Showing results for "Heads" in Science Fiction

Mars. The red planet. A new frontier for humanity: a civilisation where humans can live in peace, lord and master of all they survey. But this isn't Space City from those old science-fiction books. It's more like Hell City, built into and from a huge crater. There's a big silk canopy over it, feeding out atmosphere as we generate it, little by little, because we can't breathe the air here. I guess it's a perfect place to live, if you want to live on Mars. At some point I must have wanted to live on Mars, because here I am.

Four classic tales of the undead, read by Bill Wallis, Anthony Head, John Telfer and Cornelius Garrett.

Time is running out. An ally has all but fallen. Resources are running low. The time for attack has come... The Alliance must strike deep into the heart of the empire. This time, the Aurora will be going home, or going to her grave.

Hilketa is a frenetic and violent pastime where players attack each other with swords and hammers. The main goal of the game: obtain your opponent's head and carry it through the goalposts. With flesh and bone bodies, a sport like this would be impossible. But all the players are "threeps", robot-like bodies controlled by people with Haden's Syndrome, so anything goes. No one gets hurt, but the brutality is real, and the crowds love it. Until a star athlete drops dead on the playing field.

The end of the world has been and gone. There was no one great natural disaster, no all-consuming world war, no catastrophic pandemic. Only scores of storms, droughts, and selfish regional conflicts. Humanity was not granted a heroic end. Instead, it bled to death from a thousand cuts. But where Earth fell apart, Mars pulled together. Engineered men and beasts, aided by Bees – an outlawed distributed intelligence – survived through co-operation, because there was simply no alternative.

The last Blockbuster video store in the United States is hanging on by a thread. And after a crazy night attempting to track down a lost VCR rental to collect the record-setting and internet-famous late fee, three employees, idealistic Eva, cinephile Jerry, and their tyrannical manager Randy, discover that this machine may actually have the power to change the endings of popular films, which, depending on the historical basis of the film, might also be changing the real world around them. Or could this just be an elaborate, increasingly deadly prank?

Caleb Hanson assumed the most exciting part of his field trip scouting in Northern Minnesota would be a rare bird sighting. Instead, he was abducted by hive-minded hexapods and forced to be their children's teacher. Not the worst way to ride out the end of the world. Two years later, the apocalypse has finally come for Caleb. His savior-captors are murdered, leaving him as the last line of defense for the alien kids he's grown to know and love. Now, he'll have to bend his values or watch his students die.

This book, set in a dystopian Philadelphia in 2118, invented a new, creepier kind of dystopian Sci Fi.

Taylor McFadden is in a military hospital recovering, and Niki is on the warpath, with Jennie visiting him in the hospital. Will Taylor live through an operation in which a helicopter dropped on him only to die when Niki gets hold of him? Further, he has decided to have the final word with the crime lord attacking his people. You know, his friends? Like...Vickie?

Step into a groundbreaking alternate world with The Heads of Cerberus, a novel first serialized in The Thrill Book in 1919 and later published in 1952. When three unsuspecting time travelers stumble upon a vial of grey dust, they find themselves in a dystopian Philadelphia of 2118. Though some landmarks remain, the society is drastically different‚Aîsuperlative adjectives and numbered buttons have replaced personal names, and a powerful oligarchy reigns supreme. To navigate this perilous new reality and find their way home, they must charm the Loveliest, outsmart the Cleverest, and survive ...

Hilketa is a frenetic and violent pastime where players attack each other with swords and hammers. The main goal of the game: obtain your opponent's head and carry it through the goalposts. With flesh and bone bodies, a sport like this would be impossible. But all the players are "threeps", robot-like bodies controlled by people with Haden's Syndrome, so anything goes. No one gets hurt, but the brutality is real, and the crowds love it. Until a star athlete drops dead on the playing field.

Ben never thought owning a starship would be easy. He didn’t expect it to be quite like this. It was one thing to take a job as a smuggler to pay for basic necessities like maintenance, fuel, and food. Another to have one of the most powerful nobles in the galaxy gunning for him at every turn. But when Keep turns up unexpectedly with a new offer that’s even wilder than the last, will it put him on the path toward his true destiny? Or is it just another con?

Aleksandr Romanovich Beljaev (1884 - 1942) - russkij pisatel'-fantast, odin iz osnovopolozhnikov sovetskoj nauchno-fantasticheskoj literatury. Za znachitel'nyj vklad v russkuju fantastiku i providcheskie idei Beljaeva nazyvajut «russkim Zhjulem Vernom».

Married hosts Beth and Jeanne play lots of games, often together, but rarely agree about what makes a game fun, enjoyable, or successful. This podcast features their analysis of board games, video games, and tabletop games from the perspectives of a talented hardcore gamer and a game creator with a Master's degree in arts and games. Theme song is "Where Is It" by Jon Worthy Music.

The Head of the Snake is about a man named Fecketty down on his luck. After being fired from his job, he is confronted with a giant bloodthirsty snake in his basement. Ridiculous and horrifying things follow. This podcast is body horror and cosmic science fiction. The Head of the Snake was created with a music-first mindset. The music was created first by Aljoscha Guenther and then turned in to Jared Parisi to write the script. Direction, Writing, Editing, Narration: Jared Parisi Music: Aljoscha Guenther Artwork: Ozzie Sneddon Sound Design: Ben Ridge With performances by Mike Bodie, A.W. ...

In the jungles of Aztlan a deadly war of the shadows is being fought. And the Imperial Guard are losing. The alien t’au, though few in number, greatly outclass the soldiers of the Imperium and are taking a serious toll on their forces. A call for aid is answered by the fearsome Mortifactors Chapter, who come to the world full of grim purpose. Adoni, an unblooded neophyte yet to earn his place, is amongst the war party. As the Mortifactors descend into the jungle vastness, they hunt for a killer, one that will not die easily but that whom Adoni must slay if he is to become part of the Chapter and a Taker of Heads.

CDF Lieutenant Harry Wilson has been loaned out to a CDF platoon tasked with secretly removing an unauthorized colony of humans on an alien world. Colonial Ambassador Abumwe has been ordered to participate in final negotiations with an alien race the Union hopes to make allies. Wilson and Abumwe’s missions are fated to cross - and in doing so, place both missions at risk of failure.

We Only Need the Heads is a tale from John Scalzi's The Human Division.

A mobile phone call to the emergency services, a body found on government land and an ancient burial site unearthed at an archaeological dig all point toward an odd mystery by the coast.... UNIT's new commander, Colonel Robert Dalton, and its political officer, Colonel Emily Chaudhry, investigate strange goings-on in Southend.

Polski podcast i stream poświęcony grze X-Wing Zapraszamy na naszego Discorda: https://discord.gg/RmEgt93s7x Zapraszamy na Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/beskar_heads Zapraszamy na Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOj5FWYnCbJE0EN5fjtiETQ

A former Nazi SS Captain returns to the ruins of the concentration camp he ran to re-live the good old days - that is until his long-dead victims appear to greet him.