Showing results for "Runaway" in Science Fiction & Fantasy

Having fled their troubled pasts, Izbel and Manaat have made a new home on Sa12, a remote and quiet planet at the edge of the Galactic Arm. But when they apply for a procreation permit and fly to the administrative station in orbit, they attract unwanted attention. One of the station's administrators asks to meet them. Among the thousands aboard, why is he asking specifically for them? What if he knows who they really are? And if so, should they fight—or flee once more?

Arthur Chamberlains life is in disarray. His struggling one-man engineering firm is on the brink of failure, and his beautiful secretary, Estelle, seems oblivious to his existence. But when his Manhattan office building unexpectedly slips into the fourth dimension, everything changes. Suddenly, Madison Square is transformed into a landscape of wigwams, and its up to Arthur to devise a brilliant plan to bring his building—and his life—back to the future. Originally published in the February 22, 1919 issue of Argosy magazine, The Runaway Skyscraper is a thrilling tale of ingenuity ...

My mountain domain operates as smoothly as the sleek machines that mine for ore in the caves, but when a human female is found in the snow, every alarm bell rings—literally. It's Jane, a volunteer of the human-Mitran breeding program, who had disappeared six months earlier, but not willingly.

Zwei Menschen und ein Roboter durchstreifen auf der Suche nach Schiffbrüchigen das All nahe des Sonnensystems. Die Majestätische Dracht, ein von Außerirdischen erbautes und von einer KI namens Allwissen gesteuertes Raumschiff, fliegt sie mit einem Fünftel der Lichtgeschwindigkeit von System zu System. Doch dann beschleunigt das Schiff plötzlich – und anscheinend unaufhaltbar. Hat das Allwissen die Kontrolle über den Antrieb verloren? Oder verfolgt es etwa seine eigenen Pläne? Denn der neue Kurs des Raumschiffs zielt auf einen Planeten, der eigentlich noch längst nicht Ziel der menschlich-außerirdischen Crew gewesen wäre: die Erde.

Two humans and a robot roam the universe in search of castaways. The Majestic Draght, a spaceship built by aliens and controlled by an AI, transports them from system to system at one-fifth the speed of light. But then the ship suddenly - and seemingly unstoppably - accelerates. Has the AI lost control of the propulsion system? Or is the AI pursuing its own plans? The Draght’s new course targets a planet that would not have been the destination of the human-alien crew for a long time: Earth.

Kitty is just a normal girl trying to find her way in the world, who also happens to be a stripper. Trouble likes to follow her wherever she goes and getting chased through a park in the dead of winter is no different. Calvin, Damien, and Adam find her in the snow and they take her in - right to a traveling circus. They give her a safe place, and promise to help her get back on her feet, but not before she realizes the Circus of Night is far more than it appears.

Miene und Marvin nehmen euch seit 2016 monatlich mit in die Welt der Videospiele. Mit Reviews und Previews zu neuen Titeln sowie Interviews mit Entwickler:innen, Content Creator:innen und Journalist:innen erwarten euch bei den Runaways vor allem zwei Dinge: Ehrliche Emotionen und große Liebe für Games. Wenn du Videospiele genauso sehr liebst, würden wir uns sehr freuen, wenn du dir unseren Podcast anhörst.

Сбежав от оборотня, я надеялась, что избавилась разом от всех проблем, но не тут-то было. Брачная охота, объявленная на меня, оказалась только началом неприятностей. Потому что маньяк, неравнодушный к женщинам белого "волка", уже приметил новую жертву, гадалка, предсказывающая будущее, разложила свой роковой пасьянс....

Arriving on Earth in the midst of the American Civil War, the Doctor and Amy must get a posse together to help them retrieve an alien artefact that has fallen into the clutches of the Confederate Army. The terraforming device belongs to the Cei, a race of invaders who plan to use it to turn the...