Ergebnis für "We" in Science Fiction & Fantasy

The One State is the perfect society, ruled over by the enlightened Benefactor. It is a city made almost entirely of glass, where surveillance is universal and life runs according to algorithmic rules to ensure perfect happiness. And D-503, the Builder, is the ideal citizen, at least until he meets I-330, who opens his eyes to new ideas of love, sex and freedom.

Eine Liebe, die weder der Tod noch die Zeit zerstören kann ... Nach dem Tod ihres Vater verkriecht sich die introvertierte Lucy in die heile Welt von Liebesromanen. Als eines Tages ein scheinbar toter, äußerst attraktiver Mann vor ihrer Tür liegt, wird ihre Welt aus den Fugen gehoben. Casziel ist ein Dämon, der nicht mehr wirklich an Erlösung glaubt - zu viel Leid hat er über die Menschen gebracht. Er möchte Lucy dabei helfen, ihr Glück zu finden und dann seine eigene Existenz beenden. Bald schon wird klar, dass die beiden etwas verbindet, was über reine Anziehungskraft hinausgeht.

There's a reason We Are Legion was named Audible's Best Science Fiction Book of 2016: Its irresistibly irreverent wit! Bob Johansson has just sold his software company for a small fortune and is looking forward to a life of leisure. The first item on his to-do list: Spending his newfound windfall. On an urge to splurge, he signs up to have his head cryogenically preserved in case of death. Then he gets himself killed crossing the street. Waking up 117 years later, Bob discovers his mind has been uploaded into a sentient space probe with the ability to replicate itself.

The Bobiverse is a different place in the aftermath of the Starfleet War, and the days of the Bobs gathering in one big happy moot are far behind. There’s anti-Bob sentiment on multiple planets, the Skippies playing with an AI time bomb, and multiple Bobs just wanting to get away from it all. But it all pales compared to what Icarus and Daedalus discover on their 26,000-year journey to the center of the galaxy.

Wynter is a witch who once sought sanctuary for herself and her coven in Devil's Cradle. Better known as 'the Home of Monsters', it was a place for outcasts and fugitives. She now wears the brand of Cain, the infamous Ancient, who has claimed her soul for all of eternity and doesn't plan on ever letting go. Together, Wynter and Cain have prevailed over many powerful enemies, but now they face their final - and most terrifying - battle.

Sie ist eine tödliche Jägerin, er der Prinz des Todes: Menschen lebten, weil sie tötete. Menschen starben, weil er lebte. Die Jägerin Zafira kann nur als Mann verkleidet im verfluchten Wald des Arz ihr Volk beschützen. Wird sie als Frau entlarvt, droht ihr Verbannung oder Schlimmeres. Als Prinz des Todes ist es Nasirs Aufgabe, alle zu vernichten, die töricht genug sind, sich seinem tyrannischen Vater zu widersetzen. Niemals darf er Mitgefühl zeigen, denn sonst wird er selbst zum Opfer des grausamen Königs.

Bob Johansson didn't believe in an afterlife, so waking up after being killed in a car accident was a shock. To add to the surprise, he is now a sentient computer and the controlling intelligence for a Von Neumann probe. Bob and his copies have been spreading out from Earth for 40 years now, looking for habitable planets. But that's the only part of the plan that's still in one piece.

Im 2. Band der slowburn Romantasy-Dilogie von Hafsah Faizal erfüllt sich das Schicksal der Jägerin Zafira und des Prinzen des Todes Nasir. Trotz aller Verluste sind Zafira, Nasir und Kifah fest entschlossen, dem Königreich Arawiya die Magie zurückzubringen. Doch sie haben kaum noch Verbündete, und die Menschen im Land leben in Angst vor der Rückkehr des Löwen der Nacht. Nasir kämpft außerdem darum, die Magie in seinem Blut zu beherrschen: Er muss lernen, seine Macht zu verfeinern, damit er sie auch gegen seinen Vater einsetzen kann, der unter der Kontrolle des Löwen steht.

Wenn deine Wut zur magischen Kraft wird, die die Welt verändern kann. Im Urban-Fantasy-Roman We Will Give You Hell entdeckt die junge Hell ihre ureigene weibliche Magie, die sie zwingt, sich zwischen Macht und Gerechtigkeit zu entscheiden. Es sollte der Sommer ihres Lebens werden: In Schweden wollen die 19-jährige Hellea, genannt Hell, und ihre Freunde vier Wochen lang die urtümlichen Wälder und das malerische Stockholm erkunden. Aber Hell wird aus diesem Urlaub nicht zurückkehren. Zumindest nicht als die Frau, die sie zuvor gewesen ist.

In a utopian future society, where all social unrest has been engineered away, a man has an awakening. Starting as a happy worker drone, he meets a woman who reveals to him the reality of life outside the state's control - the glories of chaotic nature in the world and in the heart. They become entwined with a conspiracy against the state, and eventually try to escape beyond the walls of the state's control... only to meet betrayal, failure, and a dark ending in the glorious light of the state's total control.

On the top floor of an old building at the end of a cobbled alley in Kyoto lies the Kokoro Clinic for the Soul. Only a select few - those who feel genuine emotional turmoil - can find it. The mysterious centre offers a unique treatment for its troubled patients: it prescribes cats as medication. Follow how each cat brings joy, hope and self-discovery to the human who is lucky enough to have them in this utterly charming, vibrant celebration of the healing power of cats.

For Army Reserve soldier Michael Cross, the world as he knows it ends in an instant. One minute he’s in college, and the next rioters are roaming the highway around him, breaking into cars and literally tearing people apart. This is the day the dead walk. This is the world of We’re Alive.

Organized crime magnate Angelo Di Negri is a man out of time and place. He'd been gunned down more than a century ago. But through the wonders of cryogenic storage his body had been preserved until such a time as his "family" had need of him and he could be safely revived. That time had arrived. But Angela discovered that not everything was as it seemed and that the fate of mankind would be determined by his success or by his failure.

For the first time, Stephen King has fully authorized a return to the harrowing world of The Stand through this original short story anthology as presented by award-winning authors and editors Christopher Golden and Brian Keene. Bringing together some of today’s greatest and most visionary writers, The End of the World As We Know It features unforgettable, all-new stories set during and after (and some perhaps long after) the events of The Stand.

No matter where she goes, Cemmy's life is under threat. The Church would see her killed for having any magic. The Council of Shades wants her dead for not having enough. So when her mother falls ill, Cemmy has no choice but to turn thief. And when she's offered a job that could solve all their problems, it's impossible to resist.

In the fifth book in the sensational Before the Coffee Gets Cold series translated from Japanese, the mysterious café where customers arrive hoping to travel back in time welcomes four new guests. They must follow the café's strict rules, however, and come back to the present before their coffee goes cold. Another moving and heartwarming tale from Toshikazu Kawaguchi, in Before we forget kindness our new visitors wish to go back into their past to move on their present, finding closure and comfort so they can embark on a beautiful future.

We (Russian: Мы, romanized: My) is a dystopian novel by Russian writer Yevgeny Zamyatin, written 1920–1921. The novel was first published as an English translation by Gregory Zilboorg in 1924 by E. P. Dutton in New York. The novel describes a world of harmony and conformity within a united totalitarian state. It is believed that the novel had a huge influence on the works of Orwell and Huxley, as well as on the emergence of the genre of dystopia.

Every city has a soul. Some are as ancient as myths and others are as new and destructive as children. New York City? She's got five. But every city also has a dark side. A roiling, ancient evil stirs beneath the earth, threatening to destroy the city and her five protectors unless they can come together and stop it once and for all.

Set in the pre-Christian world of Glome on the outskirts of Greek civilization, it is a tale of two princesses: the beautiful Psyche, who is loved by the god of love himself, and Orual, Psyche's unattractive and embittered older sister, who loves Psyche with a destructive possessiveness. Her frustration and jealousy over Psyche's fate sets Orual on the troubled path of self-discovery. Lewis's last work of fiction, this is often considered his best by critics.

In the late 21st century, a neurotechnology called Bridge has changed the world. Bridging allows a person to program their own body and mind to achieve untold enhancement. There was one problem: it only works in children. Within a single generation, a new world order developed. Bridged Children grew smarter, faster, and stronger than the adults, and demanded equal rights. The adults fought back.