Ergebnis für "The Victim" in Science Fiction & Fantasy

It's the 21st Century and the ugliness of war no longer exists, except on a very personal level. Nowadays, people like Marcello Polletti, seller of Roman sunsets, and Caroline Meredith, lithe, beautiful, blonde, and backed by corporate sponsors and the Roy Bell Dancers, hunt, chase, and kill each other for sport and for the entertainment of the masses - until something oddly like personal human feelings pops up to confuse the players and up the stakes...as each of them seeks to kill their 10th victim and rise in the ranks of the hunters.

An ordinary night takes a terrifying turn for a young woman. A haunting figure emerges from the shadows as she navigates a treacherous part of town. With a smooth, unsettling charm and eyes like molten lava, he introduces himself.

Take a look at a dark, deadly future where the game is hunting and the results are killing - human to human - with status, money, power, and sex as the prizes. The operation runs underground and Frank Blackwell is a new recruit who is destined to change the game and turn it into legitimate popular entertainment for the masses.

In 2092, the world's ecology is in ruins, drought and famine are widespread and survival is a never-ending challenge. Harold Erdman leaves his dying community with one goal, to make his way to Esmeralda, an island paradise run by the Huntworld Corporation which has turned public murder, among willing competitors, into a thriving and lucrative business. Can he survive the journey and then the many rounds of deadly competition on his way to the Big Payoff.

Boredom, drudgery, with an occasional excitement brought about by food shortages or blackouts; the illnesses of a dying society devoid of imagination, inventiveness, even competence. At the apex of its soulless construct sit the powerful, cunningly wrestling for position, seeking control over a people who no longer care who controls their lives. And there is no Atlantis, waiting in the wings to provide guidance for those who have been slowly robbed of their will to create, to invent, to prove their competence. The soul of the individual has been lost to the tyranny of the group.

Jim and his two sons with a rental truck packed with the contents of his house are unexpectedly transported 2,000 years into the future. The knowledge and his possessions from a long-forgotten past rapidly propel him into the ranks of the super wealthy. The governments of his new time are in turmoil, caused by the knowledge he brought with him. Wars rage between ethnic factions. Only he and his sons can save mankind from the chaos.

Life has gotten boring for the heroes of Highpeak. The monsters in the mountains have disappeared and even the bandits harassing caravans are looking to easier pickings. Relegated to finding work rescuing lost maidens from enchanted forests, Alto becomes separated from his friends and is soon lost in a darkness of sorcery and corruption. The young warrior's old foes return and this time they've come looking for him. For every action, good or bad, there is a consequence. Alto will discover the cost of his actions and then he must find a way to pay for them.

It was meant to change the world. To cure the incurable and rebuild the broken. In the right hands, the organism known as Chimera had the potential to alter the course of human civilization for the better. Instead it was abused, rushed. The resulting outbreak caused the dead to rise and shattered everything man had built.

She only feeds on those who deserve it. But what happens when the one person she loves is about to die? Vampire Yelena Solodnikova has spent years drowning in guilt—guilt for the blood she’s spilled, and for the lover who abandoned her. Then she meets Orly Bialek—a twelve-year-old girl dying of cancer, whose supernatural drawings reveal the evil in others. Orly draws. Yelena kills.

The vigilante romance heats up when Catherine and Thomas move in together, as much out of love as from a mutual commitment to continue their work against the evil Ganymede society. Now joined by FBI agent and superhero fan Jason Leong, they seek to bring individual members of Ganymede to justice, even as the NYPD struggles against red tape and corruption in the mayor's office to do the same.

A successful young executive meets a beautiful woman; falls in love, and then strange things begin to happen. He loses his job, his car is repossessed, and no matter how hard he tries he can't seem to be hired anywhere. He has just signed up for his final unemployment check when he finally makes eye contact with the "Are You Ready Willing and Able to Work Sign Up Here Please Girl". She slips a note warning him that he is in danger and to meet her after work.

X Minus One premiered in April 1955 on NBC and ran until January 1958. Like its predecessor series, Dimension X, X Minus One featured stories by the greatest names in modern science fiction: Ray Bradbury, Robert Heinlein, Clifford Simak, Robert Bloch, and many more.