Ergebnis für "Rovers" in Science Fiction & Fantasy

The Star Rover is a 1914 collection of science fiction short stories with the theme of reincarnation. It tells the story of Darrell Standing, an inmate of San Quentin’s death row. The narrator escapes the horror of prison life by withdrawing into altered states and the memory of past lives. Forming the body of the work, the accounts of these past lives are vivid but disconnected. They include a desert island survival story, one which involves a Roman perspective on Christ, a tale of medieval Korea, and one which takes place in a prehistoric era.

Tolkien’s acclaimed modern classic ‘fairie’ tale, read by Derek Jacobi. While on holiday in 1925, four-year-old Michael Tolkien lost his beloved toy dog on the beach at Filey in Yorkshire. To console him, his father, J.R.R.Tolkien, improvised a story about Rover, a real dog who is...

The mission is personal. The stakes are life and death. Powerful forces are already moving their pawns into position. The year is 2107. Roland Webb continues to carry the weight of the world on his shoulders. An opportunity to mend a family torn apart by war has arisen, but it may cost him everything he holds dear. The superpowers are on the brink of all-out war. The world has turned its collective eyes toward the Lunar South Pole, hoping that peace can endure.

Roland’s mission is retrieval. The client’s promised payout cannot be ignored. The year is 2102; the kidnapping and ransom trade has exploded. The firm’s newest patron, a wealthy Emirati sheikh, has asked for his missing grandson to be found. Roland Webb, a veteran soldier, needs his team of mercenaries to come together and get creative. Time is not on their side as forces beyond their control begin to reshape the Middle East. Stepping into a burgeoning war zone, Roland is compelled to take risks—risks that push him into a collision course with an organization of unimaginable evil.

Mars Rovers is a whimsical sci-fi novella. If you’re looking for an exciting journey, witty jokes, and unexpected plot twists, this is the book for you. It’s a prequel, introducing new characters and some rather eccentric aliens.

Scritto nel 1915, romanzo in parte autobiografico, è stato influenzato dalle cronache, pubblicate su alcuni giornali, che descrivevano le cattive condizioni carcerarie della California. È, inoltre, una storia di reincarnazioni.Grandissima influenza sulla stesura del romanzo ebbero la teoria dell'evoluzione di Charles Darwin e la teoria della volontà di potenza di Friedrich Nietzsche.

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At 10-feet, four inches tall, Gowanus was the runt of the litter. Working the mines of No’ad took strength and height, unless you had the smarts to be able to help the dwarves invent and build new mining tools. He didn’t have smarts and didn’t have height, and yet his curiosity got the better of him: Where had Sakima gone? In an attempt to find the rogue giant Sakima, Gowanus learns the secret to how the giants have spread so far, so fast and comes face-to-face with the worst betrayal of giant-kind.

Based on a lucid dream, this short story was inspired by Jack London's The Star Rover.