Ergebnis für "Cécile" in Science Fiction

Nathaniel Clarke has a secret. Before he became the owner of an occult bookshop on Bookseller's Row, he was a prince of the kingdom of Paragon. He’s only ever had one weakness, and he hasn’t seen her in a decade. Despite a passionate affair, she refused Nathaniel’s proposal in order to pursue her music career. Now, Nathaniel is reluctant to open old wounds, but he can’t refuse Clarissa’s plea for help, or the passion her nearness awakens in him - even as he learns the cause of what ails her is tangled with the deadly past he left behind.

Located in a nameless desert somewhere in the great American Southwest, Night Vale is a small town where ghosts, angels, aliens, and government conspiracies are all commonplace parts of everyday life. It is here that the lives of two women, with two mysteries, will converge.

It started with a plague wiping through Earth. Then came the aliens, hostile ones trying to take advantage of the current state of human weakness. And then came the saviors. All they wanted in exchange of eradicating the plague and protecting Earth from the sadistic aliens was breeding stock. Male breeding stock. Muscular, good looking, healthy males that were compatible with their own humanoid form. These are their stories.

In this follow-up novella, Cecil and Bubba spend what they think will be an uneventful Halloween night at McGee's Gas, Garage, and 24 Hour Convenience center, until they are joined by a new and unlikely ally. Soon after that, a pair of FBI agents brings a van in for emergency service work. The agents are hauling a weird cargo and Rosalita's curse soon causes an ancient evil to rise and walk the earth once more.

In this prequel to Tin Star, we meet Heckleck, the Hort alien who befriends Tula Bane on the space station Yertina Feray in her fight for survival. In his modest beginnings, Heckleck is raised to understand that breeding and propagating his own kind is the sole reason for living. When he is called upon to settle on a new planet, he meets the daughter of a politician, Goglu, with whom he falls helplessly in love, and is determined to win over.

Et si vous receviez un message envoyé du futur par une Intelligence Artificielle ? Fermez-les yeux pour vous laisser transporter... Ce voyage de 13 minutes peut vous emmener très loin si vous lâchez du lest.

Voici plusieurs centaines d'années que l'accident de la route 99 a changé la face du monde. Recouvert de glace, il est hostile. Dirigé par des clans, il est violent. Partagé entre ceux qui ont des pouvoirs et ceux qui n'en ont pas, il est intolérant. Les mutants sont désormais les maîtres de cette planète austère. Kingston Wolf est l'un d'entre eux. Chef extrêmement puissant, il ne connaît pas la pitié, ne s'abaisse jamais à montrer le moindre signe de tendresse. Régentée par le devoir, sa vie n'est dédiée qu'à son clan.

In late 1961, Nakushi, a woman of the streets of Bombay, India, has been pushed to the limit by her ungrateful clientele, the Portuguese who still control parts of India. When she prays for assistance from the gods, Agni, the god of storms, answers her. By bestowing various powers upon her, including flight, invulnerability, and the ability to speak any language - important in multilingual India - he gives her the power to become Bombay Sapphire.

Hipster aliens! Existentially aware smart toilets! Instant genital swapping! The future will be all of these things and so much more in Conan/Daily Show writer Rob Kutner's collection of "quick hits" on what could be but probably shouldn't.

In the wake of a modern apocalypse, Konstatine has lost everything he holds dear on Earth. A plague has taken his family and his meager job provides nothing for him to live for. He feels he has no place in the world until he's called upon for a very special mission in the furthest reaches of the galaxy.