Ergebnis für "Zehn" in Naturwissenschaften

VOM KINDLE STORYTELLER AWARD GEWINNER, G J OGDEN-Die Union steht kurz vor dem totalen Zusammenbruch. Apophis, der Schlangengott und König des Aternien-Imperiums, steht bereit, seine Mission zu erfüllen und die verbleibenden Welten der Union zu vernichten, angefangen mit Terra Prime-der Erde. Da er keine andere Wahl hat, erklärt der Präsident seine Absicht, sich zu ergeben. Doch Apophis sehnt sich nur nach Zerstörung und Rache. Doch tief unter dem Wüstensand Ägyptens keimt Hoffnung auf. Die letzten Master Officers, angeführt von Carter Rose und Carina Larsen, haben noch nicht aufgegeben.

The UFS Phoenix returns to Homeworld, after more than three years of searching the galaxy for a way to save humanity from the looming AI threat. Many Fleet captains are unhappy with their own command, following the massive casualties of Nia's first strike. Some say that Captain Erik Debogande is the war leader humanity truly needs. Others warn of civil war. But on Homeworld lurks an even older threat, a secret kept by Fleet Command since Homeworld's first conquest by humans. A secret that could tear Fleet, and Erik's powerful family, apart.

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.

In an unprecedented first, Earth sends a message to Mogwa Prime. Unfortunately, the messenger is not met with enthusiasm. Misunderstandings soon threaten all of Humanity. Forced to prove Earth can serve the Empire better than any rival, McGill does his best. Eager to prove our worth to the Galactics, the frontier war between Rigel and Earth is expanded to Storm World. Circled by six moons, the planet is ravaged by wild storms and tides. Battles are fought in raging hurricanes, and death stalks the soldiers on both sides.

Die Giftplage breitet sich weiter auf der ganzen Welt aus. Überall haben sich die Adligen in ihren Städten abgeschottet und tun so, als gäbe es nichts außerhalb. Dallion wurde von einem Mitglied der Familie des Erzherzogs Lanitol in die Provinzhauptstadt gerufen, um einen Auftrag von großer Bedeutung zu erledigen. Gleichzeitig ist der Grüne Mond in Dallions Träumen aufgetaucht, um seine Forderungen zu stellen.

Aftermath is book one of the alternative history series Timeline 10/27/62 - USA. The Cuban Missile Crisis went wrong, and now the American people are about to start living with the consequences of the catastrophe. From New England to the Pacific Northwest, from Washington, DC, to San Francisco, Americans confront to their worst nightmare. Nobody wins a nuclear war.

Talon’s mercenaries thought they had won a tenuous peace on their home planet. Instead, their victory sparked a rebellion on other planets in their star system against the oppressive Queensland government. As Q-9’s battle fleet moves against a small mining planet in open revolt, Talon will need the help of forbidden technology and unlikely allies. But defending this icy planet from annihilation, Talon risks the exposure of his most dangerous secret.

In Toronto, 2050, a city of 200+ cultures makes an impossible choice—and elects its first humanoid mayor. HMayor—416 is not built to blend in. She is built to hold the line: a silver-chrome civic leader whose chest bears rotating cultural pins—small covenants declaring that no community’s story will be flattened into a trend.

It is April 1964 in a World in which the swinging sixties never happened. Two Soviet tank armies have fallen on Iran and are poised to pour down from the Zagros Mountains onto the Iraqi floodplains of the Tigris and the Euphrates like wolves upon the fold. The Shah is dead, Tehran has been destroyed by a nuclear strike; while in Iraq there has been a coup d'état, and civil war has broken out. All that stands between the Red Army and mastery of the Persian Gulf are a few dozen British tanks and penny packets of troops.

It is February 1964 in a world in which the "swinging '60s" never happened. The atomic mushroom clouds over the Mediterranean have dispersed, and now, as the world teeters on the brink of a new thermonuclear war, it is dawning on the "victors" that their "victory", far from being absolute, was tragically pyrrhic. In the uneasy half-peace, the United States stirs from its post-Cuban Missiles War slumber. But will it awaken soon enough to overcome its own divisions to confront the new and terrible forces unleashed by Red Dawn's first paroxysm of violence?

The House on Haight Street is a novella featuring Miranda Sullivan and Joe Calleja, culled from material originally included in the body of Warsaw Concerto (Book 13 of the Timeline 10/27/62 series). It did not make the "final cut" for two reasons: Firstly, I thought it was one sub-strand too many and therefore interrupted the flow of the rest of the narrative; and secondly, the book was getting very long even by my standards! 

Back in 1964, in a world still struggling to come to terms with the aftermath of the October War, the Argentine invasion of the Falkland Islands had been a faraway thing that had happened to a couple of thousand kelpers living on a few islands in the South Atlantic, 8,000 miles from England, about which the British people in their post-October War travails, knew little and cared less.