Ergebnis für "Heartless" in Science Fiction

Hope is blooming in Four Corners. A family, torn apart for years, has been reunited. I’m falling in love again. The Steel Demons are finding a sense of home and purpose in their new surroundings. More is at stake now than ever before. We don’t just have our club to protect, but our new friends, family members, and neighbors. And privately, Reaper is determined to protect me at all costs, due to a cryptic vision from his brother. Our enemies are always lurking. What’s worse, they’re already inside our borders. The gods work in mysterious ways.

Earth, 2053. Scientist Quinn Buyers discovers motherhood is not the joy-filled experience she thought it would be. Adding to the sleepless nights, boundless love, and ceaseless worry, Tig, her cyborg husband, is never home. Her AI meerkat has also run away, and her best friend is mysteriously missing from CyberSleep's cryogenic freeze.

Earth: 2049. Scientist and BASE jump enthusiast Quinn Buyers would rather be studying clouds than getting ready for her wedding. When a devastating climate tragedy strikes, she makes a narrow escape, only to be held responsible for the catastrophe. With powerful enemies threatening everything she holds dear, including her famous scientist mother, she embarks on a dangerous quest for answers that takes her across the globe.

Once, this world was dominated by the fallen, but humanity cast off their tyrannical rule and created a mighty empire with colonies spread out across the globe. The power of the metropolis is stronger than ever before, but its past is dark and its future cloudy. Old secrets are capable of destroying in one moment what took years to create. After all, nothing can save it from treason, not armadas of battleships nor bomb-laden dirigibles.

Earth, 2050. Pregnant, unemployed, and living back home with her father, scientist Quinn Buyers wonders how she got to this point. Her famous scientist mother is still mysteriously missing. The planet is at risk from a massive solar storm, and the pesky Transhumans want to take a colony to Titan. As if that weren’t enough, her assisted living companion, a robotic meerkat, is depressed. But her biggest challenge is her partner. How can she reconcile her long-distance relationship with this reserved, enigmatic cyborg?

Tobias fell in love with his charge, the princess Malina. Things quickly turned disastrous after the king learned of their love. Tobias, imprisoned and tortured within an inch of his life, was only spared by his friends to enlist him for his services. Five years passed since that day. Tobias quickly grew to be the best assassin, known around the land as Reaper.

After witnessing the impossible mating of his fellow soulless warrior, Kayde doesn't expect a denya of his own. But whenever Quinn Porter walks into a room, he can't keep himself from watching her, from following her, from wanting her. And those desires mean trouble for a man who isn't supposed to feel anything. When Kayde undertakes a mission to journey back to his Detyen home, he's ready for the solitude. What he doesn't expect is Quinn hiding away in one of the bunks on his ship.

The world has collapsed. Relentless blizzards erode what’s left into a barren husk, and the fractured remnants of humanity sleep with a weapon in hand. Weathered by it all, Leper has gone numb. As a robot from a bygone era, all he needs to do is maintain his battery and keep out of sight, but when he opens the long-buried cryopod he has been searching for, Leper is faced with a terrified little girl. Alone, he was invincible. Now a fragile life is at stake, and Leper must scour the unyielding wasteland to provide food and shelter. But will he ever be enough for her?

The Collapse changed everything. Good men became killers. Strong women became property. And every day turned into a fight for survival. I once dreamed of becoming a nurse. That dream went up in flames the same day I graduated nursing school, when women were banned from holding any kind of medical license. Now as an unlicensed medic, I travel what was once the southwestern United States, trading medical services for food, transportation, and shelter with the hopes of reaching Canada.

Everything about Luna irritates me. She’s too bubbly, too happy, too mouthy…too gorgeous. I’d ignore her, but we're forced to work together for the good of the pack. We just need to get one simple project done. But the more time I spend in the sunny Cali girl’s presence, the darker my thoughts turn.

Henry Jekyll was a brilliant doctor, a passionate idealist who aimed to free mankind of selfishness and vice. He's also the man who carelessly created a race of monsters. Once shared secretly among the good doctor's inner circle, the Hyde drug was smuggled into mass-production - but in pill form, it corrupted its users at the genetic level, leaving them liable to transform without warning. A quarter of the population are now clandestine killers - ticking bombs that could detonate at any given moment.

The Heartless Knaves is a new dark fantasy audiobook podcast featuring clever heists, gory scraps, sad bits, saucy bits, murderous nuns, talking donkeys, and an 8-year-old boy king who won’t take no for an answer.Set in a twisted version of the English Renaissance, the story hinges on the macabre adventures of assassins Silkin and Rooks, who may be dead, their hearts stolen by the church, their severed heads mounted on the royal battlements, but there’s no rest for the wicked...Blending black humour and squishy violence with a whip-smart plot and a cast of loveable rogues, the first book, ...