Ergebnis für "Olympia" in Science Fiction

Aufgewachsen auf einer Welt der politischen Rivalitäten, galt Perturabo unter den Einwohnern Olympias seit jeher als Wunderkind, dessen philosophische Texte und wissenschaftlichen Arbeiten ihresgleichen suchten. Doch nach seiner Wiedervereinigung mit dem Imperator und undankbaren Jahrzehnten des zermürbenden Krieges während des Großen Kreuzzuges beginnt der Primarch die Rolle seiner Legion im Imperium zu hinterfragen.

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Born to a life of political conflict, Perturabo was always considered a child prodigy among the people of Olympia - indeed, his philosophical and scientific works were beyond compare. But then, after his rediscovery by the Emperor and decades of thankless military campaigning on the Great Crusade, the primarch begins to resent his Legion's place in the Imperium.

I saw the bright lights of the UFO and then it took me. I was kept in a cage, then I sold. My story is like many other humans adrift in the galaxy. If only people on Earth knew…But it’s too terrible, no one would believe us. When the Imperials descend from the stars, they don’t come to conquer—they come to collect. In this emotionally charged series, humans find themselves entangled with an advanced alien empire and kept as “pets” by grey-skinned humanoids that both adore and exploit them.

An indentured human woman. An Imperial man on a mission. A fake marriage born in the stars. When my master died, I believed I’d be set free. Instead, I’m sent to a temple where I’m forced to continue doing the one thing I know—pleasing alien males. Until Gael the Returner arrives. Half-human and half-Imperial, he travels the galaxy, rescuing humans.

I was abducted by the alien puppy pound. Thrown into a cage and sold as a galactic pet. An alien captain has made me his beloved pet. Things have happened that I can’t live with. Things too terrible to mention here.

It started as a joke. A late-night video said, “If you want to be abducted by aliens, leave a comment." I did. Now I’m naked, caged, and staring into the glossy black eyes of something that doesn’t believe in safe words or human rights. Apparently, I’m being sold. Not as a citizen. Not as a person. As a pet.

De ses années d'enfance vécues à l'hôtel Olympia, Danika n'a aucun souvenir sinon ceux de ses rêves, dont elle ne sait départager la réalité de la fantasmagorie. Ces tantes, ce grand-père, tous les personnages qui peuplaient l'hôtel, ont-ils réellement existé? Quant aux années de pensionnat qui ont suivi, elle en garde un goût amer en raison des trop rares visites de son père, Stavros, et de l'absence totale de sa mère, Olympia.

Dragged from her bed at gunpoint, tattooed and tracked like livestock, she becomes just another number: Volunteer 4711. Shipped across the stars with hundreds of other human women, she's thrown into a cruel existence on an alien farm where survival means silence, submission, and sacrificing what little dignity remains. When fate places a high-ranking alien male's life in her hands, she saves him, not knowing this single act will pull her into the complex power structures of galactic politics.

In this futuristic apocalyptic tale, war is raging both in real life and in cyberspace. Online communities have formed divisive factions which recruit people jaded by the vagaries of western living. These factions are in violent conflict with each other to garner territory in a society increasingly ruled by corrupt algorithms seeking to control minds with biased information through online feeds. The internet has become a dangerous weapon, a weapon which is gradually taking over the world.

Following a threat to her life, and to the throne and court she is to one day inherit, Princess Imotenya Aria Accra has spent the last 10 years of her life hiding in the village of Sapele from rebels and supporters of the former heir to the throne of Xavia, her uncle. When her father, the king, passes away, Aria is taken back to the palace where she finds that her former home isn't as safe as it was thought to be.

In a world where time is just a doorway to the past, Detective Lenore Jones and her elite team at the Time Detective Agency (TDA) embark on a thrilling mission to solve cold cases that have haunted families for decades. Their latest assignment takes them back to May 1995, where the mysterious disappearance of 16-year-old Sarah Thompson has left a small town in turmoil.

In the not-too-distant future, UNIT JHEU198, a Safety and Street ROBO, has malfunctioned. It has attacked an innocent man. This shouldn’t be possible. No one was truly harmed, and no real blood was spilled, but still, Amir has the board breathing down his neck for answers.