Ergebnis für "Augustus" in Science Fiction & Fantasy

Augustus Reid’s mortal life ended in 1794. He did not ask for immortality, but when it visited he spent the centuries trying to hide. The cause of his condition, in the form of Tilly Tayler, has returned and everything has begun to change. She wants help with the birth of her child, a child that has taken two centuries to develop in her womb.

In this volume your flesh may creep and crawl a little bit as our classic authors delve into the world of vampires. Some stories you may be familiar with but for most these will be new and unsettling experiences.

Darkness falls. The undead rise to feast on the succulent blood of the living. For years vampires have fascinated great writers of the occult such as De Maupassant, Count Stenbock, E Nesbit and EF Benson. This is The Story Circle's collection of some of their spine-chilling tales told by award-winning actors.

Paula learns she will be awarded the Nobel Prize for her work in molecular biology, her love interest breaks up by text, then she is tragically killed in a collision with a tanker. Meanwhile, her lifelong friend Alex, has developed the technology to tunnel through spacetime.

Time is running out for Merryn! In this utopic vision of the deep future of mining, a young girl and her CL500 Mining Unit are in search of fabled Cornish lithium. Follow their journey among the granite hills of Cornwall, set to a whistling chorus of curlews, as the pair traverse the pitfalls of human greed and robotic destruction to strike a balance for the common good. Will they pass the test?

Alexander in Mimesis tells the story of myself making an artwork, describing the story of myself making an artwork. In many ways the US is a dreamlike reflection of the UK, and during my time there I came to see Manchester, New Hampshire, as a kind of Manchester 2; in response I wanted to create a kind of Alexander 2 to inhabit the foreign land. The resulting piece is a semi-autobiographical, science-fiction adventure which follows Alexander on his artistic journey; through the old factories and graveyards, sports bars and antique shops, museums and supermarkets, dating apps and stem cell ...

ANGER is a story which follows the adventures of a mutant Queen Elizabeth II into a post-apocalyptic Covid-riddled world. This medieval / sci-fi nightmare is a tongue-in-cheek reflection of the post-truth age we are living through. I wrote and produced this during the global lockdown of 2020, in collaboration with creatives in the UK and Germany, also stuck at home on their laptops. Covid-19, Brexit, the British class system, monarchy, mental health, free will and suicide are dramatised in this work. As the “Leavers“ rush to escape their human bodies by transforming into mech-organic ...

After the FBI takes his parents into custody, Steven scrambles to figure out what he can do to get them home safely. Additionally, what made the mysterious Kelly Davis scream at the top of her lungs before hanging up their brief but unsettling phone call?

Following a nerve-racking meeting with an FBI agent, Steven Armstrong is unsure who to trust and who to avoid. The only thing he is sure of is that everyone involved with the Sasquatch species is withholding valuable information. But why? Just when it seems things can’t get more complicated, Steven returns to a series of shocking surprises at his parents’ rural home.

After escaping the chaos of his first Bigfoot encounter, author Steven Armstrong feels lucky to be alive. But the aftermath soon sets in, not just in the form of trauma from seeing the creatures but also from a phone call from someone claiming to work for the FBI. Why would an intelligence agency have any interest in Steven? Could it have something to do with the Sasquatch species?