Ergebnis für "Walking" in Space Opera

When the necrons rise, a mining planet descends into a cauldron of war and the remorseless foes decimate the human defenders. Salvation comes in an unlikely form - the Death Korps of Krieg, a force as unfeeling as the necrons themselves. When the two powers go to war, casualties are high and the magnitude of the destruction is unimaginable.

It is the year 2037 and Stan Rhodes is the American captain of Endurance III, a V-shaped spacecraft on the last leg of a 56-million-kilometer journey to Mars. Soon after landing, the crew discovers unknown architectural wonders from an ancient civilization. In the year 2041, Captain Stan Rhodes returns to planet Mars with a fresh crew and resumes exploring a region called the Cydonia Complex. Investigating architectural wonders from an ancient civilization, they revisit a magnificent five-sided pyramid discovered on the first mission and survey its subterranean passageways. 

Fight scenes and moral dilemmas: that's what listeners will find in this collection. These seven stories, first published in magazines and anthologies between 1999 and 2011, include several military adventures, some love stories, a little space opera, and some speculation about the near future.

Walking On the Sea of Clouds is the story of such lunar pioneers: two couples, Stormie and Frank Pastorelli and Van and Barbara Richards, determined to survive and succeed in this near-future technological drama about the risks people will take, the emergencies they'll face, and the sacrifices they'll make as members of the first commercial lunar colony.

Patriotic young Emma Dodgson struggled to make it into the United States Marines, but now she’s there, she’s going to make sure it counts. Convinced that the United States is on the road to victory in the Great War, Dodgson’s world is turned upside down when on her first mission, she learns the USA has surrendered to the enemy. From the ashes of defeat, a new leader rises. Jenna Plural is determined to unite the free forces from across the solar system. Hope is restored to Dodgson, and she devotes herself to Jenna’s cause.

It wasn’t easy for Emma Dodgson to join the United States Marine Corps. She barely passed the entry requirements. However, now she’s in, she is going to be the best damn marine there ever was. Fanatically patriotic, Emma does not have time or interest in anyone or anything that does not love the United States. When the surrender comes, she has no hesitation and gives her loyalty to Jenna Plural in her fight back to free her country.