Ergebnis für "Wölfe" in Naturwissenschaften

Corta Hélio, one of the five family corporations that rule the moon, has fallen. Its riches are divided up among its many enemies, its survivors scattered. Eighteen months have passed. The remaining Hélio children, Lucasinho and Luna, are under the protection of the powerful Asamoahs, while Robson, still reeling from witnessing his parents' violent deaths, is now a ward - virtually a hostage - of Mackenzie Metals. And the last appointed heir, Lucas, has vanished from the surface of the moon.

Um Kontakt mit außerirdischen Intelligenzen zu suchen, wird auf der Erde das "Projekt S.E.T.I." betrieben. Damit sollen Radiosignale aus dem All aufgefangen werden. Gerade, als ein Senator des US-Finanzausschusses dem Projektleiter die Streichung der finanziellen Mittel mitteilt, wird etwas Ungewöhnliches empfangen, zunächst nur unverständliche Funksignale. Wie sich herausstellt, handelt es sich um komplexe Zahlenreihen und Bezeichnungen für bestimmte Aminosäuren.

With the failed coup on Hegemony put down and Audacious three star systems away, Earth must now come together in order to look beyond its solar system to the greater galaxy. Captain Rohit Mishra, together with Staff Sergeant Dixon and Second Squad, accompany their new allies, the Lomolai, in a mission to find out what happened to Orlova. When they learn where she's gone, it strains credulity.

Ein gefährlicher Virus bedroht die Menschen auf der Raumstation "Lunaris". Aber nicht nur das: eine mutierte Riesenspinne hat sich als blinder Passagier auf die Raumstation geschmuggelt. Nichts kann sie aufhalten. Nicht einmal die hochgezüchteten Kampfroboter können ihr Einhalt gebieten. Justine, die Kommandantin der Raumstation, muss hilflos mit ansehen, wie das Monster die letzten Überlebenden der Menschheit bedroht. Die letzte Stunde des Homo Sapiens scheint gekommen.

12 Monate sind seit der erneuten elektromagnetischen Entladung in der Stratosphäre vergangen. Die Erde ist wieder begehbar und soll von den Überlebenden der Menschheit kolonialisiert werden. Doch plötzlich ereignet sich in der Basisstation eine verheerende Katastrophe. Unerwartete Hilfe bietet in dieser Ausnahmesituation die Besatzung des Raumkreuzers "Montanari", der mit Justine und ihren Freunden zu einer Rettungsmission aufbricht. Im heißen Wüstensand des früheren Irak lauern jedoch tödliche Gefahren auf die Helden von der Orbiterstation "Lunaris".

Justine und ihre Leute sind gefangen in einem unterirdischen Labyrinth. Bei ihrem Versuch, einen Ausweg zu finden, müssen sie vor mutierten Spinnen und Ratten fliehen. Und noch etwas anderes, größer und bösartiger, lauert in der Tiefe. Justine steht schließlich am Scheideweg: die eigene Haut retten, oder alles riskieren, um einen verschwundenen Kameraden aus den Klauen der Mutanten zu befreien.

The circus comes to town . . . and a man gets to go to the stars. A young girl on a vacation at the sea meets the man of her dreams. Who just happens to be dead. And an immortal pirate. A swordfighter pens his memoirs . . . and finds his pen is in fact mightier than the sword. Welcome to Gene Wolfe's playground, a place where genres blend, and a genius's imagination straps you in for the ride of your life. The Wolfe at the Door is a brand-new collection from one of America's premiere literary giants, showcasing some material been seen before

The first work in David Gerrold's Star Wolf trilogy, this tale pits the human members of the Star Wolf space vessel against the superhuman Morthan crew. Captain Jonathan Korie, hampered by the loss of most of the human fleet to the Morthans and a nearly disabled ship of his own, faces the Morthan threat driven by the need for survival and the desire for revenge.

Marc Gregorio wakes up paralyzed. Accident? Stroke? Did someone slip him an overdose of Botox? The answer, he discovers, is much, much worse. He’s only a copy of Marc, a digital brain without a body, burdened with all Marc’s human memories, but without access to human sensual pleasures. Now he has to find a reason to keep on, um, “living.” Adam the Mindclone meets the real Marc Gregorio - and his new girlfriend Molly Schaeffer. Adam loves her, too. But how does a digital entity experience love? He can’t even experience pizza. And a power-mad military contractor will stop at nothing to control the technology for his own ends....

The Morthans were physically and mentally superior. Descended from humans, they were now, literally, “more-than" human … and considered the human race to be little better than animals. They would stop at nothing to conquer the remaining human-controlled worlds. Docked for repairs after a harrowing battle with a Morthan ship, Jonathan Korie and his crew discover they have a Morthan imp aboard—a Morthan weapon so quick they have no chance of catching it, so clever they have no hope of outsmarting it and so deadly they have no choice but to try.

With the help of NASA, a computer glitch, and a ghost, Bram Morrison, a robotics engineer, may have given science a new means to put death on hold. But despite the new landscape he’s opened up, the Great Beyond is still territory with no solid ground for science to stand on. Still helping Torula Jackson realize her dream of studying what happens to consciousness after death, Bram risks his reputation and future by revealing his growing belief in the bizarre. It will take more than apparitions in 3D glass chambers to convince scientists and doctors that the afterlife exists.

Boldly go to times where no one has gone before. While transporting a contraband Russian time machine and developmental weaponry, Private Everett Dumphee finds himself cast into new settings when the device suddenly activates. What follows are fantastic high-tech experiences that might be called the ultimate off-road adventure. For the determined Dumphee - narrowly escaping with his life and three beautiful women - it is not necessarily a matter of will he make his destination, but when.