Ergebnis für "Rita" in Science Fiction

The decision to start a new life is never an easy one, but for Joe the transition was far from figurative. Becoming a permanent addition to a game world, it doesn't take long to learn that people with his abilities are actively hunted. In fact, if the wrong people gained knowledge of what he was capable of, assassins would appear in droves.

It is finished... Sweat dripping off her brow as the threads started long ago start to fuse together. It’s time to make plans, hide the truth, and get the HELL off her throne. But how to accomplish creating a federation when those coming together want to gut her empire? Anyone who understands the Queen Bitch knows she won't accept that condition without a fight. However, to accomplish meeting her love again in a system far away, she will accomplish the impossible. Her eyes start to glow red. No one will stop her from getting back to Michael.

Forty-eight hours after the Upheaval, reality is beginning to set in at the Whitaker Estate. The world, As We Know It, has ended. Dillon Mitchell and her friends are left to survive, after discovering most of the population, at least in the United States, has mysteriously died.

The survivors at Whitaker Estate are still reeling from the vicious attack on their community, which left three of their friends dead. When the mysterious newcomer Alaina Renato reveals there is a traitor in their midst, it threatens to tear the community apart. Is there truly a traitor, or is Alaina playing them all?

Vor 42 Standardjahren kam es in einem Forschungslabor namens Amalgatt zu einem folgenschweren Unfall. Seit jener Zeit existiert eine Zone, in der Virtualität und Realität miteinander verschmelzen. Offiziell spricht man von einem außer Kontrolle geratenen Experiment, aber bestimmte Kreise wissen um den wahren Hintergrund. Es ist ein Omen, eine Demonstration der Macht, eine Warnung, die lautet: Unterlasst diese Experimente, oder wir stürzen eure Zivilisation ins Chaos.

The Leath are fighting for their Gods, but Bethany Anne is fighting for freedom. Then, the Leath make a very fatal mistake. On another planet, the Leath dishonor the Etheric Empire's warriors and Bethany Anne unleashes her new avatar and there will be hell to pay.

Auf Keumra werden letzte Reisevorbereitungen getroffen. Ziel ist ein Planet, auf dem Dame de Sawa eine geheime Forschungsstation Lex Atrons vermutet. Lex Atron soll zusammen mit dem Ikon ein uraltes Wissen reaktiviert haben, das einst auf dunklen Pfaden in die Welt gelangte und dessen Missbrauch sämtliches Leben bedroht. Aber die Gefahr reicht noch tiefer und könnte sogar die Fundamente des Universums erschüttern.

The victory parades are over and half the fleet is back in mothballs. The Navies better start getting them back in Commission! Rita Longknife, commander of the heavy cruiser Exeter, has proof. Proof that there is something else out there. Proof we are not alone in the galaxy. Aboard her ship is evidence that we have blown up an alien ship, and they have blown up one of ours. So far, contact with the aliens is being made by pirates, the worst scum humanity has. How do the right people take over making contact?

The war is over. Hurray! Half the fleet is back in mothballs. But out on the rim of human space, ships are disappearing. Some are merchant ships going about their business. Others are exploration ships on deep space probes. What's happening to them? Captain Rita Nuu Longknife is ready to take the heavy cruiser Exeter to space and see what's out there. She may have a nursery next to the captain's cabin and a two-month-old baby on her hip, but she's taking a warship out there, and nobody better get in her way.

Scarlett, the city's top detective, is on the hunt for the elusive vigilante known as The Phantom—unaware that their worlds are entwined in ways she can't even imagine. What happens when the lines between justice and crime blur, when a mother's love is put to the ultimate test, and when unlikely alliances form? Get ready to lose sleep over this gripping saga of love, morality, and identity.

Anthony Graham made his wealth through grit and hard work but to the onlooker, he’s a ruthless money lender. When prominent businessman Robert Benson faces financial distress, he seeks assistance from Anthony. However, due to unfortunate circumstances, Robert is unable to repay his debt which leaves Anthony to ask for something shocking in return, the hand of his only daughter Andrea Benson in marriage.

Long before "Don't ask, don't tell", gays served in the military - sometimes openly - more often in secret. In this volume the author imagines what their lives might have been like. Within, you will find tales of historical fiction mixed occasionally with supernatural horror, including: a French fusilier fighting guerrillas and growing disillusionment in Napoleonic Spain; soldiers encountering the unthinkable during the 1812 occupation and retreat from Moscow; and more.

After hurricane Adolph turns New York City into Big Apple Sauce, the good life goes on and on and on for one-percenters like Margaret Hughes. Margaret looks like she's twenty-two, but she's really more than a hundred years old thanks to the life extension technology she and her father developed in the 20th century. As the chief neurosurgeon of the Hughes Medical Center, she "youthanizes" only wealthy clientele. Her practice virtually insures the status quo.

Le storie di Lavie Tidhar si possono leggere sia come racconti di fantascienza sia come estratti – emozionanti ed evocativi – della vita di personaggi ai margini di una società in espansione verso lo spazio. Storie di persone che, con poco o nulla da perdere, s'imbarcano su “carrette spaziali” per un viaggio dall'esito incerto. E poi c'è chi resta, chi spera di partire un giorno dal “Terminale Terra” e chi farebbe qualunque cosa – il killer, la webstar o il clonatore – pur di realizzare il sogno di riuscire ad andarsene per sempre.

Rita Modl und Alexander Koppin haben in ihrem Podcast Spaß mit Brettspielen. Sie Spielen kurze Spiele, die in irgendeiner Form Brettspiele integrieren. Seid gespannt!

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Pym fa il ricordatore e tutte le sue esperienze vengono registrate e trasmesse ai suoi follower. La "Storia di Pym", seguita da milioni di persone, è un'avventura nel sistema solare, fino alle lune di Plutone, e anche una fiction con affetti e amori interrotti... Ma forse è tutto troppo simile a un Truman Show spaziale.

Mulan Rouge è un'ex mercenaria e adesso guardia del corpo del Boss Gui, capo dei Rospi di Kunming. Quando lui deve partire in treno, Mulan è incaricata di controllare che nessun passeggero costituisca un pericolo per lui: un compito molto pericoloso anche per un'esperta come lei.

In questo racconto, chi desidera andare a vivere su Marte come colono può compiere una specie di "viaggio della speranza" di sola andata, ma su delle carrette spaziali, navicelle monoposto, non proprio sicure. L'immigrazione spaziale è l'ultima frontiera?

Sandoval è un artista la cui vita si svolge tra incredibili avventure e dicerie spesso impossibili da verificare. Si è conquistato una fama da ribelle quando si è fatto togliere il "nodo" che gli permetteva di rimanere nella Conversazione e ha cancellato i dati esistenti su di lui. Perché Sandoval ha un'unica ossessione: l'immagine della Terra che sorge vista dalla Luna.