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¿Y si tanto el origen bíblico como el origen científico de la raza humana tuvieran razón? ¿Por qué somos los nietos de Dios y no sus hijos? Tras vivir el terremoto de San Francisco de Abril de 1906, el empresario José Calderón encuentra una misteriosa piedra y descubre que puede cambiar el destino de la humanidad y todas sus creencias sobre nuestro origen. La difícil situación de España y un revés personal le obligan a posponer sus investigaciones.

¿Y si tanto el origen bíblico como el origen científico de la raza humana tuvieran razón? ¿Por qué somos los nietos de Dios y no sus hijos? Tras vivir el terremoto de San Francisco de Abril de 1906, el empresario José Calderón encuentra una misteriosa piedra y descubre que puede cambiar el destino de la humanidad y todas sus creencias sobre nuestro origen. La difícil situación de España y un revés personal le obligan a posponer sus investigaciones.

Der schwerreiche Vater der vermissten Anna-Lena van Dam schickt den Ex-Soldaten Viktor mit einem fünfköpfigen Geo-Expertenteam los, um seine Tochter zu suchen. In einem gigantischen Höhlensystem entdeckt die Gruppe mehrere Türen mit mysteriösen Zeichen. Um Anna-Lena zu retten, müssen sie sich auf Pfade jenseits von Wissenschaft und Vernunft einlassen - Eine der Türen führt die Gruppe mitten in die 40er Jahre. Doch hier hat Nazi-Deutschland früh kapituliert, die USA haben kolonialgleiche Kontrolle über Europa übernommen und drohen dem Widerstand, angeführt von Russland, mit einem Atomschlag.

In an alternate future where the British empire never crumbled, the spaceships of Her Majesty’s Navy work to keep the spaceways safe. But there are those among the stars who are not so happy being subjects of the British Empire. In the Tau Ceti system, a cauldron of trouble brews as a terrorist faction of the rebellious Sons of Arnold attacks the empire from within, and warships of the theocratic Caliphate enter the system, prepared to do their worse to destroy the hated empire head-on.

In a reimagined contemporary Edinburgh, where a tectonic fault has opened up to produce a new volcano in the Firth of Forth, and where tremors are an everyday occurrence, volcanologist Surtsey makes a shocking discovery. On a clandestine trip to new volcanic island The Inch, to meet Tom, her lover and her boss, she finds his lifeless body and makes the fatal decision to keep their affair, and her discovery, a secret. Desperate to know how he died, but also terrified she’ll be exposed, Surtsey’s life quickly spirals into a nightmare when someone makes contact - someone who claims to know what she’s done....

After Halley's Comet was destroyed in a magical battle in 1759, the backlash separated the entire New World from the Old in an event known as The Sundering. Now isolated from the rest of the globe, America has become a very different place, where magic works and history has been changed forever.

Pilot Christoph Wilder wird einem Forschungsprojekt zugeteilt, bei dem ein Flugzeug mit einer Zeitmaschine ausgestattet wird. Beim Jungfernflug wird die Maschine in das Jahr 1939 entführt, wo es den Entführern - politischen Aktivisten - gelingt, Adolf Hitler zu töten. Die Crew des Flugzeugs kann in die Zukunft zurückkehren, kommt aber in einer Gegenwart heraus, die von einem Atomkrieg verwüstet wurde. Verzweifelt versucht Christoph mit seinen Kollegen herauszufinden, was geschehen ist.

Aristos Petrakos has never been one to take anything too seriously, even his immortal position as a protector of humankind. But having recently been dealt the power of a demi-god, granting him control over life and death, his naturally easygoing manner has taken a blow. One that may just prove a knockout punch, when the only woman who ever fully claimed his heart reaches out from beyond the grave. Ari attempts to ignore her messages, but his long-dead lover, Juliana Tiades, has other plans.

1945: Russian troops have entered Berlin, and are engaged in a violent orgy of robbery, rape, and revenge! Wehrmacht officer Hasso Pemsel, a career soldier on the losing end of the greatest war in history, flees from a sniper's bullet, finding himself hurled into a mysterious, fantastic world of wizards, dragons, and unicorns!

In a Russia where the Decembrists’ rebellion was successful and the Trans-Siberian railroad was completed before 1854, Sasha Trubetskaya wants nothing more than to have a decent debut ball in St. Petersburg. But her aunt’s feud with the emperor lands Sasha at university, where she becomes one of its first female students - an experiment, she suspects, designed more to prove female unsuitability for such pursuits than offer them education.

In Orbite Medievali is a short story from the collection Tides fromthe New Worlds. Caribbean-born novelist Tobias Buckell established himself as a gifted new voice in science fiction with his stunning first novel, Crystal Rain. Now, in his first collection, Buckell demonstrates his strengths in the short form, offering listeners a collection of stories that are compelling, smart, wonderfully imagined, and entertaining.

When erudite ape Professor Khan and rough-and-tumble cowboy Bulls-Eye Gutierrez are zapped away on a one-way trip to Mars, they are thrown into a world in chaos. Under the malevolent gaze of the Weather Witch, Princess Cyclone, our heroes face the intrigue and war raging across an alien world. Will they survive long enough for the other Centurions to build a way back home? Or will they perish upon the shifting sands of the Red Planet, never to be seen again?

This town is going ape! Professor Khan, learned ape, has traveled through time, fought psychic dinosaurs and shark-men, visited Atlantis, and battled across the sands of Mars. He's seen it all - until an arrow shooting out of the sky sends him to the strangest place yet...Hollywood!

Yossi is an ideal agent for the Mossad. He's recruited by an agent named Tajar, and code-named "the Runner." Thus begins the longest-running and most successful operation in the history of Israeli intelligence. Meanwhile, in the desert oasis of Jericho, Abu Musa, an Arab patriarch, and Moses the Ethiopian, meet each day over games of shesh-besh and glasses of Arak to ponder history and humanity.

Imagine an Age of Exploration full of alchemy, human dissection, sea monsters, betrayal, torture, religious controversy, and magic. In Europe, the magic is thin, but at the edge of the world, where the stars reach down close to the Earth, wonders abound. This drives the bravest explorers to the alluring Western Ocean. Christopher Sinclair is an alchemist who cares only about one thing: quintessence, a substance he believes will grant magical powers and immortality. And he has a ship....

Activist Elizabeth Devane wished for an end to nuclear weapons. Surely, she thought, if they'd known what they were unleashing, the scientists of the Manhattan Project would never have created such a terrible instrument of destruction. But during a protest action, the unthinkable happened: a flash of light, a silent confusion, and Elizabeth awakes to find herself alone in a desolate desert arroyo... and almost 50 years in the past.

In the chaos of defeat, while Germany's roads teemed with desperate refugees and jumbled armies, Hitler's inner circle tried to disappear. Heinrich Himmler donned an eye patch and posed as a farmer. Captured by British troops, he bit into a cyanide capsule concealed in a tooth cavity. Rudolph Hoess, former commandant of Auschwitz, was discovered working as a farmhand near Bremen. But many of the most notorious Nazis escaped, including Josef Mengele and Adolf Eichmann.

Tras el fracaso de su intento de golpe de Estado de 1923, Hitler es detenido y encarcelado. El partido Nazi, sin su carismático líder, elige una nueva dirección, mucho más cercana a las ideas democráticas, lo que, unido a la bancarrota de sus cuentas, deja el partido al borde de la extinción o la ruptura. Es entonces cuando, en plena recuperación económica, tras la catástrofe de la primera guerra mundial, el tráfico de drogas pasa a estar prohibido por primera vez.

In 1991, at the beginning of Desert Storm, the defeat of American forces at the battle of Khafji is the signal for a broad and bloodily successful anti-Western uprising. In this alternate history, America faces endless war in the Middle East, a resurgent Soviet Union, and growing tyranny at home.

Promised Land is part of my James Dean sequence of stories, which includes the recently published novel The Rebel: An Imagined Life of James Dean. My intent was to explore the great icons of the 50’s and 60’s. Major iconic characters in the novel (besides James Dean) and short stories include Robert F. Kennedy, John F. Kennedy, Elvis Presley, Jack Kerouac, Marilyn Monroe and, in this story, President Lyndon Johnson.