Ergebnis für "Echo" in Science Fiction & Fantasy

Als der Physiker Lukas Heuer am LIGO eine merkwürdige Gravitationswellenanomalie entdeckt, hält er sie zuerst für einen Messfehler. Doch Messdaten deuten auf extrem massereiche Objekte hin, die sich der Erde nähern und dabei eine gravitative Schneise durch das Sonnensystem ziehen. Sollte er recht haben, blieben der Menschheit nur wenige Wochen, um den Untergang abzuwenden. Gleichzeitig macht die Archäologin Mira Najafi zur selben Zeit eine ganz andere Entdeckung: Sie findet einen bislang unbekannten Raum in der großen Pyramide von Gizeh, der voller düsterer Prophezeiungen steckt.

The sky is burning. The Reapers are keeping secrets. Vampires roam the wastes.And I’m headed down a path of destruction which can only end in death.I’m a soul cast adrift on a tide of grief and lies. A clock ticking down the moments to my inevitable destruction, and all I can do is race...

Something is wrong inside her. It’s changing her. She chased her loved ones into the dark, and they stumbled out with monsters beneath their skin. Now they are less than they were, but destined for so much more. If they survive training. And if her new commander doesn’t kill her first. The boy-prince she saved as a child is now the unforgiving, terrifying man in charge of her future. They are bound in a way neither can escape: two forces as opposite as sunrise and shadow, drawn together as inevitably as the dawn collides with the sky. But don’t misunderstand. This is not a love story.

Während die Schatten aufsteigen, erwacht die Dunkelheit Eine Amnestie wurde für alle Auguren ausgerufen – endlich dürfen sie sich aus der Verborgenheit wagen und offen den dunklen Mächten entgegentreten, die sich gegen Andarra sammeln. Doch als Davian und seine neuen Verbündeten eilig...

In the wake of a devastating attack, an amnesty has been declared for all Augurs—finally allowing them to emerge from hiding and openly oppose the dark forces massing against the land of Andarra. As the Augur Davian and his new allies hurry north toward the ever-weakening Boundary, however, fresh horrors along their path suggest that their reprieve may have come far too late. His ally in the Capital, the new Northwarden, contends with assassins and politicians and uncovers a dangerous political secret.

Jamie Fraser knows from his time-traveling wife Claire that, no matter how unlikely it seems, America will win the Revolutionary War. But that truth offers little solace, since Jamie realizes he might find himself pointing a weapon directly at his own son - a young officer in the British army. And Jamie isn't the only one with a tormented soul - for Claire may know who wins the conflict, but she certainly doesn't know whether or not her beloved Jamie survives.

The Devils of Vitality always hit their mark. Rabbit Trace is a musical prodigy with a secret. Ever since an event that took place a year ago, he gets terrible stage fright before every performance. With a famous mother who's dedicated her entire life to her craft, and the weight of her expectations heavy on his shoulders, Rabbit is only one panic attack away from crumbling. Monotony has helped him make it through, and he's settled into a dull routine that keeps his mind occupied, the worst of the attacks limited to just before performances.

Die schwerste Entscheidung seines Lebens... Auch nach dem riskanten Rettungsversuch durch die Wächter bleibt das geistige Netzwerk der Medialen weiterhin instabil. Und nicht nur das, ein Teil des Medialnet droht, sich abzuspalten und die Welt in ein großes Chaos zu stürzen. Ivan Mercant tut alles, um diese Katastrophe zu verhindern, egal wie schmerzhaft es für ihn ist, muss er dabei doch sein dunkelstes Geheimnis offenbaren.

Archaeology grad student Alexandra Larson’s world is turned upside down when her mother shares her deepest, darkest secret - that she doesn’t know the true identity of Lex’s father. The revelation sparks a change within Lex, and her dreams become far too real. She sees things she shouldn’t be able to see…knows things she couldn’t possibly know. Terrifying things. Deadly things.

Seine Songs verführen – und vernichten. Alize hat sich in der Musikbranche hochgekämpft – ehrgeizig und mit einzigartigem Gehör, das mehr wahrnimmt als nur Töne. Nacht für Nacht jagt sie in Montreal den nächsten großen Act, obwohl ihr Kollege Léo, der Sohn des Musiklabel-Chefs, ihr ständig dazwischenfunkt. Doch dann entdeckt sie Silentbound: Die Musik dieser Band ist anders.

Die Ausgrabung der Vergangenheit könnte die Zukunft zerstören. Fin Brooks muss ein Rennen gegen die Zeit gewinnen. Als die Fäulnis sich auf dem von der Union geschützten Planeten Yormanth verbreitet, müssen Ranger Fin Brooks und seine Crew von der Black Sheep aktiv werden. Aber diese Mission zur Rettung einer Welt verwandelt sich bald in ein uraltes Rätsel, das die gesamte Galaxis bedroht. Alte Verbrecherrivalen sind Fin und den Rangers bereits einen Schritt voraus.

Echo thought he’d been handed a perfect second life—reincarnated into a world of swords, magic, and endless growth just like in the fantasy stories he lost himself in to escape the hunger of hovering on the edge of poverty. Then the quest went wrong. Betrayed and left to die, he falls into the hands of a mad mage and is remade by a forbidden artifact—reborn as something wearing human skin, but no longer human. A hunger given form. To survive, he must hunt. Monsters. Twisted things that were once people. Their hearts are power—and he has no choice but to tear them out and devour them.

Nova is running out of time. Three days. That's all she has before scale sickness reaches her heart a slow, suffocating illness that will consume her from the inside out if she doesn't stop it. The only way to stop it: bond with her dragon. But Nova has a secret she's kept from everyone, even...

Dive into the enchanting world of Irish folklore in this captivating compendium of fairy tales, songs, and poems compiled and co-written by Nobel Prize-winning Irish wordsmith W. B. Yeats.

The north is at peace, secured by murder and betrayal and the plotting of treacherous kings. As half the northern nobility gather in Ilithor for the wedding of Princess Amilia Lukar and the traitorous King Hadrin, Elyon Daecar finds himself drawn into a plot he never expected. One that may see...

Two thousand years from now, the Milky Way Council charters V.A.S.T.—the Vessel & Archive Salvage Taskforce to do what no one else will: map the unknown and recover what history lost. They don’t keep what they find—every black box, data core, and relic transfers into Council Custody—because truth only matters if it survives the handoff.

Two mighty empires are at war - and both will lose, with thousands of planets falling to the extinction event called the Scour. At least that's what the artificial intelligence known as Rupshe believes. But somewhere in the multiverse there exists a force - the Mother Mass - that could end the war in an instant, and Rupshe has assembled a team to find it. Essien Nkanika, a soldier trying desperately to atone for past sins; the cat-woman Moon, a conscienceless killer; the digitally recorded mind of physicist Hadiz Tambuwal; Paz, an idealistic child and the renegade robot spy Dulcimer Coronal.

Silence has fallen. The Psy are free to feel emotion. Free to love. But Silence was never a prison for Ivan Mercant. The biggest threat to his future lies dormant in his brain—a psychic monster that wants only to feed. And now, the brutal leash he's kept on that monster is slipping. He prepared for this day, for the end of Ivan Mercant...but that was before he met Lei.

All Kembral Thorne wants is to finish her maternity leave in peace. But when her best friend drags her to a will reading at a decrepit island mansion—along with her once-rival, now-girlfriend Rika Nonesuch—she finds an unexpected reunion of her childhood crew . . . and a deadly curse she must now unravel. To save her friends, Kem and Rika must once more race against the clock and descend into other realities. But the mansion is full of old secrets and new schemes, and soon the game becomes far more dangerous than they could ever have imagined.

When a palace maid is attacked, Josie and the captain of the guards investigate together. Since one of the suspects is a foreign diplomat and magic expert, they use the opportunity to learn more about sorcery. But it soon becomes clear that he is using them to get to the truth about the palace and the servants' origins. With unrest in the village, and servants growing impatient for answers, an undercurrent of danger pervades the air. But the most dangerous man of all may prove to be the king himself, because every clue points to him knowing more than he lets on.