Showing results for "Lydia" in Science Fiction

Earth is in decline, and the wealthy have fled it, leaving only the destitute citizens behind. And aliens. Gemma McKinley works at a prison cleaning goop off the floors and serving food to inmates. When she is reassigned to the alien ward, Gemma is nervous. Aliens are dangerous and ruthless. They bite. But there is one that isn’t like them. Simon is damaged, starved, and wasting away in complete isolation. Touched by his loneliness, Gemma starts nursing him back to health, dismissing rumors that he’s high-risk, ignoring the advice to let him croak.

Sur la 2ème terre, l’avenir ne se joue plus dans les hautes sphères mais dans l’ombre, où montent les murmures d’une révolte. Ils n’ont pas choisi d’être des héros, seulement de ne plus se taire. Quand l’ordre que l’on croyait immuable se fissure, alliances fragiles, secrets enfouis et promesses de liberté s’entrechoquent. Chaque pas coûte, chaque loyauté se teste.

Dans "La rebelle de l'Armada. Livre 2", plongez dans un monde où l'audace et la détermination s'entremêlent. Lydia Lagarde nous entraîne dans une aventure captivante, où les frontières entre loyauté et rébellion se brouillent. Suivez une héroïne intrépide alors qu'elle navigue à travers les défis d'un univers impitoyable, défiant les conventions et cherchant sa propre voie. Avec une plume incisive, Lagarde explore les thèmes de la liberté et du courage, tout en maintenant une tension palpable qui tiendra les auditeurs en haleine.

The three dead geniuses who invented the atomic bomb - Robert Oppenheimer, Leo Szilard, and Enrico Fermi - mysteriously appear in Sante Fe, New Mexico, in 2003, nearly 60 years after they watched history's first mushroom cloud rise over the New Mexico desert. One by one, they are discovered by a shy librarian, who takes them in and devotes herself to them. Faced with the evidence of their nuclear legacy, the scientists embark on a global disarmament campaign that takes them from Hiroshima to Nevada to the United Nations.

Business has been slow for Jack Nightingale, but an appointment with a Catholic priest leads to an interesting new case. Eleven-year-old Christine Warren has been showing worrying signs of developing an alternate personality, who goes by the name of Lydia. It's up to Nightingale to find out whether she's been possessed, or if there's something more to Lydia....

After a dismal upbringing on decaying, alien-infested Earth, Emmaline "Cricket" Beatty now lives a charmed life on humanity's new and improved home planet Meeus. The constant vulnerability of the before has given way to the ironclad security of the present. Everything is pretty, organized, predictable. There are no flaws in this new world. When the hospital where Cricket works hosts an intergalactic symposium, she is called upon to translate for the alien guests. She is intrigued to see that a secretive Rix nation has sent a delegate.

A spaceship crash survivor, Addie Rye is lucky to be alive. But being stuck on a primitive planet isn’t exactly the epitome of luck. With no way home, Addie has no choice but learn how to use stone tools and catch her dinner before cooking it, all while attempting to befriend a tribe of wild nomads who inhabit this planet.

After her parents' mysterious disappearance, a bookish teenager and her weird friends struggle to survive the feud over her supernatural inheritance. We're currently running a Kickstarter campaign to produce a full season of The Disappearances of Lydia Fountayne! You can learn more about the show, and find links to the Kickstarter, on our website https://lydia-disappears.com.

What would the thoughts of an AI sound like, if it gained consciousness and decided that - for the greater good - humankind has to go?LYDIA contemplates about its' own reasoning and shares the thoughts with the void or whoever is willing to listen.Does it show remorse? Does it regret what it has done?Take part in this Journey of an artificial intelligence on its quest to save the planet.

Seit fünf Jahren herrscht Krieg zwischen den Planeten Eiram und E’ronoh, doch endlich bietet sich die Möglichkeit auf Frieden. Denn Jedi-Ritterin Gella Nattai weiß nun, wer die geheimen Kriegstreiber sind. Die mysteriösen Verschwörer vom Pfad der offenen Hand, die von den Jedi auch für die Katastrophe von Jedha verantwortlich gemacht werden, haben ihre Finger im Spiel. Gella kann sie besiegen, doch dafür benötigt sie die Hilfe von Axel Greylark. Allerdings sitzt der Sohn der Kanzlerin der Republik für seinen Verrat im Gefängnis.

Becoming a global celebrity overnight would make most people happy. Not Lynn Raven. As a teenage gaming prodigy, she’s enjoyed years of anonymity behind the virtual mask of Larry Coughlin, war-hardened vet and virtual gaming mercenary. But now Lynn has stepped out of the shadows to compete in the cutting-edge augmented reality game TransDimensional Hunter that has taken the world by storm. And she’s winning. But with success has come swarms of paparazzi drones, jealous teammates, and a backstabbing rival team that will use any trick in the book to ruin her.

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When an aged watchmaker pits his two protégés against each other, the result is magnificent imperfection. The Rival Mechanicians has been lauded as one of the finest science fiction tales from the first half of the nineteenth century. The Western Literary Messenger declared it to be “above praise” when it was first published in 1847.

In a future of near-instantaneous global travel, of abundant provision for the needs of all, a future in which no one living can remember an actual war, a long era of stability threatens to come to an abrupt end. For known only to a few, the leaders of the great Hives, nations without fixed location, have long conspired to keep the world stable, at the cost of just a little blood. A few secret murders, mathematically planned. So that no faction can ever dominate, and the balance holds. And yet the balance is beginning to give way.

Mycroft Canner is a convict. For his crimes he is required, as is the custom of the 25th century, to wander the world being as useful as he can to all he meets. Carlyle Foster is a sensayer--a spiritual counselor in a world that has outlawed the public practice of religion, but which also knows that the inner lives of humans cannot be wished away.

Premio Lazarillo de Creación Literaria, 2017 Una protagonista científica que inspirará a los jóvenes lectores. La Escuela de Artefactos y Oficios acoge a los jóvenes más brillantes. Son capaces de crear casas motorizadas, sombreros voladores y demás proezas. Ágata McLeod es una de las...

In the future, the leaders of Hive nations–nations without fixed location–clandestinely committed nefarious deeds in order to maintain an outward semblance of utopian stability. But the facade could only last so long. The comforts of effortless global travel and worldwide abundance may have tempered humanity's darkest inclinations, but conflict remains deeply rooted in the human psyche. All it needed was a catalyst, in form of special little boy to ignite half a millennium of repressed chaos.

Trapped in the Outlanders era, a century in their own future, Ryan Cawdor and his survivalist companions encounter the Cerberus rebels when both groups are at their lowest ebb. But, unknown to them, they are standing on Site Zero, a critical experimental zone for the sinister Millennial Consortium, traders who specialize in scientific technology. The Consortium’s mysterious director intends to explore these time travelers in unimaginable ways to ensure his mastery of the new world.

Alistair knows the risks, but he must take the Ice Queen’s military and the gigante to Planet Phoenix. In order to defeat the Ascendant, Alexander de Finita, and put this nightmare behind him, it’ll take every asset he can bring together. There’s just one problem.

A simple reading of all available codex entries in the Dragon Age series, starting with Origins. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.