Ergebnis für "Church" in Space Opera

Chance. Misfortune. Coincidence. These are the weapons of choice for the Doctor’s latest enemies. And those enemies are very, very hungry. For Ruby Sunday, this Christmas Eve is a birthday she’ll never forget. It’s the day she joins the Doctor on board a Goblin ship. The day she learns of dangers from beyond the universe. The day her life really begins...or, perhaps, the day it ends.

Aliens and humans alike play positions based on physiology, creating receivers that jump 25 feet into the air, linemen that bench-press 1,200 pounds, and linebackers that literally want to eat you. Organized crime runs every franchise, games are fixed, and rival players are assassinated. Follow the story of Quentin Barnes, a 19-year-old quarterback prodigy that has been raised all his life to hate, and kill, those aliens. Quentin must deal with his racism and learn to lead, or he'll wind up just another stat in the column marked "killed on the field."

Welcome to Fringe Space, partner. Keep your blaster handy, 'cause you might need it. Plunge into the rough-and-tumble world of the galaxy's Fringe. Worlds chock full of Galactic Marshals, ambitious miners, roving preachers, and a full hand's worth of villains and varmints!

Alexis soon discovers there are no young people over the age of 18, they simply vanish into a mysterious place called Terminus. Other teens are attacked and dragged deeper into the dark mining tunnels by vicious alien predators. Death and danger seem to lurk around every corner. There's only two choices: rebel or die.

Amanda and her loyal crew are back travelling the backwater alien planets that dot fringe space when she receives a disturbing message. An old recording from her father, Jonathan Love, summons Mawla to immediately return home to the Lupine planet of Canus. What starts out as a rescue turns into an all-out war between two tribes of vicious, bipedal wolves! And in the middle of all of this Amanda must make a terrible choice: decide what she truly believes in...at the cost of condemning one of her beloved friends to death.

Joss Whedon's Firefly meets Flash Gordon as con-artist and adventurer Amanda Love travels the star systems of the frontier. Amanda's ample charms include the face of an angel, the bluest eyes west of Delta Vega, and a body that could give a pious man a wet dream in a skin-tight spacesuit. She and her crew of loyal misfits take their traveling ‘pay to pray' Salvation Show out to the lonely, backwater alien planets that dot fringe space. But her latest ‘pay to pray' con nearly becomes her last....

It’s high-stakes, win-or-die football action in the far future, as aliens and humans fill positions based on physiology and leave their blood, sweat and tears on gridirons across the galaxy. Last season, 19-year-old rookie quarterback Quentin Barnes overcame his racism and unified his team. He led the Ionath Krakens to a lower-tier championship, a championship that earns them promotion into the meat grinder known as “Tier One.”

Undefeated galactic heavyweight champion Korak the Cutter has defeated all challengers, destroying everyone in his path, but the wins aren’t as easy as they used to be. After a decade of perfect fighting, his age is catching up with him. For a Quyth Warrior, that means he’s slowing down, and speed is the name of the game in mixed martial arts.

Ben may be having a rough day of near-death experiences, hot pursuits with interstellar mercenaries, and wormhole travel, but nothing will deter him from finding some genuine starch spheres (space potatoes) for his brother, Everett.

In a novella of galactic magnitude, the space-traveling monk Everett Akasha begins his quest to rescue his brother while being pursued by the galaxy's most dangerous bounty hunters, corporate enforcers, alien mob goons, and supernaturally talented assassins. In the company of an artificial intelligence with emotional issues and a cat with horrendous gas, will he survive the unforgiving depths of space?