Showing results for "The Mind" in Science Fiction & Fantasy

Meadowbrook Middle School's Queen of Mean, 13-year-old Amanda Beeson, awakens in the body of her favourite target: Tracey Devon. Forced to experience the neglect she once inflicted, Amanda soon uncovers Tracey's startling secret—the ability to turn invisible. Trapped in Tracey's life, Amanda finds herself in a bizarre "gifted" class, and it becomes clear that at Meadowbrook, the definition of "gifted" has a whole other meaning. Can Amanda rescue her one-time target from obscurity and get her own life back on track?

A mysterious disease has killed most of America's children. Ruby might have survived, but she and the others have emerged with something far worse than a virus: frightening abilities they cannot control. Pressured by the government, Ruby's parents sent her to Thurmond, a brutal state 'rehabilitation camp', where she has learned to fear and suppress her new power. But what if mastering it is a whole generation's only chance for survival?

Arden sells memories. Whether it’s becoming homecoming queen or studying for that all important test, Arden can hack into a classmate’s memories and upload the experience for you just as if you’d lived it yourself. Business is great, right up until the day Arden whites out, losing 15 minutes of her life and all her memories of the boy across the school yard. The boy her friends assure her she’s had a crush on for years.

Lunas ganze Welt spielt sich online ab. Abgesehen vom Online-Unterricht finden auch Dates, Freizeitaktivitäten und Politik virtuell statt. Doch seit Lunas Mutter in einem Online-Spiel starb, kehrt sie der digitalen Welt den Rücken zu. Als sie von der bekannten Firma PareCo zu einem Einstellungstest eingeladen wird, ändert sich alles. Dort lernt sie den Hacker Gecko kennen, der ihr zeigt, dass sie nicht alles glauben darf, was sie sieht. Wieso hatte PareCo so großes Interesse an der Rebellin? Luna weiß nicht mehr, was sie eigentlich glauben soll und dann verschwindet auch noch Gecko spurlos.

The Electronic Mind Reader, the 12th Rick Brant novel, was published in 1957 and is another JANIG-based adventure with government spook Steve Ames as one of the main characters. The story involves foreign espionage against a secret government missile project based in Washington. Steve Ames comes for help from the Spindrift Foundation after several project scientists are struck down by a mysterious neural malady that seems to cause severe aphasia and inability to communicate.

After defeating Camille and Raven Fairbanks and freeing the Starborn children on Gamma Five, Megan Willis suffered a great loss. A transport beam disintegrated her father and sent him to a strange jungle planet called Delta Zero. Megan has to find him at all costs. Many barriers stand in her way. A great evil is brewing on Delta Zero—a bramble bee mine where enslaved children risk their lives to harvest the bees’ valuable glowsap, following the orders of a mysterious slave master named Omen.

Two scientists working on a top-secret government project suddenly start talking gibberish. The government does not know how or why this has happened and asks the Brants if they can move the remaining scientists to Spindrift Island, a scientific foundation located on an island off the New Jersey Coast, in order to better protect them. The Brants agree. Rick and Scotty become suspicious of a new barber in town and believe he is part of an espionage ring.

There's a gorgeous new guy at Nightshade High: Duke Sherrad, a fortune-teller claiming to have descended from Gypsies. Even though she's psychic herself, Daisy is skeptical of Duke's powers. But when a teacher who was the subject of one of his predictions ends up dead, she begins to wonder if Duke is the real deal after all. Maybe if Daisy can track down the teacher's killer, she can find out the truth. The only trouble is, all signs point to the murderer being of the furry persuasion. Is Daisy any match for a werewolf?

Do dia para a noite, crianças começam a morrer de um misterioso mal súbito. Em pouco tempo, a doença se espalha e os que sobrevivem a ela desenvolvem habilidades psíquicas assustadoras. Uma delas é Ruby. Na manhã do seu décimo aniversário, um acontecimento aterrador faz com que seus pais a tranquem na garagem e chamem a polícia. A menina é então levada para Thurmond, um acampamento que segue as diretrizes brutais do governo vigente.

En mystisk sygdom dræber 98 procent af alle børnene i USA, og de resterende 2 procent viser sig at have udviklet en form for overnaturlige evner, som ingen helt ved, hvad indebærer, og de placeres derfor i forskellige aflukkede faciliteter. 16-årige Ruby undslipper med nød og næppe en af regeringens mest brutale testlejre og slutter sig til en gruppe andre teenagere på flugt fra systemet. Og på jagt efter svar. Liam, den lille gruppes leder, falder hårdt for Ruby, men hun kan ikke lade ham komme tæt på sig. Ikke efter det, der skete med hendes forældre.