Ergebnis für "management" in Science Fiction

Conrads Novelle, die Francis Ford Coppola zu seinem Meisterwerk "Apocalypse Now" inspirierte, ist ein düsteres Meisterwerk, das zu den berühmtesten Geschichten der Welt gehört. Auf der Suche nach Stationsleiter Kurtz muss Marlow den Kongo hinauffahren. Die Reise ins Herz der Finsternis wird zu einem wahren Höllentrip.

Natürlich denken wir bei dem Begriff "Science Fiction" unmittelbar an "Krieg der Sterne" oder "Raumschiff Enterprise", doch liegen die Anfänge des Genres weit in der Vergangenheit. Bereits im 18. Jahrhundert schrieb Jonathan Swift mit "Gullivers Reisen" einen frühen Klassiker der sogenannten "Zukunftsliteratur". In dieser großen Hörbuch Box geht es nicht um technikverliebte Weltraumliteratur a la "Perry Rhodan", sondern um klassische Literatur, die sich mit dem Thema beschäftigt, wie es in der Zukunft aussehen könnte, und das sowohl höchst realistisch als auch mit großer Hingabe zur Fiktion.

Ist er nur ein Hypochonder, oder fehlt ihm tatsächlich etwas? Argan fühlt sich krank, sterbenskrank. Und er zahlt Ärzten und Apothekern ein Vermögen, damit dies auch so bleibt... Molières berühmteste Komödie aus dem 17. Jahrhundert ist heute aktueller denn je - und hat nichts von ihrem ursprünglichen Witz eingebüßt!

Former Intergalactic Exterminator Russ Wesley has found a new gig at Intergalactic Waste Management, LLC alongside old allies, in what promises to be a cushy job processing space debris on a state-of-the-art salvage vessel. But when he finds the dead body of a good friend stashed among the space wreckage, Russ is determined to learn how and why she died.

In a world where magic has gone mainstream, a policewoman and a group of petty criminals are pulled into a heist to find a forbidden book of spells that should never be opened. A new adventure begins in the world of the Laundry Files. Dead Lies Dreaming presents a nightmarish vision of a Britain sliding unknowingly towards occult cataclysm.

Als dieser Science-Fiction-Klassiker im Jahre 1895 erschien, läutete er eine Zeitenwende ein. Wer kennt nicht die Geschichte um den Zeitreisenden, der mit einer selbstgebauten Maschine in die ferne Zukunft reist, um ein packendes Abenteuer mit den Eloi und den Morlocks zu erleben? Zahlreich verfilmt - ein echtes Juwel des Genres.

Als Edward Prendick schiffbrüchig wird, kann er sich auf eine Insel retten - doch dies ist die Insel von Dr. Moreau, dem mehr als zwielichtigen Forscher. Bald macht der scheinbar Gerettete furchtbare Entdeckungen... Dieser Science Fiction-Roman ist auch ein äußerst populärer Gruselklassiker!

Hyperorganised and formidable, Eve Starkey defeated her boss, the louche magical adept and billionaire Rupert de Montfort Bigge, in a supernatural duel to the death. At least, she has reason to hope he's dead. But though she's now in charge of the Bigge Corporation, she's not free of him yet. Through the fecklessness of her brother Imp, combined with the intricate feudal law of a tiny Channel Island, it would appear that unbeknownst to her, she was married to Bigge - and that proving his death and releasing herself from his arcane bindings will take years and cost millions. 

It's a brave new Britain under the New Management. The Prime Minister is an eldritch god of unimaginable power. Crime is plummeting as almost every offense is punishable by death. And everywhere you look, there are people with strange powers, some of which they can control, and some, not so much...

The Last of the Firefighters is a gripping near-future tale that follows Johnny Stasso, a firefighter with the Boulder Fire-Rescue Department, through four decades of unprecedented technological change. The listener accompanies Johnny as he learns the firefighting trade and experiences the joys and traumas of service as a first responder. Just as he hits his stride, Johnny is forced to realize his beloved profession is being transformed into something he doesn’t recognize.

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Jack London (1876 – 1916) war seinerzeit der meistgelesene Autor der Welt. Nicht nur beherrschte er meisterhaft den Abenteuerroman – auch als früher Science Fiction-Autor konnte er begeistern. In der Geschichte "Der Feind der ganzen Welt" schildert er das aufsehenerregende Schicksal Emil Glucks – eines verbrecherischen Genies, dessen Erfindungen und Taten die Welt in der Mitte des 20. Jahrhunderts um ein Haar in den Abgrund gerissen hätten.

Jeffrey Porter never wanted to follow in his father's footsteps; he had other plans. Now his father is missing, and forces are conspiring to draw Jeffrey back to the mysterious house with two cellars. When he follows his father down the rabbit hole, he enlists the help of August Kimball, a man of quite different beliefs, talents, and temperament. In their search, Jeffrey works to reconcile memory and fact, and soon finds that if he and August are to lay claim to the future, he must first reclaim the past.

David Banks portrayed the Cyber leader in BBC TV sci-fi series Doctor Who and wrote the best-selling book Doctor Who - Cybermen, illustrated by veteran sci-fi artist Andrew Skilleter. The Archive Tapes: Cybermen is a audiobook based on that book, the hypothesized history of the Cyber race, written and narrated by the Cyber leader himself. This gripping retelling of the origins and history of the Cybermen is fully dramatized with vivid effects and original music.

The apocalypse was five years ago. Little has changed. There isn't any law, but there used to be. Back then, Lucas Shaw had been a Texas lawman. Now he's just trying to survive. In a kill-or-be-killed wasteland, death is always around. Will today be his last? When a young woman enters his life, he must make an impossible decision: help her in a battle against an adversary who'll stop at nothing or keep himself alive. Which will he choose?

Five years post-collapse, former Texas Ranger Lucas Shaw is surviving hardscrabble in a kill-or-be-killed wasteland. When an enigmatic young woman enters his life with a desperate plea, Lucas must face impossible odds and battle an adversary who will stop at nothing to destroy them. Lightning-paced and gritty, Blood Honor, the debut novel in The Day after Never trilogy, is a non-stop adrenaline rush set in a chillingly plausible dystopian future.

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My mother-in-law, Diane Newby, zombified by accident. She still volunteers at her church bake sales and cooks pot roast for her daughter and son-in-law, Ron Yardley. What ticks her off is when people don't treat her like a normal human being - with glowing red eyes and super strength and speed. And if she doesn't get her own way, look out. She explodes and leaves broken plaster and body parts in her wake. Nothing stops her: not brick walls, the federal government, or middle-aged spread.

In this second volume of the two-audiobook arc that began with Insurrection (audiobook five), Lucas braves all odds to free his friends and in the process spawns the only hope for the nation's future: a new resistance movement that will take the battle to its enemies and drive them from its shores.

Lucas embarks on a cross-country journey for what's supposed to be a simple vaccine delivery mission, but which quickly devolves into a battle to survive when he and his team become embroiled in a conspiracy so massive it will change the fate of America.