Ergebnis für "Salt" in Science Fiction & Fantasy

Ein visionärer Near-Future-Thriller über Technologie, Ethik und die Grenzen der Zeit Was wäre, wenn Zeitreisen möglich wären – aber nur rückwärts und ohne echte Konsequenzen? Das Start-up Paradox, Inc. macht diese Vision zur Realität. Doch als ein genialer Wissenschaftler die Regeln bricht, geraten ein Entwickler, eine Tech-Managerin und eine investigative Journalistin in einen Strudel aus tödlichen Machtkämpfen, Zeitschleifen und Realitätssprüngen. Während die Welt von Anomalien überflutet wird, kämpfen sie gegen einen Konzern, der die Vergangenheit kontrollieren will – und damit die Zukunft.

Bei dem Versuch, einem Menschen das Leben zu retten, verliert das Selkie-Mädchen Maebh ihren magischen Mantel und damit die einzige Möglichkeit, wieder nach Hause zu gelangen. So hat sie nur bis zum nächsten Vollmond Zeit, um sich in einer ihr völlig unbekannten Welt zurechtzufinden und ihren wertvollsten Besitz zurückzuholen. Ihre letzte Hoffnung ist Ciarán, der schweigsame Fremde, der sie überhaupt erst in diese Situation gebracht hat.

In einer Welt, die von unerbittlichen Stürmen gezeichnet ist, findet die junge Speerfischerin Tavi etwas Unvorstellbares: ein Seeglas – sagenumwoben und zutiefst gefährlich. Denn dieser Fund entfesselt nicht nur magische Kräfte in ihr, sondern bringt sie auch noch in tödliche Gefahr. Auf der Flucht vor Meeresbestien und anderen Feinden wird ausgerechnet der schweigsame Eero zu ihrem Verbündeten. Als Nachfahre der mystischen und von den Menschen zutiefst verachteten Mervolks verkörpert er alles, was Tavi zu verabscheuen gelernt hat.

It is the 14th century, and one of the most apocalyptic events in human history is set to occur - the coming of the Black Death. History teaches us that a third of Europe's population was destroyed. But what if the plague had killed 99 percent of the population instead? How would the world have changed? This is a look at the history that could have been - a history that stretches across centuries, a history that sees dynasties and nations rise and crumble, a history that spans horrible famine and magnificent innovation.

My name is Bird Howsley, and I'm a beautiful disaster. Okay, "beautiful" is probably being generous. But the "disaster" part is right. In a brutal dystopian waterworld, where survival depends on skill and smarts, I'm pretty much always one bad decision away from watching my life go completely down the drain. Luckily, I have a lifeline: my cute, level-headed sailing teacher, Sargo Paz. Did I say cute? I didn't mean cute. He's just a friend. I definitely don't have weird sex dreams about him.

After spending years training to defend my people from our enemies, I never expected that my enemy would be the one keeping me alive. Athos is the last human city. A treaty with the Fae keeps the fae, the vampires, and the wolf shifters at bay, while we fight against the dragons at our border. Being a human in this world is dangerous, and we all make sacrifices to survive.

Indrie has spent five years keeping a dying king alive, and all it's earned him is bruises. So when Rengaran barbarians storm the castle and Indrie is handed over to their king as a parting gift, he doesn't fight it. He clutches his healer's satchel to his chest and braces himself for a new kind...

Bloomsbury presents The Salt King by Natasha Pulley, ready by Luke R. Francis An apocalyptic novel about belief, religion, and the power of myth that blends the gripping, end-of-the-world storytelling of The Passage with the biting wit and epic queer romance that makes Natasha Pulley’s books...

Approaching twenty-five, Katrin Drakos should only be concerned with two things—being crowned Queen of Alentus and marrying her Fated, Kohl. For five years, she focused on falling in love, on living, on becoming whole again. For five years, she was able to forget what the vile King Nikolaos of Nexos had done to her. For five years, her nightmares did not return. But then the whispers started. A rumbling of rebellion poised to strike. The King of Nexos had never attacked before. Until now. Until right before the Acknowledgement.

Die Vergangenheit. Eine kleine Gruppe wagemutiger Forscher bricht an Bord des Segelschiffes »Demeter« in den Norden auf. Sie wollen ein rätselhaftes Artefakt untersuchen, das in Nordnorwegen im Eis schlummert. Doch als die Crew, begleitet vom Schiffsarzt Doktor Silas Coade, ihre Untersuchungen beginnt, geschieht eine Katastrophe, so gewaltig, dass ihre Auswirkungen noch in der fernen Zukunft spürbar sein werden.

Trunks packed with potions and cures, Jane Aire sets out on a crisp, clear morning in October to face the greatest challenge of her sheltered girls’-school existence. A shadow lies over Thornfield Hall and its reclusive master, Edward Rochester. And he’s hired her only as a last resort. Jane stumbles again and again as she tries to establish a rapport with her prickly new employer, but he becomes the least of her worries as a mysterious force seems to work against her.

A young royal from the far north, is sent south for a political marriage in an empire reminiscent of imperial China. Her brothers are dead, her armies and their war mammoths long defeated and caged behind their borders. Alone and sometimes reviled, she must choose her allies carefully. Rabbit, a handmaiden, sold by her parents to the palace for the lack of five baskets of dye, befriends the emperor's lonely new wife and gets more than she bargained for.

From USA Today bestselling author Cassandra Khaw comes The Salt Grows Heavy, a razor-sharp and bewitching fairytale of discovering the darkness in the world, and the darkness within oneself. “Narrator Susan Dalian viscerally conveys the gruesome body horror while deftly capturing the lush...

When Patrek, a giant Skarr alien, hires a human for a covert mission, he doesn't expect a female to take the gig. Nor does he expect his long-dormant mating instinct to ignite for someone so tiny! When the heist goes awry and they're forced to hide out together until the heat dies down, the close quarters reveal that, though they're vastly mismatched in size, their hearts are a perfect fit.

England im Jahr 1882: Es ist Nacht, eine junge Dienstmagd ist auf der Flucht vor der Rache ihres Herrn. Mit allerletzter Kraft schafft sie es, sich in den Waggon eines Güterzugs zu retten – nur um dort eine Entdeckung zu machen, die ihr Leben für immer verändern wird: ein Baby, dessen Haut in einem blauen Schimmer leuchtet. Damit beginnt ein Abenteuer, das von England, in den Wilden Westen bis nach Tokio und an die Grenzen des Vorstellbaren führt. Ein Abenteuer voll Magie, Wunder und tödlicher Geheimnisse.

Lord Thornby has been trapped on his father's isolated Yorkshire estate for a year. There are no bars or chains; he simply can't leave. His sanity is starting to fray. When industrial magician John Blake arrives to investigate a case of witchcraft, he finds the peculiar, arrogant Thornby as alarming as he is attractive. John soon finds himself caught up in a dark fairy tale, where all the rules of magic - and love - are changed.    

Last year, Nick's stepbrother discovered a tear in the universe linking Ireland to a world of monsters, magic, and mayhem. Now those monsters are slipping through, and Nick's family seems determined to befriend every last one of them, conveniently ignoring the claws, fangs, and whip-like tails...

A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year A Book Riot Best Mystery & Thriller of the Year Three women in one twisted family race for answers in this striking mystery set in the Mexicali borderlands that "breathes new life into the myth of Persephone and Demeter" (Ana Reyes, author of The House...

October “Toby” Daye is finally doing all right. She’s settling into her new role as the Countess of Goldengreen; she’s actually dating again; she’s even agreed to take on Quentin as her official squire. Life is looking up all around - and that inevitably means it’s time for things to take a turn for the worse. Someone has kidnapped the sons of Duchess Dianda Lorden, regent of the Undersea Duchy of Saltmist. To prevent a war between land and sea, Toby must not only find the missing boys, but also prove that the Queen of the Mists was not behind their abduction.

In 1804, shortly before the Caribbean island of Saint Domingue is renamed Haiti, a group of women gather to bury a stillborn baby. Led by a lesbian healer and midwife named Mer, the women's lamentations inadvertently release the dead infant's "unused vitality" to draw Ezili - the Afro-Caribbean goddess of sexual desire and love - into the physical world.  As Ezili explores her newfound powers, she travels across time and space to inhabit the midwife's body - as well as those of Jeanne, a mixed-race dancer and the mistress of Charles Baudelaire living in 1880s Paris, and Meritet.