Ergebnis für "Power" in Science Fiction

ine Insel. Vier Suchende. Verbunden durch das vielleicht letzte große Abenteuer der Menschheit. – Das bewegende Meisterwerk vom Pulitzer-Preisträger. Auf Makatea, einst ein vergessener Fleck im endlos blauen Pazifik, soll die Gesellschaft der Zukunft entstehen. Über Umwege und Gezeiten finden auf der Insel vier Menschen zusammen, deren Schicksale nachhaltig mit dem des Planeten verknüpft sind: Evelyne Beaulieu, die in den Tiefen des Ozeans taucht, um das geheimnisvolle Spiel der Riesenmanta zu entziffern. Ina Aroita, die die paradiesischen Strände nach Materialien für ihre Skulpturen abwandert.

The Overstory unfolds in concentric rings of interlocking fable that range from antebellum New York to the late 20th-century Timber Wars of the Pacific Northwest and beyond. An air force loadmaster in the Vietnam War is shot out of the sky, then saved by falling into a banyan. An artist inherits 100 years of photographic portraits, all of the same doomed American chestnut. A hard-partying undergraduate in the late 1980s electrocutes herself, dies, and is sent back into life by creatures of air and light.

Maxwell Carter works a maintenance job at a government research facility. The research lab he works at has an accident, more energy coming through the wormhole than anticipated, enough to completely rupture the shields that were supposed to contain it until they finished determining how to convert the energy into electricity. Previously harmless animals are changed to nightmare threats and people are dying, seemingly due to incidents related directly to their interests.

The Follen nearly killed Robert Orhe – the Thief of Faces – the first time around. They won’t get a second chance. Now on the run, Orhe and his superhuman allies must stay one step ahead of their murderous alien pursuers while they race to find their enemies’ ancient stronghold: the Power House. Will it hold the key to humanity’s survival… or its destruction?

Six friends head into the mountains for a weekend of camping, and instead stumble into an ancient galaxy-spanning war between good and evil. Chosen by a dormant alien system, Pablo, Sasha, Eden, Warren, Mark, and Zoe must unlock their elemental powers and transform into Paladins: a team of heroes sworn to stand against the Corruption Beyond.

Elijah Kimani and Miram Law have seized the attention of the world, inspiring followers and inciting enemies. Even the forces of nature respond to their words. And their mission crosses lines between warring factions, as well as between competing spiritual principalities. In the process, they have provoked as many death-threats as they have healed bodies and souls.

When magic returns to the Earth, its power calls Sam Verner. As Sam searches for his sister through the slick and scary streets of 2050, his quest leads him across the ocean to England, where druids rule the streets...and the throne. But all is not what it seems, and Sam and his new shadow friends are plunged into a maze of madness on the trail of destruction.

"A rockstar ensemble of narrators makes this audiobook an absolute stunner." — Booklist "The narrators are impressively well matched to their roles. They offer a thoughtfulness not always taken in story collection productions...[Author Brandon] Sanderson's stories and their narrators explore a...

Dr. Jake Ross, a university astronomer, wants nothing more than to teach a few classes each semester and continue his research. Instead, he finds himself aggressively recruited to be the science advisor to Frank Tomlinson, an ambitious politician with his eye on the US Senate. Tomlinson is in need of an edge that will allow him to defeat his opponent at the polls, and Dr. Ross can contribute just that: MHD. MHD, or magnetohydrodynamics, is a new innovation that will allow electricity to be generated efficiently and cheaply. But MHD is still in its infancy, and there are deadly risks.

When an EMP hits, Mark must lead his wife from a lawless city to find their missing daughter. With no power or communication, danger is everywhere. Their only hope: Mark’s estranged brother and his secret off-grid homestead.

In youth you'd lay awake at night and scheme.

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Survival hangs in the balance for Renton Hicks and his fellow colonists at Moon Base Delta. With a tight blockade being imposed by the Xilinex Corporation, their supplies are running dangerously low. Hope emerges in the form of a Martian evacuation ship carrying genetic engineering technology that could potentially secure their future. However, getting their hands on it demands not just outwitting Xilinex but also securing assistance from the last vestiges of the SINO power block.

He was only a "beginner" shaman, but Sam Verner had to find a cure to ward off the curse on his sister. Only something of great magic would do the trick. His quest took him to a mystical citadel in Australia, where, with the aid of his shadow runner friends, he recovered a strange artifact he hoped would prove helpful.

Jake Fox and his ragtag band of heroes must come together, work to their strengths, and face overwhelming odds. Not even Foo Kin Great can predict the outcome of the greatest faceoff in Star Blade history. Will they usher in a new era of galactic greatness or watch society crumble into the stars?

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I've been kidnapped by Zeus. Plucked from the streets of Manhattan and frightened half to death by a freaking Olympian god. And now I'm trapped in the Underworld, being forced to compete in a series of deadly trials for the position of Queen of the Underworld. Which would mean marrying Hades, the utterly terrifying Lord of the Dead. Who the hell wants a husband at all, let alone one made of smoke and riddled with death?

Vril, the Power of the Coming Race (1870) by Edward Bulwer-Lytton is an early science fiction novel. The setting is a strange subterranean world inhabited by beautiful entities that resemble the angels described in scripture. The advanced beings known as Vril-ya live underground - using the mysterious "Vril" as an energy source - but intend to reclaim the surface of the earth as their own. The narrator ends up deep inside the Earth via a natural chasm in a mine shaft.

Even though Captain Trip always knew he was a little odd, he’s still shocked by the revelation that the elder gold dragon, Agarrenon Shivar, sired him. It’s time, however, to accept reality and learn to use his power, even if it alienates him from his magic-fearing friends—and the woman he’s come to care about. With enemy dragons threatening to kill or enslave everyone in his homeland, he has no choice.

Jade has spent her life fighting boredom in the terminally ill ward. Surfing the net or reading, she always envied the ability of others to go out and experience the world. She knew her wish to live a normal life was far beyond her reach, but after waking up one morning without the sounds of her life support, she opens her eyes and finds herself with a weak but healthy body in a magical world.