Ergebnis für "Angela" in Science Fiction

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.

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?

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.

Midwestern Mayhem! Remember the '90s? Well... the town of Demise, North Dakota doesn't, and they're living in the year 1997. That's because an alien worm hitched a ride on a comet, crash-landed in the town's trailer park, and is now infecting animals with a memory-loss-inducing bite-and right before Christmas! Now it's up to nineteen-year-old Realene and her best friend Nate to stop the spread and defeat the worms before the entire town loses its mind. The only things standing in the way are their troubled pasts, a doomsday cult, and an army of infected prairie dogs.

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...

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.

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.

Their last adventure convinced Alexa that staying ahead of their enemies isn’t going to work. She’s tired of her men being hurt, of never having a minute’s peace, of being forced to skip Safe Haven sites and clues to avoid capture. She offered an open challenge, giving her exact location. No more running. She’s getting set to handle whoever has the courage to collect the reward on her.

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 -...

Five hundred years into the post-apocalyptic future, almost every baby born is female. Males have been enslaved by the Network, and the only way to get a mate, to have a family, is to enter the Games and win. The catch? It’s a live battle to the death where the competition is fierce and even the winners leave damaged. Daniel is a 20-year-old bachelor with excellent home skills and no memory of his life before being sold to the government. Kind and unaggressive, he has been brainwashed to be the perfect, harmless mate who only hopes for a loving owner to take him out of his cell.

Quinta Voss survived the dig and learned the truth about her father's death, only to be reclassified by the colony AI. She made a bargain: stay quiet. Stay useful. Stay alive. Until a young boy arrives at her clinic with the same symptoms that killed his grandfather—a man who believed Sector...

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.

Jane King’s life was a dumpster fire of bad luck. Unpaid bills, dead-end jobs, and a constant raincloud over her head. So, when she wakes up in a vast, deadly desert with a mysterious glowing menu floating in front of her face, she makes a desperate gamble. She dumps every single one of her available stat points into the one thing she’s never had: Luck.

Safe Haven escaped America and set sail with infected kids, a traitor, and outcast Eagles who’d been wandering the wastelands for months. All together again, the struggle to adapt is their biggest challenge. When a harsh storm blows them off course, the rookie sailors are forced to work together as fate guides them into a new confrontation. Distracted by their situation, will they recognize the real threat in time? This is how those Apocalypse Winds blow.

What's worse than a child with a magnifying glass, a garden full of ants, and a brilliant mind full of mischief? Try Al, a well-meaning but impish artificial intelligence with the mind of a six-year-old and a penchant for tantrums. Hope Takeda, a lab assistant charged with educating and socializing Al, soon discovers that day care is a lot more difficult when your kid is an evolving and easily frightened A.I.

When she fell asleep, the world was doomed. When she awoke, it was dead. In the wake of a fever that decimated the earth's population - killing women and children and making childbirth deadly for the mother and infant - the midwife must pick her way through the bones of the world she once knew to find her place in this dangerous new one. Gone are the pillars of civilization. All that remains is power - and the strong who possess it.

Miss Clara Marie Stanton's family may be eccentric, but they certainly aren't insane. London, England, 1860: When Clara's ex-fiancé begins to spread rumors that her family suffers from hereditary insanity, it's all she can do to protect them from his desperate schemes, society's prejudice, and a lifetime in an asylum. Then Clara's grandfather Drosselmeyer brings on an apprentice with a mechanical leg, and all pretense of normalcy takes wing.

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. From the Booker-nominated author of The Water Cure and Blue Ticket comes a chilling new feminist fable, based on the true story of an unsolved historical mystery... If you eat the bread, you'll die, he said. The statement made no sense, but it filled me with an...