Ergebnis für "Zero" in Science Fiction

Hat man als Einzelner überhaupt eine Chance gegen das System? Eine junge Bibliothekarin aus Boston ist entschlossen, es zu versuchen – ihr bleibt keine Wahl. Und so greift sie zu, als sich die Einladung zu einem ungewöhnlichen Kräftemessen bietet: dem Betatest von FUSION, einem Projekt der US-Geheimdienste und des Social-Media-Moguls Cy Baxter. Wem es gelingt, 30 Tage unauffindbar zu bleiben, dem winken 3 Millionen Dollar. Doch Kaitlyn geht es um etwas anderes.

Vom Bestsellerautor von Kadaver kommt ein packender, epischer Thriller über das Chaos, das entfesselt wird, als ein Riss im Himmel die Menschen in blinde, rasende Monster verwandelt.

"In Neu-Delhi setzten sie auf Turner einen Killerhund an, der auf seine Pheromone und seine Haarfarbe programmiert war." Computer Cowboys und Firmensöldner liefern sich im Namen von Megakonzernen unerbittliche Kämpfe, die sie oft genug mit ihrem Leben bezahlen. Doch als der Entwicklungsleiter von Maas Biolabs mitsamt seinen revolutionären Biochips zu Hosaka überlaufen will, ruft das Kräfte auf den Plan, die nicht nur menschlich sind... In der Matrix des Cyberspace tobt ein gnadenloser Kampf um die Macht, geführt von riesigen Konzernen, für die Computer Cowboys ihren Verstand aufs Spiel setzen.

A corporate mercenary wakes in a reconstructed body, a beautiful woman by his side. Then Hosaka Corporation reactivates him, for a mission more dangerous than the one he's recovering from: to get a defecting chief of R&D-and the biochip he's perfected-out intact. But this proves to be of supreme interest to certain other parties-some of whom aren't remotely human.

This science fiction novel describes the epic voyage of the spacecraft Leonora Christine. From practically the very first minute, Tau Zero sets scientific realities in dramatic tension with the very real emotional and psychological states of the travelers, exploring the effect of time contraction due to traveling at near-light speed on the human psyche. This tension is a dynamic that Anderson explores with great success over the course of the novel, as 50 crewmembers settle in for the long journey together.

United Nations Special Operations Command sent an elite expeditionary force of soldiers and pilots out on a simple recon mission, and somehow along the way they sparked an alien civil war. Now the not-at-all-merry band of pirates is in desperate trouble, again. Their stolen alien starship is falling apart, thousands of light years from home. The ancient alien AI they nicknamed Skippy is apparently dead, and even if they can by some miracle revive him, he might never be the same.

Nachdem die riesige Durana in einer Wüstenebene von New Mexico abgestürzt ist, richten sich die Augen vieler Parteien auf das havarierte Schiff und auf die Erde. Machtparteien der Menschen, der Akkato und zahlreiche kleine Gruppierungen, von denen man bisher kaum etwas wusste, treten in den Kampf ein, der gegen die Akkato geführt wird und das Schicksal der Erde für immer verändern könnte. Zudem verfügt Serwan Brooks über ein Geheimnis, das die Zukunft der Menschheit zum Guten wenden und das Sonnensystem von der Herrschaft der Akkato befreien könnte.

For years the Department of Military Sciences has fought to stop terrorists from using radical bioweapons - designer plagues, weaponized pathogens, genetically modified viruses, and even the zombie plague that first brought Ledger into the DMS. These terrible weapons have been locked away in the world’s most secure facility. Until now. Joe Ledger and Echo Team are scrambled when a highly elite team of killers breaks the unbreakable security and steals the world’s most dangerous weapons.

Every modern city has one week’s worth of food to feed itself. Then it will collapse. Cut off the resources to New York, Sydney, or even a mid-size metropolis, and millions will soon starve. In Zero Day Code we see those immense and open, hyper-complex, networked supercities of the new millennium die. And in the last moments we see their vengeance take form as all the best and worst traits of humanity bubble to the surface.

Spencer Hayes, along with his girlfriend, Kate, and their dog, Finn, enjoy a life most people only dream about. Living aboard their 31-foot sailboat, Restless, they make the most of all that paradise has to offer. But that changes in the blink of an eye when EMPs strike the east coast of the United States.

Mitteleuropa wird von einer neuen Eiszeit heimgesucht. Die erbarmungslose Kälte bedroht das Leben aller - die Versorgung der Bevölkerung ist durch eine zerstörte Infrastruktur nicht mehr gewährleistet, Energiepreise sind unbezahlbar. Die Forschung nach den Ursachen läuft auf Hochtouren. Doch dann machen Geophysikerin Dr. Jana Hollmer, deren Partner Clemens Bach sowie der Reederei-Chef Titus van Dijk eine unglaubliche Entdeckung.

Subaru Natsuki es un estudiante corriente de instituto que se pierde en un mundo alternativo, donde una preciosa chica de pelo plateado lo rescata. Para devolverle el favor decide quedarse con ella, pero el destino con el que carga la muchacha es mucho más pesado de lo que él puede imaginar. Los enemigos atacan sin descanso, uno tras otro, hasta que finalmente mueren tanto él como la chica. Es entonces cuando Subaru descubre que tiene el poder de dar marcha atrás en el tiempo y volver al inicio de la historia, al punto en el que llegó al mundo desconocido. El problema es que él es el ...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An alien advance party was suddenly nosing around my planet. Worse, they were lawyering up. . . . In the hilarious tradition of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Rob Reid takes you on a headlong journey through the outer reaches of the universe—and the inner...

They threw him in a desert hell with one rule — fight to the death or get scrapped. Now T.E.D.D., the glitchy trash droid who’s done taking orders, is trapped in Sector Zero, where the Manager forces humans and machines into brutal bloodsport. Friends could become executioners — or corpses beside him. There’s no walking away. Outsmart the arena, or rust in the sand. Because in Sector Zero, the deadliest enemy isn’t the droids, the humans, or even the Manager. It’s the choice Tedd must make.

Dr. Gregory, a renowned nuclear weapons researcher, is not only dead - he's been charred to a radioactive cinder. Since this is a death on federal property, FBI agents Mulder and Scully are hastily called in. As agents who specialize in unexplained phenomena, they are the investigators of the X-Files, strange and inexplicable cases - mysteries the FBI doesn't want solved.

From the renowned creator of The Electric State and Tales from the Loop, Stålenhag returns with his long-awaited new work of retro-futuristic dystopia within the mysterious zone of an abandoned Swedish military facility. Beginning in 2024, yet set largely during the early 2000s, Sunset at Zero...

Those who would seek a new world order have unleashed the most devastating virus onto mankind, and even they do not know the secrets hidden in their weapon. Follow along as Harry, a CDC scientist, races to figure out what exactly the virus is and how to stop it. It will be up to him and a group of marines led by Major Sanders to stop the zombie fallout before it ravages an unsuspecting world.

The iconic visionary returns with his first new novel since the New York Times bestseller Spook Country. Whatever you do, because you are an artist, will bring you to the next thing of your own... When she sang for The Curfew, Hollis Henry's face was known worldwide. She still runs into people...

Gabriel Garrett has seen it all. War, hardship, and violence have chased him at every turn, but Gabriel has weathered every challenge. Now, however, he faces a battle far more dangerous than any he has endured. Kidnapped by a ruthless gang, Gabriel finds himself in a fight for survival. Using his hard-earned skills and iron will, he manages to break free - only to stumble upon a conspiracy that threatens everything he has fought to protect.

The focal point remains ground zero, where every form of brutal experimentation is still on the table… in the frantic struggle to stem the rise of the ferocious undead. With desperation surging, grasping for a remedy may stand, instead, to poison mankind. Though down, however, Andy is not out. His resolution knows no bounds. As driven by an unrelenting mission—securing a future for his loved ones, and possibly for mankind itself—he’ll soon be forced to prove himself . . . and face impossible choices.