Ergebnis für "Alfred" in Naturwissenschaften

Marooned in outer space after an attack on his ship, Nomad, Gulliver Foyle lives to obsessively pursue the crew of a rescue vessel that had intended to leave him to die.

Er ist überall. In jedem Chip. In jedem elektronischen Bauteil. In der Schiebetür eines Appartements. Im Steuermodul eines Gleiters. In der Sauerstoffversorgung eines Raumschiffs. Im Rechnersystem eines Transmitters und an tausend anderen Stellen, an denen man ihn nicht vermutet. Er ist ein Jäger. Auf tausend Welten zugleich. Ein stiller Mörder. Wohin man auch flieht, er ist schon dort. Ein sich selbst reproduzierender Datensatz, der in der Lage ist, jedes Rechnersystem, in das er eindringt zu einem Mordinstrument zu verwandeln. Das ist der MEGAKILLER. Und sein Ziel bin ich, Eva Morley.

In this pulse-quickening novel, Alfred Bester imagines a future in which people "jaunte" a thousand miles with a single thought, where the rich barricade themselves in labyrinths and protect themselves with radioactive hitmen—and where an inarticulate outcast is the most valuable and dangerous man alive. The Stars My Destination is a classic of technological prophecy and timeless narrative enchantment by an acknowledged master of science fiction.

Does space make you paranoid? Was the corporation harboring a dark secret on the off world mining colony to protect their bottom line? Christopher Carter loved to explore. He was a specialist in his field back home on earth, and travel to a moon that orbited a gas giant 120 times the size of his home planet was the opportunity of a lifetime. This would be his first deep space assignment, and he'd wanted this contract more than anything else in the world; except for his family, of course. And he didn't have to choose one or the other.