Ergebnis für "Carol" in Science Fiction

In a future where emotions are controlled by a powerful tech corporation, one woman dares to fight back. Lydia, a passionate activist, discovers the terrifying truth behind Verisys, the company that has been manipulating human emotions for profit with its Pulse Algorithm. Alongside her partner Marcus, Lydia takes on a mission that will change the world forever—exposing the dark side of emotional control and fighting for the right to feel freely. As Lydia and Marcus battle to dismantle the Pulse Algorithm, they are forced to confront difficult questions about the ethics of emotional autonomy.

It starts with a series of unexplained events. Earth tremors across the globe. Women being driven insane by their heightened and scrambled senses. And the world is starting to notice - the number one Twitter trend is #realfemmefatales. Governments and scientists are bewildered and silent. The world needs Torchwood, but there's not much of Torchwood left.

A bittersweet holiday tale set in a grimdark future, long after humans took to the stars. The Solstice Festival celebrates the new dawn and the promise it brings. It holds more significance for Marcus since he managed to claw his way out of poverty by focusing on the future. However, the legacy of his humble beginnings haunt him in a world where social hierarchy is everything. Instead of celebrating with his own family, Marcus agrees to visit his partner’s parents on their lavish estate to celebrate the Solstice.

Dr. Aphra teams up with Darth Vader himself in this audiobook original—an expanded adaptation of the critically acclaimed Marvel comics series, performed by a full cast. Dr. Chelli Lona Aphra, rogue archaeologist, is in trouble again. A pioneer in the field of criminal xenoarchaeology...

A collection of five classic TV novelisations featuring the Doctor's hectic adventures on Earth. "Slick and polished...immersive productions of much-loved novelisations...long may we enjoy them." - Doctor Who Magazine In Planet of Giants present day England becomes a nightmare landscape when a...

Five thrilling soundtrack adventures from the early days of Doctor Who, featuring serials lost from the TV archive. The pictures may be lost, but each of these stories survives as a soundtrack recording. Remastered, and with additional linking narration, they can be enjoyed once more. In Marco...

Alphabet Squadron’s hunt for the deadliest TIE fighters in the galaxy continues in this Star Wars adventure! News of the New Republic’s victory still reverberates through the galaxy. In its wake, the capital ships of the newly legitimized galactic government journey to the farthest stars...

Dickens' Classic, Reimagined. For a World in Disarray. (Full Cast Audio Drama)

By 1851, all of London has fallen in love with A Christmas Carol, heralding Charles Dickens as “the man who invented Christmas.” But for his wife, Catherine, Christmas is less of a reason for celebration and more of a burden. Between hosting lavish parties, decorating her home, and caring for her eight children—with one more on the way—she feels more like Scrooge than herself this year. But everything changes after a chance encounter with a kitchen cook, who reminds her that Christmas can be a time of miracles and magic, if she is willing to open her heart.

LES GRANDS TEXTES DU XXe SIÈCLE. C'est l'histoire d'un couple séparé par un extraordinaire événement, puis réuni dans des circonstances telles que jamais un homme et une femme n'en ont connu de pareilles. C'est aussi l'histoire d'un mystère qui, depuis 1955, a réuni, à l'insu de tous, par-dessus les oppositions des idéologies et des impérialismes, les chefs des plus grandes nations.

A dance club full of bodies. Cause of death - a mystery. The lone survivor - a man, raving like a lunatic, wearing only a deerstalker hat. Now, the man who calls himself Sherman Holmes is being studied like a lab rat by a top-secret government agency. How is it he can be barely clinging to reality one minute - yet be a seeming genius the next? Within his brain might just be the greatest scientific breakthrough of the millennium, if anyone can figure out how to access it. Enter the agent code named Watson.

After a hit man blasts telepathic psychiatrist David Lumen’s mind into the body of a pampered kitty on its way home to the moon, David’s desperate plan to make himself whole again is hampered by his new feline life. The only person close enough to communicate with is struggling avant-garde artist, Pippin Applegate.

Climate fiction author Richard Friedman takes the listener on a journey from the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean to the edges of the universe with his collection of short stories. A narcissistic east coast billionaire receives a visit from three ghosts in a contemporary spin on a timeless classic. Judgment Day asks, is humanity worth saving? A family takes a tour through the Grand Museum of the Universe in The Docent and the crew of the space shuttle witnesses a nuclear holocaust in The World Burns Below.

The humans arrived uninvited centuries ago. Their hostile and warlike nature threatened both themselves and our mind-melded native species. We chose to wipe their memories of us and retire to a peaceful existence out of their sight and minds. Now, their descendants thrive while our civilization crumbles. And my mind-mate, our rightful heir, refuses to accept his responsibilities and guide us out of our decaying situation. We must ask humans for help...so I’m going to force him into making contact and taking action.

Modern gods and goddesses, remote, revered - and like the pantheon of heroes and heroines of ancient myth - possessing great power tempered with flaws. Now, find within this anthology great tales by gifted and award-winning authors who move superheroes from the four-color panels of comic books to the fantastic pages of fiction, stories that will remind anyone who ever wanted to wear a cape or don a cowl of the extraordinary powers of the imagination!

An ingenious, dystopian novel of one young woman’s resistance against the constraints of an oppressive society, from the inventive imagination of Joyce Carol Oates “Time travel” — and its hazards—are made literal in this astonishing new novel in which a recklessly idealistic girl dares...

In the Malku universe, fae, merfolk, and humans live together in varying degrees of harmony. Over the millenia, through the use of fae magic, these humanoid groups have inter-married thus creating the faekind (humans with fae ancestry) and webbies (humans with merfolk ancestry.) The story takes place in the land of Hanrisor, whose original inhabitants have lived with foreign sojourners and descendants of slaves.

One day Tam is waitressing at a neighborhood tavern and taking community college classes in firefighting. The next… Well, months later when she finally gets her sight and hearing back, after waking up in a hospital… She’s living on a county-sized space station, one of the few humans in a community made up of giant, sapient lizards and birds.

These stories wrestle with the experience of loss—of loved ones, of relationships, of a sense of self, of health—and forge a path to hope as characters fight their way forward. From bestsellers and SPFBO finalists to rising voices, 13 exceptionally talented authors explore the many facets of grief and healing through the lens of fantasy and sci-fi.

Clockmaker Karl Nielsen has not been having a good day. He thought he was taking a short Yuletide trip to the city. Now he stands accused of treason, robbery and murder. The darkly humorous third volume in the Kingdom of Clockwork series features a king disguised as Santa, a prime minister who might be an alien, a pregnant Irish monk and a long-forgotten Danish monster.