Ergebnis für "Saturn" in Belletristik

In 2101, having conquered the Solar System, most humans are choosing to tie their minds to an Artificial Intelligence. The only place to be free of AI is living off-world, with Saturn and its vast system of moons serving as the wild frontier. The only caveats to living there: the funds to fly a billion miles into space and a pledge to keep vigil against the threat of AI. Otherwise, what you do out there is your business.

Nancy Kranich (played by Emmy-nominated actress Natasha Lyonne of Russian Doll and Orange Is the New Black) is a night nurse on an orbiting space station. But Nancy hates her job, is sick of space, and longs to find adventure and a safe place to smoke cigarettes that won’t blow everyone up. But when Nancy gets caught up in an outer-space conspiracy involving President Kennedy, former vice-president Richard Nixon, and an intergalactic object that could change the course of history, she gets way more adventure than she bargained for.

Rooted in deep research and told through the fates of three real-life historical figures including the English American political activist Thomas Paine, the French Revolution's leading radical journalist Camille Desmoulins, the Machiavellian politician Joseph Fouché, and the women who stirred these radicals, Children of Saturn continues the literary tradition advanced by Hilary Mantel, promising listeners a thrilling ride and an all-encompassing understanding of one of the most important watershed events in world history.

The game of life in Middle-Earth hemisphere is often interrupted like breaking news, a sudden reminder to the occupants on the face of the earth that the eye of the queen of the universe is beaming down on humans and mankind like the ray of the Sun.

This collection contains three short stories: "The Vampire Hunter", "The Undead", and "The Gatekeeper".