Ergebnis für "De experimenten" in Fantasy

Buenos Aires, 1950. Privatdetektiv Bernie Gunther soll für Peróns Geheimpolizei die vermisste Fabienne von Bader ausfindig machen. Bei seiner Suche nach dem fünfzehnjährigen Mädchen stößt er in der Wüste auf ein verlassenes Lager, das seine schlimmsten Befürchtungen weckt. Immer mehr gerät Gunther unter Druck, denn nicht nur die Perónistas sind hinter dem Mädchen her. Zu welchem Schatz ist Fabienne der Schlüssel? Und welche Rolle spielt die schöne Jüdin Anna? Bald steht Gunther im Fadenkreuz der verschiedensten Mächte.

Als Drakos Raumschiff über Johannesburg ausfällt, geht seine geheime Erkundungsmission furchtbar schief. Nachdem er bei dem Absturz verwundet wurde, wird er vom südafrikanischen Geheimdienst gefangen genommen, der darin die Chance erkennt, seine Armee zu stärken und ein Vermögen zu verdienen, indem er den außerirdischen Piloten einem unorthodoxen Experiment unterzieht. Sie schicken eine Frau, die sich um Drakos Verletzungen kümmert, ein Menschenmädchen mit dem hübschen Namen Ilse, die süß und fürsorglich ist.

Emilys Freundin setzt sich seit Jahren für eine Annäherung zwischen Gestaltwandlern und Menschen ein, obwohl sie schreckliche Angst vor ihnen hat. Sie macht ihren Job gut, bis sie für ein Experiment einen Monat unter den Wölfen verbringen muss. Was ist eine schlechtere Kombination als...

Tief auf dem Grund des Ozeans betreibt die US-amerikanische Regierung ein geheimes Labor, in dem verbotene Experimente durchgeführt werden. Die junge FBI-Biologin Cathrin Turner ist entschlossen, der Sache auf den Grund zu gehen. Unterstützung erhält sie dabei von dem Reporter Jennings, der die Story seines Lebens wittert. Doch kaum sind die beiden dort angekommen, geraten die Versuche außer Kontrolle und jeder ist sich plötzlich selbst der Nächste. Einer kleinen Gruppe von Menschen gelingt es, vor den unheimlichen Mutanten, die das Labor bedrohen, zu fliehen.

Atra Hart’s shadow has grown teeth. It moves on its own and whispers her name. She calls it Dread, and it threatens to devour her mind. When a fire breaks out at the asylum where she’s locked up, Atra seizes the chance for freedom, only to witness an electric-purple rift split the sky open. Like Dread, the rift is visible only to her. Then, she awakens back in the asylum, unharmed, as if the fire, the escape, and the rift never happened. But everything feels wrong. No one remembers her old life. Her family, her friends—even her past—have vanished.

Ein Notruf aus dem hohen Norden, ein Blizzard, der jede Straße schließt – und eine Stadt, die seit dem Morgengrauen nicht mehr antwortet. Mayston liegt im Yukon, am Ende der letzten Straße. Als das Squad dort eintrifft, brennt nur noch in der Feuerwache Licht: Auf den Feldbetten liegt, was...

Frankenstein meets Fingersmith in this brilliant, queer reimagining of the most ignored sister in Pride and Prejudice, Miss Mary Bennet Awkward, plain and overlooked, Mary Bennet has long been out of favour not only with her own family but with generations of readers of Pride and Prejudice. But...

For Dex Foray, con­vinc­ing Perry Palomino to open her­self to their bur­geon­ing rela­tion­ship has been more chal­leng­ing than hunt­ing ghosts, bat­tling demons, and stalk­ing Sasquatch com­bined. Add in the fact that the only way they can keep their Exper­i­ment in Ter­ror show run­ning is to take on a third part­ner in the form of the mys­te­ri­ous Max­imus Jacobs—all while inves­ti­gat­ing a sin­is­ter voodoo sect in New Orleans—and you've got the per­fect South­ern storm and a recipe for dis­as­ter.

From Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, this is the first instalment in the visionary novel cycle ‘Canopus in Argos: Archives’. The story of the final days of our planet is told through the reports of Johor, an emissary sent from Canopus. Earth, now named Shikasta (the...

An utterly fantastical and undeniably queer melding of Pride and Prejudice and Frankenstein that recasts Mary Bennet as an insatiable scientist, one who creates a monster in an attempt to save herself from spinsterdom Awkward, plain, and overlooked, Mary Bennet has long been out of favor not...

Christian is the exception to Tiffany's rule that all males are louses. For years Tiffany has lusted after Christian and of late she can't help but wonder what it might be like to have a brief fling with him. The opportunity to explore her secret fantasy appears when Christian offers her a job as the IT person for his practice, the V clinic. She knows if he gives her the green light, she's going to have a romp with her sexy vampire. When the night finally arrives and she and Christian have sex, the experience is so overwhelmingly powerful, Tiffany backpedals.

A lot can change in three years. For Perry and Dex Foray, it's been a step in the right direction, a step toward living a normal life. They're happily married, they have their own media company, they've done what they can to leave their sordid and scary past behind them. But something has changed recently. Perry's biological clock is ticking. Her sister, Ada, is going down the same path she once did. And the Thin Veil between the living and the dead has weakened, letting an old friend walk back into their lives. Only he may not be who he seems, and he might not be alone.

Perry Palomino and Dex Foray. On their own, they're uniquely brilliant. Together, they're an unstoppable team. Until now. Because after everything the duo has encountered, they haven't come across an evil quite like this. An evil that has been years in the making, an evil that will stop at nothing until they, and everyone they care for, are destroyed. Dex and Perry's love has survived a multitude of sins. But can it survive the end?

Doctor Gary Miller is introduced to the world of self-help in the form of seven experiments. Each experiment is designed to focus Dr. Miller’s mind, so he can realize his dreams through the power of thought alone. He’s dubious at first, but frustrations at work and a loveless marriage lead him down the rabbit hole. Much to his surprise, the experiments work. In fact, they work unbelievably well. They can make him immortal, and God-like. However, Dr. Miller will learn getting what you want isn’t always a good thing. Just be careful what you ask for.

Syrina is a Kalis: a master of disguise, assassin, and spy. Her kind has served the High Merchants’ Syndicate for a thousand generations. When Syrina receives a surprising gift from her lord, she realizes something is not right. The High Merchants don’t do anything without a reason. After a seemingly regular spying mission goes awry, the trail leads her to the city of Fom. There, she learns of a secret that could lead to the doom of them all.

In Sparta: The Warrior Experiment, Earth has been reshaped into a single arena of empires. Caesar commands Rome’s iron legions. Alexander dreams of uniting the world. Charlemagne rallies his knights, whilst Saladin works on unifying the Arabian Peninsula. Greece lies shattered—its proud city-states reduced to Roman provinces beneath Governor Flamininus’ rule. The once-mighty Spartans now fight as Rome’s enslaved warriors against the northern Germanic tribes and the rising Ottoman power.

What if one single discovery changed everything? Your faith, who you thought you were, and the course of human history?

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. In een Nederlands laboratorium wordt een revolutionair hypnoseprogramma ontwikkeld dat het verborgen verleden van mensen zichtbaar maakt. De herinneringen van een echtpaar dat vrijwillig meedoet verschijnen op grote schermen en onthullen laag na laag...

An unabridged audiobook of this classic novelisation of a Fourth Doctor TV adventure from 1975. Landing on Earth - now a barren, desolate planet - Sarah, Harry and the Doctor are unaware of a large, watching robot. The robot is the work of Styre, a Sontaran warrior who uses all humans landing here for his experimental programmes. What has happened to the other space explorers who have come here? Why is Styre so interested in Earth and in brutally torturing humans, including Sarah Jane?

H. G. Wells first published The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth in 1904. He called it “a fantasia on the change of scale in human affairs… I had hit upon [the idea] while working out the possibilities of the near future in a book of speculations called Anticipations (1901).” This...