Ergebnis für "Stoner" in Alternative Geschichte

Tex falls into a chasm and wakes up in a primitive land. Armed with a rifle and the skills of a bushman, he struggles to survive against pterodactyls and demonic barbarians. But when he meets beautiful primeval women who need his help, life in the stone age suddenly doesn't seem so bad. Tex vows to protect them and build a tribe. But that won’t be so easy. The immortal Necromancer of Darkoveld is spreading his forces across the land.

What does a master artificer need after eliminating a threat to the future empire? Nothing but a chance to finally pursue his craft in peace. I cheated death itself and returned to the glorious city on the Neva, the one we built together with the Czar. Three hundred years have passed, and...

Au XIIe siècle de notre ère - celle de Jésus et de sa sœur Sophia - , l’Europe est divisée entre les Christiens et les Géminites. Si, chez ces derniers, l’usage de la magie est encouragé, chez les Christiens, qui considèrent la sœur du Christ comme une envoyée de Satan, le seul fait d’être pourvu de talent peut valoir la mort.

Thomas "the Great Stoner" Stone once performed miraculous surgery upon Phillip Theophrastus Gribbleflotz, the World’s Greatest Alchemist, using his bare hands, no anesthesia, producing no pain, and leaving no scar. It would have been wonderful if it was real. But Dr. Tom Stone, the face of modern medicine, has been engaging in fake treatments—bringing all modern medicine into question.

A powerful order of warrior monks forged in the fires of the Crusades during the twelfth century, the legendary Knights Templar did not vanish entirely following their failed campaigns in the Holy Land. Having attained great power and arcane skill, they withdrew from the public eye but remained...

A Time War. A Broken Bloodline. One boy and his dragon caught between the past and the end of the world. When college dropout Nathan Thorne follows a tugging compass and a trail of impossible coincidences, he thinks his life is coming apart. Instead, he discovers the truth. His father is a missing time soldier. His childhood was stolen and reassembled in a different decade. And the strange nightmares that haunt him are not dreams at all… they are echoes of a war across history that has already begun.

This compelling combination of history and myth will suggest a radical alternative to evolution that explores a newfound reality and examines everything believed to be factual about our world. Science fiction meets thriller in this twisting tale of ancestral warfare.

Having angered the great god Pan, Eno must leave Greece until the goat-footed one cools off. The High Priest of Amun in Thebes, Egypt, needs his help but is fuzzy on the details, except that several heroes have already perished after taking on the job. A job offer in Egypt seems like the perfect opportunity to escape but no assignment is ever as simple as it seems. Family issues, a depressed pharaoh, and a girl who claims that she and Eno are fated to be married are the least of his problems.

1923 in Midland, Texas, and Miss Dara falls in love with her best friend - who also happens to be a girl. Terrified, Miss Dara takes a job at Sugar Land Prison for men, hoping to keep her secret attractions under lock and key. Once there, she befriends inmate and soon-to-be legendary blues singer Leadbelly, who sings his way out (true story) - but only after he makes her promise to free herself from her own prison. Sugar Land is a triumphant, beautiful debut novel about the heart’s refusal to be denied what the heart wants. 

What if Cleopatra faked her death and escaped on a pirate ship? While her sister sailed for Wales with the most valuable ancient books from her Library of Alexandria? And they both landed in an imagined new world filled with crypto-creatures and historical humans? Trekking the desert of 1st century New Mexico, Cleo from the Yucatan and Alex from Nova Scotia, they’d need bravery and help from friends and lovers to evade inner demons and determined villains across an uncharted wilderness.

JD Duncan loves his family and likes to be left alone. When America is attacked, JD is 20 miles from home, and is forced to walk back on foot. With help from his son Jack, he returns to find his town quickly descending into chaos. The Duncan family moves to a nearby farm, with trouble finding them at every turn. America has been infiltrated by terrorists. With coordinated attacks on the country’s infrastructure, the US is quickly brought to its knees.