Ergebnis für "Change" in Science Fiction & Fantasy

Earth is dying, and humanity is scrambling to set up colonies in other star systems. But the search process for habitable planets is not perfect, as the crew of the Ouroboros discover on arrival at their new home.

From legendary science-fiction author Kim Stanley Robinson comes a vision of climate change unlike any ever imagined. Told entirely through fictional eye-witness accounts, The Ministry for the Future is a masterpiece of the imagination, the story of how climate change will affect us all over the decades to come. Its setting is not a desolate, post-apocalyptic world, but a future that is almost upon us - and in which we might just overcome the extraordinary challenges we face.

Ein Krieg am Horizont. Eine tödliche Verlobung. Und eine Frau, die das Schicksal ihrer Heimat wenden kann. Als der grausame Thronfolger Prinz Terren nach Konkubinen sucht, sieht die Bauerntochter Yin Wei ihre Chance, ihre hungernde Familie zu retten. Doch im kaiserlichen Azaleenpalast erwartet...

Fight, survive, adapt, and rely only on yourself. That is Derek’s creed and what's got him through the System Integration on Earth. Everything changed when the System came. Cute bunnies and beautiful butterflies became savage killing machines. Then the Invaders arrived with a single goal: to obtain ownership of this new habitable planet. War has raged ever since. None of this mattered much to Derek, aside from making living a little more perilous.

Wolf, finally having defeated his first boss, moves on to the second theme of the dungeon. The dungeon is no longer holding back, and visitors are beginning to show up on Aegis. The Winter Wolf will have to continue freezing his path through the dungeon to survive, even if it means having to go through a murderous competitor on the way. Will he be able to do this? Or will things change?

“A can’t-miss entry in one of the best urban-fantasy series currently being published.”—Booklist (starred review) As Chicago’s only professional wizard, Harry Dresden has faced demons, vampires, werewolves, dark sorcerers, and hosts of horrors from beyond the mortal realm. But nothing...

New York Times bestselling author Daniel Suarez delivers an exhilarating sci-fi thriller exploring a potential future where CRISPR genetic editing allows the human species to control evolution itself. On a crowded train platform, Interpol agent Kenneth Durand feels the sting of a needle—and...

Ein atemberaubender Thriller aus der nahen Zukunft. Vom New York Times-Bestsellerautor Douglas E. Richards, dessen Bücher sich über eine Million Mal verkauft haben. Was wäre, wenn es möglich wäre, jahrelanges Wissen in wenigen Stunden in den eigenen Kopf zu laden? Ein Experte in mehreren wissenschaftlichen Bereichen zu werden, ein Arzt zu werden oder mehrere Sprachen zu lernen - an einem einzigen Tag? Der Nutzen für die Menschheit wäre immens. Aber das wären auch die Gefahren.

Five hundred years into the post-apocalyptic future, almost every baby born is female. Males have been enslaved by the Network, and the only way to get a mate, to have a family, is to enter the Games and win. The catch? It’s a live battle to the death where the competition is fierce and even the winners leave damaged. Daniel is a 20-year-old bachelor with excellent home skills and no memory of his life before being sold to the government. Kind and unaggressive, he has been brainwashed to be the perfect, harmless mate who only hopes for a loving owner to take him out of his cell.

Mags was a Trainee in the Heraldic Collegium in Haven, Valdemar’s capital city. Though his background of poverty and abuse at Cole Pieters’ gem mine set him apart from most other trainees, nonetheless he had found his own group of friends. Bear, Lena, and Amily were all students whose situations in life set them apart from more usual Trainees. The four of them had found mutual support in their shared misfortunes, and together struggled to help one another find solutions to their individual problems.

Kalea wächst mit dem Wissen auf, an ihrem 21. Geburtstag für ihr Volk geopfert zu werden. Doch wenige Wochen bevor es so weit ist, wird sie von den Feinden ihres Volkes entführt. Im Feindeslager entdeckt sie neue Seiten an sich und der Welt, in der sie lebt. Ihr maskierter Entführer, mit dem sie immer wieder in Streitereien verfällt, erschwert ihr zusätzlich die gesamte Situation.

Ulric’s quiet life of exile has been turned upside down. Dellioph is unable to play his music or keep his secrets. Gali, having lost everything, teeters on the brink of despair. And they’re all being chased by dragons, which are nothing like the old stories.

Aliens. Robots. Vampires. Five girls deciding they want to marry him. Kevin’s life is a mess. Now he’s been turned into a girl. It’s just one thing after another… Actually, that last one is proving surprisingly nice.

A Bond Undone is the second audiobook in Jin Yong's epic Chinese classic and phenomenon Legends of Condor Heroes series, published in the US for the first time! In the Jin capital of Zhongdu, Guo Jing learns the truth of his father’s death and finds he is now betrothed, against his will, to...

The city of Bridgetown has a poor reputation. With weekly homicides on the east side, an affluent section of the city where residents want no part of the Bridgetown name, and a downtown area where the city’s budget is being drained. Madeline Cross is on her way to becoming a movie star. But when she is brutally slaughtered alongside her oldest son, Brandon, and live-in nanny, Sarah, in the affluent part of the city, speculation grows about who committed the crime and, more importantly, why.

Partners, Problems, Politics. Caught between her own family and Leon, Angie feels like so much of a burden that she considers leaving the relationship. Leon, too, is convinced he's only weighing Angie down and wonders if breaking off their engagement would be better for her. In lighter news, Leon plans a trip to go treasure hunting. When Marie, the idiot brigade, and Jake's party all pitch in, Leon's adventure turns into a no-holds-barred competition!

The spirit of Prince John, the brother of Crown Princess Orlaith, has fallen captive to the power of the Yelolow Raja and his servant, the Pallid Mask. Prince John's motley band of friends and followers, led by Captain Pip of Townsville and Deor Godulfson, the bard and master of magic, must lead a quest through realms of shadow and dream to rescue Prince John from a threat far worse than death. Meanwhile, Reiko and Orlaith muster their kingdoms for war, making common cause with the reborn Kingdom of Hawaii.

Welcome to Lavender Hollow… your next small town romance obsession! Grace fled London with a broken engagement and a wedding dress she still hasn't paid for. Max returned home with secrets of his own, and a painful past he’d much rather leave behind. But neither expected to find magic hiding...

Pursued across space by the ultra-secret Department of the Interior, hunted by the galaxy-wide Juntavas syndicate, former Agent of Change Val Con yos'Phelium and his ex-soldier lifemate Miri Robertson have commandeered the only spaceship on Vandar and fled, seeking help from Miri's newly discovered kin on Lytaxin. Elsewhere, Clan Korval is in action. Scattered across space by the newly invoked Plan B, certain clan members pursue the search for the long-missing Val Con.

Patriarch Jay Luckrun is one of the strongest dungeon crawlers in all of the Multiverse, but he's still not strong enough to overcome the greatest powers of the System. The [System Master] and the leaders of the great four pantheons. While making preparations for the soon-to-come war, Jay and his familiar Kleo touch on the ancient powers of the Precursor System, a type of system that existed before the current Multiverse System. There's more to it than what is known, more that involves Jay's path as one without fate.