Ergebnis für "Lucien" in Science Fiction & Fantasy

Delve into the mind of Critical Role’s most charming villain in this original novel that chronicles Lucien’s early life and his fateful meeting with the Mighty Nein. Lucien has always been able to spin a bad situation to his advantage. From his childhood on the dangerous streets of...

Magie, Romantik und packende Spannung erwarten die Leser auch im 4. Band der epischen Fantasy-Reihe aus der Feder von Ina Linger. Die Burg Ezieran, einstiger Sitz sagenumwobener Könige und Zauberer, gibt Leon und seinen Freunden zum ersten Mal seit langer Zeit das Gefühl, sicher und geschützt zu sein. Doch bald schon muss Leon feststellen, dass dieses Gefühl trügerisch ist und auch die dicken Mauern einer Festung keinen Schutz vor Intrigen, Angst und Verrat bieten können.

Eine junge Frau, verloren in einer fremden Welt. Ein dunkler Kriegerfürst, der auf Rache sinnt. Ein magischer Stein, der beider Schicksal verbindet. Magisch. Romantisch. Mitreißend. Magie gibt es nicht. Davon ist Jenna, eine junge Frau aus Salisbury in England überzeugt - bis sie als Opfer eines alten Zwists zwischen zwei Magiern in eine ihr fremde, mittelalterliche Welt geworfen wird, in der es nicht nur Magie, sondern auch wilde Krieger, Drachen und andere wunderliche Kreaturen gibt.

Der Eingang in die Welt der Toten liegt nicht irgendwo in dunklen Wäldern, er liegt mitten in Berlin, versteckt zwischen Vorkriegs-Mietkasernen. Und Totengöttin Hel, heute besser bekannt als Frau Hölle, lebt genau hier, unerkannt unter den Menschen. Aber nicht nur sie, auch jede Menge andere von uns längst vergessene Götter haben sich in Berlin eingemietet. Sie führen Kneipen und Friseursalons, arbeiten als Steinmetze oder Trainer beim Behindertensportverein gleich um die Ecke.

In a time of pandemics and disease, the ailing world finds itself on its knees, desperate for the cure promised by leading geneticist Dr. Lucien Sabara. With his simple EVE-0 treatment, he seemingly offers an answer to the world's prayers. Though as Gabrielle and Chris learn, the geneticist's true agenda is to play God over humankind, forcing women to require medical intervention to conceive, allowing Lucien to edit unborn embryos in order to create a better race, a more equal race, a more evolved race.

As the youngest Battle Prince, Lucien D'Jacques is discouraged because the affinities with weapons that his siblings have shown aren't showing up in him. Being half-Mutah, that little something extra should be a given, but he's no better than the average Normal soldier. Meanwhile, the Damaged are back and slowly taking over. After receiving word that neighboring compounds are suffering, Lucien is tapped by his parents, Yulen and Atty, the Battle Lord and Lady of Alta Novis, to accompany them on a rescue mission to Green River.

Professor Hector Rhoades thinks he knows the truth about the mysterious businesswoman Luci Inferi. Deciding to confront her with this "truth", he proceeds to confront her. Shortly thereafter, Hector discovers that all of his life-long preconceptions about life, the universe, friendship, and more aren't anything like he thought they were.

In an England where monsters have spilled into the world out of myth, only London is magically protected from the monstrous threat. The University runs the city, allowing family of graduate Hunters, Healers, Scholars, and Artificers to live behind the wards.

Ein gefährlicher Kriegerfürst, ein magischer Stein und eine junge Frau, die mit den verschwimmenden Grenzen zwischen Gut und Böse zu kämpfen hat - Im dritten Band der erfolgreichen Falaysia-Reihe warten ein paar Überraschungen auf die Leser*innen. Leon und Jenna machen sich gemeinsam auf den Weg nach Piladoma, um die alte Hexe Kychona zu finden, die ihnen, so hoffen sie, bei ihrer Suche nach den anderen Teilstücken Cardasols helfen und vielleicht einige ihrer wichtigsten Fragen beantworten kann.

Sylvia's had more than her fair share of hardship. Abandoned by her husband, sold into slavery by her father, and now ruled by a harsh master, she's never felt free. But everything changes when she discovers an injured stranger in the woods. Despite his initial hostility and the language barrier between them, Sylvia decides to help him at any cost. She's determined to save him from a cruel fate...and he's become her new secret. But she never realized that he'd be a prince - or that he would kidnap her as his bride!

Als Geisel des gefährlichen Kriegerfürsten Marek muss sich Jenna nach Trachonien, in das Land der Drachen begeben. Melina und Benjamin haben sich zusammengerauft, um hinter die Geheimnisse des undurchsichtigen Zauberers Demeon zu kommen. Sie hoffen, damit Jenna und Leon besser helfen zu können, den Weg in ihre Welt zurückzufinden. Bei ihren Nachforschungen stoßen sie auf Informationen, die andeuten, dass auch das bisherige Schicksal von Melinas Familie eng mit den neuen Geschehnissen zusammenhängt. Jenna und Leon sind derweil durch den Angriff feindlicher Krieger voneinander getrennt worden.

An amazing array of the most popular and exciting names in Fantasy are set to appear in the first in a brand new series of Fantasy anthologies featuring original fiction, from the master editor Jonathan Strahan. The authors appearing in the launch volume include Trudi Canavan, Elizabeth Bear, Daniel Abraham, Kate Elliott, Saladin Ahmed, Glen Cook, Scott Lynch, Ellen Klages, Ellen Kushner & Ysabeau Wilce, Jeffrey Ford, Robert Redick, and KJ Parker.

"Vampire und Drachen" ist ein episch angehauchtes Fantasy Abenteuer und für Hörer ab 16 Jahren geeignet. Ein Mann, namens Wulff, erzählt seinen Zuhörern eine unglaubliche Geschichte. Der erste Teil spielt noch in dieser, unserer realen Welt, in der Wulf fast stirbt, um in einer völlig anderen Welt wieder zu erwachen. Nachdem er sich vorerst an nichts erinnern kann, lernt er in dieser Welt zu leben. Er ist etwas Besonders, denn bevor er die Welten wechselte, rette er Lucie, einer Vampirfrau das Leben, indem er sie von seinem Blut trinken ließ.

Two months after Sunan, Sousuke and Kaname are in a holding pattern. He'll fire his rifle off the school roof. She'll yell at him to stop. Lather, rinse, repeat. That all changes one day when Sousuke's commanding officer Teletha "Tessa" Testarossa shows up at his apartment, trying to hide a key to a terrorist superweapon of unprecedented power. Tessa is brilliant, pretty, and the same age as Sousuke, and her presence might put a serious crimp on his relationship with Kaname... assuming the city survives the night!

In un'Inghilterra invasa dai teras, mostri spietati dalle sembianze mitologiche, soltanto Londra rimane un luogo sicuro. La città, protetta magicamente da una frontiera che i teras non possono oltrepassare, è governata dall'Università, un'élite di studiosi e guerrieri che ha il compito di classificare queste creature ibride e annientarle. Tutti ambiscono a vivere all'interno delle mura, ma si tratta di un privilegio riservato solamente alle famiglie degli studenti che hanno superato le selezioni e l'addestramento dell'Università, seguendo una delle quattro specializzazioni.

Three generations have passed since the whispers of demons first spread across the lips of man. Since that first fateful night above Oakenfall, a kingdom has fallen, a god has died, and the streets have begun to pile with bodies, but nothing that Oakenfall has experienced so far can prepare it for what will befall it as Lucien returns from his travels. What started as a routine investigation of a haunted village, an easy task for a Mage Hunter like Lucien, sends him on a voyage that will see him set against old enemies of Oakenfall.

Kaname is in the doldrums: There's just one week until the end of summer vacation, and she hasn't done anything interesting! Fortunately, Sousuke is here to provide a little adventure by offering her a trip to Merida Island. But what starts for Kaname as a simple trip to learn more about the mystery surrounding her quickly snowballs into a firefight in a chemical weapons facility, a reunion with a mortal enemy, and a battle for control of a runaway submarine! However things turn out, at least she can't claim that her summer was uneventful.

When Mara found herself captured by a gang of vampires, she feared the worst. She felt it was a random kidnapping, and so she fully expected to end up as a meal but she had no idea that she was chosen. She was chosen by handsome Vampire Prince Lucien but Mara had no idea why. Is it for her blood? For her fertility? Information? Mara was about to discover the real answer was more important than she could have ever imagined.

With the defeat of Gauron, Sousuke's life has entered a comfortable rhythm. He's adjusting to school—the occasional car bomb false alarm notwithstanding—and balancing his newly-found normalcy with the needs of his mercenary life. He's even started to turn his thoughts toward the future—a future that might involve Kaname. But that future will soon face a threat, not from North Korean soldiers, Italian mobsters, or Russian Spetsnaz... but from the hierarchy of Mithril itself!

On orders from Mithril, Sousuke has been forced to abandon Kaname to focus on learning the secrets of the Arbalest and the lambda driver.