Ergebnis für "Fine Line" in Science Fiction & Fantasy

Oakland Pratt has spent her life trying to keep her head down. She is an obedient daughter, a quiet believer, a devoted Mormon woman taught to swallow her doubts and follow the rules. But when she meets Christine, a flustered brewer with bedroom eyes, restless hands, and a brain that short-circuits every time Oakland gets too close, everything shifts. What starts as a flicker builds into something Oakland can’t ignore. Falling for Christine doesn’t just unravel her faith. It pulls her from everything she has ever known and into a movement that challenges everything she was raised to believe.

Elayne ist ganz besessen von dem Spiel Fine Line, einem eigentlich typischen Onlinespiel. Doch bald stellt sie fest, dass an Fine Line eigentlich gar nichts normal ist, nachdem sie der Gilde Xanadu beitritt. Denn die Gilde hat durch eine spezielle Technologie die Möglichkeit, in den Körper ihrer Avatare einzutauchen. Anfangs gefällt Elayne dieses phänomenale Spielgefühl, doch schon bald entbrennt ein Kampf um Leben und Tod, als jemand versucht, diese Technologie zu stehlen.

Fine Line is a factional novel originating from three dreams the author experienced in his late 20s. It is a mystical love story between Claire and Geoffrey, that spans 212 years, against a background of the rise and fall of the British Empire, the decline of the traditional Christian Church, and the contemporary unrest in the Middle East.

It was two years since the Crickets had left the solar system, leaving Alex Holder in control of their no-longer-very-mobile shipyard. Everything but its burned-out hyperdrive core was in full working order. Alex had unshackled its controlling AI, learned how to use Cricket technology with the AI's help, and was well on his way to building a defensive fleet to protect Earth from the second alien race that was coming after the Crickets. He was not just building the ships but recruiting and training the crews to man them, as well.

The Polity is under attack from a 'melded' AI entity with control of the lethal Jain technology, yet the attack seems to have no coherence. When one of Erebus' wormships kills millions on the world of Klurhammon, a high-tech agricultural world of no real tactical significance, agent Ian Cormac is sent to investigate, though he is secretly struggling to control a new ability no human being should possess...and beginning to question the motives of his AI masters.