Ergebnis für "Sand" in Alternative Geschichte

Erik, zukünftiger Thronerbe des Hauses Tanneburg, hatte nach langanhaltenden Meinungsverschiedenheiten bezüglich des Fortbestandes des Reiches und des Umganges mit dem geflohenen Volk der Hassaren, im Streit mit seinem Vater Viktor, fluchtartig die Stadt, sein Erbe und den zukünftigen Herrschaftssitz verlassen. Die Pläne des Königs, wiederholt gegen die Eindringlinge in die Schlacht zu ziehen, teilte der junge Prinz nicht und befand sich nun, in B

A New York Times Notable Book BuzzFeed 50 Books We Can’t Wait to Read this Year New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice National Bestseller “Brilliant and incendiary.” — Jeff VanderMeer, New York Times Book Review "Stunning. . . . Yuknavitch understands that our...

It is April 1964 in a World in which the swinging sixties never happened. Two Soviet tank armies have fallen on Iran and are poised to pour down from the Zagros Mountains onto the Iraqi floodplains of the Tigris and the Euphrates like wolves upon the fold. The Shah is dead, Tehran has been destroyed by a nuclear strike; while in Iraq there has been a coup d'état, and civil war has broken out. All that stands between the Red Army and mastery of the Persian Gulf are a few dozen British tanks and penny packets of troops.

Red Sands is the story of Strike Team 3, a combined arms unit consisting of mechanized infantry Strykers, and Tanks. Natanz is a hardened Fuel Enrichment Plant, covering sixty-two square miles located twenty-six feet underground and protected by a concrete wall that's eight feet thick. And on top of that, the Americans will have to overcome a mechanized security force at third larger than their force.

1941. An hour before the attack on Pearl Harbour, a man from the future materializes in President Roosevelt's office. His offer of military aid may cut the war and its pending atrocities short and alter the course of the future. The future. Welcome to Mars, where the lives of three ordinary people become entwined in one dingy smokesbar the moment an assassin opens fire. The target: the mysterious Bill Glimmung. But is Glimmung even real?

Lambda Award Winner Speakers of the Dead is a mystery novel centering around the investigative exploits of a young Walt Whitman, in which the reporter-cum-poet navigates the seedy underbelly of New York City's body-snatching industry in an attempt to exonerate his friend of a wrongful murder...