Ergebnis für "Ron" in Science Fiction & Fantasy

He went searching for a fresh start. He didn’t expect to find unusual friends, fierce enemies, and primal powers. Jason thought that it was the end of his life after being hunted and attacked by a band of ruthless thugs. Instead, he tapped into the source of creation and emerged from his death experience with magical powers. As a new mage, Jason finds himself part of a wonderful - and dangerous - new supernatural world.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. What if the greatest distance in the universe could be crossed without traveling through space? Jaxson Rader has discovered a connection that could make it possible. Across two and a half million light-years, a woman named Lyira is reaching back. At...

Sie werden im Leerraum gestoppt – keine Chance für den PHOENIX. 4000 Jahre in der Zukunft ... Wir befinden uns in der Mitte des 23. Jahrhunderts Neuer Galaktischer Zeitrechnung. Die Menschen leben in Frieden und Freiheit. Von der Erde aus haben sie ein Netz aus Handelsbeziehungen und Bündnissen geschlossen, das zahlreiche Planeten in der Milchstraße umfasst.

Step into twenty science fiction short stories where strange possibilities become immediate human problems—and ingenuity, courage, ambition or sheer stubbornness may be the only way out. Buy a planet where the laws of physics refuse to cooperate. Escape a tyrannical Earth aboard the last rebel ship. Hunt the Great Secret of the Universe. Race to save a dying world. Watch reality disappear because everyone believes it should. Travel through time to Nero's Rome. And meet aliens, inventors, engineers, soldiers, con men and unlikely heroes confronting problems no one has faced before.

Beneath the noise of the world, something has been waiting to be heard.Deep below the surface of a living planet lies the Inner Ocean, a vast harmonic system where sound, memory, and consciousness intertwine. It does not speak in language. It responds only to those who know how to listen.When...

Everyone has a death. Hers has a name: Moira. When Amber Graves buries her father, she thinks the worst is over. The next night, she discovers she’s wrong. Her inheritance isn’t wealth—it’s his magic. And it comes bound to her own death: a porcelain-masked woman named Moira, who watches her from mirrors and shadows, waiting for the moment Amber’s heartbeat stops. As Amber struggles to balance work, love, and the dark art of necromancy, she learns the truth behind her father’s legacy—and the terrible cost of keeping it. What do you do when your guardian angel is the angel of death?

The Voltar Confederacy has a long-range strategy to invade Earth and use it in their conquest of the Galaxy. However, with the discovery that Earth is being destroyed by incessant pollution, Royal Officer Jettero Heller is sent on a top-secret mission to handle this threat to the planet's life. But why is Lombar Hisst, head of the Apparatus, Voltar's deadly intelligence agency, determined to sabotage the mission and see it fail?

Inside this volume you’ll encounter a flawless time-rescue gone wrong, a beauty treatment with terrifying consequences, a detective hunted by a body-hopping killer, and a homesteader uncovering a truth that rewrites Earth itself. You’ll also find dragons that defy myth, fairy-tale chaos, supernatural horror, and high-concept science fiction that blends heart, humor, and imagination. From time travel and first contact to magical realism, monsters, and folklore-inspired fantasy —every story is brought vividly to life by a stellar narration cast.

Slim's a Texas bluesman of a certain age, down on his luck, and just about broke - but hey, that's what the blues are all about. Then, one day, in a single hot burst of lightning that comes straight up out of the ground, Slim finds himself in Tejas. Not Texas, but somewhere else. It's a little bit magic and a whole lot different, but the blues are the same. And the blues - manifest here in the form of a maple-necked pearl-gray Fender Stratocaster with blue-chrome pickups a.k.a. The Gutbucket - needs him and needs him bad.

In infancy, Junior Thibodeaux is encoded with a prophesy: a comet will obliterate life on Earth in thirty-six years. Alone in this knowledge, he comes of age in rural Maine grappling with the question: Does anything I do matter? While the voice that has accompanied him since conception appraises...

In the year AD 3000, Earth is a dystopian wasteland, plundered of its natural resources by alien conquerors known as Psychlos. Fewer than 35,000 humans survive in a handful of communities scattered across the face of a post-apocalyptic Earth. From the ashes of humanity rises a young hero, Jonnie Goodboy Tyler. Setting off on an initial quest to discover a hidden evil, Jonnie unlocks the mystery of humanity’s demise and unearths a crucial weakness in their oppressors.

Seventeen-year-old Knox Butler is desperate! His grandmother is dying of an unknown poison, his dad is missing, and his girlfriend may be dead! Evil creatures hunt him as he seeks the surviving fragments of the Amulet of Breech Hollow, the only thing which can save his grandmother, the Queen of the Mausoleum.

Brought to you by Penguin. When celebrity aviator, Charles A. Lindbergh, wins the 1940 presidential election on the slogan of 'America First', fear invades every Jewish household. Not only has Lindbergh blamed the Jews for pushing America towards war with Germany, he has negotiated an...

Linny is not a powerful vampire. He doesn’t drink human blood. He avoids violence whenever possible. He bends the knee instead of breaking it. And somehow, he survives. When a supernatural catastrophe wipes out the ruling vampires of Hotel Venus, Linny is left standing—not because he is strong, but because he was never worth killing. Overnight, the weakest vampire in the house becomes its reluctant lord. Now Linny must navigate vampire politics, ancient predators, and the terrifying reality of protecting the woman he loves and the child they are about to bring into the world.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. A revolutionary energy device promises to change civilization forever—but some discoveries are too powerful to enter the world unchallenged. Jaxson Rader and his trusted team have achieved what conventional science said could not be done. Their...

An alien ship rests over Water Island. For five years, the people of the US Virgin Islands have lived with the Ynaa, a race of super-advanced aliens on a research mission they will not fully disclose. They are benevolent in many ways but meet any act of aggression with disproportional wrath. This has led to a strained relationship between the Ynaa and the local Virgin Islanders, and a peace that cannot last.

Astrophysicist Dr. Jayna Lennox’s life imploded the day her ship was attacked by aliens. Through months of captivity, she’s survived by shutting down and not feeling. Then she’s freed by the house of Rone cyborgs and finds herself in the arms of huge, tough Mace. Struggling to heal, Mace is the only thing that makes her feel safe. The only person who makes her feel like she isn’t broken. But there are more of her crew members imprisoned in Carthago’s desert, and Jayna will have to delve into her darkest memories to help save them.

Abducted from her exploration ship, paramedic Sage McAlister has spent months locked in cells and labs belonging to the Edull. Rescued by the cool, powerful cyborgs of the House of Rone, she finds herself among fellow human survivors on the desert world of Carthago. But despite being free, Sage feels cold inside and is struggling to cope. The only person she feels safe with - who she doesn’t feel the need to pretend with - is a deadly cyborg who feels nothing.

This thoroughly revised edition of the award-winning folklore collection detailing the exploits of the beloved 800-year-old Turkish “wise fool”, Mullah Nasruddin (Nasreddin Hoca), presents 257 authentic, hilarious, and outrageous folk tales - dozens appearing in English for the first time. Author Suresha has done extensive research to locate, translate, and retell these centuries-old “naughty Nasruddin” stories from around the globe. Many bawdy, ribald tales, previously suppressed for moralistic reasons, explore taboo themes inappropriate for children.

After the near-extinction of humanity, a new kind of alien-human hybrid must come to terms with their identity—before their powers destroy what is left of humankind, in this thought-provoking science fiction novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Parable of The Sower. Since a...