Ergebnis für "The Joy of Science" in Science Fiction & Fantasy

Bold, queer and utterly thrilling, Hell's Heart is a speculative, spicy, slow-burn adventure from the bestselling author of Boyfriend Material, Alexis Hall. Earth is dead. Which leaves humanity stuck living under domes on planets that will kill them if they run out of fuel – fuel harvested at...

It's Christmas time again, and all is not well at Frogmorton Farm. Jenny and Russell's daughter, Joy, is growing up. Not quickly enough as far as she's concerned but far too quickly according to Russell. Father and daughter are at odds, and suddenly the outlook is very dark indeed. That is until Thomas comes to the rescue. A Frogmorton Farm short.

In this book, Eva (Allie Dans) invites Witt to join her band EOD (Eve of Destruction) on a trial basis. When she’s attacked by an overenthusiastic fan one night, she protects herself using her ability to form small ports. Witt quickly recognizes the presence and power of her psychic talent. Then, when Ruchia invades Ucryn, Roni, and Hax decide that assassinating Pootin might stop the war. They recruit Witt to join them because their combined abilities should make such a task much easier. When Eva finds out about their plan, she wants to come along.

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Johnny Newman shepherds an alien around the Earth, selling its assets to truly foreign business interests. Where’s the joy in that? Where's the joy in life? It takes a skating crash with an Elvis impersonator in Vegas (of course) to change his life.

In a rundown area of Manchester, inside a bathroom in a small, terraced house overflowing with children and dysfunctional parents, an unfathomable, powerful entity infiltrates 12-year-old Serena's life with disastrous effects. The enigmatic force not only dramatically affects introverted Serena's life, but threatens the well-being of everyone she knows, especially those people who for some reason have earned the strange girl's displeasure. It soon becomes clear that nobody should ever upset Serena.

Da Bryanna in Schottland aufwächst, sind ihr Hobgoblins, Selkies und Kelpies aus den Geschichten ihrer Heimat wohlbekannt. Umso mehr staunt sie, als sie einige dieser Wesen eines Tages wirklich sieht. Leidet sie unter Halluzinationen? Bevor sie ihren Vater um Rat fragen kann, wird er von einer Frau entführt, deren Geruch Bryanna merkwürdig bekannt vorkommt. Anstatt die Polizei zu informieren folgt sie der Entführerin und landet im Abenteuer ihres Lebens.

Red Moon is a magnificent novel of space exploration and political revolution from New York Times bestselling author Kim Stanley Robinson. It is thirty years from now, and we have colonized the moon. American Fred Fredericks is making his first trip, his purpose to install a communications...

Jason Renshields is a depressed demon-hunter who is forced to unite his kingdom and track down a serial killer to protect the people he loves and find the will to live. Will he be enough to save the kingdom, or will he sit by and watch it burn? Along the way, our hero slays demons and duels in epic, well-crafted battles.

Tarl Cabot must prove his final loyalty to the harsh and caste-bound planet known as Counter Earth. “Surrender Gor,” reads a message sent from the Others, a mysterious people from the worlds of steel. Either the proud rulers of Gor must submit or be destroyed. Now Tarl is leaving the decadent city of Port Kar to wander in the wilds of Gor, taking up the sword to defend his rulers and enemies, the Priest-Kings, for he knows that the fate of his home planet, Earth, is inextricably tied to the fate of Gor.

Hadley Hunter is living the good life until a group of authors shows up on Moonstone Bay, and one of them clearly has murder on their mind. Jasmine Riley was the lone female writer in a male-dominated genre, and she was on top of her game. When she winds up dead in the ditch on the highway outside of the city, suspicion turns to her competition. There’s just one problem...the culprit might be supernatural.

The universe is darkening. Joy and happiness are being sucked out of everyone, everywhere, and nobody seems to know how or why it’s happening. Except a young woman who goes by the very name of Joy. Stealing a spacecraft and crash-landing on a frozen planet, Joy begins to use her mysterious sense to track down and experience the memories of a man named Lothar. Through Lothar’s various memories of an ancient tradition called Christmas, Joy witnesses the destruction of happiness and watches as a dreadful war claims the lives of many.

London. Post apocalypse. A group of survivors struggle to make a meagre life in a post-apocalyptic world overrun by mutated humans and creatures. For Jaxx and Rhema Bastion—born and raised on the top floor of the Access News tower—it’s all they’ve ever known. The discovery of a young child, Luna, almost feral and living alone in an abandoned building, changes their lives forever. When fate splits them up, the Access News tower comes under attack and the remaining survivors are forced to move on.

The battle-weary Companions count their blessings when they find refuge at a tranquil ville, founded on the principles of harmony and enlightenment. However, they soon discover this supposed utopia is anything but. Violence waits in the silence, hidden beneath the pagodas and prayer halls. As sinister machinations unfurl like lotus petals, the Companions reckon with the true price of inner peace in a world gone mad.

After Anova sacrificed her humanity to save the fae she loves, Death comes to collect on their deal. But when his demand of her is something they can’t stomach, Anova knows there is only one fae who can help. Even if he is the one hellbent on having her, the cruel King Hellmyr.

In a world where the balance of light and darkness teeters on the edge of destruction, Kaelion never imagined he was destined for more than an ordinary life. Haunted by dreams of an ancient door and whispers of sacrifice, he dismisses them as nothing more than stories—until the shadows come for him. Pursued by the forces of Blackwell, the Avatar of Shadow, and guided by cryptic prophecies, Kaelion embarks on a perilous journey across cursed isles, forgotten kingdoms, and realms beyond time itself.

A girl from Kansas wins a ride to orbit in a lottery. A physicist sets up a mysterious experiment on the same ship. When the experiment is turned on, the girl from Kansas takes the ship through the mysterious Beyond to a new star. Thus begins an intriguing future history in which humans have a rare talent for exploration that is the envy of all the Galaxy.

Indrajit Twang is the 427th epic poet of his people, the only person alive to carry their entire epic history and mythology in his head. His people are dwindling in number, and if he can't find a successor in the great city of Kish, their story will disappear with them. Fix grew up a foundling on the ancient streets of Kish and is making his living as a mercenary. The woman he loves married someone else, and Fix has turned to buying and selling risk on the black market - but is he trying to impress her, or prove something to himself?

I shouldn’t even be here. Somehow, I've gone from living an ordinary life back on Earth to being offered up as a reward to the victor of an alien death match on a planet called Teneca. And when the massive warrior with two-toned eyes strides out into the arena, cold fear fills me. Sure, he might be more gorgeous than any man I’ve ever seen, but he’s also a brutal fighter, and there’s a coldness to his expression that makes me think he stopped feeling emotions a long time ago. I’m terrified of what he’ll do to me if he wins me...until the strangest thing happens.

The brutality of war was all Ian Troy had ever known. Peace was all he ever wanted. Fate had other plans when it placed the Crown of Stones, an ancient artifact of untold power, into his battle-weary hands. With one reckless wish, he ended a conflict that had been tearing the realms apart since before he was born—and paid a terrible price. A decade later, Ian is still haunted by that tragic day. Running from the blood in his veins and on his hands, he struggles to forget—what he’s done and what he is.