Ergebnis für "Sahara" in Science Fiction & Fantasy

I've found the Fortress of Atlas, and been to the legendary Halls of Amenti. I know Atlantis was real, but the city was destroyed by a massive tidal wave. Except now I know part of the city survived. Beneath Atlantis lay the vast cavern known as Abzu, from ancient Sumerian mythology.

Jaren once lived the thrilling life of an adventurer, saving the innocent and slaying foul monsters all across Tigraen. But now, blind and haunted by past failures, he ekes out a lonely existence as a hermit in the forest. His only companion is a tiny, loyal songbird. Fate is not finished with Jaren. An ancient demon is rising to power once more; a demon Jaren believed defeated. Fueled by sacrificial offerings from a fanatic cult, the demons dark influence grows. If no one stops the cult from unleashing it, Tigraen will be consumed by war and hellfire.

A dark mystery has been buried beneath the sands of the Sahara for eons. In a basement in New Mexico, four poker buddies find reason to believe that a startling secret is out there, and these four amateur adventurers are about to uncover it.

Cory Wilson is woken in the middle of the night with a summons to appear in the president of Nations of Earth's office. An aid worker in Djibouti has discovered a shipment of alien guns. As ambassador to gamra, the extraterrestrial organization which controls the Exchange, the FTL wormhole network, Cory has often been critical of Earth's handling of extraterrestrial problems. This is his moment to shine, to apply his knowledge about alien customs, to, in the words of the president, "get those idiots out of there".

The bundled edition of the first three books in the popular Ambassador series. 1: Seeing Red - Cory Wilson is about to start his new job as representative to gamra, the alien organization that controls the network for wormhole travel, when a political murder may well end his career before it starts. In Coldi society, you can get killed for looking a superior in the eye. Never mind accusing him of murder. 1A: The Sahara Conspiracy - Cory is asked to deal with the alien mafia on Earth, and stumbles across a plot that endangers Earth's fragile peace.

Hi, I'm Arthur Merlin. I used to be an ordinary guy, until a freak accident changed my life. Now my friends are afraid of me, and so am I. See, I developed superpowers: telepathy, pyrokinesis and telekinesis, to name a few. The US government want to control me. But how do you control someone who can teleport anywhere he wants to in a blink of an eye? Fed up with their shenanigans, I head for the Institute of Psychic Research in London.

A strange case lands on Lieutenant Flynn's desk, as he's assigned to investigate the disappearance of a couple and their three cats. It's as if they have vanished into thin air. A few years later, Detective Pete Alvarez investigates a gruesome death of an immigrant in the same house. Along with Detective Carter, they must uncover the truth behind the disappearance, but what they discover is evidence of something completely different.

After Pamela's father vanished 27 years ago, her life has been content. That is, until she is visited by disturbing dreams, telling that her father is in danger. She also receives a mysterious message, telling her that Arthur has been imprisoned on a distant planet, and only she can rescue him. To do so, she must release the evil entity trapped within the famous sword, Excalibur. If she trusts this strange messenger and releases the terrifying Shalit from its confinement, Pamela could be endangering Earth and all the other planets in the universe.

When runaway teenagers Don and Janet pull off the mountainside road just outside of Albuquerque for a few hours' rest, they don't expect to wake up 1000 years in the future, in a world they can't recognize. There, Earth is a desert planet where nomadic tribes are little more than slaves to the Ganu, the powerful and dominant ruling tribe.

Of all Amun-Ra's children, it is Sekhmet who is most feared. She is one of his fiercest generals and known for her savagery on and off the battlefield. Yet the warrior who fights the hardest also loves the hardest, and when the end of the war is finally at hand, she is eager to return home to the man she believes is waiting for her. Betrayal strikes when she least expects it, reminding Sekhmet that while she may have her uses to the kingdom of Egypt, there are those who simply take her for granted.