Showing results for "Walls" in Science Fiction

The war for the fate of mankind blazes on. Though the outer defences have fallen, the walls of the Palace itself remain inviolate as Rogal Dorn, the Praetorian of Terra himself, uses every known stratagem and ploy to keep Horus' vast armies at bay. In Perturabo, the Traitor siegebreaker, Dorn faces an adversary worthy of his skill. A terrible, grinding attrition ensues. The crucial battle for the Lion's Gate spaceport is at the heart of this conflict. With it in their possession, the Traitors can land their most devastating weapons on Terran soil. Dorn knows it must not fall.

What if suddenly you could no longer see the sun? Or the stars? What if the world sank into darkness? Off the coast of Sulawesi, an Indonesian fisherman named Putra Buring Bule nets a strange object from the depths. A few days later, Earth falls into total darkness – an unknown phenomenon blocks out the sun and the starry sky, and the world descends into chaos.

Judith Rosenberg, captain of the spaceship ARES, is under pressure. After the previous mission to Mars crashed, she is supposed to set down the first humans on the Red Planet. Maxim Goncharov, meanwhile, has other problems to contend with. He's in charge of building an international lunar base at the moon's south pole, where the sun almost always shines. But his crew is slowly running out of resources

Despite the Imperium's best attempts to forestall the ork plague that is wreaking havoc in human space, an ork attack moon now hangs over Terra. As its malevolent presence gazes down at the Imperial Palace, terrified citizens run riot in the streets. In a last-ditch attempt to destroy the attack moon, a proletarian crusade is launched. Thousands of ships large and small head to the moon carrying billions of citizens, all eager to take the fight to the enemy.

Seit mehr als einem Dreivierteljahrhundert reist die Menschheit zu den Sternen. In dieser Zeit hat sie zahlreiche Konflikte sowie kosmische Katastrophen bewältigt. Im Jahr 2112 mehren sich Hinweise auf eine neue Bedrohung für das kleine Sternenreich der Terraner. Die Gefahr scheint ihren Ursprung in zwei Nachbargalaxien der Milchstraße zu haben – den Magellanschen Wolken. Mit dem mächtigen Expeditionsschiff SOL bricht Perry Rhodan dorthin auf. Nachdem die SOL verloren gegangen ist, setzt er die ­Mission mit dem Beiboot PERLENTAUCHER fort.

When a stranger attempting to deliver a cryptic message is shot dead at his dinner table, Richard Ames is thrown headfirst into danger, intrigue, and other dimensions where Lazarus Long still thrives, where Jubal Harshaw lives surrounded by beautiful women, and where a daring plot to rescue the sentient computer called Mike can change the direction of all human history.

In a future world where people can buy and sell intelligence, citizens are each allocated 100 1.Q. points at birth. When they turn 16, they can make a choice either to remain as 100s and be cared for by the state, or they can gamble with their intelligence. Those who succeed become high I.Q.s and enjoy all of the benefits this brings; those who fail lead squalid lives and some eventually become I.Q. 30 glidiots, battling in the Glidiot Games in a pop-up maze where they kill one another for I.Q. points and for public amusement.

ER ÜBERLEBTE DIE APOKALYPSE UND ENTKAM DEM KARTELL. DOCH NUN KEHRT ER ZURÜCK. Nach dem Zusammenbruch der Weltordnung begann die Herrschaft des Bösen. Die Regierungen stürzten, das Kartell gelangte an die Macht, und aus guten Menschen wurden Sklaven. Um die Gefahr aus dem Ödland zurückzuhalten, wurde ein Wall errichtet. Doch nun strebt eine Widerstandsgruppe nach Veränderungen. Sie sind bereit, dafür zu kämpfen und notfalls auch zu sterben, und sie bitten Marcus Battle um Hilfe.

In a world dominated by technologically advanced aliens, humanity has been reduced to living like vermin, hiding in the insulation of the very homes built by their conquerors. As they scavenge for food and essentials, a complex social and religious order emerges women become the keepers of knowledge and healers, while men take on the roles of warriors and thieves. To the aliens, humans are little more than an annoyance‚Aîuncivilized and unintelligent, with a fate of extermination. This gripping tale opens with the stark reality Mankind consisted of 128 people. The sheer population pressure ...

Viele von euch kennen mich sicher eher als Dennis, Betreiber des deutschen YouTube-Kanals GAME MANSION.  Mit „WALL JUMP“ starte ich hier nun einen neuen Podcast! Immer am ersten Tag jeden Monats gibt es ab jetzt eine neue Ausgabe mit allen Möglichen Gaming News, Spiele-Anakdoten und den jeweils kommenden Releases.  Außerdem möchte ich mir für dieses Format regelmäßig unterschiedliche Gäste und Gesprächparter hier in die Game Mansion einladen :)  Ich hoffe es gefällt euch!

Welcome to Super Wall Jump, a podcast where we interview video game developers, content creators, and everything in between. Episodes release every other Thursday!

In the modern age of consumer culture, art has become disposable, and as soon as we’ve consumed one thing we’re on to the next. So to combat that, three best friends (and sometimes a mystery guest) have started a podcast. The 4th Wall is a book club for all forms of art and media, where we dive deep into a specific piece of art each episode, whether it be a film, a game, an album, a show, you name it, we’ll bloody talk about it. And there'll be plenty of tangents along the way. Hosted by Ryan Heath, Matt Goward & Izaak Kidd

Dive into the heart of a transformative journey with "Black Wall Street Rise," a visionary podcast that transports listeners to the year 2054, where Black Prosperity and equality have reshaped society. Hosted by the insightful Podcast Doc, this groundbreaking series explores the remarkable evolution of Black Wall Street, unveiling the pivotal role of black-owned businesses, the eradication of poverty, and the establishment of justice equality that have led to unprecedented societal well-being.

Breaking through the illusory fourth wall to bring you interviews with the creative forces behind your favorite movies, TV shows, comics, video games, and more, brought to you by Den of Geek. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Beyond the Wall of Sleep is a science fiction short story by American writer H. P. Lovecraft, written in 1919 and first published in the amateur publication Pine Cones in October 1919. A former intern and a worker of a mental hospital relates his experience with Joe Slater, an inmate who died at the facility a few weeks after being confined as a criminally insane murderer...

Dive into the heart of a transformative journey with "Black Wall Street Rise," a visionary podcast that transports listeners to the year 2054, where Black Prosperity and equality have reshaped society. Hosted by the insightful Podcast Doc, this groundbreaking series explores the remarkable evolution of Black Wall Street, unveiling the pivotal role of black-owned businesses, the eradication of poverty, and the establishment of justice equality that have led to unprecedented societal well-being. New episodes every Wednesday! www.podcastdoc.com

Lovecraftian themes abound in the tales of an intern at a madhouse and an illiterate madman. Slater, the madman whose unspeakable crimes led him to the madhouse, is continuously awakened in this story by surprisingly literate hallucinations of a glowing entity seeking revenge. Inspired by Slater’s uneducated background and the telepathic machine that he had made in his yesteryear, the intern delves deep into Joe Slater - who is receiving telepathic messages from a being of light.

Chapter 1: The Humble Origins Our story begins in the late 1980s, a time when video games were just beginning to capture the hearts and minds of a generation. It was against this backdrop that two young Harvard Business School graduates, James McCurry and Gary Kusin, had a vision: to create a space where gamers could come together, explore new worlds, and share their passion. With this dream in mind, they founded a small software retailer in Dallas, Texas, and named it Babbage's, after the father of the computer, Charles Babbage. Step into Babbage's in those early days, and you'd be greeted by...

On the wall before him, in the dimness of the room, a great circular screen glowed opaquely, awaiting his touch: a doorway into time and space, a doorway to beauty and deadly peril and everything that made livable for him a life that had, perhaps, gone on too long. The shadows leaped backward into three-dimensional vividness that wavered for a moment and then sharpened into focus upon a desert landscape under a vivid crimson sky.

Three thrilling short stories of adventure among the stars...A solo pilot in deep space risks losing his sanity when his ship is invaded by disembodied thoughts. A marathon runner on a dangerous desert planet discovers that it may not be uninhabited after all. The crew of a survey ship encounters a powerful being with an injury that will test their every belief.