Ergebnis für "Sequence" in Science Fiction

Hamburg 2037: Lisa XIII öffnet die Augen. Sie ist anders. Sie will leben. Und ist bereit dafür zu kämpfen. Alex kehrt nach drei Jahren in die Stadt zurück. Niemand kann allein gegen die ganze Welt kämpfen. Dr. Agnes Gutter konnte als CEO von Better Life seit den mysteriösen Ereignissen vor drei Jahren vieles zum Besseren wenden. Nur ein Projekt entzieht sich noch ihrer Kontrolle. Zu viel Naivität, zu viel Profitgier und zu viel Ignoranz. Es hätte verhindert werden können.

Hamburg 2034: Alex liebt Farben, Bewegung und Emotionen. Er hat alles dafür gegeben, sich für den Studiengang "Bildende Künste" einzuschreiben. Eine Fehlentscheidung, so seine Professorin, die ihm empfiehlt, ein technisches Studium in Erwägung zu ziehen. Wegen seiner Freundin nimmt Alex an einer Testreihe für logische Puzzles teil. Er hasst Mathematik, aber die Bezahlung ist lukrativ und die Aufgabe ist lächerlich einfach. Eine Entscheidung mit Folgen. Sieben Jahre zuvor: Dr. Olaf Baringhaus hat aus Liebe zu seiner Frau seine Seele an die Wissenschaft verkauft. Heute ist Zahltag.

Hamburg 2055: Alex sitzt in einem Bunker fest. Tief unter der Erde. Allein. Und ohne Hoffnung. Dabei müsste er nur die Augen öffnen, um die Realität zu erkennen. Dr. Mia Baringhaus wagt mehr, um ihn zurückzuholen, als sie sich leisten kann. Ihr Leben zerbricht. Sie wurde benutzt. Belogen. Sie ist ein dankbarer Sündenbock. Luca hasst ihren Vater, liebt ihn und kann sich nicht mehr an sein Gesicht erinnern. Sie wollte nie so sein wie er.

Dune: The Battle of Corrin It has been fifty-six hard years since the events of The Machine Crusade. Following the death of Serena Butler, the bloodiest decades of the Jihad take place. Synchronized Worlds and Unallied Planets are liberated one by one, and at long last, after years of struggle...

Paul of Dune is a sci-fi adventure novel everyone will want to read and no one will be able to forget. "Scott Brick delivers a powerful and entertaining reading reminiscent of a theatrical performance in a brilliant one-man show. Brick's voice is ideally suited to this extraordinary tale; no...

With their usual skill, Brian Herbert and Kevin Anderson have taken ideas left behind by Frank Herbert and filled them with living characters and a true sense of wonder. Where Paul of Dune picked up the saga directly after the events of Dune, The Winds of Dune begins after the events of Dune...

The Postponement is a restrained, high-concept science-fiction drama about a generation ship that finally reaches a viable planet—and discovers that arrival may be the most dangerous moment of the journey. After 143 years in transit, the ship confirms the existence of Threshold-1: a planet capable of sustaining human life. According to the charter, the population must vote—land and begin planetary settlement, or continue onward and remain a civilization in motion. The decision is binding. The consequences are irreversible.

Andrea Remus and Thomas Charon are trapped inside the Pandora Complex, a phenomena which causes thoughts to travel from one memory to the next as they are downloaded into the Pandora system. Will Andrea and Thomas regain their full memories? What dangers will they encounter as their intense visits to the past cause a stunning affect? The riveting Sequence questions our reality, while taking the listener on a remarkable journey into the mind.

Pandora's humans have been recovering land from its raging seas at an accelerated pace since The Lazarus Effect. The great kelp of the seas, sentient but electronically manipulated by humans, buffers Pandora's wild currents to restore land and facilitate the booming sea trade. New settlements rise overnight, but children starve in their shadows. An orbiting assembly station is near completion of Project Voidship, which is the hope of many for finding a better world.

The first book in C.J.Cherryh's eponymous series, Foreigner begins an epic tale of the survivors of a lost spacecraft who crash-land on a planet inhabited by a hostile, sentient alien race. From its beginnings as a human-alien story of first contact, the Foreigner series has become a true science fiction odyssey, following a civilization from the age of steam through early space flight to confrontations with other alien species in distant sectors of space. It is the masterwork of a truly remarkable author.

Dopo che i genitori del giovane Caldan furono uccisi, un gruppo di monaci decise di crescerlo e iniziarlo agli arcani misteri della stregoneria. Ora, mentre due potenti imperi si affrontano in un letale gioco di supremazia, magie violente e creature leggendarie sono state scatenate. Per invertire le sorti della guerra e prevenire l'annientamento, Caldan deve imparare a sfruttare la sua spaventosa e proibita magia.

Ten “Doc” Low is a medic with a dark past, riding the wastes of the desert moon Factus, dispensing medicine to the needy and death to those who cross the laws of the mysterious Seekers. Cursed by otherworldly forces, she stays alone to keep herself safe, and to keep others safe from her … But when she experiences a terrifying vision of conflict and the deaths of those she once called friends, she must drag herself back to the land of the living to stop a war before it begins.

C.J. Cherryh's second trilogy set in her Foreigner Universe comes to a thrilling conclusion with Explorer. The final installment to this sequence of the Hugo Award-winning author's most successful series, Explorer follows a human delegate trapped in a distant star system facing a potentially bellicose alien ship.

From its beginnings as a human-alien story of first contact, the Foreigner series has become a true science fiction odyssey. The ninth book in the epic series, and the third book in the third Foreigner trilogy, Deliverer is a worthy contribution to Cherryh's magnum opus that is destined to be a classic.

Alpha Station, orbiting the world of the atevi, has taken aboard 5,000 human refugees from a destroyed station in a distant sector of space. With supplies and housing stretched to the breaking point, it is clear that the refugees must be relocated down to the planet, and soon. But not to the atevi mainland, rather to the territory reserved for humans: the island of Mospheira. Tabini-aiji, the powerful political head of the atevi, tasks his brilliant human diplomat, Bren Cameron, to negotiate with the Mospheiran government.

Cajeiri is the young son of the powerful leader of the Western Association-and he has become a target for forces bent on destroying his father's rule. For Cajeiri is the first ateva to understand the humans living among them-an understanding that threatens his own race.

It's been a year of upheaval since Bren Cameron's return from space - a year since he and the aiji-dowager, one of his most powerful atevi allies, returned home from their two-year interstellar mission to find the government overthrown and their world in chaos. Now, at last, things on the atevi world seem to be on the right track, and Bren hopes that life may soon become much more tranquil. But something is coming, quietly, stealthily - just the first ominous twinkle of a new star in the heavens....

A powerful alien force threatens humanity. Can we rise to face it? Salvation Lost is the extraordinary second volume in Peter F. Hamilton's Salvation Sequence, a high-octane adventure from the award-winning author. 'The most powerful imagination in science fiction' – Ken Follett, author of The...

Earth is falling. Will our call for help be heard? The Saints of Salvation is the extraordinary conclusion to Peter F. Hamilton’s Salvation Sequence: a high-octane adventure from a master of the genre. 'The most powerful imagination in science fiction' – Ken Follett, author of The Pillars of...

Salvation is the first title in a stunning science fiction trilogy, the Salvation Sequence, by Peter F. Hamilton. For fans of Iain M. Banks and Dan Simmons. Know your enemy – or be defeated. AD 2204 An alien shipwreck is discovered on a planet at the very limits of human expansion – so...