Ergebnis für "Zero and The One" 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.

"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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Off the coast of McMurdo Station, in the frigid waters of the Southern Ocean, a new species of Antarctic octopus is unintentionally discovered. Specialists aboard a state-of-the-art DARPA research vessel aim to apply the animal's "sub-zero venom" to one of their projects: an experimental painkiller designed for soldiers on the front lines.

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...

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.

Ein teuflisches Komplott gegen die Triadenkönigin ist im Gange. Während ihr Imperium Stück um Stück in sich zusammenstürzt, müssen sich Sligo, Bisam und Flocke vor dem Trümmerregen schützen, um nicht selbst erschlagen und mit in die Tiefe gerissen zu werden. Doch in dem ganzen Chaos und Zerfall bietet sich auch die Möglichkeit, alte Rechnungen zu begleichen.

An act of terrorism brings the financial system to a grinding halt. Premeditated violence and waves of unrest sweep across the continent. In a time of polarization and distrust, a more sinister force is behind this attempt to bring about a new America. However, this political subterfuge is met with violent opposition. In the confusion, the coast-to-coast chaos takes on a life of its own, bringing about a sudden collapse of American civilization.

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...

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.

Mehr als 3000 Jahre in der Zukunft: Längst verstehen sich die Menschen als Terraner, die ihre Erde und das Sonnensystem hinter sich gelassen haben. In der Unendlichkeit des Alls treffen sie auf Außerirdische aller Art. Ihre Nachkommen haben Tausende von Welten besiedelt, zahlreiche Raumschiffe fliegen bis zu den entlegensten Sternen. Perry Rhodan ist der Mensch, der von Anfang an mit den Erdbewohnern ins All vorgestoßen ist. Nun steht er vor seiner vielleicht größten Herausforderung: Die Rückkehr von seiner letzten Mission hat ihn rund 500 Jahre weiter in der Zeit katapultiert.

A spaceship crash survivor, Addie Rye is lucky to be alive. But being stuck on a primitive planet isn’t exactly the epitome of luck. With no way home, Addie has no choice but learn how to use stone tools and catch her dinner before cooking it, all while attempting to befriend a tribe of wild nomads who inhabit this planet.

Calvin Jones is back again in this long-overdue sequel to Zero Calvin. Once again he has been revived by the gang at Bobcorp3, and once again he must continue to adapt to his strange new life in the future. Unfortunately, nothing is ever so straightforward in Calvin's life and he soon finds himself involved in a complicated love square with Tarpa and two newly-revived cryogenic patients. To add to the complications, these two patients are part of a new program by Bobcorp3 to use a section of the brain to directly interface with the Ariel system.

Reporter Tom Lambert decides to reinvestigate the bizarre events of a decade earlier concerning the ‘cosmic noise’. Believing the whole truth was never revealed, he tracks down the one man who knows it: retired astrophysics professor Dr Hayward Petrie. Told in flashbacks, the story unfolds from Petrie’s recordings of the time when he experienced things that made him doubt his own sanity. Invited to visit his old colleague Campbell McLaren, who is in charge of a radio telescope on a remote Hebridean island, Petrie asks students Clifford Brown and Elizabeth Ryder to join him.

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.

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From the author of Dominion comes a new saga in the multiverse. When the sky split, the invasion begin-blends wearing human faces, flesh harvesters dragging bodies into fire, host-makers turning the living into carriers, and the mother pulse commanding it all. In the ruins, a few scarred survivors fight to reclaim a world already lost. Dominionis: breach point zero launches the Dominionis saga: the split- a dark fusion of survival horror and alien apocalypse.