Ergebnis für "The Museum" in Science Fiction & Fantasy

Liam wird in die Welt eines international agierenden Museumsnetzwerks katapultiert, welches magische Artefakte sicher verwahrt – denn mit diesen lassen sich gefährliche Kräfte kanalisieren. Doch die Museen werden von einem gefährlichen Gegner bedroht und schnell wird klar: Liams eigene Vergangenheit ist eng mit den Geschehnissen verknüpft.

Alles, was du noch nicht über die Welt der "besonderen Kinder" wusstest: "Miss Peregrines Museum der besonderen Kinder" ergänzt die abenteuerliche Fantasy-Reihe von Bestsellerautor Ransom Riggs und ist ein unverzichtbarer Wegweiser durch die magische Welt – zauberhaft ausgestattet mit neuen geheimnisvollen Fotografien und Illustrationen. Miss Peregrine höchstpersönlich verrät alles, was du über Jacob Portman, seine Freunde und die Ymbrynen wissen musst.

A visit to London’s Natural History Museum became a horror show as magic flooded Earth. Now, Thomas is entombed there as a Dungeon Core, with only the creatures on display available as minions. All over the globe, patches of land have been replaced by strange alien environments, containing not only monsters from myth and legend, but also humanity’s worst nightmares. Leviathans stir at the bottom of the ocean, dragons have reclaimed the skies, and shadows are once again something to fear.

Shigidi, der Gott der Albträume, will eigentlich nur eins: seine Zeit mit dem Succubus Nneoma genießen. Doch die Mächtigeren seines Pantheons haben andere Pläne für ihn, und wenn er seine Freiheit erlangen will, muss er ihnen gehorchen. Er erhält den Auftrag, ein mächtiges Artefakt aus dem Britischen Museum zu stehlen und in seine Heimat zurückzubringen. Für Nneoma kann er seinen düsteren Ursprung hinter sich lassen, er kann sogar ein Meisterdieb werden. Aber kann er die Götter retten? Und will er das überhaupt?

With this outrageous new novel, China Miéville has written one of the strangest, funniest, and flat-out scariest books you will read this—or any other—year. The London that comes to life in Kraken is a weird metropolis awash in secret currents of myth and magic, where criminals, police...

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Murderous mirrors. Vicious vampires. Soul-stealing circuses. Jamie Carter is slowly getting the hang of her new position as the museum curator. The museum's past is filled with dark secrets, deadly secrets. There are people hunting Jamie, trying to use her position to gain control of the museum and its power. With each new adventure, the threat to Jamie's life grows. Will Jamie be able to unravel the secrets of the museum in time or will she lose everything and everyone she cares about in the process?

Magic is real. People just don't like to talk about it. As far as most humans know, magic is confined only to the world of fairies, elves, and witches, but the staff at the museum know better. There is so much more.

In the tradition of Station Eleven, a literary thriller set partly on the roof of New York’s Museum of Natural History in a flooded future. "Eunice Wong narrates the band of survivors with tenderness while also conveying their gritty determination as they seek a new life in a world forever...

Welcome to the Museum of the Omniverse where you can safely experience actual events from every possible part of time and space. The museum is having some technical difficulties, however. Space time rifts have been opening throughout the museum and everyone has disappeared except for Mirandum, an exhibit curator. When a small group of visitors appears, Mirandum gives them a tour of the museum’s Dragon Exhibit while searching for clues to the museum’s ultimate fate.

Multi-billionaire Jacob Stone has spent much of his fortune creating New Eden, a preserve in the Alaskan wilderness for creatures out of the wildest reaches of scientific speculation. Monsters caught between human and animal shape; unimagined beasts that stalk, swim and fly through a world where legend and science are one. Cryptids. Now Stone has recruited the four remaining members of Task Force E, a renegade paramilitary group exposed to and transformed by a bizarre paranormal phenomenon, one that has left them with a strange sensitivity to--and affinity for—cryptids.

In the French mountain village of Eze, Cassiopeia visits an old friend who owns and operates the fabled Museum of Mysteries, a secretive place of the odd and arcane. When a robbery occurs at the museum, Cassiopeia gives chase to the thief and is plunged into a firestorm. Through a mix of modern-day intrigue and ancient alchemy, Cassiopeia is propelled back and forth through time, the inexplicable journeys leading her into a hotly contested French presidential election. Both candidates harbor secrets they would prefer to keep quiet, but an ancient potion could make that impossible.

A centuries-long curse is no match for rom-com shenanigans when a medieval knight is brought to life in modern-day Chicago. Forgotten by time and abandoned by hope, Sir Griffin de Beauford’s existence stretches out before him. Cursed by a ruthless enchanter to see, hear, and think, but never...

“This daughter of Mary Shelley delights and excites the border between story and science.”―Samantha Hunt “A novel about what we want and also what we can’t escape.”―Allegra Hyde “A haunting chord of a novel that will hang in the air long after you turn the final page...

"If you need to know men's secrets or if there's something you need to find. If you want to see the dinosaurs or the insides of your mind. If you want to watch the earth begin, or see what the apocalypse will leave behind, you need to thank Alice Anderson, for Alice is the mother of time." That was how the rhyme went. Every time traveler knew it. Everyone that is, except of course, for Alice herself, since she hadn't invented time travel yet. Since returning to London, Alice's life has been turned upside down. She's been accused of murder and lost her position in the scientific community. Her only ally in this journey is a strange man who seems to think that Alice may be about to open up a strange new world of possibilities, but is probably not telling her everything he knows.

Seit die Menschheit ins All aufgebrochen ist, hat sie eine wechselvolle Geschichte hinter sich: Die Terraner - wie sich die Angehörigen der geeinten Menschheit nennen - sind längst in ferne Sterneninseln vorgestoßen. Immer wieder treffen Perry Rhodan und seine Gefährten auf raumfahrende Zivilisationen und auf die Spur kosmischer Mächte, die das Geschehen im Universum beeinflussen. Im Jahr 1516 Neuer Galaktischer Zeitrechnung steht die Milchstraße seit nunmehr zwei Jahren unter dem Einfluss des Atopischen Tribunals, einer noch immer weitgehend rätselhaften Organisation, die vorgibt, im Rahmen der "Atopischen Ordo" für Frieden und Sicherheit zu sorgen.

70 million years ago in what will one day become Mongolia, a successor to Velociraptor faces struggle after struggle. Times have grown cold and her eggs need constant care, and constant guard. How does a wolf sized raptor survive in the shadows of giants? How does she adapt to changing climates or circumstance? And what happens when a threat from her own past finds her new home?

Just outside the small but colorful mountain resort town of Foxboro, Tennessee, lies Dr. Weirdman's Mountain Museum of Monsters, Curiosities, and Ancient Mysteries. Once a major tourist attraction, it offers travelers the amusement of touring unusual underground caves and pseudo-scientific exhibits ranging from strange creatures to the supposed artifacts of lost civilizations. Now the museum is a crumbling relic of an older age, fallen into disrepair. Its longtime owner has died, leaving it in the hands of a younger distant relative who knows nothing of how to run a failing museum.

After watching a documentary about a fifty-year-old unsolved crime, an otherwise ordinary guy finds himself both blessed and burdened by the ability to travel through time and space, but not in the physical sense, and only as it may relate to that unsolved crime. Braving the debilitating physical effects of his space time continuum journeys, he faces 1970s Mob bosses and their cronies, and murder and deceit, from both sides of the law.

Bubba and Uncle Father Joe head to the happiest place in the world to find out what's messing up Joe's ex-girlfriend's career making a museum exhibition of monster and demon summoning apparatus. Yeah - haunted magical objects from all over the world, all stuck in the same place. What could go wrong? Turns out the answer is plenty, and Bubba is going to need all the help he can get to survive this one.