Ergebnis für "A Society" in Science Fiction & Fantasy

“This is one of my coziest reads of the last year, and I find myself thinking about its enchanted setting all the time.”−Emily Henry, #1 New York Times bestselling author USA TODAY BESTSELLER A warm and uplifting novel about an isolated witch whose opportunity to embrace a quirky new...

From the author of the internationally bestselling The Book of Doors, another fantastical, stand-alone novel in which a trio of seemingly everyday people are members of a secret society tasked with finding and protecting hidden magical objects—ordinary items with extraordinary properties. The...

Yale University, New Haven, 1875: Der 22-jährige Medizinstudent Emery wird in der Tap Night gefragt, ob er Mitglied der geheimen Studentenverbindung Skull & Bones werden möchte. Als neues Mitglied, nun bekannt unter dem Namen Raven, sieht er sich einer schillernden, jedoch gefährlichen Zukunft gegenüber. Sein erster Auftrag als Teil der Bruderschaft führt ihn geradewegs in ein moralisches Dilemma: den Mord an Nathaniel, einem Stadtrat, der schließlich wie ein Suizid aussehen soll.

When COVID-19 sweeps through New York City, Jamie Gray is stuck as a dead-end driver for food-delivery apps. That is, until Jamie makes a delivery to an old acquaintance, Tom, who works at what he calls “an animal rights organization”. Tom’s team needs a last-minute grunt to handle things on their next field visit. Jamie, eager to do anything, immediately signs on. What Tom doesn't tell Jamie is that the animals his team cares for are not here on Earth. Not our Earth, at at least. In an alternate dimension, dinosaur-like creatures named Kaiju roam a warm and human-free world.

A New York Times Notable Book of 2021 “The kind of book for which the word “rollicking” was invented.”—New York Times Book Review A prim and proper lady thief must save her aunt from a crazed pirate and his dangerously charming henchman in this fantastical historical romance. Cecilia...

Dark Adventure Radio Theatre: Masks of Nyarlathotep is an epic tale of globe-trotting adventure inspired by the works of H.P. Lovecraft, presented as a 1930s-style radio drama. Dark Adventure Radio Theatre presents the tale with an absurdly large cast of professional actors, exciting sound effects and thrilling original music by Troy Sterling Nies. Now, in partnership with Chaosium, we've adapted their most famed and beloved game supplement of all time - Masks of Nyarlathotep - into a fully dramatized super episode of Dark Adventure Radio Theatre.

Als Liv von der Kunstuni fliegt, bleibt ihr eine letzte Chance: ein Autorenwettbewerb, der den nächsten Weltbestseller kürt. Also reist sie nach Korfu, um Werbung für ihren Webtoon zu machen – nicht, um zu gewinnen. Bis Liv ins magische Spiel um die heißbegehrten Küsse der neun Musen gezogen wird.

Magisch: Als Ricarda McIntosh von ihrer Mutter zu einem Casting gebracht wird, ahnt sie nicht, dass eine der kleinsten und mächtigsten Gilden der magischen Welt sie womöglich aufnehmen wird. Doch bereits in den ersten Momenten des Castings gibt es einen Todesfall. Dann steht sie ihrem Zwillingsbruder gegenüber, der angeblich gar keine Gabe besitzt.

In the summer of 1880, the death of Beth Stanley’s husband puts her life’s work in jeopardy. The magic of Arcane Taxonomy dictates that every natural thing in the world, from weather to animals, can be labeled, and doing so grants the practitioner some of that subject’s unique power. But only men are permitted to train in this philosophy. Losing her husband means that Beth loses the name they put on her work—and any influence she might have wielded.

Transported from Earth to an entirely new planet, filled with magic and monsters, Alice Verianna has not only had to figure out how to survive but to learn and grow while she's at it. But what's really driven her from the time of her arrival is the desire to investigate—and determine the true nature of—the seemingly omnipotent System that holds sway over all things in the world of Luliv.

The survivors have prospered, but their home is an enticing prospect for others to take. Besieged, they must respond with a savagery to dissuade further attempts. Is this the end of society?

Livs Welt steht Kopf. Flames tragisches Liebesgeständnis bringt sie beide in tödliche Gefahr – doch was Erato, die Muse der Liebe, vor den Augen der Jury enthüllt, erschüttert Liv noch tiefer. Seit sie Shellys Geheimnis kennt, steht sie selbst im Visier. Die einzige Chance, ihrem Schicksal zu entkommen: Liv muss alle Prüfungen überstehen und mit Flame das Finale des Autorenwettbewerbs erreichen. Doch Uranias grausame Prophezeiung droht, ihre Liebe für immer zu zerstören.

In the galactic prison system, she’s listed as an ‘Organic Weapon of Mass Destruction’… too bad she’s your new cellmate. Grant didn’t sign up for interstellar incarceration. One minute he’s brawling with lizard freaks behind his pickup, next, he wakes up paralyzed in a space supermax. Tagged. Scanned. Sentenced without trial. All because he tried to stop his girlfriend from getting probed by a UFO.

The Why Files covers mysteries, myths and legends. We tell stories and seek the truth in a fun and lighthearted way. Our content is heavily researched; we don't release an episode unless we're sure we can bring something new to a topic.

Ricarda McIntosh beginnt gerade, Freude an ihrer Ausbildung zur Zauberstabkundigen zu entwickeln, da häufen sich offene Angriffe, die dazu führen, dass es im Inneren der Gilde zu brodeln beginnt. Lauter mächtige Schwarzmagier müssen nun zeigen, ob sie es mit einem unbekannten Gegner aufnehmen können oder sich selbst zerfleischen werden.

Magisch: Als Ricarda McIntosh von ihrer Mutter zu einem Casting gebracht wird, ahnt sie nicht, dass eine der kleinsten und mächtigsten Gilden der magischen Welt sie womöglich aufnehmen wird. Doch bereits in den ersten Momenten des Castings gibt es einen Todesfall. Dann steht sie ihrem Zwillingsbruder gegenüber, der angeblich gar keine Gabe besitzt.Schnell gerät Ricarda ins Zentrum einer Auseinandersetzung, die von den größten Magiern Englands geführt wird und bei der niemand weiß, wer welches Ziel verfolgt.

The H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society has produced the definitive audio recording of Lovecraft's collaboration tales. Working from texts prepared by Lovecraft scholar S.T. Joshi, this collection features stories HPL wrote with other authors and includes, “The Curse of Yig”, “The Horror in the Museum”, “The Mound”, “The Night Ocean”, and many others. All tales include original music by HPLHS composer Troy Sterling Nies. This collection features 33 stories adding up to more than 23 hours of Lovecraftian listening fun.

For twenty years, Greta Davenport has lived with the guilt of surviving the accident that killed her parents. She’s tested the limits of her own mortality ever since, but little gives her the dopamine rush she craves. Not until the night she almost drunkenly crashes her car into a tree, and a peculiar blank card slides under her front door—an invitation to the Found Object Society. What she discovers there is beyond comprehension: an opulent, subterranean playground filled with aisles of objects from different eras and regions of the world.

A meteorite from cosmic space falls to earth on a backwoods Massachusetts farm. The space rock possesses peculiar qualities and mystifies even the brightest university scientists. But it soon becomes clear that this is no ordinary meteor, as its otherworldly influence unleashes a creeping wave of despair, death, and decay into the land and its inhabitants.

Three survivors travel the ruins of a collapsed society, sifting through the rusted relics of the Ancients' civilization as they search for a better future, hoping to escape the horrors of the past. But among those treasures lurks danger. And what they discover might be worse than what they left behind.