Ergebnis für "The Cavaliers" in Science Fiction & Fantasy

Wayne dreamed of piloting a thirty-foot-tall walking robot that was closer to a battle tank than anything else. They were called Walkers. They were armed with laser cannons, rockets, missiles, and heavy kinetic weapons more similar to artillery pieces than guns, and everything that went with that. Unfortunately, he had been declined military service. His only avenue left to become a Walker Pilot was to make it happen all on his own. And he did just that. He became a true Cavalier, was wounded, gained squad mates, and founded the House of Hesh.

Wayne dreamed of piloting a thirty-foot-tall walking robot that was closer to a battle-tank than anything else. They were called Walkers. They were armed with laser cannons, rockets, missiles, and heavy kinetic weapons more similar to artillery pieces than guns, and everything that went with that. Unfortunately, he had been declined military service. His only avenue left to become a Walker Pilot was to make it happen all on his own. Under his own power. With his own hands. Literally. Working his fingers to the bone, saving all he could, and digging through junkyards and salvage pits,

Heir to one of the leading "Four Horsemen" mercenary companies, Jim Cartwright is having a bad year. Having failed his high school VOWS tests, he's just learned his mother bankrupted the family company before disappearing, robbing him of his Cavalier birthright. But the Horsemen of eras past were smart - they left a legacy of equipment Jim can use to complete the next contract and resurrect the company.

The first three books in the Carlson's Cavaliers saga, condensed into one all-encompassing story.

Jim Cartwright, commander of Cartwright’s Cavaliers and Minister of War for the Terran Federation, has been struggling with all the hats he has to wear. Merc commander, minister, and leader of Earth’s Raknar forces for their allies, the Dusman. The strain’s causing him…issues, and he decides to visit the surviving human colonies to get away for a bit.

It was Charles I's love for his queen, Henrietta Maria, that plummeted England into the darkness of the Civil Wars, but it was the love and loyalty of another man that sustained her through days of betrayal, destitution, and death.

Tall and brave, Harry Jermyn is captivated by the witty French princess, just 14 years old when she sails with him to Dover, queen of a land she has never seen, of a people whose language she cannot speak, who despise her for her faith - and wife of a king she has never met.

Jamère Burvelle poursuit ses études à l'École royale de cavalerie, mais l'antagonisme entre fils d'anciens et de nouveaux nobles croît toujours, attisé par le directeur de l'établissement qui prend des mesures de plus en plus draconiennes pour expulser les élèves de la nouvelle aristocratie. La tension mène à des affrontements qui, pour être sournois, n'en sont pas moins violents. Pris dans cette tourmente, Jamère doit, en outre, faire face aux exigences de la femme-arbre qui, dans ses rêves, lui ordonne de chasser les "envahisseurs".

Un thriller dystopique. Dans une Milan du futur tombée aux mains d’un cartel d’affairistes, un psychiatre hypnotiseur se double d’un tueur à gages d’un genre très spécial. Une redoutable partie d’échecs s’engage... Théo Frilet exprime avec brio la tension psychologique qui se déploie tout du long de ce savoureux récit.

Un royaume divisé, instable, des forces luttant pour le pouvoir. Un Ordre de femmes chevauchant des dragons. Des matriarches, des cavalières, des écuyères et, parmi elles, Sophie, l'élue, qui attend. Pour trouver sa place, elle devra louvoyer entre les intrigues de la cour et de son Ordre, affronter ses peurs et ses doutes, choisir son propre destin, devenir qui elle est vraiment.

Merlino indaga intorno alle misteriose sparizioni delle due persone a lui più care: Julia, assassinata e ora reincarnata come suo nemico; e suo padre, Corwin, scomparso, ma che sembra aver lasciato delle tracce che danno a Merlino la speranza che sia ancora vivo. Nel frattempo i poteri dell'Ordine e del Caos intervengono, costringendo Merlino a compiere una scelta: le Corti del Caos, Amber, il Logruso l'Unicorno. Che cosa hanno in serbo le forze misteriose per lui?

the early spring of 2900, a Fury class Dropship, trailing smoke and fire, dropped a single person into the Macachee Swamp on the FWL planet Hamilton, fully expecting said person to die on impact. Luckily for him, he didn't. And so began a quest not only to find out why he'd been left for dead on a world not his own but to understand who and what he was.

Un cowboy alla guida di un camper, una ballerina bionda con la macchina in panne. Sulla statale, sotto il sole estivo, un incontro profumato di spezie e parole. Una piccola storia delicata, di sentimenti leggeri, il dialogo fra due anime solitarie che diventa comprensione e ascolto.

The third war is well underway, and the unit has taken work on Lyons, on the Combine's border. None of that can compare to the recent additions to Alex's life. But, being a loving father and husband will have to wait. Precentor Martial Jamison's legacy is rearing it's ugly head, and it's not just a few pot shots, when an entire company with DCMS air support comes calling!

Revenu dans sa famille pour assister au mariage de son frère aîné, Jamère se trouve en butte au mépris et à l'hostilité de tous à cause de son inexplicable embonpoint. Son père n'accepte pas que son fils soldat laisse libre cours à son appétit et l'accable de son profond mépris ; sa sœur Yaril ne lui cache pas la répugnance qu'il lui inspire et sa fiancée Carsina lui tourne le dos. Nul ne veut entendre son explication : il doit sa corpulence à la magie ocellionne, théorie dont sa part gernienne a du mal à se convaincre. Il a beau travailler comme un forcené aux champs, se priver de nourriture, rien n'y fait pour qu'il maigrisse.

Trekking across Davion space, on that quest for answers from a distant rockball called Banori, Alex and his unit get drug into two regional conflicts: First, they're ordered to Doneval II to protect a weapons factory, and when that goes sideways, they're dragged into a shooting war with House Kurita on the Davion world of Tancredi. Answers are just out of reach, will they finally get what they deserve?

Le roman "Les Amants étrangers", publié en 1961, tire son origine d'une nouvelle publiée en août 1952 dans la revue "Startling Stories". Il s'agissait du premier essai - et du premier chef-d'œuvre de Philip José Farmer -, qui par son thème audacieux lié à la sexualité fit forte sensation auprès des lecteurs du genre. Histoire d'amour entre un homme en rupture avec l'humanité et une extraterrestre en exil, "Les amants étrangers" met en scène une expédition humaine sur une planète où règnent des conditions de vie proches de la Terre.