Ergebnis für "The Hole" in Action & Abenteuer

Ein mysteriöses Objekt droht, unser Sonnensystem zu zerstören. Obwohl das Überleben der Menschheit auf dem Spiel steht, nimmt niemand die Entdeckung der jungen Astrophysikerin Maribel Pedreira ernst. Währenddessen schürft an der Grenze unseres Sonnensystems eine eingeschworene Crew von Außenseitern auf einem Asteroiden nach seltenen Erzen - bis sich herausstellt, dass sie die Letzten und die Einzigen sind, die unsere Welt vielleicht noch retten können. Denn The Hole rast unerbittlich auf die Sonne zu.

A mysterious object threatens to destroy our solar system. The survival of humankind is at risk, but nobody takes the warning of young astrophysicist Maribel Pedreira seriously. At the same time, an exiled crew of outcasts mines for rare minerals on a lone asteroid. When other scientists finally acknowledge Pedreira's alarming discovery, it becomes clear that these outcasts are the only ones who may be able to save our world, knowing that the Hole hurtles inexorably toward the sun.

At a time when we are all confronted by not one, but many crossroads in our modern lives - identity, technology, trust, politics, and a global pandemic - celebrated mythologist and wilderness guide Martin Shaw delivers Smoke Hole: three metaphors to help us understand our world, one that is assailed by the seductive promises of social media and shadowed by a health crisis that has brought loneliness and isolation to an all-time high.

Riding high after successfully defending his home country Calvin is assigned as Kala's bodyguard on a diplomatic mission to Uleis, a merchant nation with whom a deal must be struck to ensure Gadvera's continued survival. But Uleis is run by a secretive cabal of powerful cultists, and when Calvin crosses them in typical Calvinian fashion, they do to him the same thing they do to all their problems: toss him in a hole from which there is no return.

Bunny girls make everything better. So far, this has proven to be an absolute truth to Hunter. Stranded in an alternate version of Earth with most of his memories gone, the super soldier has been doing whatever it takes to protect his new mates, help whatever refugees they find in the process, and get them all to safety.

Down the Rabbit Hole Collection One collects the first four episodes of the series, and includes two bonus short stories that take place from the girls' perspective.

The world, as Elliot Bishop and Evajean Rhodes know it, is gone. Destroyed. In just two weeks, a horrific plague raged across the planet - driving its victims insane before killing them.The two survivors set out on an unimaginable journey, driven by a cryptic message from Evajean's husband: If anything terrible happens, you must get to Salt Lake City. But the pair soon discover they are not alone, and that the plague has done more than kill.

George R. R. Martin and science fiction's top authors delve into the adventurous superhero universe, Wild Cards, in the sixth book of this fan favorite series. Since a strange alien virus created the superhuman beings known as Aces and Jokers four decades ago, they have struggled for respect and...

“What space opera is meant to be. A brilliantly complex novel about love, loss, and war.” —K.B. Wagers A starship captain and her crew face conspiracies and betrayals as they clash with various factions of a galactic civil war in a thrilling space adventure by New York Times bestselling...

William Johnson had a problem. Two days ago a department of the government ordered his family eliminated. He was stunned and he was angry. Ever since 2025, the government has been out of control. Doing as it pleased without concern for who it hurt along the way. He had ignored it up to this point, but no longer. He was determined to make a change. He didn’t know how, or when, or what form it would take, but it was going to change.

En una pequeña ciudad minera en el salvaje oeste americano el sheriff Rooster Chance va a tener que enfrentarse a algo más que una banda de forajidos, cuando detiene y mete en el calabozo a su jefe. Y se va a encontrar solo, con la única ayuda de Chico, un delicuente arrepentido del que no se puede fiar demasiado. Pero a medida que va avanzando la noche se va a dar cuenta de que el ambiente del pueblo se está enrareciendo y van a tener que enfrentarse a algo mucho más salvaje y desconocido que una banda de cuatreros...donde está la gente?

Graham, a functioning alcoholic and Harvard medical student, stumbles across a puzzling communication from his deceased Navy SEAL brother. Graham must work to unravel a litany of secrets sobering in their implications not only for himself, but for the past 12,000 years of human history and the secrets of the universe.

Franz Laurenz does a deal with Pope Peter II to save the life of his daughter. The pope has found out where the mysterious wooden box is hidden and has sent Maria there to find it. Brother Anselmo successfully hacks into Seth's CCTV surveillance system allowing Franz Laurenz to watch powerlessly as Peter and Nicholas meet their fate in Area 23.

The alligator had a good life, but his neighbor was a little a**hole. His neighbor just happened to be a squirrel. Not all squirrels are a**holes, but this one was. What was the poor alligator to do? He did what anybody would do: went into his garage and built a 60mm machine-gun, a flamethrower, and a grenade launcher, with which to deal with the problem. Then, suddenly, things got crazy.

After declaring his independence from the corrupt Constellation, rebel General Adolphus knows the crackdown is coming. Now he needs to pull together the struggling Hellhole colony, the ever-expanding shadow-Xayan settlement, and his connections with the other Deep Zone worlds. Even then, he doubts his desperate measures will be enough. Diadem Michella Duchenet has collected a huge space fleet led by Commodore Escobar Hallholme, son of the hero who originally defeated Adolphus.

This first of two short stories is a prequel to a novel that delves into the world of big utilities, big coal, and the battle for green energy. It begins with a young coal miner from Kentucky who is taken under the wing of a wealthy industrialist who repays a long-overdue debt of gratitude to the young man's father. The transformation of the boy from a poor coal miner to a successful executive juxtaposes corporate bottom lines with his original Eastern Kentucky roots of humility and honesty.

Mark is in the center of the economic powerhouse planet, Mars. In the year 2245, Mars has already been occupied by humans, and digital currencies and self-flying spaceships are being used. His lead role is a space explorer, where he sets out on a suicide space mission through the black hole. He then finds himself caught in a different universe where there is full-blown war between two different planets.

Captain Joe Storn, shanghaied in Luna, promoted to admiral, and ordered back to space, cannot refuse. Mother Earth is dying. All her creatures need a lifeline. Joe must take a fleet of seven vast freeze-ships halfway across the Galaxy to the Magnus System, where three Earth-like planets promise hope. His ships carry the basic material to recreate every living thing from Earth, including humans, in deep stasis to withstand the 1,000-year voyage. An unforeseen magnetic anomaly inexorably drags the fleet to the wrong planet, which has some decidedly unfriendly denizens.

Joe Storn has come a long way since the Dirtsider Expedition landed and he formed the 100-strong Dirtsider Troop, men and women who followed him because they chose not to live under draconian rules laid down by those who equated “daring” with “dying”. But now, their numbers are dwindling through accident and suicide, and the only hope of fulfilling the mandate he was charged with, as admiral of the Expedition, “save humanity from extinction”, lies in replenishing their population from the cryostasis chambers aboard the seven ships they arrived in.

Two tours of Iraq and Navy SEAL training couldn't prepare Erik for the night half his house was destroyed by a Florida sinkhole. What he finds at the bottom of that new chasm will lead him on an interplanetary journey that questions not only his reality, but that of the human race.