Ergebnis für "1 Samuel" in Science Fiction

Jeff Dolan always wanted to be an astronaut. After helping a private space company build a ship that can travel to Saturn's largest moon in five months, he gets his chance. Shortly after launch, a devastating malfunction forces Jeff and the crew to make a choice: continue to Titan or go back home. As the truth about their mission unravels, one thing is clear: Someone on Earth knew about the system flaw and covered it up. Yet surviving the journey isn't the crew's only concern. Even if they make it to Titan, they will face another problem: Something is already there.

In the year 2050, the United States sends the FBI to govern its space station, the Empyrean. Under the command of suave 80-year-old director Samuel Lord, the Zero G men are in charge of investigating terrorism, crime, corruption, and espionage and of keeping an eye on the rival Chinese and Russian stations.

Merritt Alder is done with Earth. The planet is polluted and overpopulated, and its people are hungry. Earth's first colony, Galena, is a pioneer world 10,000 light years away. It has clean air, unpolluted water, and continents of arable land. Anyone can start a new life…if they can get there. For Merritt, the journey is only the beginning. Obstacles arise every step of the way, forcing compromise and sacrifice. And not everyone on his ship is pure of heart. The bonds he forges on the journey will be the key to surviving on another world—a world anyone has yet to fully explore.

For five centuries, human life has been restricted to Earth, while posthuman descendants called alloys freely explore the galaxy. But when the Earthlike planet of Meru is discovered, two unlikely companions venture forth to test the habitability of this unoccupied new world and the future of human-alloy relations. For Jayanthi, the adopted human child of alloy parents, it’s an opportunity to rectify the ancient reputation of her species as avaricious and destructive, and to give humanity a new place in the universe.

Strange dreams start to plague Malak, the lead scientist of a utopic settlement, that’s thrived for almost a millennium. As many prepare to celebrate that thousand-year milestone, the distance from their present to their past threatens to strain the very fabric of their colony, now turned a mature civilization. When a society has been made perfect, can it be made more perfect? When life has progressed well beyond mere subsistence, will folks continue to believe that it is just about mere survival?

One hundred years after Dr. Irwin C. Jacobs begins his epic quest to develop a truly cognitive neural array, "artificial sentients" live amongst us and are sold in retail stores. With the establishment of a new slavery comes a new abolitionist movement and a new underground railroad - run by people determined to protect these new slaves from the worst abuses of their human owners.

Author Henry Elder came to Alta Novis to learn more about the fabled battle lord and his lady. But rather than re-tell the tales of their already well-known exploits, he wants to hear about the couple from the people who really know them. The people who live, love, interact, and fight alongside with them. He wants to hear those personal anecdotes in order to discover a side of Yulen and Atty that few people know.

John Riley is a physicist who achieves his lifelong dream of unraveling the mysteries of anti-gravity, but along the way, also unwittingly discovers the secret of interstellar communication. When he and a small group of coworkers attempt to respond to an unexpected message, believing it to have originated from somewhere on Earth, they find more than they anticipate. The message is from deep space.

The God Hunters by Gordon D. Lanyon is a high-action thriller, set in a near-future Earth, with occasional incursions from a superior race of aliens who inhabit human bodies to hunt for sport. It is about to ramp up because a leading member of the ruling council on the alien HomeWorld has gone rogue and is threatening to destroy Earth.

Rade Galaal and his elite team are dispatched to the farthest reaches of known space to investigate the disappearance of a classified new supercarrier. Equipped with Hoplites, powerful battle suits laden with enough firepower to raze a small city, Rade and his team explore the barren world where the starship issued its final transmission. But shortly after they land, things start to go very wrong.

Suspicion. Fear of discovery. The fate of civilizations. Another new trip, but to where? Dr. Alfred Reynard travels, and he travels a lot. He uses many different names, but changes his appearance to avoid detection. Dr. Reynard is a travel writer, the ultimate copywriter. In this series, you will discover the secrets he holds so dear and learn why his security is of the greatest importance to everyone on Earth.

Uneasy, the feeling remains. A strange boat, out of place where it sits. A curious engineer. Discoveries beyond the wildest imaginings. Discovery is the first book in the Below the Waterline Series. Where would you go if you could travel anywhere, anytime? Matt Stevens will be travelling to places he never knew existed. He has questions, and he will search until he finds his answers. But, will he want the answers that he gets? This is a roller-coaster ride that will take you to places you have never dreamed of, and some places you wish you never hear of again.