Résultats pour "Michael White" dans Science-fiction

From the dawn of history onward, commanding the most powerful ship around has been a dream of admirals, sultans, emperors, kings, generalissimos, and sea captains everywhere. For what the intimidation factor alone doesn't achieve, a massive barrage from super-weapons probably will.

With the failure of Hadley's Hope, Weyland-Yutani has suffered a devastating setback - the loss of the Aliens they aggressively sought to exploit. Yet there's a reason the Company has risen to the top of the food chain. True to form, they have a redundancy already in place: the facility known as "The Cold Forge". Remote station RB-232 has become their greatest asset in weaponizing the Xenomorphs. However, when Dorian Sudler is sent to RB-232 to assess their progress, he discovers that there's a spy aboard - someone who doesn't necessarily act in the company's best interests.

Collected together for the first time, this action-packed omnibus is filled with secrets, lies, and the silver smile of the deadly Xenomorphs. Across three epic novels, see how the Xenomorph doctrine of Weyland-Yutani and Venture is a short and angry road to hell.

Jim is an ordinary man of our time. He's unexpectedly transported 2,000 years into the future. He and his two sons, with a rental truck packed with the contents of their house, cause a major sensation with the population of that future time. Due to wars, politics, and age, little knowledge exists of the time Jim came from in the early 21st century. His gift to them is knowledge of a long forgotten past. He has one problem; someone is trying to kill him for what he knows.

Knowledge of history is a powerful instrument. Jim, an ordinary man of our time, is unexpectedly transported 2,000 years into the future. He and his two sons, with a rental truck packed with the contents of his house, cause a major sensation with the population of that future time. Due to his knowledge of ancient times and the people of the 21st century, there is a hazardous mission only he can handle. An automated colony spaceship from Earth with humans in cryogenics has orbited a remote planet for centuries, unable to wake its passengers.

Imagine Holmes trying to solve the case of an invisible man attacking London - matching wits with a traveler from out of time - tracking down a human/feline hybrid - using his deductive skills to help fight Martian and lunar invaders! These are just some of the stories included in Sherlock Holmes: Adventures in the Realms of H.G. Wells.

Jim and his two sons with a rental truck packed with the contents of his house are unexpectedly transported 2,000 years into the future. The knowledge and his possessions from a long-forgotten past rapidly propel him into the ranks of the super wealthy. The governments of his new time are in turmoil, caused by the knowledge he brought with him. Wars rage between ethnic factions. Only he and his sons can save mankind from the chaos.

The new human colony on the planet Pollux 4 is a disaster. Barry, a new arrival to the planet, suspects the leadership is to blame. Mismanagement is rampant amongst the entrenched leadership clique. Something is drastically wrong with the way the colony was assembled.

The human colony on the fourth planet from the star Pollux is in chaos. Due to the incompetence of the original leadership, they found that the colony was established not only in the wrong place but on the wrong continent of the planet. The leadership was overthrown and a dictatorship established. Barry and his group of misfits trek north to the only other haven on that continent that can support human life. To get there they have to travel through rain, mud, and contaminated air.

When Barry landed at the newly established human colony on the planet Pollux 4, he found that the leadership of the colony was incompetent. He and his group of misfits overthrew the mediocre government and established a workable system. Time passes and many things change. Barry and his aging group of explorers are out of place in modern society, relics of a former time. Not having learned from mistakes of the past, the leadership again degenerates into chaos forcing Barry and his friend into action once again.

Sixteen-year-old Angela Belle has just become a full-fledged airship Tinker! To celebrate this Captain Windy darling takes her along with some of the Airship Neverland's crew to enjoy the warm and sunny beaches of the beautiful tropical island of Krakatoa. All is well until a storm brings in an East India Trading ship towing the most feared pirates of them all; The deadly women of the Yom Junood.Now only Tinker Belle stands between her hapless crew, the deadly she-pirates, and the unyielding privateers.

Sergeant Jon Bergen, US Army, is on a covert mission. His duty takes him to the highlands of the exotic island of Borneo in South East Asia. The mission is to rescue two businessmen who were kidnapped and held for random by a Muslim terrorist group. Things go drastically wrong and Jon is assisted by an extremely unusual people.

Grand Admiral Winifred Darling has just been promoted to command the entire defenses of The Brytish Admiralty. Her first assignment is to defend the Kingdom against the return of the disgraced exile Captain James Hooker. Allied with a fleet of she-pirates and his eldritch paramour, the witch Elspeth, Hooker is bent on the destruction of the ruling family including the infant Peter, Prince of the Air Nation.