Ergebnis für "NEXUS" in Literatur & Belletristik

Lucas Altan and his friends are among the thousand people ripped out of Colorado and teleported to an alien planet. He wakes up alone, with an overly friendly AI as his only companion. Here, magic is real and the clock is ticking. The rules are simple: Find your team. Fight through four stages of monster-infested wilderness before time runs out. Fail and you die . . . and condemn everyone on Earth too. Lucas finds he’s got a knack for killing monsters, winning unique loot, and surviving against long odds.

Take your first steps into the adrenaline-fuelled fiction of the 41st millennium with a thrilling collection of tales, including an action-packed novella pitting noble Ultramarines against sinister necrons. Whether you're dipping a toe into the galaxy of Warhammer 40,000 or are a hardened veteran of the universe, this anthology is the perfect way to discover the many factions of the games in action-packed tales.

Normal. I've never been normal for a single day of my life, but now I have to pretend to be so I can stay at the academy and train to be a ranger. Even if it costs never seeing Onyx. The academy is locked down for six months, and I'm not allowed to leave. No one is. Then she turned up. Georgina, the mystery woman who was locked up by the Vian and somehow escaped. Sweet Georgina, who has a strange connection to my rejected mates, and everyone loves…except me.

Six months have passed since the release of Nexus 5. The world is a different, more dangerous place. In the USA, the freedom fighters of the Post-Human Liberation Front use Nexus to turn men and women into human time bombs aimed at the President and his allies. The first blows in the war between human and post-human have been struck.

סיפורן של רשתות המידע, ואיך הן יצרו ופירקו את העולם - מאת יובל נח הררי, מחבר רבי־המכר הבינלאומיים קיצור תולדות האנושות וההיסטוריה של המחר. במשך מאה אלף השנים...

They slept for hundreds of years, dreaming of a new home in the Andromeda galaxy. When finally they awake, their dreams of peace are shattered. These colonists - turian, salarian, asari, human, and more - face an uncharted galaxy and threats beyond understanding.

Aislynn has lived too long in a world that ended a thousand years ago. As an immortal, she has endured the death of magic, the fall of empires, and centuries of unrelenting grief. Now she seeks the one mercy she’s never known—true oblivion. The relic she hunts will end all of existence, erasing every wound the universe has ever suffered, but the last wizard has other plans. Undead and cunning, he wove a prophecy around Aislynn’s journey and has waited a millennium for its fulfillment. He doesn’t want to stop her—he needs her to succeed.

I grew up knowing three important facts. One, my parents hated Nexus shifters. Two, I was taught everyone should be scared of me, and they should be. Three, I'm a monster. I'm a Nexus, a powerful shifter bonded to five other souls… only I rejected them all at the mating ceremony and ran away with my parents when I was fifteen. After five years on the run, I've finally been found. My Nexus mates dragged me back to the biggest pack community in the mountains of Scotland, where they'll make sure I follow each of their rules and never let me out of their sight.

After saving the world of Highlands from the eldritch horror and being crowned King, Jake had hoped for a chance to relax and enjoy fatherhood. But between undead insect armies, treacherous conspirators, and untrustworthy allies, Jake and his family will have to band together to protect the people and the land that they love.

Michael reaches Nexus, but finds advancing more challenging than he’d anticipated. Factions abound, allegiances shift, and separating truth from lies is harder than ever. The line between friend and foe blurs, and Michael’s path grows murkier. Nexus is a place of both opportunity and danger. Sitting at the heart of the world, the city is home to thousands—ordinary people, players, but Powers too. Can Michael remain free of their clutches, or will he become entangled in the Powers’ machinations? Will Nexus be the death of Michael?

The explosive conclusion to Nexus and Crux. Global unrest spreads through the US, China, and beyond. Secrets and lies set off shockwaves of anger, rippling from mind to mind. Riot police battle neutrally linked protestors. Armies are mobilized. Political orders fall. Nexus-driven revolution is in here. Against this backdrop a new breed of post-human children are growing into their powers.

When humanity joins the cause, the war with the Naxli begins to tilt in the favor of the allied races. The Naxli have other ideas, though, and they launch a full-out blitz against the upstart humans. If they succeed, humanity’s very existence is at stake.

A journey through the ups and downs of love, heartache, heartbreak, loss, grief, and healing, this book reflects my inner most thoughts from my most recent years of life

You know the drill, right? Die in an unfortunate accident and then get sent before a sultry looking goddess who sets you up for reincarnation. Todd was all set to return to earth and give his soul another ride through the roller coaster called life when something extremely unfortunate happened: the Earth was destroyed by a giant meteor. Already primed for Reincarnation, he was given only one other option, but it involved him rising again in an unknown land where magic wasn’t just in the stories.

Trust no one. Betrayal is the deadliest weapon. When CIA operative Marcus Kane infiltrates a Berlin penthouse, he expects a clean mission. Instead, he’s ambushed—not by terrorists, but by his own agency. Betrayed from the inside, Marcus becomes the target of Nexus, a shadow network manipulating world powers and profiting from chaos. His only unlikely ally? Katerina Tigrov, a deadly SVR agent with her own vendetta. From Berlin to Prague to Brussels, they must expose the conspiracy before it ignites World War III.

This story involves a pair of cousins in a remote town in Alaska. Desmond and Warren own a fishing company and their business is already in jeopardy, as rival fishing companies move in on their territory. Facing this, along with other struggles, the two men can't seem to catch a break. Our story begins as they suddenly find themselves thrown into a struggle against powerful supernatural forces, whose motives are a mystery. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A great war has raged between the dark eastern kingdom of Clarra Terras and the nation of Mare Vermis since time's beginning. Now, as their divided world enters its 1000th year, a terminus must be reached. Will Doran manage to halt the chasm lord's sinister agenda before it's played out, or will the west grow cold beneath his cruel shadow? And when the time comes, will those chosen heed the mysterious call that beckons them away from their isolated realm?

Following recent sightings of mysterious lights in the night sky, the account of a traumatized woman, and a local suicide, an investigator and a university student are drawn into the heart of the supernatural battle between good and evil, uncovering the connection between seemingly unrelated events as powerful dark forces threaten to destroy them, and their entire city.

Alex Kellan has a strange problem. It's Christmas and two men are actively dogging his every step. And while Kellan would love to just be left alone, his stalkers have different plans. They intend to take Kellan to a twisted dimension of high-tech weaponry and magic.. and then force him to compete on their team.

A galactic war rages between the Nexus—an artificial intelligence that got its beginning as a virtual reality video game—and the scattered resistance fighting to reclaim freedom. At the helm of the Nexus’s assault on humanity and freedom is the Tyrant, a personality core of the Nexus. From the mythic world of Luminaria, Aetherveil emerges as the galaxy’s only hope for triumph, and she and her assistant Lilyon lead elite Sentinels to halt the Tyrant’s advance.