Ergebnis für "Game" in Alternative Geschichte

Disgraced. Beheaded. And out for revenge . . . We all know what happened to Henry VIII’s second wife, Anne Boleyn. But what if she woke up the day after her execution and took it upon herself to seek justice? “Fabulous! A marvelously inventive and mythic reworking of the story of Anne Boleyn...

Charles Stross builds a new series with Empire Games. Expanding on the world he created in the Family Trade series, a new generation of paratime travellers walk between parallel universes. The year is 2020. It's seventeen years since the Revolution overthrew the last king of the New British...

The coldest shadows. Arcano-archaeologist Elijah knows that digging into the past can be its own reward - or peril. When he’s hired to find an ancient map purported to lead to a mysterious location at the bottom of the world, his professional curiosity is more than roused. But his quest to simply get his hands on the map is more dangerous than he expected - even for a shadowrunner. He and his own team of runners - including everything from a goblin rigger to a troll street samurai - follow a murky trail that takes them from the ruins of Chicago to the jungles of Amazonia.

Lawrence was having a shitty day after he found out his girlfriend and best friend were cheating on him, together. Then a legendary Native American god, Coyote, to be exact, sent him back in time to 1400's North America. Now he's living in the past, kicking ass, and taking names. Rejoin Moon Flower, Freak, and the rest of the crew, as they save history, by rewriting it.

This exciting and thought provoking alternative history is observed through the eyes of a young German war correspondent...The setting is 10 years after Germanys partial 1943 victory and its subsequent reconciliation with its former enemies when Joseph the German war correspondent meets with Cliff his American counterpart and old friend to describe his own, first-hand account of how the road to Germanys victory began with Rommel and his success in North Africa.

Lawrence was having a shitty day after he found out his girlfriend and best friend were cheating on him, together. Then a legendary Native American god, Coyote, to be exact, sent him back in time to 1400's North America. Now he's living in the past, kicking ass, and taking names. Rejoin Moon Flower, Freak, Billy, Patty, and the rest of the crew, as they save history, by rewriting it.

Combined for the first time in one volume, here are the first three books in the internationally best-selling Cloak Games series - Cloak Games: Thief Trap, Cloak Games: Frost Fever, and Cloak Games: Rebel Fist, and the bonus short story "Wraith Wolf". The High Queen of the Elves has conquered Earth, but I don't care about that. I don't care about the High Queen, or the rebels seeking to overthrow her. All I care about is getting my baby brother the treatments he needs to recover from his potentially fatal disease...and those treatments have a steep price.

Lawrence is having a shitty day. His girlfriend is not only cheating on him but she’s cheating on him with his best friend. He had the added benefit of finding out about it firsthand. To make matters worse a legendary native American God has sent him back to North America circa AD 1400. What’s a gamer to do? From the creator of the hilarious Eryth online and the action packed warrior academy series comes I Am Gamer!

The Tales of Alvin Maker concludes in Master Alvin, the final book in the historical fantasy series from the Hugo and Nebula award-winning and New York Times bestselling author of Ender's Game. Inspired by the lore and the folk-magic of the men and women who settled North America, Orson Scott...

The entire numbers game trilogy - In one boxed set! Book One: Numbers Game: In futuristic America, everyone wears a number. Treena's as ready for Rating Day as anyone can be - she's a top contender in Level Three school and has a highly-rated boyfriend. But when her number is announced, it shocks everyone. Book Two: Numbers Ignite: Treena and Vance think they’ve escaped the numbers game forever. They’re wrong. Book Three: Numbers Raging: Finally together, Treena and Vance must navigate the political undercurrents of a strange new country.

As an unfathomably powerful AI threatens the freedom of humanity, Martin Raines must return to medieval Europe to learn the truth about GRAIL and the Codex Babylon.

As Eli comes to terms with his true identity, he, Isaiah, and Malachi must flee from France as Morbius closes the net around them. Yet, saying goodbye to his home and the love that he must leave there forever, proves to be more difficult than Eli could ever imagine. Now, Eli has to face the tumultuous events that transpired in Victorian England, and Malachi must face a return trip to the place of his birth and his death.

I want freedom, and I want power. Unfortunately for me, I have little enough of either. To make matters worse, my baby brother Russell is dying of a rare magical disease, and the only one who can cure him is the cruel Elven archmage Morvilind. And if that wasn't bad enough, Morvilind demands a steep price for his cures. Specifically, he wants me to steal treasures for him, and this time he’s sent me to steal a priceless relic from the ambassador of the frost giants.

This full-cast production of Orson Scott Card's newest title is finally available on audio From the end of the 18th century, Americans travelled west to find new homes and new lands. They brought with them the magics of plain people. It is from these roots of the American dream that...

My name is Nadia Moran, and I am a thief and a wizard bound in service to the cruel elven noble Morvilind. If I don't follow Morvilind's bidding, my brother will die. But there are more dangers in the world than Morvilind. When rebel elves launch an assault upon the High Queen, I'm caught between the rebels and Morvilind's implacable demands.

Young Alvin was born the seventh son of a seventh son. By his birthright, he possesses magical powers and is destined to become something great, perhaps even a Maker. Indeed, Alvin is special. But the boy remains vulnerable to dark forces who reach out to destroy him and are willing to do anything to keep him from growing up. Carefully weaving the lore and the folk-magic of the men and women who settled a continent—as well as the beliefs of the tribes who were there before them—Orson Scott Card has created a fascinating alternate frontier America.

Nadia Moran is an illegal wizard, an expert thief, and an occasional killer. Riordan MacCormac is an assassin of the Family, a legendary band of assassins bonded to Shadowmorph symbionts. And unless Nadia and Riordan work together, the creatures of the Shadowlands will devour them both....