Showing results for "GENESIS" in Science Fiction & Fantasy

Unbeknownst to him, Ray is about to partake on an adventure filled with magical beasts, warring factions, and a leveling-up system out of this world. He'll encounter filthy bandits, musty crypts, and friendly werewolves. Oh, you heard us right. If only he wasn't given negative charisma points around women, he might have a chance, but you can't win them all.

The human race is running out of time on overcrowded Earth, and only one man has the courage to do what is necessary to save it. Colony ship Ark is the greatest project the human race will ever attempt, a self-contained world 100 years in the building, launched on a 10,000-year voyage to carry the seeds of civilization to the stars. It is humanity's final gamble for escape from a desperate world, but the price of hope is measured in lives.

Blue Magic, the latest designer drug linked to a rash of overdoses, might explain the needle mark on the arm of a young woman found dead in her Kansas City apartment. But when star reporter Rich Azadian digs deeper, the clues point to a far more explosive story: MaryLee Stock was a special protege of evangelical megapastor and power broker Cobalt Becker, who is poised to deliver his followers and the presidency to a firebrand right-wing senator in the next election.

James Patterson’s thrilling adventure series gets an exclusive, audio-only origin story in Daniel X: Genesis, brought to life by an all-star cast. We meet Daniel, an ordinary teen just trying to navigate his way through high school. That all changes when he discovers he has super powers and can conjure up anything, at any time, just by imagining it. Suddenly he’s meeting powerful entities who tell him he is not, in fact, a typical teenage human but an alien...and his parents died not in a car wreck but in an epic battle with an intergalactic villain.

Escaping wrongful imprisonment wasn't something Connor had in mind, but being put into stasis aboard Earth's first interstellar colony ship was something he couldn't have prepared for. For 300,000 colonists, the new colony brings the promise of a fresh start...a second chance. Connor might be the wrong man for the colony, but he's the right man to see that it survives what's coming.

In a futuristic world where predictive software can map out the lives of every living person and their descendants, Naomi Prynne is on trial. The charge: endangerment by way of a pregnancy. Thirteen jurors will determine whether Naomi is allowed to carry the pregnancy to term, but the jurors are also all plaintiffs, the software having predicted how Naomi Prynne’s child will affect each of them in life-changing ways.

After an alien invasion devastates humanity, a battered group of survivors huddles in a remote outpost, fighting to endure in a now-hostile world. Resources are dwindling, and internal power struggles threaten to tear apart the fragile last vestige of human society.

The world is in ruins. Scattered pockets of humanity rule over their own territory, and by the 24th century, a merciless political group known as the Party has seized control of the nation through military force. They'll never let that power go. Party soldiers patrol the streets around the clock, and the citizens are watched day and night by cameras and drones. Freedom is dead, but from the darkness comes a glimmer of light - a hope of overthrowing the vicious regime.

Niepokojąca wizja dwudziestego trzeciego wieku - światem zawładnęły systemy policyjne i wielkie korporacje. W futurystycznym Vancouver znikają ludzie. W sprawę uwikłani zostają: obdarzony zdolnościami paranormalnymi terapeuta Max i komandos sił specjalnych Alla. Oboje z genetyczną ułomnością przebudzeni po blisko dwustu latach z krioprezerwacji. Początkowa rutynowa sprawa przyjmuje globalny wymiar. Cały świat się zmieni, wszechświat także nie pozostanie obojętny. Nadchodzą czasy ostateczne. Trylogia o hybrydach - Eel - to Biblia pisana na nowo w dwudziestym trzecim wieku.

It was every starship captain’s nightmare, and for Travis Miller, it was his own personal hell. He’d done everything by the book, but when the Tahni had attacked him and his crew, there was no choice but to return fire and destroy the first alien vessel humans had ever encountered. Excoriated in the press, his career in shambles, Travis is exiled to a long patrol of the outer colony worlds. Forgotten, except as a bad example...until the Tahni prove him right by declaring war on the human commonwealth.

Tucked away in a high-tech Tactical Operations Center, inside an isolated safehouse in the Horn of Africa, sits Agency analyst Zack Altringham. He is Kenyan-born, Princeton-educated, badly burnt-out—and condemned by his language and cultural skills to a lifetime of fighting America's shadow counter-terror wars. But when another mystery epidemic breaks out, terrifyingly quickly it reaches a tipping point and chaos descends—and Zack and his team (including two former Team Six SEALs) are trapped between the millstones of the sick and the dying on one side, and heavily armed militias on the other.

In pursuit of his abusive father’s approval, Zeke Blackwood pushed himself to the very pinnacle of his chosen obsession. Since childhood, all he’d ever wanted to do was play baseball, and through hard work, discipline, and no small degree of talent, his goal of reaching the major leagues was finally in sight. But then a horrific car accident ruined his arm, eliminating any hope of a professional baseball career. Consumed by depression, Zeke gave up on his future, preferring to wallow in self-pity. That is, until an opportunity came along for him to prove his worth.

Jon Culshaw reads this exciting classic novelisation of a Fourth Doctor TV adventure, featuring the first appearance of the Daleks’ creator, Davros. “Attention to detail is the hallmark of this always excellent range” Doctor Who Magazine The place: Skaro Time: The Birth of the Daleks After...

Gut dreitausend Jahre in der Zukunft: Perry Rhodan hat nach wie vor die Vision, die Milchstraße in eine Sterneninsel ohne Kriege zu verwandeln. Der Mann von der Erde, der einst die Menschen zu den Sternen führte, möchte endlich Frieden in der Galaxis haben. Davon ist er in diesen Tagen des Jahres 1552 Neuer Galaktischer Zeitrechnung allerdings weit entfernt: In der von der Superintelligenz ES verlassenen Milchstraße wütet der Weltenbrand, der alle intelligenten Lebewesen betrifft und zu einer Hypersensibilität führt, gegen die es kein Mittel gibt.

Deutschland in zehn Jahren. Mit absoluter Mehrheit regiert die Kanzlerin in der dritten Legislaturperiode und hat mit harter Hand die globalen Verhältnisse auf den Kopf gestellt. Während die einstigen Großmächte China, Russland und die USA deutlich unter Auflösungserscheinungen leiden, ist es der charismatischen Machtpolitikerin gelungen, sich und die von ihr angeführte Kern-EU zur Weltspitze zu führen.

On Earth, Zeke Blackwood was a star athlete who devoted his every waking minute to baseball . . . before his tragic death and the devastation of the planet. Eons later, he was resurrected in a magical realm known as the Radiant Isles. There, Zeke survived two years of unrelenting combat through sheer grit and determination. Battling trolls in a labyrinth of caverns, he gained superhuman abilities with every victory, ultimately equipping him for a war between good and evil.

After years of battling elite soldiers, slaying soul-crushing monsters, and acquiring powerful combat skills and destructive mana abilities, the realization of Zeke Blackwood's destiny is imminent. Everything he's endured since being reborn into a system of troll-infested caves has been to prepare him for ascension into the Ethereal Realm, where he'll stand against the forces of darkness that threaten all existence.

AC 438 - Sieben Jahre leben Anna und Elias wieder auf der Erde. Sieben sehr schöne Jahre, in denen es ihnen an nichts mangelt. Als die KI Vater eines Tages ein unbekanntes Wetterphänomen untersucht, realisiert Elias genau zwei Dinge: Anna und er hätten nie zurückkommen dürfen und er würde den Tag nicht überleben. Noch 0,153 Sekunden: Erkenntnis ist gnadenlos. Die KI Vater steht vor einer unlösbaren Aufgabe. Ein Dilemma, das ihn über seine Grenzen treibt.

Ein Waisenkind wird von seltsamen Visionen heimgesucht. Die Erbin eines kriminellen Imperiums ringt mit ihrem Gewissen. Ein FBI-Agent kommt einer großangelegten Verschwörung auf die Spur. Und der Mathematikprofessor William Ell ist weiterhin auf der Suche nach der Wahrheit. Sie alle verbindet ein gemeinsames Schicksal, denn im Verborgenen herrscht Krieg, und nur wenn es gelingt, eine verschollene Künstliche Intelligenz zu finden, ist eine Niederlage noch abzuwenden.

It’s an old, familiar story: a young person hears the voice of an angel saying they have been chosen as a warrior to lead their people to victory in a holy war. But Misery Nomaki (she/they) knows they are a fraud. Raised on a remote moon colony, they don’t believe in any kind of god. Their angel is a delusion, brought on by hereditary space exposure. Yet their survival banks on mastering the holy mech they are supposedly destined for, and convincing the Emperor of the Faithful that they are the real deal.