Ergebnis für "The Tree" in Action & Abenteuer

Der Arzt Joshua Hammond wacht ohne Erinnerungen in einem Flugzeug auf dem Weg nach Miami auf. Sein einziger Hinweis: ein Implantat unter seinem rechten Handgelenk, das einen Countdown von 24 Stunden herunterzählt. Aber Joshua ist nicht der Einzige an Bord, der unter Erinnerunglücken leidet: Weder seine Sitznachbarin Amy, noch einer der anderen 196 Passagiere an Bord kann sich an irgendetwas erinnern - und jeder von ihnen sieht an seinem Handgelenk denselben giftgrünen Countdown. Nach der Landung stellt sich heraus, dass die Situation noch viel schlimmer ist, als gedacht.

Im unendlichen Nichts des Weltraums erwacht ein einsamer Astronaut aus der Kryostase. Etwas ist schiefgegangen. Er weiß weder wer, noch wo er ist. Erst nach und nach findet er heraus, dass er Teil einer ihm unbekannten Crew war, die mehrere Jahrhunderte lang geschlafen hat. Alle anderen sind tot, in ihren Stasistanks gestorben. Einzig ein beschädigter, aber freundlicher Roboter scheint sich mit ihm an Bord zu befinden. Das Raumschiff ist in einem schlechten Zustand und leidet unter merkwürdigen Fehlern: Türen, die sich öffnen und schließen, Lichter, die flackern.

Cassandra 22007 hält weiterhin die Welt in Atem. Nach der Zerstörung großer Teile von Los Angeles kämpfen die verbliebenen Bewohner um ihr Überleben. Unter ihnen sind auch Lee Rifkin, der den wichtigsten Raketenstart seiner Karriere nicht verpassen darf, und Branson, der sich einer Wahrheit gegenüber sieht, die sein Leben für immer verändern wird. Im fernen Sibirien dringt Jenna Haynes derweil tiefer in die Containment Zone Ulan-Ude vor, wo die Verseuchung einen unheilvollen Ausblick darauf gibt, was Los Angeles noch erwartet.

Lebt der erste Unsterbliche längst unter uns? Forscher eines Schweizer Biotech-Startups verkünden eine Sensation: Sie haben den Unsterblichkeitscode geknackt. Doch der Proband ihrer Studie, dessen DNA über Nacht zum wertvollsten Objekt der Welt geworden ist, flieht aus einem ihrer Labore. Zurück bleiben zwei Leichen. Um ihn aufzuspüren, beauftragen die Behörden FBI-Genetiker Mason Brown und die dänische Interpol-Agentin Jonna Nielsen. Doch ihre Ermittlungen, die sie durch halb Europa führen, werden immer mysteriöser:

Die Schlacht um Lagunia ist verloren. Silvea Thurnau, kommissarische Kapitänin der Oberon, hat nur ein Ziel vor Augen: Die Caesar einholen und Admiral Bretoni für die Entführung ihres Kommandanten Konrad Bradley zur Rechenschaft ziehen. Doch Bretoni und sein Adjutant Pyrgorates sind ihr und Bradleys Söhnen Nicholas und Jason stets einen Schritt voraus. Sie scheinen jeden einzelnen Schritt von langer Hand geplant zu haben - es verdichten sich sogar die Anzeichen dafür, dass sie von der drohenden Invasion aus dem Hyperraum nicht so überrascht gewesen sein können, wie sie vorgegeben haben.

Matt’s journey to survive in a world filled with heroes and demons continues! Matt now has to guide his growing nation through competing nations and kingdoms and demonic incursions, while trying to amass more power, train his forces, make more equipment, amass allies and friends, and navigate sensitive relationships with heroes and former heroes!

Rising from the ashes, Ashlock fully accepts his new reality as a tree. However, he is still surrounded by an antagonistic demonic sect that is too big a threat to face by himself. With no way to run, he must stand his ground and fight. But not alone. It's time for him to gather dependable allies and form his own sect. But a sect is more than the sum of its people. Not only must he gather talented individuals, but he will also need to build a place he can proudly call home in this crazy world.

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Matt is reincarnated as a Tree. Not just any tree, but an overpowered one in a fantasy world that serves as the battlefield for an ongoing conflict between demons and the heroes summoned to oppose them. But Matt can be a great tool against the evil forces. TreeTree (as Matt comes to be known) will learn all sorts of skills, gain levels, and in doing so, build up a forest, train young subordinates, protect a village, and more.

One year after the cataclysmic invasions of monsters and demons against the world of the living, the forces of humanity have banded together under a united war banner as they breach the veil and begin the final strike against the unseen enemy that resides in the corrupted heavens—Tango. Following in the steps of the war hero Pilot, the denizens of the magical world begin to lay down their wands and swords in favor of guns, heavy artillery, and warships.

After experimenting with an exploit, Vincent begins to develop new spells that will take him higher in the game than he ever thought possible. Unfortunately, he crosses paths with the last moderator, a young man named Lucas that uses his mod abilities to torture and subjugate other players. Lucas is willing to abuse his power to conquer the World-Tree, but Vincent’s exploit might just be the key to stopping him.

When the neighbours in question are the proud empires of Klatch and Ankh-Morpork, those are going to be some pretty large garden tools indeed. Of course, no-one would dream of starting a war without a perfectly good reason...such as a 'strategic' piece of old rock in the middle of nowhere. It is after all every citizen's right to bear arms to defend their own. Even if it isn't technically their own. And even if they don't have much in the way of actual weaponry.

In einer wenig beachteten Studie des Komaforschers Charles Schrader am MIT geschieht etwas Merkwürdiges: Seine Probanden berichten einhellig von einer anderen Realität, in der sie Kontakt mit verstorbenen Familienmitgliedern aufnehmen konnten. Bald stellt sich heraus, dass sie nicht etwa unter Wahnvorstellungen leiden, sondern Schrader einen Weg entdeckt hat, Menschen hinter den Schleier des Todes zu führen. Doch die neue Technologie wird unter Verschluss gehalten und von der Öffentlichkeit abgeschirmt, nachdem der Forscher sich unerwartet das Leben nimmt.

Finn doesn't remember much about her previous life, and in a world that has been changed by the wars of the Tuatha De, where trust is hard to come by, answers are even more difficult to find. Little does she know, an unknown evil tugs on the strings of fate, and the answers she so desperately seeks may be more important than she could have ever imagined.

Two-time Aurora Award-winning author Guy Gavriel Kay has been nominated for the World Fantasy Award three times. In the first book of his Fionavar Tapestry series, five college students meet a wizard who takes them to the heart of the first of all worlds - a place called Fionavar. The students soon discover that they have been pre-ordained as part of the pattern called the Fionavar Tapestry - and if they don't fulfill their destinies, the world will suffer devastating consequences.

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Rincewind, inept wizard and reluctant hero, has found himself magically stranded on the Discworld's last continent. It's hot. It's dry. There was this thing once called The Wet, which no one believes in any more. Practically everything that's not poisonous is venomous. But it's the best bloody place in the world, all right? And in a few days, it will die. The only thing standing between the last continent and wind-blown doom is Rincewind, and he can't even spell wizard. Still...no worries, eh?

한국문학 최고의 유산인 박완서를 다시 읽는 「박완서 소설전집」 『나목』 해설집 목차: 기획의 글 작품 해설 작가가 가장 사랑하고 소중히 한 첫 작품 스무 살, 순수하고 젊은 날의 황량한 기억 1.4후퇴 후, 암담하고 불안한 시기에 텅 빈 서울에 남겨진 사람들의 전쟁의 상흔과 사랑, 예술에 대한 사랑 등 생생한 이야기를 PX 초상화부에 근무하는 스무 살 여성의 시각에서 담아낸 이 작품은, 박완서 작가가 스무 살에 PX 초상화부에 근무하며 만난 故박수근 화백을 떠올리며 쓴 소설이다.

Change is in the air for Moist von Lipwig, swindler, con-man and (naturally) head of the Royal Bank and Post Office. A steaming, clanging new invention - a steam locomotive named Iron Girder, to be precise - is drawing astonished crowds. Suddenly it's a matter of national importance that the trains run on time. Moist does not enjoy hard work. His input at the bank and post office consists mainly of words, which are not that heavy. Or greasy. And it certainly doesn't involve rickety bridges, runaway cheeses or a fat controller with knuckledusters.

Being 16 is always difficult, even more so when there's a Death in the family. After all, it's hard to grow up normally when Grandfather rides a white horse and wields a scythe. Especially if he decides to take a well-earned moment to uncover the meaning of life and discover himself in the process, so that you have to take over the family business, and everyone mistakes you for the Tooth Fairy.