Ergebnis für "Home" in Science Fiction

Na narrativa, acompanhamos Crisóstomo, um pescador solitário que, ao completar quarenta anos, decide tecer seu próprio destino. Em Camilo, um jovem órfão, ele encontra o filho pelo qual sempre ansiou. Em Isaura, rejeitada por não ser virgem, descobre a chance de transcender e ser mais do que completo. Com personagens tão excêntricos quanto humanos, Valter Hugo Mãe constrói uma ode à singularidade e à força do amor incondicional.

Earth is in decline, and the wealthy have fled it, leaving only the destitute citizens behind. And aliens. Gemma McKinley works at a prison cleaning goop off the floors and serving food to inmates. When she is reassigned to the alien ward, Gemma is nervous. Aliens are dangerous and ruthless. They bite. But there is one that isn’t like them. Simon is damaged, starved, and wasting away in complete isolation. Touched by his loneliness, Gemma starts nursing him back to health, dismissing rumors that he’s high-risk, ignoring the advice to let him croak.

Captain Aricka Badu left Taarken Prime 12 years ago for very good reasons, and she seldom goes back. It was supposed to be a short run, but, between the pirates, a brewing civil war, and her ex, she may never get to leave. Caden Carnes hadn't seen Ari in 12 years, but he'd never stopped thinking about her. Given their past, it wasn't exactly surprising she stayed away. What was surprising was seeing her back on Taarken, the mining planet she'd abandoned along with her lover and her family, ever.

Doctor Drusilla James of Imperial House Vo went from being an insignificant human on Earth to one of the most influential women in the Alliance Empire. The goddess of home has granted to her this lofty position in exchange for her everlasting devotion to her and her continuing belief in the Lost People. However, Drusilla veered from the goddess’s path when she accepted Admiral Jei’s tempting offer to reanimate Commander Jane Johnson at the Capital City Hospital, and now she finds herself head-to-head with her adoptive mother for Imperial power.

I fell in love with an alien. Our world was invaded by carnivorous freaks and the Dahk swooped in and saved me and my friends. They want to save the Earth but we are our own worst enemy, or so I thought. The truth is we have no idea what's out there. Now I'm on my way to Home World. The Dahk's world. An alien world. I had no choice, it was taken from me. I tell myself I hate him but I don't. I miss him. But we have bigger problems to face. Problems I'll realize are massively more impactful than just myself and my own little space in the universe.

In the year 2051, Brother David, a Jesuit, and Sister Helen find themselves posted on the Moon's far side, there to do religious observances, but also to conduct astronomical research. Brother David works at Daedalus Station within easy reach DURT (Distant Universe Radio Telescope), the largest instrument of its kind ever constructed. Sister Helen, a Benedictine, spends her days in a monastery more than a hundred kilometres away on the rim of Icarus Crater.

Born illegitimate. Haunted by her past — cast out disowned as an unworthy sacrifice. The lie that was her is ripped away. It will cost her everything, and be everything to him. But love reaches across time and space to save a man. An Artificial Intelligent knows only he can unite the Empire and Earth. To do it, he must love a red-haired woman, who is not entirely human. But the stakes are higher — much higher than they know.