha to go with him to the last place any self-respecting pervert would ever visit...the mall! Once there, they discover that the mall rats have created a scheme to steal customers' credit cards.

Miranda never felt like she fit in and never knew why, until one stormy day, a rustling noise brought her to the attic. She stumbles across a family secret, her great aunt's journal exposing a new world. Being the reincarnated Ki, originally from the planet Niburu, Miranda discovers her lifelong purpose. She must restore Niburu to its peaceful Atlantean state from before the rein of her evil sister, Nammu. To do this, she must prevent Nammu’s daughter, Inanna, from turning to the dark arts. If Inanna learns her true identity and embraces her mother’s evil, all will be lost.

Silver Griffins Agent 485 Lucy Heron is on the trail of a string of magical thefts. But first, she has to pick up the kids from school. Talk about trying to find a work-life balance. Dylan is in that awkward middle school phase when magic can turn a friend into a frog and back. Did anyone notice? And third-grader Ashley keeps recruiting friends for her own secret agency to fight magical crime. Kids these days. The Heron children are even training the good dog, Buddy, to track down magical bad guys. So far, the family business is still a well-guarded secret. Can they keep it that way?

Marvin the Magnificent, formerly employed by King Parking as his Black (mediocre) Magician, messed up royally when his potion meant to turn Tundra from beast to beauty cast her into a near fatal sleep. After he was banished, the only employment he could get as an unlicensed magician was mixing drinks at the Black Cauldron, a tavern in the Magic Kingdom. After a bit of effort, Marvin announced to his girlfriend he’d come up with something he called Identity Theft. He took on the appearance of the king, and started walking around helping himself to everything…including the queen.

Identity Theft is a hard-boiled detective novella set on Mars. Cassandra and Joshua Wilkins are fossil hunters who have both recently transferred their minds into artificial bodies, but now Joshua has mysteriously disappeared. Cassandra must hire Alex Lomax, the only private detective on the red planet, to locate Joshua before sinister forces get to him.

Alien gladiator Ballista escaped to Earth. They call her a "superhero" here, whatever that is. The monsters hurtling through space call her "prey". Ballista never knew her own people. Since childhood, she has fought and killed for the entertainment of tyrants. But now, on Earth, her peerless combat prowess has found new purpose. And new allies. Adam Smasher’s ego outweighs his exponential powers, but he means well. And Symian deserves far better than the dominant species here is willing to give him. Humanity has potential, though. Ballista can see herself making a home here.

""Ma’s brilliantly inventive These Memories Do Not Belong to Us weaves worlds around a central question: What happens when technology enables a totalitarian government to break into the last private frontiers of the internal mind? Chilling, poignant, and uncomfortably timely, Ma’s braided...

Verbotene Magie. Eine Leidenschaft, die in Träumen geboren wird. Und ein Geheimnis, das ihre Welt in Flammen setzt. Dein nächster Book-Boyfriend erwartet dich: Mit Heart of Night and Fire startet Bestseller-Autorin Nisha J. Tuli ihre vierbändige Fantasy-Serie Das Nachtfeuer-Quartett: actionreiche spicy New Adult Romantasy voller beliebter Tropes: Slow Burn, Enemies to Lovers, Grumpy x Sunshine Freundschaft, Found Family und Forced Proximity.