Ergebnis für "Black Jack" in Science Fiction & Fantasy

Er starb im Krieg - so glauben alle. In Wahrheit lag er 100 Jahre im Kälteschlaf. Nun feiert man ihn wegen seiner Kriegsverdienste als lebende Legende. Er erhält das Kommando über eine Flotte, die im feindlichen Territorium gestrandet ist. Sein Auftrag: Möglichst alle Schiffe lebend nach Hause bringen. Die Realität: Unzählige Feinde auf dem Weg. Und eine Meuterei in den eigenen Reihen, die ihn 40 Schiffe kostet.

Ihr weltveränderndes Geheimnis kann nicht mehr lange verborgen bleiben. Elloren Gardner verbirgt das mächtigste Geheimnis in ganz Aerda - sie ist die Schwarze Hexe der Prophezeiung und dazu bestimmt, zu triumphieren ... oder als ultimative Waffe der Zerstörung eingesetzt zu werden. Getrennt von allen, die sie liebt, isoliert und gejagt, muss Elloren sich an die letzte Person wenden, der sie vertrauen kann - Kommandant Lukas Grey.

Eine neue Schwarze Hexe wird sich erheben... ihre Kräfte sind unvorstellbar. Elloren Gardner ist die Enkelin der letzten prophezeiten Schwarzen Hexe, Carnissa Gardner, die während des Königreichskrieges die feindlichen Truppen zurückgeschlagen und das Volk der Gardnerianer gerettet hat. Doch obwohl sie ihrer berühmten Großmutter wie aus dem Gesicht geschnitten ist, verfügt Elloren über keinerlei Macht in einer Gesellschaft, die magische Fähigkeiten über alles andere stellt.

Twenty years ago, a boy named Jack Sawyer traveled to a parallel universe called the Territories to save his mother and her “Twinner” from an agonizing death that would have brought cataclysm to the other world. Now Jack is a retired Los Angeles homicide detective living in the nearly nonexistent hamlet of Tamarack, Wisconsin. He has no recollection of his adventures in the Territories....

Admiral John "Black Jack" Geary befindet sich auf der Jagd nach den dunklen Schiffen, die bereits zwei Sternensysteme angegriffen haben und keinen Unterschied machen zwischen Raumschiffen der Allianz und der Syndikatwelten. Er muss sie unbedingt ausschalten, bevor bekannt wird, dass es sich nicht um einen mysteriösen Feind handelt, sondern um Schiffe der Allianz - gesteuert von einer außer Kontrolle geratenen künstlichen Intelligenz.

Two editions, two narrators, one thrilling story. Enjoy this version read by Jack Black, and then be sure to check out the other available version narrated by Samira Wiley. The first official Minecraft novel! In the tradition of iconic adventures like Robinson Crusoe and Treasure Island, the Number One New York Times best-selling author of World War Z tells the story of a hero - stranded in the world of Minecraft - who must unravel the secrets of a mysterious island in order to survive.

Aliens and UFOs around Earth as seen from the "Island" (cloaked Alien Mother Ship) where a select few - those who excel in perfecting themselves while on Earth - arrive after conversion ("death").

Most of the story you hold in your hands takes place in the thirteen hours surrounding the execution of Rooker Flynn. Gerba Whipmarples has won. The prison revolt has failed, the escape plan has been crushed, and the perpetrators have been captured. The headmistress has stolen Nepenthe from Jack, and Rooker has sacrificed his one true love, the Venture Brigand, to save his friend’s life. At long last, there is nothing left for Gerba to do but make sure the greedy pirate pays for his crimes at the end of a noose. Welcome to Rooker Flynn’s final day at the Locke Institute.

In this collection of short stories, New York Times best-selling author Jack Campbell explores what kinds of problems mankind might face as our horizons expand.

Portia’s initial magic attempt fails so spectacularly that debris and ashes rain down, injuring her ancient teacher and sole practitioner of the holy magic. The chosen one not only failed, but dangerously so. It is far worse to do the magic badly than to not do it at all.

Swords and Saddles is a must-listen collection of three novellas from New York Times best-selling author Jack Campbell.

London 2027. Terrorists deploy a highly sophisticated nerve agent called London Black at Waterloo station—for an unfortunate section of the population, what follows is agonising physical deterioration and usually death London 2029. DI Lucy Stone is called in to investigate the gruesome murder of the scientist who developed an antidote to the nerve agent. It is a daily boost, making life bearable for the 'Vulnerables'—but isn't a cure. Lucy suspects the scientist might have been working on a permanent solution to the nerve agent.

Dragged from her bed at gunpoint, tattooed and tracked like livestock, she becomes just another number: Volunteer 4711. Shipped across the stars with hundreds of other human women, she's thrown into a cruel existence on an alien farm where survival means silence, submission, and sacrificing what little dignity remains. When fate places a high-ranking alien male's life in her hands, she saves him, not knowing this single act will pull her into the complex power structures of galactic politics.

All three novellas feature Washington, D.C. Homicide Detective John "Black Jack" Morrison and his travails as he gets sent out to the super-secret spy facility known as Area 51 to solve a series of murders. Jack can't stay out of trouble with the chief of detectives back home, mostly due to his drinking, and his cockups get him sent to the Nevada desert as punishment. But it's not the murders that bother Black Jack, so much as the evidence he finds about the events from Roswell in 1947.

Archangel: The Book of Mammon is the first book in a new urban fantasy thriller series that features ancient conspiracies, high-tech threats, action-packed combat sequences, and compelling characters in unique situations.

What would you do if you awoke without memory, crucified, and on the brink of death? Varnoth, a shadow panther, must struggle to survive in the cruel world of Albattara. He must use his natural-born skills in this fantasy LitRPG to explore the land, complete quests, conquer dungeons, craft potions, destroy terrifying monsters, and find answers to his questions: Who is he? Why was he crucified?