Ergebnis für "Beyond Eternity" in Science Fiction

Eternity Online ist das größte Online-Rollenspiel der Welt. Aber nicht jeder darf hinein: Erst nach dem Tod in der wirklichen Welt kann man das Nachleben in einer virtuellen verbringen. Abenteuer erleben, Monster bekämpfen und gemütlich in Tavernen abhängen bis in alle Ewigkeit. Rob ist nur einer von zahllosen Frischlingen, die in Avataris ihr neues Leben beginnen – natürlich ohne die geringste Erinnerung an ihre Vergangenheit. Doch irgendetwas stimmt nicht mit ihm. Die Bewohner reagieren seltsam, die ganze Umgebung scheint ihm feindlich gesonnen.

Ein epischer Arenakampf, in dem nur die beste Heldengruppe überleben wird. Der zweite Band von Mikkel Robrahns Fantasy-Serie über die Welt der Online-Rollenspiele. Als sich Avataris – die riesige Onlinewelt, in der die Menschen nach ihrem Tod weiterleben können – aus dem alles verschlingenden Feuer erhebt, ergreift die Helden der freien Völker eine ganz neue Kriegsbegeisterung. Eine Arena soll gebaut werden, in der sich die fähigsten Kämpfer miteinander messen werden. Für die meisten Heldengruppen heißt es Untergang oder Sieg. Also meistens: Untergang.

The Warmaster’s horde advances through the fire and ash of Terra's dying breaths, forcing the loyalists back to the Delphic Battlement—the very walls of the Sanctum Imperialis. Angron, Primarch of the World Eaters and Herald of Horus, has achieved immortality through annihilation—now he leads the armies of the damned in a wrathful tide, destroying all before them as the warp begins its poisonous corruption of Terra's very soil.

Halley Zwick steckt in Schwierigkeiten. In der Art Schwierigkeiten, bei der falsche Ausweise, mächtige Politiker und mehr als eine Sorte Gesetzeshüter involviert sind. Sowohl die Guten als auch die Bösen sind hinter ihr her, aber Halley kann nicht länger sagen, wer eigentlich wer ist. Um allen zu entkommen, nimmt sie einen Job auf dem Raumschiff "Elysium Fields" an, wo die Reichen und Schönen Seite an Seite in ihren Kälteschlafkapseln liegen – und das seit Hunderten von Jahren.

The crew of the asteroid-starship Thistledown has thwarted an attack by the Jarts by severing their link to the Way, an endless corridor that spans universes. The asteroid settled into orbit around Earth and the tunnel snaked away, forming a contained universe of its own. Forty years later, on Gaia, Rhita Vaskayza recklessly pursues her legacy, seeking an Earth once again threatened by forces from within and without.

The A!Tol Imperium and their new human subjects have had 15 years of relative peace. New colonies have been founded, new worlds explored, new ships built. Formal and informal alliances have been built with the ancient powers of the Core, leaving humanity and the Imperium seemingly on the brink of a new dawn. The devastation of one of the newly-founded human colonies sends ripples of shock through the Imperium, and a battle fleet under Fleet Lord Harriet Tanaka is dispatched to the edge of the Imperium to find the culprits and bring them to justice.

The Imperium does not take it lightly when its slaves revolt. Earth's population has been decimated, and Captain Bill Henderson is fleeing imperial attack dogs with his crew and two million refugees—the last of humanity. Starship Omega could be the answer to turning the tide and finally ending the Imperium's tyranny. But not in its current form. The Omega is capable of so much more—but to unlock the enormous ship's true power, Bill must lead those under his command into the heart of empire space.

A spellbinding novel set in the universe of Isaac Asimov’s classic Galactic Empire series and Foundation series Due to circumstances within our control . . . tomorrow will be canceled. The Eternals, the ruling class of the Future, had the power of life and death not only over every human being...

Halley is on the run from an interplanetary political scandal that has put a huge target on her back. She heads for what seems like the perfect place to lay low: a gigantic space barge storing the cryogenically frozen bodies of Earth’s most fortunate citizens from more than a century ago… The cryo program, created by trillionaire tech genius Zale Winfeld, is long defunct, and the AI hologram "hosts," ghoulishly created in the likeness of Winfeld’s three adult children, are glitchy. The ship feels like a crypt, and the isolation gets to Halley almost immediately.

Seeking to escape the shadow of Annette Bond’s success, Captain Morgan Casimir has taken a posting on the far side of the A!Tol Imperium. Here she hopes to begin a legend for herself that stands apart from her stepmother, the Duchess. A chance encounter introduces her to the xenoarchaeologist Rin Dunst - and to the strange mystery cult that tried to silence him. There are darker secrets in these stars than the A!Tol and their human allies ever guessed...and if they can’t find answers, the Precursors' mistakes might yet destroy the galaxy. Again.

Amateur detective Mallory Viridian’s talent for solving murders ruined her life on Earth and drove her to live on an alien space station, but her problems still follow her in this witty, self-aware novel that puts a speculative spin on murder mysteries, from the Hugo-nominated author of Six...

""A love story spanning multiple millenniums, life-forms and variations on immortality, the book posits Victorian poetry as a weapon of empire, insists on nature's resilience in the face of genocide, and manipulates prose into something like a new language....Toward Eternity recognizes both the...

A thrilling new Star Trek “movie era” novel from New York Times bestselling author Greg Cox! Three Eras. Three Mysteries. One Ancient Enemy? 2024: Almost forty years ago, marine biologist Gillian Taylor stormed away from her dream job at Sausalito’s Cetacean Institute—and was never seen...

Ten years ago, the 20th century and the Bronze Age were tossed together by a mysterious Event. In the decade since, the Republic of Nantucket has worked hard to create a new future for itself, using the technological know-how retained from modern times to explore and improve conditions for the inhabitants of the past

Chaka's brother was one of those who sought to find Haven and never returned. But now Chaka has inherited a rare Roadmaker artifact—a book called A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court—which has inspired her to follow in his footsteps. Gathering an unlikely band of companions around her, Chaka embarks upon a journey where she will encounter bloodthirsty river pirates, electronic ghosts who mourn their lost civilization, and machines that skim over the ground and air. Ultimately, the group will learn the truth about their own mysterious past.