Ergebnis für "The Parents" in Science Fiction

What do you do when you have the wrong superpowers? Magenta's older brother is a superhero. She's starting high school at the school where kids with powers go, including the famous Inscrutable Machine. Except, Magenta's powers are no good for fighting. Her potions are useful, not dangerous. Her other power is just humiliating. What Magenta has plenty of is determination, and she tries fighting a supervillain anyway. She fails. But for Magenta, failure is the beginning, not the ending.

From the acclaimed author of the Earthseed series, a young woman harnesses the power of a viral mutation and challenges the ruthless man who controls her—at the expense of the human race. This deluxe edition includes: A new cover and package Premium French flaps and newly designed, full-color...

"Fun and sexy." ―People "Paige Harbison is one of the funniest writers working today." ―Bustle A fresh take on Groundhog Day meets the magical escapism of One Italian Summer in this heartfelt and hilarious novel following a friend group so damaged that only a funeral could bring them back...

From Booker-shortlisted author Steve Toltz, an audacious comic lament for a world that no longer knows itself “The cure for loneliness causes loneliness. That’s the human condition.” In a reeling world of fraudsters and hypnotists, sleep talkers and estranged twins, false alibis and second...

From the bestselling author of The Power comes a part memoir, part speculative novel, following a writer wrestling with grief even as a new species is discovered, forcing humans to reconsider what it means to share our planet. They came from nowhere, and now they are everywhere. A few months...

The acclaimed actor’s shockingly prescient novel of speculative fiction “presents a near-future United States torn apart by civil war and deep racial strife” (Tampa Bay Times). For the first time ever, available as an audiobook read by the author. America today is teetering on the edge of...

To save her sister, she’ll rewrite history… ––––––––––––––––––––––––- 'A spectacular writer. Her unwavering command of voice, time, and place bring history to life with imagination and purpose, but it is her skill in illuminating the selfless...

A Washington Post, NPR, and Buzzfeed Best Book of the Year Shortlisted for the Booker Prize “More than timely, the novel feels timeless, solid, like a forgotten classic recently resurfaced — a brutal, beguiling fairy tale about humanity. But at its core, The New Wilderness is really...

Run, die repeat. Cut off from Old Earth. Digitized to survive. Eighteen-year-old Entin Soroy was supposed to be the best pilot cadet of the Garentin space colony. But after an unthinkable terrorist attack forced the colony to digitize, he finds himself thrust into a fantasy world repurposed from...

Propulsive, clear-eyed, and surprisingly tender, WonderKin is PEN/Faulkner finalist Colin Winnette’s profound portrait of love in our unpredictable future. The world Charles Wright inhabits is our own . . . Almost. Repeated pandemics have thinned the population, and in their wake, humanoid...

How do you systematically destroy a child with love? It's not something that any parent aspires to do, yet a surprising number come perilously close to achieving it.

In this LitRPG adventure, two rivals must level up their skills and uncover dark conspiracies to defeat the High King and find the ritual that will send them home – before it's too late… They were nobody's idea of heroes. Shaun is a twenty-three-year-old ex-jock with a mountain of debt, his...

C’est le nouveau site de rencontre dont tout le monde parle. Enfin pas si nouveau. Comme il y a 30 ans, ici, pas de photo ni de vidéo. C’est le retour à l’anonymat des débuts d’internet. À des années-lumière des applications que Nate a l’habitude de surconsommer, sans réel succès. Le retour à cette simplicité de l’essentiel, où l’art de la discussion est le seul moyen de séduire l’autre. Alors, derrière son pseudo, Nate tente sa chance. Qui sait ce que son destin lui réserve ?

A woman learns to see her future in a new light with the help of an amphibious man who crawls through her window the day of her ex’s engagement party in this coming-of-middle-age novel for fans of The Correspondent and Remarkably Bright Creatures. Gina Lee’s life was calm and comfortably...

What does it take to change the world? The “epic adventure” (Booklist) of a band of unlikely heroes on a quest to save one innocent life who may end up saving us all. For decades, Judge Margot Burr-Nadir has worked tirelessly, case by case, to administer justice from the federal bench of the...

As a parent with a video game passion, it is sometimes hard to split the time between being the best parent you can be, as well as enjoying your hobby. On this podcast, I go through retro and modern video games, all while keeping it relevant to parents from all walks of life!

I travelled to Verkoon to be matched as someone's mate, but the only matchmaking happening is me being paired with the gruff General . . . as his nanny. Thankfully, he's so damn hot I don't mind being kept at a distance—as long as I'm still allowed to look. Between breakfast together and play dates throughout the ship, we've gone from playing house to feeling like a real family. And with the way General Lokin looks at me, I forget where the line is for a little while. Oops! There's only one reason that a Vakhing's blood sings—and I know that the General's sings for me.

After centuries in stasis, a lost task force returns home. Arriving from the infinite void the surviving ships discover that the Imperium lies in ruin. The Homeworld itself is destroyed, and nothing lives in the Ancestral System except an infestation of unknown bipedal beings - creatures soft, red of blood and warm of flesh.... When you colonize a planet, make sure the owners aren't coming back.... MECH is the story of a new Earth colony built upon the ancient Homeworld of a civilization presumed (incorrectly) to be long dead.

Read by Annabel Scholey, known for her roles in the BAFTA-winning The Sixth Commandment, The Split, and Rivals. This audiobook is accompanied in part by a spine-tingling yet euphoric soundscape, composed by the author, Barnaby Martin, and also includes a fascinating audio-exclusive Q&A between...

Welcome to the Pixel Podcast Podcast! Join your Ol’ dads Liam and Scott each week as they chat about their love of gaming and how they navigate the hobby they love while raising little ones.