Ergebnis für "the squad" in Science Fiction & Fantasy

Als Kai, einer der besten Gamer der Welt, in das Cyber Squad aufgenommen wird, glaubt er zunächst, seinen Traumjob ergattert zu haben. Spiele testen und dafür fürstlich belohnt werden, was kann es Besseres geben? Doch schon bald stellt er fest, dass das ein Irrtum war, der ihn sein Leben kosten könnte. Bekleidet mit einem Hightech-Anzug, der seinen Körper und sein Gehirn schützen soll, dringen Kai und sein Team in die gefährlichsten und aufregendsten virtuellen Welten ein, um sie von allem zu säubern, was für normale Spieler schädlich sein könnte.

Kai hat die Begegnung mit der Killer-KI, die sich selbst "Der Gott in der Maschine" nennt, im Dark Net nur knapp überlebt. Doch er hat keine Zeit, um sich zu erholen. Er wird auf Level Zwei befördert, und hat nun Zugang zu allem, was Helltek zu bieten hat. Das Leben auf dem Campus könnte perfekt sein, wäre da nicht die Tatsache, dass der Cyber Squad einer der riskantesten Jobs der Welt ist. Die mörderischen KI ist längst nicht Kais einziges Problem. Auch die Hacker, die TSOTA angegriffen haben, planen schon bald wieder zuzuschlagen, und ein Verräter innerhalb des Cyber Squad hilft ihnen.

Als Kai, einer der besten Gamer der Welt, in das Cyber Squad aufgenommen wird, glaubt er zunächst, seinen Traumjob ergattert zu haben. Spiele testen und dafür fürstlich belohnt werden, was kann es Besseres geben? Doch schon bald stellt er fest, dass das ein Irrtum war, der ihn sein Leben kosten könnte.

Osiris “Oz” Aquino is an underprepared Navy officer put in command of seven castoff Marines on a research starship dispatched to an alien planet. His sergeant is hostile, his Marines have records full of infractions–not to mention that they’re plagued by old weapons and missing supplies due to budget cuts–and the crew and scientists would rather have nothing to do with him. As the ship approaches the planet it’s investigating, they find plenty of signs of intelligent life in the form of ruined cities and skeletal remains.

Kai thought he had the best job in the world. Playing VR games for a living. Not if the games are trying to kill you. The Net is the last great frontier, a wilderness of data filled with mysteries beyond imagination. Bugs, a harmless annoyance in earlier decades, have become a deadly menace in times when gamers connect their brains directly to VR.

Nichts ist so, wie es scheint...Nach dem Hackerangriff, bei dem Kai und sein gesamtes Team fast ums Leben gekommen wären, ist jeder bei Helltek nervös. Schlimmer noch, alle Beweise deuten darauf hin, dass der Saboteur ein Mitarbeiter des Unternehmens ist. Kai fürchtet nicht nur um seine Sicherheit sondern auch um die seiner Freunde. Der Verdacht, dass jemand, der ihm nahe steht, dafür verantwortlich sein könnte, ist beunruhigend. Und das ist nur eines von Kais Problemen.

Gaia has an eldritch problem, and Cain is tasked with stopping it before it gets out of control. To do that, he'll have to make an uneasy alliance with a human black-ops organization called Aegis. Run by the US government, Aegis has the personnel and resources to stop an eldritch invasion in its tracks. The problem is, Aegis has been taking a short-term approach, blowing up eldritch wormholes as they form on Gaia rather than cutting them off at the source.

Welcome to Andover, where superpowers are common, but internships are complicated. Just ask high school nobody, Jessica Tran. Despite her heroic lineage, Jess is resigned to a life without superpowers and is merely looking to beef-up her college applications when she stumbles upon the perfect (paid!) internship only it turns out to be for the town's most heinous supervillain.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Set in the aftermath of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, this action-packed prequel to the hotly anticipated videogame Battlefront II introduces the Empire’s elite force: Inferno Squad. After the humiliating theft of the Death Star plans and the destruction of the...

Gold Squad lands on an unexplored planet, and quickly loses all communication with their command center. Black Squad is sent in to investigate, and retrieve their missing teammates. They soon discover a grim reality when they find Gold Squad's abandoned camp and several bodies of fallen soldiers. Horrified, but undeterred, Thomas rallies his team to search for any survivors and uncover what happened. But it’s not long before they discover the same terrifying threat.

We survived the invasion and beat the aliens. But they left something behind… Killing monsters is what I do. Like my father before me, I fight side by side with my twin brother and my squad to protect our people. Since the invasion, life is dangerous. I know how short it can be, so I live it to the fullest. I work hard on Hunter Squad, I party harder, I love a joke and a good time, and I never get tangled up in relationships. I watched my father’s grief at losing his brother. I almost lost my own twin. I’ll never let myself get in too deep.

Dieses Buch erzählt die Geschichte von fünf Jugendlichen, deren Körper eine zweite Pubertät durchlaufen, und sie dabei mit übernatürlichen Fähigkeiten ausgestattet hat.

Join Marcus Steele and the toughest commando team fighting for humanity's survival - Hell Squad. Battle-hardened, alpha soldiers. Men and women who never give up. Heroes will rise...when they have someone to live for.

An ongoing, episodic "prose comic" from which the pictures are summoned by the magic of words, Goon Squad is set in an alternate version of modern-day Manchester. Its biggest divergence from the real city is that it - along with most other large urban centers - has a team of superheroes to protect it against unusual threats with which the conventional forces of law and order would have problems. Goon Squad: Year One offers three action-packed volumes in a single collection.

Lothar 'Stiff' Sauer is a mercenary captain. Unfortunately, he has no mercenaries left. He never caught a break in the Old World. Maybe in Gal'azu, he'll finally achieve the success he craves. But he soon finds out things aren't going to be easy. Starting at the bottom rung, he can only recruit the mercenaries no one else wants. The feckless; criminals, and noobs; the unhinged. Can Lothar build his squad into something to be proud of? Or will this be yet another, and final, failure?

Goon Squad is set in a version of modern-day Manchester. Its biggest divergence from the real city is that it - along with most other large urban centers - has a team of superheroes to protect it against unusual threats with which the conventional forces of law and order would have problems.

Goon Squad, Volume 2: Without Sin is composed of "A Star in Strange Ways", "Holy Fool", "Dead Man Tells Tale", "A Brief History of the Goon Squad", "Tale of Terror", and "Pomona Island", as well as an introduction read by the author.

Everyone enjoys peace and tranquility, and Victor Bayne is no exception. He goes to great lengths to maintain a harmonious home with his partner, Jacob. Although the cannery is huge, it's grown difficult to avoid the elephant in the room...the elephant with the letters FPMP scrawled on its hide. Once Jacob surrendered his PsyCop badge, he infiltrated the Federal Psychic Monitoring Program. In his typical restrained fashion, he hasn't been sharing much about what he actually does behind its guarded doors.

In a world gone to hell, Elle Milton - once the darling of the Sydney social scene - has carved a role for herself as the communications officer for the toughest commando team fighting for humanity's survival - Hell Squad. It's her chance to make a difference and make up for horrible past mistakes, despite the fact that its battle-hardened commander never wanted her on his team.

Kai barely survived his encounter with the rogue AI calling itself “The God in the Machine” in the Dark Net. Promoted to Level 2 with no time to recover, he has gained access to all Helltek has to offer. Life on the campus could be perfect except that Cyber Squad is one of the most high-risk jobs in the world. If the murderous AI wasn’ t bad enough, the hackers who attacked TSOTA are up to no good and a traitor within the Cyber Squad is helping them.