Ergebnis für "Skyborn Band 2 Die Macht des Himmelssteins" in Science Fiction & Fantasy

The Sister Queens have fallen and Ascarlia lies naked before the storm. A Nihlvarian plan, years in the making, has seen Ascarlia's enemy seize the capital Skar Magnol. Now the invaders look to the wealthy port city of Olversahl to complete their conquest. Elvine is trapped at the heart of the conspiracy, yet her role in the new government offers the chance to plan resistance from within. She must tread a fine line between loyalty and secret disobedience, knowing the smallest mistake will mean her death.

Seit Monaten kämpft sich Lucas durch ein zerstörtes Amerika. Nach einer außerirdischen Invasion steht die Welt kurz vor dem Kollaps, denn bei dem Krieg gegen die feindlichen Xalaner wurde die Atmosphäre stark beschädigt. Lucas' einziges Ziel ist es, seine einstige Heimat Portland zu erreichen. Doch als er dort ankommt, findet er nur einen riesigen Krater vor. Jeglicher Hoffnung beraubt, entdeckt er plötzlich in einem halb verschütteten Gebäude ein Alienraumschiff. Mit ihm könnte er der sterbenden Erde entkommen. Leider ist er nicht der Einzige, der Anspruch auf das Wrack erhebt.

Um hinter das Geheimnis um den Unfalltod ihrer Mutter zu kommen, trat Bree Matthews einer Geheimgesellschaft bei: den Legendborn, die Nachfahren der Artusritter, die die Menschen seit Jahrhunderten vor Dämonen beschützen. Durch die Legendborn entdeckte Bree, welche Macht in ihr schlummert – eine Macht, die sie für immer verändert hat. Im Krieg gegen die Dämonen bahnt sich ein blutiger Höhepunkt an: Nick, der Junge, in den sich Bree verliebt hat, wurde entführt. Um ihn zu retten, muss Bree lernen, ihre Kräfte zu kontrollieren, ohne sich selbst dabei zu verlieren.

Ever since magic stormed the world, the price for human survival is surrendering your firstborn to the monsters. But this year it's Nova's turn, and the monsters better watch their backs.

Lucas und Asha haben die nahezu vollständige Auslöschung der Menschheit durch die Alien-Invasoren, die Xalaner, überlebt. Sie haben die Erde verlassen und Zuflucht bei den Soranern gesucht, die einen ewig scheinenden Krieg gegen die Xalaner führen. Lucas und Asha werden die Erdgeborenen - "Earthborn" - genannt und wie Helden, ja fast wie Götter, willkommen geheißen. Vor Millionen Zuschauern legen sie einen Eid ab: Rache für die Zerstörung der Erde zu nehmen und an der Seite der Soraner in den Krieg zu ziehen.

"Gehe niemals einen Pakt mit dem Schattenkönig ein – das war die eine goldene Regel, und ich war dabei, sie zu brechen." Jeden Monat eine unschuldige Seele an den König des Schattenreichs opfern – so sieht Jujus Leben als Mitglied und zukünftige Hohepriesterin des mächtigsten Voodoo-Clans in ganz New Orleans aus. Und sie hasst es! Schlimmer wird es nur noch, als sie erfährt, dass Dean – seines Zeichens sexy Barkeeper und Jujus bester Freund – einen Pakt mit ebenjenem Teufel geschlossen hat.

Kyrus had lived a quiet life as a scribe until his dreams begin seeping into his waking life. Fanciful tales of magic and battle turn out to be real. In his sleep, he witnesses the adventures of his twin. Kyrus is swept up in the intrigues of those who already know of this connection between worlds. As his knowledge of the two worlds grows, so does his entanglement in the intrigues between them. Kyrus discovers friends, lovers, and adversaries among the twinborn. His knowledge of magic grows until he becomes a valuable pawn for masterminds of plots that threaten empires.

Cadmus Errol is the greatest inventor that Tellurak has ever known. His clockwork graces the spires of cities across the world. Yet in another, darker world, he lives the life of a slave. There, humanity is held underfoot, bound in service to the victors of a war fought untold generations ago. It will take all the wits and resources of the best that humanity can muster to break that hold. Can Cadmus Errol, the Mad Tinker, be the one to free them all? Or will his daughter take a shortcut through dangerous science to wipe out humanities oppressors? The Twinborn Chronicles: War of 3 Worlds is an epic fantasy series with multiple point of view characters. If you love steampunk gadgetry, heroes who get their hands dirty, and a DIY heroine, this series is for you!

It's been 10 years since the Battlemage War, where thousands died as mages sundered the earth and split the sky. Habreel believes eradicating magic is the only way to ensure a lasting peace. He will do anything to achieve his goal, even if it means murdering every child born with the ability. As deaths involving magic increase and the seat of magical learning - the Red Tower - falls under suspicion, two students and one lawbringer must do everything they can to combat Habreel and his followers before magic disappears from the world for good.

Exiled and on the run, Vir must now contend with not only a strange and foreign world far from home, but a princess' elite assassins as well. Assassins who happen to wield the strongest living being in the realm. Seeking answers to the long-buried secrets of his identity, Vir flees south to the fertile lands of the Rani Queendom, creeping closer to the fabled Boundary between realms.

Saskia, Dorian, Evie, and Victor aren’t exactly friends at their small high school on the middle-of-nowhere colony world of Meridian. Each has their own problems, from absent parents to supporting their family, getting into a good college to making the next hit holo-film. But those problems were nothing next to the threat now facing their world: The alien alliance known as the Covenant is laying siege to Meridian, for reasons that aren’t so easily explained.

On the battlefields of the future, death is not the end for a soldier. The Revenant Program collects badly wounded soldiers broken by war and converts them into unthinking, unfeeling cyborg weapons. Their bodies are immune to pain, their minds impervious to fear and doubt. All controlled by a neural implant called the Imperative. They are the ideal force for any mission too deadly or too difficult for normal men. A force that answers to the darkest corners of the military.

After decades hunting wanted offworlders throughout the solar system, Corporate Bounty Hunter Malcolm Graves doesn't bother asking questions. So long as the pay is right, he's the man for the job. And he always works alone. But when a high-profile bombing on Earth has Pervenio Corp clamoring for answers, they force him to team up with a strange, cyber-augmented partner. A young man more interested in statistics than instinct. Their assignment: Track down a suspected group of extremists from Titan who will go to any length to free their moon from the grip of Earth's corporations.

The world of Sepulchre IV stands on the brink of destruction. From the stars the Red Rage descends, intent on murder and massacre, and only the elite Firedrakes of the Salamanders stand against them.