Ergebnis für "August" in Science Fiction

Harry August stirbt. Mal wieder. Es ist das elfte Mal, dass sein Leben ein Ende findet. Und er weiß auch genau, wie es weitergeht: Er wird erneut im Jahr 1919 geboren werden mit all dem Wissen seiner vorigen Leben. Harry hat akzeptiert, dass er in einer Zeitschleife lebt, auch wenn er nicht weiß, wieso. Doch dann steht kurz vor seinem Tod ein junges Mädchen an seinem Bett und überbringt ihm eine erschütternde Botschaft.

Etwas stimmt nicht! Kein Flugzeug fliegt! Der autonome Verkehr kommt zum Erliegen und das längst zur Normalität gewordene, digital durchorganisierte und komplett überwachte Leben der 6,5 Millionen Stadtbewohner auch. Kein Internet mehr, keine soziale Medien, keine digitale Unterhaltung. Die Regierung entschuldigt diesen Ausnahmezustand mit der Zerstörung wichtiger Satelliten durch einen Meteoritenhagel. Nach anfänglicher Hilflosigkeit bricht sich eine Art "analoge" Menschlichkeit Bahn.

Von digitalen Medien beherrscht, gläsern für paranoide Staatsorgane wie NSA, BND und Datenkraken wie Google und Amazon, verschließen wir bequem gelenkt die Augen vor der allgegenwärtigen Manipulation, während Wirtschaft und Politik zu einer entmenschten Rechenmaschine globalisieren. Die Zukunft: Köln 2035. Kevin lebt in seiner volldigitalisierten Hochglanzwelt, beginnt einen ganz normalen Tag, bis ihn auf der Autobahn der Blitz trifft und seine Geräte zerschmort.

A madman is capturing civilians and locking them in dangerous dungeons. The Boxer is now an official Defender of the City, so he and his team of Knuckleheads must quickly unravel the secrets of the maniacal Dungeon Builder before he completes his mysterious plan. Facing some of his most challenging foes yet, the Boxer will have to train hard with his stunning but shy team leader—a powerful fighter in her own right—to overcome the increasingly treacherous traps and labyrinths. Will he be able to save the day and unmask the Dungeon Builder, or will the city descend into chaos?

What will World War III look like? Ghost Fleet is a gripping imagining of a war set in the not too distant future. Navy captains battle through a modern-day Pearl Harbor, fighter pilots duel with stealthy drones, teenage hackers fight in digital playgrounds, Silicon Valley billionaires mobilise for cyber war and a serial killer carries out her own vendetta. Ultimately, victory will depend on who can best blend the lessons of the past with the weapons of the future.

After a surprising victory, Carter Ash finds himself leading a large civilization during a tumultuous time. But there’s no time to rest—The remnants of his former enemies still threaten his people’s stability, while an old foe grows ever stronger. The only way to survive is to keep building the United Interplanetary Republic. With the help of a flirtatious scientist’s eager experiments, he struggles against increasingly bleak odds.

Brought to you by Penguin. A dying universe. A search for answers. An adventure at the end of a trillion lifetimes. When the Home worlds finally achieved the technology to venture out into the stars, they found a graveyard of dead civilisations. What befell them is unknown. All Home knows is...

In this wide-screen space opera, humanity has met its match. An alien race of enormous robotic AI have destroyed most of humanity's outposts. But, on the eve of the Earth's destruction, at a goodbye party thrown by nonbinary rock star Ardent Violet, a young man makes one last desperate attempt to reach out and convinces one of humanity's enemies to switch sides. Now, earth just might have a chance to survive.

Jack Jenkins is a normal college student living in a world filled with super powered beings. Until one fateful day in the library throws his whole life into chaos. An ancient and beguiling cosmic visitor bonds with him, granting him extraordinary abilities. The only catch: he has to earn his powers like he was in a video game. And he has to learn on the fly.

Carter Ash must take the fight to his enemies—or risk losing everything. As the leader of the United Interplanetary Republic, he knows the only chance for his people’s survival is defeating the Empire of Humanity. But the Emperor and his army are much stronger than Carter knows—and they will stop at nothing to wipe the evidence of his embarrassing betrayal from the face of the galaxy. Now, they must pin their hopes on a daring mission into the heart of danger to keep the Empire from attacking. With a sultry sniper at his side, can he win an unwinnable fight?

The United Interplanetary Republic has been pushed and threatened, and now they stand on the brink. They must face down the Empire of Humanity, and the only chance for survival is winning a war no one expects them to win.

There’s a whole galaxy out there up for grabs—Carter Ash is going to take it. After narrowly surviving multiple attacks, the United Interplanetary Republic is ready to claim their first new system. The fleet is built, the soldiers are trained—it’s time to go. Conquering new solar systems is no easy feat, and Carter has his work cut out for him. There’s dungeons, armies, and all sorts of challenges ahead. At least he has a fiery redhead to back him up. But not all is as it seems in the new system—people are dying in unexpected ways.

An FBI agent hunts a new kind of terrorist through a Washington, DC, of the future in this ground-breaking book - at once a gripping techno-thriller and a fact-based tour of tomorrow. America is on the brink of a revolution, one both technological and political. The science fiction of AI and robotics has finally come true, but millions are angry and fearful that the future has left them behind. After narrowly stopping a bombing at Washington’s Union Station, FBI Special Agent Lara Keegan receives a new assignment: To field-test an advanced police robot.

All alone in a dangerous galaxy — a new civilization struggles for survival. War rages across the galaxy. Difficult diplomacy is all that keeps Carter Ash and his people safe from the threats around them. They need all the time they can get to build their home, because every day new, hungry eyes turn towards their fledgling government and their resource rich moon. Even now, multiple invading fleets race towards Carter’s home — and it’ll take everything he’s got to be ready for the fight of his life. And to top it off, a blast from his past arrives, complicating everything.

When a ruthless commander takes over the moon, he has it out for Carter Ash. The commander sends him to a tiny settlement to defend it with the worst soldiers for the job. Carter’s only support comes from an unexpected place: an enticing alien diplomat. That’s not all, however—the meager soldiers he has are being hunted and killed by something outside the colony.

“Interstellar adventure has a new king, and his name is Walter Jon Williams.” —George R.R. Martin Blending fast-paced military science fiction and space opera, the third and final volume in a dynamic trilogy from the New York Times bestselling author of The Praxis, set in the universe of...

Selbst Freunden der klassischen Kriminalerzählung ist nicht immer bekannt, dass Edgar Allan Poe mit Auguste Dupin und seinem ihn stets begleitenden Freund und Bewunderer schon lange vor Conan Doyle ein geniales 'Spürnasenteam' erfunden hatte. Da Dupin Franzose ist, ermittelt er natürlich in Paris und nicht wie Sherlock Holmes in London. Beide genießen Respekt und ehrfürchtige Bewunderung der Polizei ihres Heimatlandes.

X Minus One premiered in April 1955 on NBC and ran until January 1958. Like its predecessor series, Dimension X, X Minus One featured stories by the greatest names in modern science fiction: Ray Bradbury, Robert Heinlein, Clifford Simak, Robert Bloch, and many more.

Annie Bot meets Fallout in this dystopian satire: six women created in a lab, designed to serve the billionaires of the future in a luxury fallout shelter, rebel against their programming after the end times arrive. Welcome to the Felicity Complex! Constructed during the height of the Cold War...

In the year 2048, 38-year-old Ang (Angelica) tells the story of what happened to her twenty-four years earlier, in August 2024, when she was 14; when she and her brother Sal, 16 ½ at the time, fled from their home in Oregon in hopes of reaching their grandparents’ farm at Whirl’s End, Pennsylvania. It is a period of crisis, tragedy, collapse of social order, balkanization of the United States, and the rise of tyranny.