Showing results for "Pearls" in Science Fiction

Step into the sterile confines of The Collective: a near-future dystopian society in which scientists have unlocked the secrets to long life. The pinnacle of perfection, Ethereals are the best humanity has to offer and so much more. However, only the wealthy may attain the status of Ethereal through costly genetic enhancements, creating a stark divide between unmodified humans, heavily indoctrinated Reapers, and their Ethereal counterparts. Three worlds collide when one woman dares defy her predestined role in society.

Pete Parrino is in Florence on business when he stumbles upon Sophia Orsini’s art studio. Sophia is the love of Pete’s life, and he hasn’t seen or heard from her in 20 years...he breaks into her studio and finds evidence that she’s a time traveler...When the clan discovers where she is, Pete, Matt Kelly, and Jack Mallory must decide how much of America’s history they’re willing to change in order to bring Sophia back to the future.

Asim Kemark has lived a long, lonely life. It is his pledge to his former king and to Mandra Reykill that keeps him, his dragon, and his symbiot from going mad. He has given up on finding his true mate and devotes himself to caring for the wide assortment of creatures on Mandra and Ariel's mountain retreat. The last thing he expects to happen when he visits the palace is to lose control of his dragon and his symbiot after they sense their true mate.

Earth was never the same after World of the Changed. Humanity was reduced to two camps: monsters thirsting to kill, and players doing everything they could to survive. The squabbles people had spent their time on before? Gone. If you wanted to live to see another sunrise, you had to work with everyone you could, from other players to game functions.

Two novellas set in Aliette de Bodard’s award-winning, critically acclaimed Xuya universe, a timeline where Asia became dominant, and where the space age has Confucian galactic empires of Vietnamese and Chinese inspiration. Contains The Citadel of Weeping Pearls and The Tea Master and the Detective.

Captain Madison "Justice" Caertais has spent months hunting pirates while searching for a way to rescue her father's trapped crewmates. With the help of a mad genius inventor, she finally has the device to save them.

Madison "Justice" Caertais's wandering father, Terry, needs her help repaying a debt that has him in the clutches of the sinister bankers of Sherman, Gotrice & Darber. Their only hope is Terry's dangerous plan to capture the legendary pirate ship The Gentleman Caller and its notorious captain Arthur Lancing Darber. This could finally free them from the banks' clutches and the debts of Terry's overeager dreams.

An intense gamma ray burst makes a direct hit on planet Irth, snuffing out all life and making it uninhabitable for millions of years to come. Off-planet survivors of this horrific catastrophe discover this was not a random event but a deliberate attack. Now, they want answers. Perhaps even a little payback. And they have just what they need to make this happen: The Pearls of Destiny.

Pearl Harbor covers the full spectrum of characters and events from that historic moment, from national leaders and admirals to the views of ordinary citizens caught in the chaos of war. Gingrich and Forstchen's now critically acclaimed approach, which they term "active history", examines how a change in but one decision might have profoundly altered American history. In Pearl Harbor, they pose the question of how the presence of but one more man within the Japanese attacking force could have transfigured the war.

The youngest child of a corporate head, and a Sav’ine assassin, Pearl leads a squad of her own. Tasked with finding her father’s clones, she must deal with her overbearing sister, ruthless clans, strange aliens, and family secrets that can literally tear worlds apart. But the Link that binds all Sav’ine together has more than one glitch forcing all to guard their minds. Could Pearl’s newfound ability rip apart her squad and end the Sav’ine project?

I am Captain Jack Falco. I am Recon flesh and Recon bone. In the fog of war, my Talon fighter was blown deep into Kryonean space. All that Jessica and I wanted to do was to work our way home as best we could. Jessica is my artificial copilot, but you would never know that looking at her. Slowly, we worked our way through uncharted enemy space, stopping only for fuel and to chart the area around us. By our own estimates, it would take us a year to get home.

"Мир измененных" навсегда изменил Землю. Человечество поделилось на игроков, старающихся выжить, и монстров, жаждущих убивать. Все былые распри остались позади - в новом мире им нет места. Если ты хочешь дожить до завтрашнего дня, должен работать со всеми - как с игроками, так и с функциями игры.

In Victory at Hawaii: America Defeats the Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor, the decades-old question is explored—how could the US be so surprised and defeated on December 7, 1941 by the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor? And how could, six months later in June 1942, the US Navy deal a crushing blow to the Japanese Fleet at the Battle of Midway? We all know that the US had intelligence indicating that the Japanese were going to attack at Midway Island. What if earlier in 1941, America had specific intelligence about the upcoming Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and acted on it?