Ergebnis für "Angela" in Science Fiction

After serving two years in a federal prison, Karen Hashimoto is out on parole and eager to put her criminal past behind her. No easy task, since she's also the former supervillain known as Crushette. A chance encounter leads to an unexpected opportunity, and she is recruited as the newest member of the city's premier team of superheroes: The Good Guys.

This is the After the End collection, Volumes 1 through 4. FIRST by Ali Hazelwood A general plans to use a nobleman's bride to teach him a lesson. After meeting her, he decides to keep her for himself. Content notes/warnings: ableism, blood, death of secondary characters, dubious consent...

Das Psi Corps - Staffel 1 Enthält: Psi Corps 2044: Prager Frühling. Psi Corps 2045: Der Whitsundays-Zwischenfall. Psi Corps 2046: Endstation Mars. Alle drei Heftromane der ersten Staffel des Psi Corps, zusammengefasst und überarbeitet vom Autor. Erlebt das dramatische Zusammentreffen von Mariella Seoke und den Truppen des Psi Corps, ihre halsbrecherischen Einsätze im asiatischen Raum und das dramatische Finale auf dem Mars! Staffel Eins ist in sich abgeschlossen, bereitet aber die Welt und ihre Helden auf zukünftige Abenteuer von noch größerer Tragweite vor.

The Lily and the Crown is a lesbian scifi romance about daring to risk your heart with someone you shouldn’t. Ariana “Ari” Geiker lives an isolated life on an imperial space station commanded by her father. Her nameless slave is watchful, intelligent, dangerous, and sexy, and seems to know an awful lot about tactics, star charts, and the dread, marauding pirate queen, Mir. What happens when the slave also reveals an expertise in seduction to her innocent mistress?

Since the 1970s, FantasticLand has been the theme park where "Fun is Guaranteed!" But when a hurricane ravages the Florida coast and isolates the park, the employees find it anything but fun. Five weeks later, the authorities who rescue the survivors encounter a scene of horror. Photos soon emerge online of heads on spikes outside of rides and viscera and human bones littering the gift shops, breaking records for hits, views, likes, clicks, and shares.

Frankfurt, Deutschland, Herbst 2044: Ein verheerender Terroranschlag auf ALWIN, die vollautonome Handels-KI der Deutschen Bank, treibt die europäische Wirtschaft an den Rand des Abgrunds. Schlecht für die Stabilität der von Pandemien, Stellvertreterkriegen und den Folgen des Klimawandels angeschlagenen atlantischen Union, noch schlechter für Doktor Mariella Seoke. Die KI-Psychologin und ehemalige Marineoffizierin gilt als einzige - und damit Hauptverdächtige.

Brought to you by Penguin. FROM THE BOOKER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF GIRL, WOMAN, OTHER RECIPIENT OF THE WOMEN’S PRIZE OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTION AWARD Welcome to a world turned upside down. One minute, Doris, from England, is playing hide-and-seek with her sisters in the fields behind their...

Wisteria is caught in a time loop. Everything is repeating, Groundhog-Day-style, but only one supernatural has noticed.

Angela doesn't know who she is, what school she went to, or where she lives. She doesn't even know what she is. They told her she's dead and her thoughts execute on a machine. But she doesn't feel like a machine and definitely doesn't look like one. More like some stuck-up kid with zero percent body fat. Angela goes in search of her identity and meets a girl who seems familiar. The girl might have the answers Angela needs, if Angela can ever find her again. Angela would have a better chance of figuring out who she really is if people would stop lying to her and stop shooting at her.

Menschen verändern sich. Sie verändern ihre Gestalt - plötzlich bricht es aus ihnen heraus. Da, wo eben noch Haut war, sprießt plötzlich Haar. Gesichter, eben noch menschlich, verformen sich - werden zu entstellten, hässlichen Fratzen, die einem Affen ähneln. Und sie werden brutal. So brutal, dass keiner vor ihrem tief in ihnen brodelnden Zorn mehr in Sicherheit ist.

Willkommen zum Finale der 1. Staffel! Das Psi Corps ist zurück, und diesmal wird es persönlich-zumindest für Colonel McQueen. Ein im letzten Krieg gesunkenes Schlachtschiff seiner Kameraden wurde geplündert, unbekannte Diebe haben sich am stählernen Sarg tief unter der Wasseroberfläche des Südchinesischen Meers zu schaffen gemacht. Schlimmer noch, ihre Spur führt in die unendlichen Weiten des Alls-weit entfernt von der Gerichtsbarkeit der UNO, dem Einsatzgebiet des Corps und auch den Argusaugen der sich langsam an den Westen annähernden chinesischen Führung.

When Rosie and Jules discover a ground-breaking clinical trial that enables two women to have a female baby, they jump at the chance to make history. Fear-mongering politicians and right-wing movements are quick to latch on to the controversies surrounding Ovum-to-Ovum (o-o) technology and stoke the fears of the public. What will happen to the numbers of little boys born? Is there a sinister conspiracy to eradicate men at play?

Brought to you by Penguin. Man Booker Prize-longlisted author of The Water Cure RECOMMENDED READING FOR 2020 by Stylist, Evening Standard, Esquire, Red, Daily Mail, Oprah Magazine, LitHub, and Emma Roberts's Belletrist Book Club 'The cool intensity and strange beauty of Blue Ticket is a wonder -...

After a wild dash across the Mandalas on the continent of Kaldara, Jane is one step away from her goal. But the path ahead is perilous. She must travel through the realm of the dwarves, now under siege by the deadly critch. Worse, the System has devised its own answer to her growing power in the form of Jane King Slayers.

Queensland, 2045: Eigentlich ist der australische Kontinent tabu für Operationen des europäischen Psi Corps, schließlich gibt es eine eigene Einsatztruppe für die Region Ozeanien. Oder besser gesagt, es gab eine - denn ein Zwischenfall auf Hamilton Island, einer der Hauptinseln der malerischen Whitsundays, hat die gesamte Streitkraft vor Ort ausgelöscht. Auf Befehl von ganz oben reist Colonel McQueen mit den Männern und Frauen unter seinem Kommando nach Australien und versucht, den Dingen auf den Grund zu gehen.

Safe Haven has just finished the first leg of a journey that will take them ten thousand miles before it’s complete. Not quite halfway through their quest to save what’s left of their world, the survivors are now entering the most dangerous phase–leaving America. In just nine days, your favorite people will board that ship and sail off into the sunset… If they can get around one last set of obstacles converging on their location.

Jane and her allies flee the aftermath of the harrowing events in the capital. Seeking refuge amidst the Great Woods to the north, rumored to have once been inhabited by the elves, she embarks on a perilous journey. Yet, terrors lie cloaked in darkness amongst the shadows of this forbidden realm. Jane must fight for survival, defending herself and her companions. Will she uncover the secrets of the System that plague her thoughts? Or will the dangers lurking within conquer her, echoing the fate of those who came before her?

In the third installment of the Girl Genius novels, Agatha H. and the Voice of the Castle begins as Agatha Heterodyne returns to her ancestral home, the warped little town of Mechanicsburg. There she must claim her inheritance by convincing the artificial intelligence that animates her family's castle that she is, in fact, the new Heterodyne. But this apparently simple task is made complicated in several ways: An imposter claiming to be the legitimate heir appears.

With the help of Krosp, Emperor of All Cats, Agatha has escaped from the massive airship known as Castle Wulfenbach. After crashing their escape dirigible, Agatha and Krosp fall in with Master Payne’s Circus of Adventure, a traveling troupe of performers dedicated to staging Heterodyne shows - dramatizations of the exploits of Bill and Barry Heterodyne and their allies - who are unaware of Agatha’s connection to the Heterodyne line.

Nowhere is safe. Clare and Dorran scramble to secure their temporary sanctuary from the hungry things outside. The hollow ones, ravenous beings unaffected by the violent winter storms, patiently lie in wait. It's not a matter of if Clare and Dorran are attacked, but when. And Clare knows she'll have to venture out into the night soon…Somewhere far away, Clare's sister Beth is trapped, with only hours to live. Hundreds of miles separate the sisters and the land between them is infested with monstrosities.