Ergebnis für "Alma" in Science Fiction & Fantasy

Etwas Übernatürliches sucht die Titanic heim. Das ist die einzige Erklärung für die unheimlichen Ereignisse auf der Jungfernfahrt des Ozeandampfers. Viele der Passagiere sind überzeugt: Es ist etwas Jenseitiges an Bord. Doch bevor man mehr herausfinden kann, geschieht, wie man weiß, die...

Los que buscan la paz deben matar la guerra. Lógico. Regresa a su infancia. Porque el asesino a sueldo también fue una vez una niña. Pero entonces este error fatal le sucede precisamente a ella. La mano del maestro de la espada se cierra en un puño. Antes de ir a la guerra, busca la lanza mágica. Sin previo aviso, el niño y el hombre poco visible se enfrentan a tareas casi imposibles. El mundo de Krosann se desangra en una guerra civil y está de luto por las bajas. El autoproclamado rey Shohtar utiliza poderes más fuertes que la muerte.

Ellie watched her mother’s execution shortly after she arrived in the Alliance Empire. Now, she is the Ward to her deceased mother’s lover and murderer. This last year has gone by in a flurry of confusion and sadness. But things are changing in the Empire, humans are finding loopholes and essentially making the Empire work for them. Ellie, taken up with this Lost People Renaissance, is no exception. She wants to marry an Outcast, a man whose only crime is that his father is human.

College romance meets Billionaires meets Vampires in a brand-new paranormal romance series from Sunday Times bestselling author Elena Armas, as an unsuspecting heiress with a target on her back enlists the protection of a vampire whose wealth and secrets rival her own. Valle Cepeda's life...

Jane was taken prisoner and then traded to the Alliance Empire. She is forbidden from seeing her human family unless she marries an Alliance man and has a hybrid child. She refuses to marry as she still grieves for the separation from her family on Earth. That is until Jim messages her that her best friend has moved in with her family. To ease the pain, she agrees to an Alliance telepathic medical procedure that suppresses her emotional attachment to Jim. Follow Jane in her strange experiences onboard the Zuin and then the Kzi in the mighty Alliance Fleet.

Doctor Drusilla James of Imperial House Vo went from being an insignificant human on Earth to one of the most influential women in the Alliance Empire. The goddess of home has granted to her this lofty position in exchange for her everlasting devotion to her and her continuing belief in the Lost People. However, Drusilla veered from the goddess’s path when she accepted Admiral Jei’s tempting offer to reanimate Commander Jane Johnson at the Capital City Hospital, and now she finds herself head-to-head with her adoptive mother for Imperial power.

With Earth now ruled by the restrictive and archaic Alliance Empire, people are relying on me to uncover the truth about our alien sovereigns. I can’t pass up the personal invitation from the Empress to tour the Capital City.

Hugo Award winner Elizabeth Bear has been called one of the best science fiction authors of her generation. In Dust she skillfully spins a classic science fiction trope - the lost generation ship - into a complex and compelling tale of fallen angels, secretive family politics, and sexual taboo.

Em Nós somos a cidade, NK Jemisin — autora best-seller do New York Times e a única escritora de todos os tempos a ganhar o prêmio Hugo por três anos consecutivos — cria uma história de cultura, identidade, magia e lendas em uma Nova York contemporânea e intrinsicamente múltipla. Toda...

A desperate cry has come out of Denton, requesting Sephron’s aid. War is brewing, and to put an end to a lord’s dangerous greed, Sephron must infiltrate a hostile, desert city and rescue an unlikely prisoner. Soon, he finds himself trapped inside the walls of Galtor surrounded by cruel and violent soldiers. But he is alone in this venture, and the entire fate of Rhayadera rests in his hands.

Jade has just opened the first human restaurant in the illustrious Alliance Empire. Everything in her new life is falling into place, everything except her love life. Her true love is a slave and according to the Imperial Laws, they can never marry. However, Jade is not one to give up so easily and she will do anything to have her man, even if that means invoking an ancient alien law that requires three husbands.

Shai es una falsificadora, una extranjera capaz de copiar y recrear cualquier objeto a la perfección utilizando una ingeniosa magia para reescribir su historia. Aunque está condenada a muerte por intentar robar el cetro del emperador, se le concede una oportunidad de salvarse.

What do alien gods want with a human woman? Babette doesn’t know why, but she’s drawn to the advertisement she sees about the Alliance Empire requesting human women. Her friends think she has lost her mind, but she feels compelled to apply at their embassy in Paris to become an Alliance man’s bride and live on the other side of the galaxy. Follow Babette as one of the 1,000 human women brought over by Admiral Tir just following Captain Kara Rainer’s trial.

Kol is an Alliance trader and part-time pirate, but when Admiral Tir asks him to retrieve a woman from Earth, despite his reservations about abductions, he could hardly deny the future Emperor of the Alliance. Now Kol may be new to kidnapping, but he’s not new to the filth of the galaxy, and this young woman has been living in one of the filthier places he had ever seen. Morally, he feels he has done her a favor in saving her from galactic poverty. He keeps reassuring her that he is taking her to a better place. Kol doesn't even begin to understand her frustration at being taken.

Solo aquellos dignos superan las pruebas, y la joven Meryn arriesgará la vida (y el corazón) para ser una de ellos. Vincúlate o sangra. Lucha o muere. La derrota no es una opción.

Nada pode apagar o passado. Um aventureiro veterano, Christian está prestes a completar uma última jornada, que lhe permitirá se aposentar em paz. Mas tudo dá errado quando o passado volta para assombrá-lo. Agora, Christian e seus companheiros, um mago aberrante e uma menina selvagem...

El dolor de una traición. Un pacto con el Diablo. Un amor imposible. La belleza de la libertad. Y un corazón roto. Es posible que los finales felices no existan. O sí. Pregúntale a la chica de algodón de azúcar.

El mundo espera un mesías, un recién nacido que, según la profecía, redima el lugar del dolor –y también de heroísmo–, y devuelva la paz y la alegría que todos desean. Éste es el universo que descubre este libro: Harleck, imperio de los hombres regido por Marfor. Una esfera...

In the heart of Ringwood, a peculiar shop peddles the souls of the departed. Souls like James Lavender, who ended up in the store after someone cut short his life. When Matron Lily of Whitewood Asylum buys James, intending to use him to aid in tormenting a patient named Alma Edwards, he embarks on a perilous quest to sever his contract. As James delves deeper into the secrets of Whitewood Asylum, he forms a secret bond with Alma, who’s struggling to hold on to her sanity amidst the torments.

98.8%. A Eliotte aún le cuesta creerlo, pero los resultados de su test de compatibilidad son irrefutables. La autoridad mundial acaba de decretar científicamente que Izaak Meeka es su alma gemela más pura. En las próximas semanas, tendrán que casarse e irse a vivir juntos, a pesar de que su corazón solo late por Ashton, el hermano pequeño de Izaak… Sin embargo, Eliotte sabe muy bien que en el siglo XXII es la ciencia, y no el corazón, la que determina qué parejas pueden formarse.