Ergebnis für "Dark" in Zeitreisen

"Bist du glücklich?" Das sind die letzten Worte, die Jason Dessen hört, bevor ihn ein maskierter Mann niederschlägt. Als er wieder zu sich kommt, begrüßt ihn ein Fremder mit den Worten: "Willkommen zurück, alter Freund." Denn Jason ist in der Tat zurückgekehrt - doch nicht in sein eigenes Leben, sondern eines, das hätte sein können. Seine Frau hat er nie geheiratet, sein Sohn wurde nie geboren. Und Jason ist kein einfacher College-Professor, sondern ein gefeierter Wissenschaftler. Doch ist diese Welt real?

'Brilliant' – Lee Child, author of the Jack Reacher series. 'Masterful' – Harlan Coben, author of I Will Find You. Jason Dessen has been abducted. His life has been stolen. To get it back, he will go on a journey more wondrous and horrifying than anything he could have possibly imagined...

Doomed to die. And die again. Dark Diamond is the first in a high-octane space opera trilogy, Time’s Shadow. From Neal Asher, creator of the Polity universe. ‘Infinitely entertaining’ – Locus Magazine Somebody is trying to kill Captain Blite, but each attempt ends in unexpected failure...

“I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End.” She never believed the stories of the Fallen Saint or Patient Thirteen. Those fictional warriors have always been her lovesick mother, holding the frail, weak hand of the father she'd never know. Sapphire S Valdawell is the daughter of Kane and Skylenna, the twin sister of Krimson Arthur Valdawell, and the longtime enemy of the future leader of her country. Niklaus Demechnef. Though Sapphire dreamed of a life far away from the name Valdawell, the dark biblical twist of fate had other plans for her.

Kann man in einem Haus verschwinden?! Die Spuren von Anna-Lena van Dam führen zwar eindeutig hinein in die seit Jahrzehnten leer stehende Villa ihres Urgroßvaters - aber nicht wieder heraus. Ihr Vater vermutet sie in einem geheimen Höhlensystem unter dem Haus und schickt den Ex-Soldaten Viktor mit einem Geo-Expertenteam los, um sie zu suchen. Dass sich unter den sechs Personen auch ein Parapsychologe und ein Medium befinden, hat einen guten Grund, wie Viktor bald herausfinden muss.

From bestselling and award-winning author and acclaimed filmmaker J. Michael Stracynski comes a gripping supernatural tale of love, loss, and the evil within. Perfect for fans of Caleb Carr, Joe Hill, and Erik Larson. The Danse unfolds across more than a century, interweaving the story of Matt...

From award-winning and bestselling author Suzy Krause comes an emotionally resonant work of speculative fiction that asks what happens when grief and hope start to bend the laws of reality—perfect for readers of The Husbands by Holly Gramazio and In Five Years by Rebecca Serle. When a...

THE FUTURE IS FOR THE TAKING. One rogue AI threatens to unravel reality across a thousand possible futures. Captain Blite and Agent Cormac are running out of options. Yossander's Hold is under siege from the prador ship, Kinghammer, a kamikaze weapon streaks towards the planet, and Sheen Brice...

‘Balls-to-the-walls levels of exuberance and inventiveness’ – Locus Magazine on Dark Diamond FORGE A NEW FUTURE. OR BE CONSUMED BY THE PAST. Captain Blite and Agent Cormac thought they had defeated the malevolent AI Straeger. But Straeger’s mission to plunge the galaxy into a devastating...

Hugo Award-winning author Charlie Stross dives deep into the underbelly of paratime espionage, nuclear warfare, and state surveillance in this provocative techno-thriller audiobook set in The Merchant Princes multi-verse Dark State ups the ante on the already volatile situations laid out in the...

'Action-packed, brilliantly unique' – Andy Weir, author of The Martian A compulsive, mind-bending exploration of memory and what it means to be human, Recursion is a breathtaking thriller from the author of Dark Matter, Blake Crouch. At first, it looks like a disease. An epidemic that spreads...

*Soon to be a TV series* Jimmy Fallon’s Book Club Top Four Pick and a PBS Book Club Pick For fans of Kazuo Ishiguro and Emily St. John Mandel, this “mind-bending take on time travel” (The New York Times) is about an isolated town neighbored by its own past and future, and a young girl who...

His brother conquered the stars. Derek must survive the expectations. A hundred years ago, the world was sundered by war. Battles shattered mountains and shifted coastlines. Yet that is the past. Now, the new generation is desperately attempting to grow to the heights of the original heroes, while old monsters in human skin struggle for supremacy, and daring explorers search the cosmos for dangerous things to poke with sticks.

Isaac Thoma lived to see the last handful of survivors defeat the demonic champion. He is now alone, his past in ashes, the last and most powerful human on a blighted Earth. But what if he could go back? Hurled back in time, Isaac has one chance to change it all. A chance to warn humanity of their impending doom. A chance to stop the [System] before shortsightedness and lust for power can render humanity extinct.

Kage Baker, celebrated creator of the Company novels and the standout collection Mother Aegypt, now brings together pirates, primates, eldritch horrors, maritime ghosts, and much more in Dark Mondays. This captivating new collection of fantastic short fiction is sure to cement her reputation as...

Monsters that can destroy cities have appeared. The most highly leveled humans begin to abuse their power. And as levels rise, individual people start to reach the kind of power where they can rival militaries all by themselves. Time traveler Isaac Thoma has seen this dance before and vowed to never allow it to repeat itself, working tirelessly with his team to uncover the secrets of the System.

Anthony Franklin may have saved his home, but the world is a big place that demands his attention. Leaving Etson behind, he sets his sights on Atlanta. Destroying dungeons, raiding bosses, and scaling death-defying mountains—the Chaos Cup, Georgia’s premier tournament, has everything he dreams of. He doesn’t just want to participate; he wants to come out on top as the indisputable victor.

From the internationally bestselling author of The Book of Doors and The Society of Unknowable Objects comes a gripping speculative thriller in which a disgraced detective is recruited into a secret government project on a remote island lighthouse—where the impossible science of time travel is...

John Decker has never been so far from home… Alone in the year 1911 and stranded in London, John Decker searches for Mina, whom he fears is trapped in the past along with him. Instead, he finds the precursor to CUSP, an organization known as The Order of St. George. And when he does, it raises more questions than answers. Meanwhile, in a village on the city's outskirts, something terrifying has been released. A supernatural force that drives people to murder.

Cultivation is all fun and games. Until someone kills Merlin. Apparently, the only logical response to this fairly important change to Arthurian lore is for me to be reincarnated into Dark Age Cornwall. But don't worry, I have an absolute understanding of feudal power dynamics, Qi cycling, and anti-Saxon spell flinging. Oh, I also lie a lot. There's just the smallest chance that our timeline is doomed.