Ergebnis für "Black" in Erstkontakt

Under 30,000 feet of water, the experimental exploration rig Leaguer has discovered an oil field larger than Saudi Arabia, with oil so sweet and pure, nations would go to war for the rights to it. But as the team starts drilling exploration well after exploration well in their race to claim the sweet crude, a deep rumbling beneath the ocean floor shakes them all to their core. Something has been living in the oil and it's about to give birth to the greatest threat humanity has ever seen.

The crew of the deep-sea exploration rig Leaguer discovers oil sweeter, purer, and easier to refine than the fields in Saudi Arabia. To confirm their own analysis of their trillion dollar find, a test barrel is flown from the drill site off the coast of Papua/New Guinea to Houston Analytical Laboratories (HAL).

Sie ist das Ziel einer intergalaktischen Kopfgeldjagd. Aber er wird ihr Herz erobern. Aurora Day ist auf der Flucht. Das Verbrechen, das man ihr vorwirft, hat sie nicht begangen - oder zumindest nicht begehen wollen. Aber die intergalaktischen Soldaten, die auf der Jagd nach der als Füchsin bekannten Frau sind, interessieren sich nicht für Details. Das Versteck auf dem abgelegenen Grenzmond Clotho ist ihre einzige Hoffnung zu überleben.

Die Alien-Adoptions-Agentur wird alle Träume wahr werden lassen. Zumindest glaubt Luna das, als sie ein klappriges Raumschiff besteigt, um auf einem Grenzmond das außerirdische Kind zu treffen, das sie im Tausch gegen 100 Hektar Land und ein bescheidenes Gehalt aufziehen wird. Aber sie rechnet nicht mit den gefährlichen Tieren des Mondes, den kurzen, aber einsamen Nächten und dem großen blauen Krieger, der für die ständige Bewachung des Babys zuständig ist. Noxx ist ein stolzer Drachenkrieger der Invicta, der seine Stärke, Strategie und Ausdauer zum Schutz seines Heimatlandes einsetzt.

"...narrators John Pirhalla and Sophie Amoss skillfully let the protagonists’ voices cycle through emotions like exhaustion, despair, and even hope." -Library Journal A character-driven science fiction/horror blend, KC Jones's Black Tide is Stephen King's Cujo meets A Quiet Place. It was just...

Aliens haben mich von der Erde entführt – oder zumindest vermute ich das. Da Menschen für die Außerirdischen lediglich Waren zu sein scheinen, haben sie sicherlich keine Verwendung für jemanden wie mich. Also muss ich mein Geheimnis für mich behalten. Solange ich vorgebe, dass ich sehen kann, bin ich wenigstens nicht allein.

The universe isn’t always as it appears, something that Salchar and the Free Fleet know only too well. When the black’s own creatures come tearing out from children’s nightmares, the Free Fleet will be there. Some might call those that make up the Free Fleet insane, might call them lunatics. But in this universe, it’s good to have some lunatics on your side.

Phoebe ist voller Geheimnisse - ihr Alien-Beschützer ist entschlossen, sie zu enthüllen. Phoebe kommt mit einem Koffer voller Geheimnisse und vorgefasster Meinungen über das Leben an der Grenze auf dem Mond Clotho an. Sie ist mehr als bereit, für ihr eigenes Stück Ackerland und eine Zukunft für das kleine Kind, das sie adoptiert hat, zu kämpfen. Als sich ihr neues Zuhause jedoch als Unterwasserfarm entpuppt und das Baby in den Armen eines Invicta-Drachenwächters auftaucht, muss sich Phoebe ganz neuen Herausforderungen stellen.

From the award-winning author of Parable of the Sower:After the near-extinction of the human race, one young man with extraordinary gifts will reveal whether the human race can learn from its past and rebuild their future . . . or is doomed to self-destruction. In the future, nuclear war has...

From the award-winning author of Parable of the Sower:After the near-extinction of humanity, a new kind of alien-human hybrid must come to terms with their identity -- before their powers destroy what is left of humankind. Since a nuclear war decimated the human population, the remaining humans...

Nnedi Okorafor's Binti is the w inner of the Hugo Award and the Nebula Award for Best Novella! "Robin Miles’s terrific narration creates a stellar audiobook. (Pun intended.)"—Modern Mrs. Darcy on Binti Her name is Binti, and she is the first of the Himba people ever to be offered a place at...

Captain Tom Thrush is patrolling the Octagon Rift when his ship is attacked by a black destroyer that seems to predict his every move. Outgunned and outmaneuvered, he flees in a crippled ship to the only sanctuary he can reach—a den of thieves and spies called Lotus Station. His ship will be broken up for scrap. Half the crew are casualties. The rest are scattering, leaving Tom stuck on Lotus. As the black destroyer hunts down local freighters, Tom becomes obsessed with tracking it down and taking revenge.

Former Marine Will Hawthorne has revealed himself to the alien world of Taitala as the Makalang, a legendary creature who is expected to reverse the world's decline into senescence and extinction. With his first wives already pregnant, tensions between the city's clans begin stretching to the breaking point as the demand for new children intensifies. But Will's attempts to mediate the dispute are upended by a campaign of bombings by the shadowy Black Sky group and suspicions that the mysterious nocturnal panikang are behind it.

The Empire and its allies struggle to find a way to strike back at the Enlightened, who are employing raiding tactics to set the galaxy on fire. And with their new ability to travel through access points, the job of the galactic alliance is that much harder. Meanwhile Adrian, unable to force a confrontation with the three Enlightened turns his eyes to the Custodian, the ancient AI that had until recently kept the Enlightened contained. Now the AI had joined the Enlightened side, allowing them the use of access points.

Trapped in the hospital and cut off from the world, a mysterious voice on the radio is all they have to guide them. They're no longer on a mission to quarantine the remaining inhabitants. Instead, they have to destroy a multiplying menace that could infect the world before the Federal Government enacts a final solution.

A powerful story of survival in unprecedented times, from the award-winning author of Parable of the Sower. In an alternate America marked by volatile class warfare, Blake Maslin is traveling with his teenage twin daughters when their car is ambushed. Their attackers appear sickly yet possess...

An alien artifact turns a young girl into Death's adopted daughter in Remote Control, a thrilling sci-fi tale of community and female empowerment from Nebula and Hugo Award-winner Nnedi Okorafor Winner of the AudioFile Earphones Award "Narrator Adjoa Andoh captivates listeners with a stunning...

An all-powerful ruler's son vies for control over the human race in this brilliant conclusion to the Patternist saga, from the critically acclaimed author of Parable of the Sower. In the far future, the human race is divided into two groups striving for power. The Patternmaster rules over all...

Aeson Kassiopei, Imperial Crown Prince, survived his fiery death at Ae-Leiterra, saved the Fleet, and became the man we know today. Filled with alien knowledge he cannot understand and prescient memories of the blue-eyed girl who would change his life and save everything, he must make the most important decision of his life. Aeson has lived and died doing what's best for Atlantis, but now he burns for Gwen Lark. Learn his feelings from the inside out—from their first meeting to the moment he must decide Gwen's fate.

I was abducted by the alien puppy pound. Thrown into a cage and sold as a galactic pet. An alien captain has made me his beloved pet. Things have happened that I can’t live with. Things too terrible to mention here.