Ergebnis für "Corpus" in Science Fiction

Deutschland in naher Zukunft: Es herrscht eine Gesundheitsdiktatur. Die junge Mia Holl muss vor Gericht erscheinen, sie hat die Sorge um ihren Körper sträflich vernachlässigt. So beginnt eine Verhandlung, die immer mehr zum Schauprozess ausartet.

Ousted by the Solar System Exchange in favor of an Artificial Intelligence, Greg Body has turned to space exploration. Hiring a team of highly talented personnel, he’s going to take on the Lloyd’s of London odds and colonize the star L98-59. Long-distance telescopes have rated the system as having a “medium probability” of containing an Earth-like world. Greg has decided to take his chances as a post-Singularity Earth has become overcrowded.

Paul Cameron heard voices. There were two of them. They were whispering to each other in the bones of his skull, wearily, interminably, making monstrous plans to conquer the Earth.... Cameron was an educated man, an English professor at a leading university. Was he going insane? Or was he really tuned in somehow on the telepathic conversations of a recon patrol for a terrible Martian invasion? He tried warning the others, but nobody believed him.

AN NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR A thrilling historical mystery about a young woman searching for her father, a young man trying to solve an impossible problem, and the quest for the power to transcend time. “From Vienna to San Francisco, I was swept away by this fascinating search for family...

In a not-so-distant future, Paul Cameron, an English literature teacher, leads a seemingly content yet lonely existence in his trailer perched on Mulholland Drive, overlooking the sprawling city of Los Angeles. As humanity gears up for an ambitious terraforming mission to Mars, Paul grapples with a troubling secret he hears voices. These are not mere figments of his imagination, but telepathic communications from alien beings who have taken over human bodies, plotting an impending invasion. Can Paul unravel the mystery of these hidden invaders and thwart their plans before its too late for ...

The Light Brothers present The Corpus Corruptum: These stories are our mutant children, fever-dream hallucinations that don't necessarily fit into any particular genre. No matter how weird they are, we love them anyway. The Corpus Corruptum is a collection that peeks into what happens when the body goes bad, the most universal of all human fears.

EVERY WEEK WE WILL BRING YOU A SHORT STORY FROM OUR BEAUTIFULLY TRAGIC CITY... A TALE TO SHOCK, AWE TO ASTOND YOU AND LEAVE YOU THINKING ALL WEEK TILL THE NEXT STORY

¿Quién no se ha preguntado por la existencia de otros mundos y ha imaginado cómo descubrirlos? Escritos en la primera mitad del siglo XX, los cuentos de Judith Merril, Zenna Henderson, Joanna Russ, Doris Pitkin Buck, Wilmar H. Shiras, C. L. Moore y Mildred Clingerman muestran posibles vías para llegar a ellos.

Suppose, without any warning, you found yourself in another place and time? Zap. Just that fast! And even worse, in someone else’s body. Then, a month later, zap. You’re back where you were before, as yourself, trying to explain to people what had happened to you. No one believes you because during that month, people didn’t think you’d been gone, at all. Just that you’d been acting really weird.

She's a hacker with a disabled son, living in a martial state. The future looks dark, with no promise of relief from the tyranny, and when her son's life is threatened, the mother must fight back using whatever means necessary.