Ergebnis für "betten" in Science Fiction

Julian Mehne ist ein Meister des ruhigen Erzähltons, dem man stundenlang lauschen möchte. Klug und versiert macht er aus Shustermans neuester Dystopie ein akustisches Meisterwerk. Gefährlich, ansteckend und voller Glück. Ein beispielloses Virus breitet sich auf dem Planeten aus. Diejenigen aber, die überleben, sind … glücklich. Stress, Depression, Einsamkeit – alle negativen Gefühle sind plötzlich verschwunden. Immer mehr Genesene genießen das neue Glücksgefühl. Doch längst nicht alle, denn innere Zufriedenheit ist schlecht fürs Geschäft.

Everyone tries to escape from paradise. Mark Tyburn dreams of building the perfect video game. Kurt Fischer dreams of being a rich and successful executive. Daisy Tyburn dreams of having the ideal father. John Tyburn Smith dreams of fitting in. NigelDave just dreams of becoming human.

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Since 1980, 1% of the world has been born with gifts we'd only dreamed of. The ability to sense a person's most intimate secrets, or predict the stock market, or move virtually unseen. For thirty years the world has struggled with a growing divide between the exceptional...and the rest of us.

Better Than Life finds the crew trapped in a mind-boggling computer game that is threatening their lives and safety of the ship. One by one, they enter the game to rescue each other - and one by one, they become trapped! Holly will have to use his mega brain to solve this one.

Denver, Colorado, 2009. Nicholas Smith is done with the world. After losing his wife in Operation Iraqi Freedom, the devastated engineering professor sees only one way to escape his grief. But when he leaps from a waterfall into the waiting arms of oblivion, the haunted man of science instead finds himself impossibly catapulted into the year 3010. Tortured at the hands of a despotic dictator, Nicholas refuses to cooperate despite being threatened with execution.

Weeks after the contamination, Carter is losing hope of ever seeing his sons again. Doomed to live out the rest of his life in his mountain bunker, he teeters between acceptance and despair. And then he sees something down the steep side of his mountain that will change everything. Have his prayers been answered?

Spanning the first part of the 21st century, Better Angels revolves around the mystery of an ancient, alien artifact resembling an angel's shoulder blade, and the transcendent effect it has on five people, whose lives and relationships lead to - and are forever altered by - its discovery.

Celadon, a poor nation on a poor planet, engaged in civil war and a haven for every type of villainy in space, is ripe for cleanup. The military could pacify it handily, but it would take a statesman to fix it. But statesmen have ethics, which politicians and megacorps find inconvenient. Celadon's President Bishwanath compounded the sin by being astute, ambitious and capable. Something had to be done, because a working nation isn't much use for pork and graft.

Aggie May, newly and unhappily retired from teaching, fears dementia when she begins to see visions from the past, like a 1950s-era Super Constellation at JFK airport and World War II soldiers at Grand Central Terminal. Then she gets a recruitment visit from Abe Irving of the American Association of Remarkable Persons (“the other AARP”) who explains she has developed the ability to travel through time.

Will the survivors find a perfect utopia, or does reality have a different plan for them? Better Lands: The Arrival is the third book in a five-book dystopian series about human resilience and hope for survivors in a dying world. The journey continues as a group of survivors living in a world that lost more than two-thirds of its breathing population travel by foot from Cincinnati, Ohio to their final destination, the "better lands".

Better Lands: The Southbound Journey is the second book in a five-book suspense series. Join Rosa, Jean-Pierre, Blitz, and the other teams as the tempestuous 45-day foot journey continues to the better lands from Vermont to Kentucky. All four migration teams have left the Fort Drum Army base in New York, experiencing many trials and tribulations as they travel to their next shelter stops in Cleveland, Ashland, and Cincinnati, Ohio. Is their survival no longer just about escaping the virus?

Nicholas Smith thought he was done with time travel. Rocketed back to 2008 after a triumphant victory over a tyrannical government, the heroic engineering professor embarks on a second-chance mission to prevent the death of his beloved spouse. But his inner conflict spins into a roiling storm as he ponders the consequences of playing God…and how it could annihilate all he battled to save. Already struggling with the possibilities of paradox, Nicholas doesn’t know which way to turn when an army major argues that destiny demands he help her steal nuclear weapons.

What's left of his homeland has fallen apart, so John Beck helps lead a migration north to a better future. But the trek to safety might be more dangerous than the places and people he's left behind. Can he navigate a wilderness in which brutality rules and hope is a dream? And if he succeeds, is wait awaits him and those he leads true salvation or is it a fool's paradise?

Living on the streets of Oklahoma, Brian Williams is haunted by a long history of personal failures. But he’s offered one last chance to repair his broken past.

A Better Tomorrow is an action-packed sci-fi about Jordan, a common elementary school teacher and children's author who gets caught up in an extraordinary experiment after his fiancée is murdered. Jordan's consciousness was shifted from his present body to a different body in the past in another universe. When attempting to stop the murderer he failed to save her and accidentally killed someone else. He is stuck in an alternate universe as a fugitive running from the police and seeking redemption for his fiancée's death. Meanwhile, he must reach Dr. Charles, the leader of the experiment and the only one who can get him back to his true existence. He loses his grip on reality as his consciousness slips between different circumstances, making it hard to know what is real and what is in his mind. Believing nothing to be reality, he went from being a common man to a reckless fugitive who won't stop until he finds a universe where his fiancée is still alive.

Oen and Jarred are surprised by the arrival of not one, but two teenagers. Jeromy, who met Jarred in book three of the Paths Trilogy, loves and admires Jarred. When Jeromy's mom remarries, the young Jeromy asks to live with Oen and Jarred. Rhea is sent by Dolana to find safety with Oen and Jarred. Raised in the shadow of the brothels, Rhea is a brilliant young woman who longs for safety and the opportunity to learn from Oen, the most gifted member of the Geneer tribe. Oen and Jarred successfully help both teens complete their education and discover life partners.

Halfway to Better is a collection of short solarpunk stories, each exploring a near-future where were struggling to survive the climate crisis and build a better world. These hopeful climate-fiction stories take you from the bottom of the sea to the towers of a bot-filled city, from sparkling labs to flooded lighthouses, all imagining futures halfway to a better world. The Halfway to Better collection contains six short stories plus a bonus prose-poem, Rewilding Indiana, and its accompanying sky shanty.

In this sequel to The Organ Harvesters, the bloodless war of 2020 has destroyed all governments and left monster corporations in control globally, unhindered to waste the planet's natural resources, and to manipulate the world's population with iron-handed control. There's one last chance to save life on Earth. Roaming at large under a death warrant, Dr. Zoe Hidalga leaves behind both her daughter and her lover, mystic Asher Wind Storm, to return to Sanfrancorp to join the Defys, an underground resistance group that has spread throughout the world during the past six years.

The bloodless corporate coup of 2020 swept away every vestige of government, resulting in an ongoing struggle for dominance and survival of the fittest. The battle becomes more vicious day by day in the face of accelerating climate change, limited food supplies, and clean air only for the elite. Caught in the middle is Dr. Zoe Hidalaga, a MediCorp organ harvester, who has contracted a deadly retro virus that killed her husband and has resulted in her being declared an unfit mother for her daughter.

Just two buddies going back in time to talk about everything 90s. From movies to music to tv shows and things we did while growing up in the 90s. Among other random topics along the way.