Résultats pour "weisgerber" dans Science fiction et fantaisie

This collection of nine stories from the Grand Master of Science Fiction charts the course of humanity from the near future onward through millennia. In Galaxies Like Grains of Sand, Brian W. Aldiss tells the tale of mankind's future over the course of forty million years. Each of these nine connected short stories highlights a different millennia in which man has adapted to new environments and hardships.

Angora. The legendary mystical City of the Dead whose location remains a mystery to everyone. Ancient legend has it that only the brightest souls find their final resting place in Angora-the ones that are considered worthy of an eternal afterlife. That is what Rosgard and his friends intend to find out. They are about to embark on another perilous journey. This time, their destination is Angora-the Great City of the Dead, once ruled by the death god Anrull before his fall from his lofty throne. And Anrull would never accept being thwarted that way.

When the ark began emergency jettisoning the colonists, I got unlucky three times. The first occurred when the runic defenses of the Kel shot down my capsule above a forbidden Circle. The second was when it crashed next to the White Devil's tomb. And the third time, when I climbed into a wounded noxwolf's lair and discovered Starblood. Other Ascendants would call it good fortune, but I'll put it this way: had I left it alone, I might have remained a normal person.

With his demonic patron back in fighting form, Eric Redd was becoming something of a rule-breaker. Humans weren't supposed to survive Hell, but he had endured and now thrived there. With every completed venture in the overheated nightmare that was the Lower Hells, he came back stronger. More powerful. Juggling the terrors of oblivion plus his new found family, he can't keep himself busy enough to avoid the destiny he has begrudgingly accepted. Not only are powerful demons still trying to invade Earth, but there are unexpected foes waiting in the wings to end him.

The Brotherhood of the Path, a tight-knit and determined group of five players, finds themselves in one of Waldyra's secret corners. And they find game's rules and laws to be entirely different here in the Forgotten Lands. This is the domain of old-school hardcore eventually deemed too brutal and challenging for ordinary players and replaced with a more forgiving system. Its denizens are exiled monsters and creatures that didn't fit into the bright and cheerful Waldyra.

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After two years of no answer to who killed his family, joining the Organization and becoming a Hunter had brought Eric Redd nothing but misery and pain. But when an alluring demon calling herself Pearl inserts herself into his life with the promise of helping him get what he wants, he finds purpose to put himself in danger and grow more powerful. With the stakes rising and Hell itself ready and willing to grind him into paste, he has to rely on his pact-bound demonic patron, Wight, to help him survive.

The first three books in The Tattler series in one volume. Celebrity-chasing paparazzo Barry Young was abducted by aliens when he was five. Twenty years later, he finds himself in the crosshairs of these same aliens as they try to take over the planet. The only person he has to turn to is Nikki Graves, an award-winning journalist who is also Barry's ex. Will switching memories help Barry and Nikki learn to understand each other? Will they get back together? Will the power of the press save the planet?

After escaping the laboratory where he was imprisoned by the scientific mega-corporation GenTech, Kata wants just one thing: to go back to his homeworld of Trandellia with his friend Tau and forget all about what happened. Forget about being imprisoned and mutated, forget about GenTech's attempts to break and sell him as a piece of livestock, and above all, forget the tortures he suffered at the hands of some of the scientists.

The Earth freehold has received a new Ascendant, pilot, and warrior, yet the colony is still in danger, as its enemies haven't abandoned their sinister plans. Everything will be decided at the big moot under the luminous Ygg-Tree, the gathering of the people of our Circle. Another threat is looming—the one twinkling in the night sky, controlling the relativistic jets of the accretion disk, and overseeing the change of Signs in the celestial calendar. The lords of Eternity must not learn who shares my body with me. But who is he, really?

Alex was a gamer. Gaming wasn't just a lifestyle. The essence of his favorite hobby was woven into his DNA. At least, that is what his parents liked to say after he pulled an all-night slaughterfest. The hordes of Morlock never saw him coming. What his parents didn't understand was playing games was Alex's chance to be the hero. The release of Revenant Online was going to change everything.

Detective Aileen Buckman has travelled back in time 600 years to prevent an assassination. Rupert Blix, the mob boss who has the Time Travel Police in his back pocket, is hot on her trail. How will Aileen stay hidden from her corrupt teammates without being erased from existence the way only a time traveler can do?

Kalin Taylor is on the path to success. He's just won a scholarship to the prestigious Sanderson College of Arts and Science to study medicine. He's also about to do something very, very stupid in the name of becoming one of the 'in' kids at college. It sounded simple at the time. Sneak into a branch of the top-secret, interstellar scientific company GenTech, take a photo of the genetically engineered creature Project Tau that's supposedly inside, and sneak back out again. Cue membership of the college frat house, cue popularity and an improved lifestyle, right?

The residents of the Village have managed to overcome all the trials and tribulations. Under Nicholas's leadership, they have achieved the seemingly impossible. Combined the incompatible. Reconciled the irreconcilable.

Alex never expected a game to change the way he looked at life, but the launch of Revenant Online changed his perception of the world as much as himself. The old him would never have the courage to make a move on a girl, but this time he was determined not to let the opportunity slip through his fingertips. Inside of the game, he wasn't just Alex, the high school outcast. He was a tank. The man who led his group into battle. In a world teetering on the brink of chaos, Alex was the bulwark between the darkness and the light.

Dip your toes into the exotic waters of Maradoum, exploring the realm through 11 stand-alone short stories set in the same world as the Convent Series. From the brutality of dust-blown Ogbun Nagali and the barbarism of high society in Zamphia to the rotten heart of civilized Justiqua and the treacheries secreted beneath the soothing tropics of Ishambria, this high fantasy anthology is stuffed to the gills with witches and wizards, gods and monsters, tales of love beyond death and familial vengeance, coming of age and reunification, and questing warriors and even noble foes.

Alex never expected to fall for his best friend's sister. Then they started playing Revenant Online together, and everything changed. Killing monsters and solving mysteries as a team made him see what he should have seen all along. Sana was more than Ben's sister. She was the woman who captured his heart.

Barry Young is trapped in an alien prison for a crime he didn't commit, galaxies away from the woman he loves. Captain Bloxnor and the crew of the USG Seedman have been recruited to rescue the quirky photographer, unaware of the powerful time-altering gem being held inside the prison. How will a time-traveling gangster's escape attempt affect Barry's reunion with his beloved? What kind of world will Barry and the crew come back to? Who is really behind the theft of the Kronosite?

A mysterious time traveler has been helping President Lee Finn hunt down monsters, made from a mineral that can repair the alien invaders’ home world. Barry Young has quit TTLR News to pursue a career in artsy photography, leaving Nikki with unresolved feelings. Will Barry and Nikki get back together? Will the aliens go home? And what of seductive, snake-haired media mogul Lenee Medusa, who wants to add both TTLR and Barry to her list of conquests?

Celebrity-chasing paparazzo Barry Young was abducted by aliens when he was six, an experience he does not remember. He can only piece together what happened that night by what his best friend Scott (who was also abducted) tells him. One night, Barry uncovers evidence of an alien invasion that his ex-girlfriend, journalist Nikki Graves, has been assigned to cover. Together, these two estranged exes are hot on the trail of an alien invasion plot 20 Earth years in the making. Will they stop the invasion?