Ergebnis für "Soul" in Science Fiction

Twenty years ago, monsters rose on earth and began a new age of civilization. One where humans live in military-controlled, cramped and dirty cities along the coasts, and the majority of the United States is known as the Wastes. A lawless, desolate and dangerous place, teeming with monsters that have claimed the land for their own. Including Wyn the Soul Eater. He appears every three years, making his way across the country and slaughtering humans randomly, sucking them dry until they’re nothing but husks.

They have but one purpose—slay the pirate Vrykhan at any cost. They expect to give their own lives in pursuit of their revenge, but they never expected her.

In San Francisco, the souls of the dead are mysteriously disappearing—and you know that can’t be good—in New York Times bestselling author Christopher Moore’s delightfully funny sequel to A Dirty Job. Read by Fisher Stevens. Something really strange is happening in the City by the Bay...

I've always been on the outside looking in. A female tech genius meeting every conceivable human need for others, yet struggling with a basic fundamental necessity—connection. My days are filled with code and algorithms, but my nights are haunted by isolation and loneliness. When I'm asked to beta test a new advanced AI system created by three brilliant and painfully good-looking colleagues, what I thought was a straightforward task quickly turns into something far more complex. They started watching me. Tracking my every move.

Commander Kaira Chand of the Australian Air Force knows the meaning of loss. She lost both her beloved husband and her father over recent years, and she vows never to let a man close again. As head of security for a secret weapons facility in the Australian desert, she’s fighting to protect the scientists working to defend Earth from invasion. That includes working with their allies, the Eon Warriors. What she never expected in her wildest dreams was to find herself instantly mated to a handsome, silver fox alien warrior.

Alexis Carter is a long way from home, and she doesn't quite understand how she got here. All she knows is that she died once, and now she's alive. She's woken into a nightmare, trapped on a dark ship full of terrifying aliens. With their silver skin and fire-colored eyes, they look a lot like the monsters that once attacked her on Earth. One Kordolian in particular stands out.... He's huge, he doesn't talk much, and his job is to guard her. From what, exactly? The voices inside her head?

Fesselnder letzter Band der beliebten Robolove-Trilogie.Silver, desertierter Kriegsroboter und Angehöriger der Rebellen, erhält von seiner Anführerin einen brisanten Auftrag. Er soll Patricia, die First Lady der panamerikanischen Staaten, vor einem heimtückischen Attentat schützen. Um ihr so nahe wie möglich zu kommen, heuert Silver als attraktiver Alltagsbegleiter an. Einziger Haken: Ihr mächtiger Ehemann, der Präsident, von dem sie getrennt lebt, hat ihr einen weiblichen Robot als neuen Bodyguard an die Seite gestellt.

Ich habe meinem Land unbedingte Treue geschworen. Wenn ich diesen Schwur einhalte, verrate ich die Menschheit. Es gibt außerirdisches Leben. Das ist eine Tatsache! Ich habe mit meiner Spezialeinheit ein Alien bewacht. Einen tödlichen Krieger mit vier Armen und gewaltigen Kräften. Die bloße Existenz eines solchen Wesens ist eine große Gefahr. Doch ich musste Seite an Seite mit ihm kämpfen. Gegen geistlose Mutanten, erschaffen von meiner eigenen Regierung!

James Rearden knew what he was: A career officer dedicated to advancing in the Royal Australian Navy to the ranks of Command. He has already enjoyed his time in charge of a patrol ship, and believes himself well situated to take his place among the captains of the country's larger warships. But a political foe changes his destiny and diverts him to a duty for which he is ill-suited, hoping he will fail. James isn't one to accept failure. And as it turns out, the new assignment is both intellectually challenging and with an unexpectedly pleasant feature.

Ever since I discovered that I can kill magical creatures, trap their souls in precious gems, and use them to cast spells of my own, I haven’t had a moment’s rest. I have to balance my academics with learning how to use my powers and capture more souls in more gems to grow my spell collection. All the while avoiding angry aristocrats, nosy professors, criminal mobsters, and evil dwarves bent on destroying the civilized kingdoms. Luckily, I have some handy magic, a super awesome foxgirl and the hottest elven girl in school by my side, so nothing can stop me.

Lyla was born to lead the most prosperous kingdom in the multiverse. She has it all: beauty, intelligence, the protection of her royal family, and a legion of supernatural soldiers. To prove herself worthy of her privileges, she goes to Earth on a mission just to find out it is a trap.

Three months ago, Talin finally accepted the power brewing within her. Darkness has haunted her ever since. Now part of the resistance and with the weight of the world resting on her shoulders, she must navigate her ever growing power, and those hunting her because of it. When a new threat arises, a man appears with a connection to Talin that she can’t deny, and with her feelings for a short-tempered alien growing more confusing every day, she must learn quickly where to place her trust.

Taniya Sexton is an ordinary downtrodden girl with authority issues. Having the working day from hades, she is sucked from our reality and into the fifth dimension when summoned to wage a war. Instantly she's elevated to god status and is worshipped as the almighty god Amrak.

Sometimes, doing nothing and waiting for the right time takes more courage than doing the wrong thing right away. But I can’t do nothing. My parents lied to me. About everything. Now is my time. I’m going to Bodens Gate where all of it started, and I’m going to find the truth. About everything. I am brave. That’s the lie I tell myself when the shaking starts deep inside, and my body and mind curl inward from the terror that’s waiting for me. My friends Winona and Sam hold me together. They’re the only ones that can.

Silver, former combat robot turned rebel, is tasked by his leader with a highly sensitive mission – to protect Patricia, First Lady of the PanAmerican States, from a treacherous assassin. To get as close to her as possible, Silver takes on the role of her handsome companion. There’s just one snag: her powerful ex-husband sends a female robot to be her new bodyguard. Soul - the breathtakingly beautiful R9 model - distrusts Silver from the very beginning. Yet she has no idea that this high-tech rival will turn her mission upside down.

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a robot in possession of a soul must be in want of a life partner. Nell, Human-5014 and Second Librarian of the Athenaeum, has clung to that truth for 20 revolutions. The human extinction is in its last phases, and her desperate quest to find the recipient of her husband's soul has finally paid off. She has one request, one hope for reconnecting with the man she lost so long ago.

Dianna’s in over her head. The Queen is her ship now. Hers to sail, and a crew to keep safe as they voyage across the Atlantic to stop Maria’s evil plan of killing her mother. The stress of responsibility, her pregnancy, and helping Henry deal with his PTSD has become a nightmare from which she has nowhere to run. Henry is suffering, refusing to let her in, and Dianna is worried that their love won’t survive the tumultuous journey ahead.

In a world where humanity has been infiltrated by an alien force, Eryn Holt knows one truth—trust no one. The Sylith arrived under the guise of peace, but their presence has rewritten history, replacing those who resist with perfect, soulless copies. When a mission gone wrong leads Eryn to Kael Calder, a man who should no longer exist, everything she believes unravels. Kael was taken by the Sylith—claimed, altered. Yet, somehow, he’s still himself. And the more time she spends with him, the more she begins to question: if he survived the impossible, what else have they been lied to about?

"Подарить душу демону" - фантастический роман Таши Танари, первая книга цикла "Пой для меня, моя сирена", жанр любовное фэнтези. Никогда не заговаривай с незнакомцами! Заговорила? Беги как можно дальше, если незнакомец сообщает, что он высший демон.

Book One in the Coyote Breeds series. Mother Nature has a way of making the most unlikely couples 'fit'. And what could be more unlikely than a sassy, independent President's daughter who doesn't know when to keep her mouth shut and a loner Coyote Breed with a hunger for a cute rosebud mouth...