Ergebnis für "Saga" in Steampunk

THE WARDEN. Soren is a nameless, stateless man, tasked with keeping watch over Maricol’s borders. He isn’t meant for politics, only dealing with the dead. His past was buried in the poison fields, but after a fateful encounter with a prince, Soren comes to realize he can’t keep what magic burns inside him hidden forever.

Ein misstrauischer Inspektor von Scotland Yard beschattet Frost und Payne rund um die Uhr, als sie von Dr. Neville den Auftrag bekommen, die verschollene Bibliothek eines Alchemisten zu finden. Die rätselhafte Spur führt nach York und weiter bis Tief ins Herz des Kohlegebietes. Doch Frost und Payne sind nicht die einzigen, die hinter den Büchern her sind. Cecilia ist zu ihren Eltern aufs Land gefahren, wo sie zur Freude ihrer Mutter die Bekanntschaft des Abenteurers Nathan Cosgrove macht. Michael Cho sieht sich indessen einer neuen Bedrohung gegenüber.

Die ehemalige Diebin Lydia Frost eröffnet eine Agentur für Verlorenes und Vermisstes. Ihr neuster Auftrag führt sie ausgerechnet zurück zur berüchtigten Madame Yueh und den "Dragons", der Organisation, von der sie sich gerade erst hart ihre Freiheit erkämpft hat. Als gäbe das nicht schon genug Probleme, muss sie auch noch den Pinkerton Jackson Payne ausfindig machen. Doch der Amerikaner hat seine eigenen Aufträge.

Alisia is normal, as far as humans go. She’s a young historian recovering from heartbreak, intent only on settling down and living peacefully. But the gods have different intentions. Alisia and her sister wake up on an alien ship. The merciless Admiral Brutus of the Vudar empire has mistaken the pair for members of the rival Sem’Pari race and plans on using them as spies, controlling them with neural implants. However, Alisia quickly realizes Brutus’s team unknowingly implanted the wrong AI chip in her head.

As his sophomore year wraps up, Hugo Malalou - aka Aegis - is living his best life. He’s working with Lady Liberty to protect San Miguel, acing all his classes, and casually dating three insanely hot girls. Until one routine night patrol nearly gets him killed. Before long, he’s pulled into a dangerous pursuit that isolates him from his friends, while his list of enemies keeps growing. And when he becomes the city’s last defense against an all-powerful adversary, he’ll find himself in the fight of his life.

Cvareh returns home to his sky world of Nova with the genius crafter Arianna as his temperamental guest. The mercurial inventor possesses all the Xin family needs to turn the tides of a centuries-old power struggle, but the secrets she harbors must be earned with trust - hard to come by for Ari, especially when it comes to Dragons. On Nova, Ari finds herself closer to exacting vengeance against the traitor who killed everything - and everyone - she once loved. But before Ari can complete her revenge, the Crimson Court exposes her shadowed past.

In the final installment of USA Today best-selling author Elise Kova's Loom Saga, a new rebellion rises from the still-smoldering remnants of the five guilds of Loom to stand against Dragon tyranny. Meanwhile, on Nova, those same Dragons fight amongst themselves, as age-old power struggles shift the political landscape in fateful and unexpected ways. Unlikely leaders vie for the opportunity to shape a new world order from the perfect clockwork designs of one temperamental engineer.

THE MARSHAL. Melvin Kaur is a nobleman, a magician, and a high-ranking cog in the Clockwork Brigade working out of Istal. His well-established spot in high society is a grand cover for the smuggling his family oversees. But when a handoff goes wrong, and Melvin is forced to flee through the night with his charges, he finds unexpected help from an endearing man in the unlikeliest of places.

The Xortaag fleet outnumbers the humans’ five to one, and using their mind-control machine, they can use all the Earth’s military forces against their own kind. The Xortaag colony ships are only a few weeks away, and when they arrive, they'll wipe out the human race to have space and resources for their people. And as if all this wasn’t bad enough, General Planetary Genocide Maada has just laid a trap for the Earth fleet and decimated a large chunk of their forces. To make things worse, an even more sinister threat (yeah, more sinister than the Xortaags) is emerging 1500 years in the future.

With Excalibur at hand, the newly engaged royal couple ascends the throne of Camelot. An uneasy peace settles over the art deco skytowers of the bustling Avalonian metropolis, but not all assent to their rule. A faction of Lords from the northern frontier threaten to break away. The chaos leaves Arthur, Guinevere, and the knights scrambling to rebuild support and consolidate power.

When the Peace King of the Free Cities goes missing, aging former war hero Ellaria Moonstone uncovers a plot to overthrow the tenuous republic. Fearing that a powerful being called a Sagean Luminary has returned to build a new empire, Ellaria sends for help from old allies and expatriates scattered across the chaotic frontier.

Billed as "the most realistic game ever," Worlds at War was a video game unlike any other - one that promised a virtual reality experience that rivaled operating a giant mecha in combat. People flocked to the game in anticipation. For some, the game lived up to and far exceeded their expectations - the level of graphics was indeed, "just like being there." The game didn't provide the experience many others had hoped for, though; for a large number of players, the game was "too real to be fun." For video game design majors Ryan Johnson and Noah Bowden, the game play was incredible.

Imagine if you will, an alternate world. It is one that hides dark secrets in the cobblestone streets and shady alleyways of 1879 London; one which, if you are lucky, will give you the chance to live forever. Cybelle DeHamphir didn't have that choice. After many years on the run from her world, she has finally found a new life; she is a trained assassin, and she is good at it. In fact, you could say everything was going quite well until she died.

En una Europa de principios del siglo XX, en el período de entreguerras, los caballeros del Gun Club estadounidense han conseguido llegar a la luna. Nuestra heroína, la aristócrana Irna Hohenstaufen, se costeará un viaje de su bolsillo para expoliar el satélite terrestre del oro que hay bajo su superficie. Sin embargo, lo que encontrará allí puede alterar el destino de la inminente guerra europea y del mundo entero. Una epopeya steampunk con sabor al mejor Verne.

¿Y si los romanos hubieran descubierto la máquina de vapor en el siglo III d.C.? Marcus, un joven romano que vive en esta próspera República Romana, tiene que huir hasta Barcinomagna para intentar salvar a su padre. Acompañado de su fiel escudero autómata, Marcus se verá envuelto en una aventura trepidante que entremezcla sectas religiosas, poderes políticos y romances imposibles.

Una última aventura espera a Marcus Novus y sus amigos. Después de la guerra entre la República romana y el Imperio Chino, que ha sacudido al mundo entero, la población de ambos lugares intenta recuperarse de las heridas. Mientras, Marcus y sus amigos, Antoninus, Irenei, Caius Verus y el sabio Megistos, realizarán un último viaje en esta antigua Roma llena de trenes a vapor y dirigibles que surcan los cielos.