Ergebnis für "Dark Web" in Science Fiction & Fantasy

Dies ist nicht die Fortsetzung einer abenteuerlichen Geschichte, sondern der schleichende Übergang vom ruhigen Fluss des Lebens ... in eine Ära ständiger Bedrohung, in der wir niemandem mehr vertrauen können. Nicht den engsten Nachbarn, nicht den besten Freunden ... nicht einmal der eigenen Familie. Die Doppelgänger, deren ursprüngliche Form nichts Menschliches aufweist, übernehmen an immer mehr Orten die Kontrolle.

„Dies ist nicht die Fortsetzung einer abenteuerlichen Geschichte, sondern der schleichende Übergang vom ruhigen Fluss des Lebens ... in eine Ära ständiger Bedrohung, in der wir niemandem mehr vertrauen können. Nicht den engsten Nachbarn, nicht den besten Freunden ... nicht einmal der eigenen Familie." Sheena, die Tochter des Bürgermeisters James Carlin, wurde für einen Mord verurteilt, den in Wirklichkeit eine bösartige Doppelgängerin begangen hat. Die Doppelgänger, deren ursprüngliche Form nichts Menschliches aufweist, übernehmen an immer mehr Orten die Kontrolle.

Die Invasion weitet sich aus. In Finnland schreiten die Vorbereitungen für die Übernahme durch die Fremden rasend schnell voran. Den Eingeweihten bleibt nur die Flucht vor der Auslöschung. Doch alle Verstecke, alle Verbündete im Land sind längst nicht mehr sicher. Die Hauptstadt Helsinki ist zu einem Ort permanenter Bedrohung geworden.

After Prince Kyor’s betrayal shatters her family, Rose is stripped of magic and cast into the brutal slums beneath Wrohelm’s decadent High Hold. With her parents dead and her sister Kay’s future slipping away, survival is all that matters now. So when the ruthless queen of the city’s criminal underworld offers Kay a chance at a better life, Rose agrees to one impossible task: steal a lethal plant from the Goddess’s sacred temple gardens.

It was not his fight. But he will still be the one to end it. The galaxy remembers Hadrian Marlowe as a hero who burned every last alien Cielcin from the sky. The man remembers how he tried to save them - to negotiate with them, to learn more of them - and how his attempts were frustrated by his own side and creatures stranger still than any Cielcin he'd encountered thus far. Hadrian Marlowe's path might have ended in fire...but the road to it was winding and leads through intrigue, and battle, to war.

Eine düstere Prophezeiung, ein namenloses Grauen und das Schicksal einer Welt Während die Welt sich in Richtung Fortschritt bewegt, bringt ein dunkles Omen alles ins Wanken: Ein junger Soldat und eine Botschafterin werden zu Helden wider Willen, um die Menschheit vor dem Untergang zu retten. Das Reich des Wolfes steht kurz davor, eine führende Macht in der Welt zu werden. Doch dunkle Zeiten stehen bevor: Im Norden ist eine mysteriöse Seuche ausgebrochen, während im Süden Krieg geführt wird.

The launch of a new science fiction adventure series--by the New York Times-best selling author of the Safehold series and the Honor Harrington series The Galactic Hegemony has been around a long time, and it likes stability--the kind of stability that member species like the aggressive...

Miah Gray is a 27-year-old former army soldier living in rural New Hampshire with his sister, mother, and her boyfriend. He is plagued by PTSD, finding solace, but not redemption, with the aid of prescribed cannabis. All he wants to do is get high, relax with a good sandwich, and watch a meteor shower with his neighborhood crush, Jen. When the sun's light is blotted out the following morning and the world is plunged into darkness, Miah finds himself locked down with his family, covering windows with trash bags, lighting candles, and following the arcane rules of an ancient prophecy.

When a Christian internet celebrity is kidnapped, Tommy Nolan must team up with a ghost from his past in order to battle the horrors lurking in the Dark Web....

Two expanding interstellar powers are about to meet in battle. After the collapse of the Cephalopod Kingdom, Humanity claimed the 300 rebellious worlds it left behind. But light years away on the far side of a disputed region, a rival power has begun to move. They're stealing our planets, one at a time. Earth Command decides to invade the center of the frontier to set up an advanced base. The mission to DARK WORLD is highly classified and deadly. Legion Varus spearheads the effort, and James McGill journeys to the stars again. How many ships do they have? How advanced is their tech?

A millionaire English lord dreams of founding a Utopian community on a remote Pacific island. Among the 40-odd men and women selected for the project are a pestologist named Camilla and the narrator. Within hours of the group's arrival on the sunny isle, their radio has been destroyed. Within days, several members of the group are dead. Dream turns to nightmare as they discover the island is overrun by a species programmed to resist and dominate any invader.

The Republic's black ops have failed to take over Rebirth and steal Alexandra's dungeon core for the last time. All pretenses are finally cast aside as the Republic's army is ordered to march on Rebirth and start a war the entire continent has been dreading for over a century. Alexandra and her allies prepare for the inevitable. Rebirth gathers foes of the Republic from all over the continent while Alexandra begins assembling her secret army, ready to take the fight to the surface and to the Republic itself. But as Alexandra prepares to crush the Republic, more sinister events are afoot.

The invitation is signed "Jaenelle Angelline," and it summons her family to a special soiree. But when her guests enter the house, they find themselves trapped in a living nightmare created by the Black Widow witch--and if they try to use Craft as protection, they risk being sealed in the...

"Curiosity is definitely going to get me dead one of these days. Probably real soon. I'm Gin Blanco. You might know me as the Spider, the most feared assassin in the South. I'm retired now, but trouble still has a way of finding me. Like the other day when two punks tried to rob my popular barbecue joint, the Pork Pit. Then there was the barrage of gunfire on the restaurant. Only, for once, those kill shots weren't aimed at me. They were meant for Violet Fox."

I used to murder people for money, but lately it’s become more of a survival technique. Once an assassin, always an assassin. So much for being plain old Gin Blanco. With every lowlife in Ashland gunning for me, I don’t need another problem, but a new one has come to town anyway. Salina might seem like a sweet Southern belle, but she’s really a dangerous enemy whose water elemental magic can go head-to-head with my own Ice and Stone power.

In a universe teeming with predators, humanity needs friends. And fast. We've come a long way in the forty years since the Shongairi attacked Earth, killed half its people, and then were driven away by an alliance of humans with the other sentient bipeds who inhabit our planet. We took the...

Dana Boniface finds herself caught in what should have been a fairy tale marriage with her very rich, extremely controlling husband, Max. Max Boniface is the billionaire owner of Edge Pharmaceuticals. Max has a complicated personality, influenced by the deaths of his sadistic father and his schizophrenic mother. Max has dedicated much of his life and research to treating schizophrenia. But his dominant and ruthless behavior has poisoned his relationship with Dana.

Ravirn is not your average computer geek. A child of the Fates - literally - he’s a hacker extraordinaire who can zero in on the fatal flaw in any program. Now that 21st-century magic has gone digital that makes him a very talented sorcerer. But a world of problems is about to be downloaded on Ravirn - who’s just trying to pass his college midterms. Great Aunt Atropos, one of the three Fates, decides that humans having free will is really overrated and plans to rid herself of the annoyance....

Deadly phantoms stand in the way of Benedict Shade’s quest to “collect” (i.e., “steal”) an exotic magical artifact that could lead him to the fulfillment of his lifelong ambition: locating the prison of the legendary Earthmaker. But ghosts are not Shade’s only problem. A mysterious necromancer would like him to give up his quest. The police would like to frame him for murder. A government witch would like to send him to a labor camp in the frozen North. A dead woman from his checkered past would like to drag him kicking and screaming to her own private underworld.

21 original stories of Dangerous Women by top genre writers, brought together in a new anthology edited by George R. R. Martin and Gardner Dozois. Intrepid warriors, far-ranging spacewomen, formidable superheroines, hard-living Bad Girls, embattled survivors, private investigators, seductive...