Showing results for "Opera" in Cyberpunk

By the time Grey had come back with an army of new allies, the Legion had been defeated. Many an Incarnator had fallen as heroes, leaving the City on the brink of destruction. Thousands of souls still trapped inside the Cube are trying to break free from their extradimensional prison while the Star watches impassively from its celestial heights.

Gnat the Devourer is becoming a more prominent figure in grand space politics. Sure, he may not be totally independent yet, but he has enough leeway to be able to differentiate Earth's interests from those of its Geckho suzerains and act exclusively for the good of his own kind. Gnat must balance obligations to his almighty suzerains against a desire to advance humanity's position in space, and his home planet's search for ever more allies.

Lyra voit s'effondrer ses rêves de voyage interstellaire. Désormais, une seule volonté l'anime : secourir ses compagnons du Raven et percer le mystère qui entoure son père. Le Charon's Omen fonce désormais à pleine vitesse vers la Terre. Deux destins, rattrapés par une seule et même réalité : une conscience maléfique, qui semble se réveiller.

Für die kriminelle Vereinigung, die als ‚mysteriöse Killer' bekannt ist, sieht es aus wie der Anfang vom Ende. Aber es gibt einen Mann, der sich ihnen in den Weg stellt, und er ist unaufhaltsam. Clem Denisov, der letzte der Aufgetauten. Clem ist nicht bereit, noch einmal zu sterben. Nichts kann ihn aufhalten, nicht einmal die besten Attentäter, die bei dem Versuch ihr Ende finden.

Aller Wahrscheinlichkeit zum Trotz hatte er überlebt. Aber es war noch nicht vorbei, egal was irgendjemand behauptete - auch nicht seine ehemaligen Verbündeten. Die tödliche, schattenhafte Organisation, mit der er es zu tun hatte, war noch nicht vollständig besiegt. Sie tat alles in ihrer Macht Stehende, um ihren bösen Plan auszuführen und alles auszuschalten, was ihr im Weg stand. Doch Clem Denisov, der unverbesserliche Racheengel, hatte nicht vor, sich das gefallen zu lassen.

Die Versammlung… So nennt das neurolinguistische System das Zusammentreffen der Vertreter am geheiligten Ort, am Fuß des strahlenden Ygg-Baums. Dabei werden neue Aszendenten ernannt, Streitigkeiten werden beigelegt, Bündnisse werden geschlossen, und Kriege werden erklärt.

Niemand hat sie je ernst genommen. Sie waren die Aufgetauten. Entbehrlich, Wegwerfware. Doch wie das Schicksal so spielte, hatten sie ihre ‚Eigentümer‘ überlebt. Einige machten sich auf, um die unwirtliche Zukunft zu meistern, in der sie sich befanden. Einer nach dem anderen wagte sich hinaus und verschwand. Andere versteckten sich, um nicht gefasst zu werden, was das Unvermeidliche nur hinauszögerte.

Olympias ha realizzato il suo sogno: vivere nella Casa-tra-le-Stelle, un'utopia di pace, tolleranza tra specie, non-­violenza e incredibili tecnologie. Tutto molto diverso da Abisso, il suo pianeta natale, in cui la violenza e la ferocia sono le uniche armi a disposizione di chi vuole sopravvivere. Quando suo padre Philippos muore, Olympias è costretta a tornare su Abisso, e questo le cambierà la vita. Impossibile proteggere se stessi e la propria famiglia, se non ci si adegua alle spietate leggi di quel pianeta.

Hast du das schon einmal erlebt? Du hast alles versucht, hast alles geopfert, was dir wertvoll war, aber am Ende deiner Suche stellst du fest, dass deine Prinzessin in einem anderen Schloss war‘? Ein anderer Mensch hätte vielleicht aufgegeben, aber selbst der Tod konnte Clem Denisov nicht aufhalten. Er ist einer jener Männer, die keine Angst vor Entbehrungen haben, auch wenn ihn das ein wenig altmodisch macht. Der Tod eines Klienten ändert für ihn nichts - die Quest muss vollendet werden. Schließlich sterben immer noch Spieler in der realen Welt, wo sie nur ein einziges Leben haben.

The highly-anticipated fourth installment in the Kapamentis Crime series, from bestselling science-fiction author T.W.M. Ashford.

This is the way the world ends—not with a whimper, but a bang. It was the only thing running through Cedrick Jonkheer's mind when the alien pylons made landfall. The Intergalactic Imperium used their right of Eminent Domain to appropriate the planet to build a goddamned highway… and all Jonx got was a sarcastic AI and some superpowers. The end of times came, and mankind was not prepared. He watched his world burn, then hid himself away at the bottom of the Mariana Trench.

Kyra Bishop sits in a jail cell, facing the consequences of her refusal to betray her principles. The in-game murder of her arch-enemy by a new ally has landed her in peril. To secure her freedom, Kyra is forced to swallow her pride and make a deal with the one she loathes most, so she begrudgingly allows him to join her crew. But when she returns to Retribution, her powerful new ally, Admiral Grieves, introduces a mysterious passenger whose revelations about the demigoddess haunting Kyra's existence send shockwaves through her reality.

Fresh from his final round Koldaavi Combat Championship loss, Bronwic returns to Earth and must try to complete his Class Quest to become the Human Sentinel and defend humanity from the dangers of Monsters and invading Galactics. After a savage period following the Mana Influx, Earth's population is starting to stabilize and fight back led by Bronwic and his team who tackle threats no one else can. Despite rapid progression and powerful new Classes and Skills, the fate of humanity is at risk when Oblivion Shroud sets their sights on Earth.

Ten “Doc” Low is a medic with a dark past, riding the wastes of the desert moon Factus, dispensing medicine to the needy and death to those who cross the laws of the mysterious Seekers. Cursed by otherworldly forces, she stays alone to keep herself safe, and to keep others safe from her … But when she experiences a terrifying vision of conflict and the deaths of those she once called friends, she must drag herself back to the land of the living to stop a war before it begins.

With the smoke of Sunny Valley Ranch still thick in the air behind them, Adam Hall has an impossible mission: ensure that his daughter Crystal and the rest of the survivors find a safe refuge. But no matter how far they run, Adam knows that death will haunt their every step. Rumors swirl of a captured Specter starship and of smugglers using it to ferry people to safety on another world, code-named Sanctum. To get to the ship, they will have to traverse twelve hundred miles of desolate wasteland teeming with every imaginable threat.

Waking up adrift in an ancient battleground, Alex is left dazed and confused with no clue how she ended up trapped aboard a failing vessel. With only a mysterious voice in her head to guide her she must act in order to survive. Every piece of the puzzle she collects only leads to more questions about her origins and the star she's trapped around might not be as deserted as she first thought. All she knows for sure is that she could die at any minute, but Alex is not going to go down without a fight.

In 23 Years on Fire, Cassandra discovered that the technology that created her has been misused in her former home and now threatens all humanity with catastrophe. Returning home to Callay, she finds that Federation member worlds, exhausted by the previous thirty-year-war against the League, are unwilling to risk the confrontation that a solution may require. More frighteningly for Sandy, she has brought back to Callay three young children, whom she met on the mean streets of Droze, discovering maternal feelings she had not known she possessed.

Inmate 5313 reached the end of his sentence after 10 grueling years. That is, until the wrong question led to a beating with an exclusive stay in the fridge. Before the badges manage to lock him into cryostorage for a nightmare-fueled nap, several explosions send the prison barge plummeting into a frozen planet in unclaimed space. This is the first day of Seb’s freedom, an ill-starred future that includes banding together with cutthroat mercenaries, bartering with sordid information brokers, and fighting against the galaxy's ruthless corporations.

Stacks Fischer is a killer for hire. For more than three decades, he’s loyally served the Syndicate Corporation as its most-feared and respected enforcer around the solar system. He’s buried the company’s dirty laundry six feet deep, no matter who had to be taken out to do it. Now, Stacks has a problem - he’s losing his mind to incurable form of dementia, and unwittingly spilling corporate secrets in public. When SynCorp decides Fischer has outlived his usefulness, they decide it's time to permanently retire him. But Stacks isn’t quite ready to go.

After a soldier is left for dead, Eva Delgado's life begins to unravel. The truth of what happened remains a mystery, and the government will stop at nothing to keep it buried. Together with the unit's medic, Eva finds herself branded a terrorist and enemy of the state, hunted by two opposing governments. When the pair uncover a plot that could have ramifications for the whole galaxy, they know they have to act, but it will take all of their training, cunning and just a bit of luck to do what no one else has achieved. But what do you do when every secret begets another?