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Doctor who and the krikkitmen: 4th doctor novel (Doctor Who by Douglas Adams #4)
Par Douglas Adams. 2018
Dan Starkey reads this brand new novel based on a storyline by Douglas Adams. The Doctor promised Romana the end…
of the universe, so she's less than impressed when what she gets is a cricket match. But then the award ceremony is interrupted by eleven figures in white uniforms and peaked skull helmets, wielding bat-shaped weapons that fire lethal bolts of light into the screaming crowd. The Krikkitmen are back. Millions of years ago, the people of Krikkit learned they were not alone in the universe, and promptly launched a xenophobic crusade to wipe out all other life-forms. After a long and bloody conflict, the Time Lords imprisoned Krikkit within an envelope of Slow Time, a prison that could only be opened with the Wicket Gate key, a device that resembles – to human eyes, at least – an oversized set of cricket stumps... From Earth to Gallifrey, from Bethselamin to Devalin, from Krikkit to Mareeve II to the far edge of infinity, the Doctor and Romana are tugged into a pan-galactic conga with fate as they rush to stop the Krikkitmen gaining all five pieces of the key. If they fail, the entire cosmos faces a fiery retribution that will leave nothing but ashesLa résistance: l'histoire de Peter (Naïve land)
Par Gemma Malley. 2008
« Angleterre, 2150. La mort n'existe plus. Les hommes vivent à l'ère de la Longévité : pas de morts ...…
mais, pour éviter le surpeuplement, pas de naissances non plus. Peter et Anna ont un point commun : ils n'auraient jamais dû naître. Parce qu'une vie éternelle leur semble contre nature, parce que le système de la Longévité a gâché leur enfance, parce qu'il menace leurs rêves, ils ont décidé d'entrer en lutte. Pour sa suppression. Au sein du Réseau souterrain, la résistance s'organise : Peter a pour mission d'infiltrer le plus grand des laboratoires, le centre névralgique du système, Pincent Pharma... dirigé par son grand-père, Richard Pincent. Un homme puissant et influent, bien décidé à faire plier les rebelles ; une présence troublante pour Peter : quand les liens du sang s'en mêlent, tout se complique... La Résistance est la suite de La Déclaration. » -- 4e de couvRue Saint-Denis: nouvelles
Par André Carpentier. 1988
Présence magique dans la réalité, les nouvelles de Carpentier mélangent les voix et les procédés du mode fantastique. Le pouvoir…
de l’argent s’oppose au pouvoir du savoir dans neuf textes qui explorent la nature profonde des choses, leur caractère quasi sacré, secret : Les sept rêves et la réalité de Perrine Blanc – Le mage Pichu – Maître de magie – La mappemonde venue du ciel – La cloche du Bi – Le coffret de la Corriveau – Le Fatala de Casius Sahbid – Aux fleurs de Victorine – Le double d’Udie – La bouquinerie d’outre-tempsQui est Terra Wilder?: 1
Par Anne Robillard. 2006
" Souhaitant oublier l'accident de voiture où il a perdu sa femme et où il a lui-même failli laisser sa…
vie, Terra s'installe dans une petite ville de la Colombie-Britannique afin d'y enseigner la philosophie. Coïncidence ? Fatalité ? Dès son arrivée, d'étranges phénomènes et d'extraordinaires changements s'opèrent en lui. Pourquoi ses étudiants le vénèrent-ils soudain ? Pourquoi les arbres tentent-ils de l'agripper sur son passage ? Pourquoi le fantôme de sa défunte épouse se manifeste-t-il régulièrement ? Pourquoi ses mains semblent-elles posséder des pouvoirs particuliers ? Au moment où Terra parvient enfin à s'adapter à sa nouvelle vie, son passé ressurgit comme un cauchemar, l'obligeant à replonger dans le projet secret sur lequel il travaillait aux États-Unis avant l'accident. Saura-t-il faire face aux Chevaliers Noirs et à leurs sombres desseins ? " -- 4e de couvLes mémoires d'Elizabeth Frankenstein (NéO)
Par Theodore Roszak. 2007
"Recueillie par la baronne Frankenstein, la jeune Elizabeth est introduite dans le monde secret des sorcières et initiée à l'alchimie,…
aux lois de la nature et à celles du corps humain. De son côté, Victor, fils légitime de la baronne, tournant le dos à cet univers féminin respectueux de la "loi naturelle", est pris du vertige de la science. Il prétend pouvoir créer une vie meilleure, une vie qui ne serait pas née du ventre de la femme mais de la science, nouveau maître du monde. Alors que Victor s'égare dans sa quête et crée un monstre, Elizabeth essaie de trouver sa place en pleine révolution scientifique... voire scientiste. Peu à peu, leur univers se délite jusqu'à leur tragique nuit de noces. [...]" -- 4e de couvLes meilleurs contes fantastiques québécois du XIXe siècle
Par Aurélien Boivin. 1997
Les meilleurs conteurs du XIXe siècle, les Louis Fréchette, Aubert de Gaspé, père et fils, Joseph-Charles Taché, Honoré Beaugrand et…
bien d'autres ont fait vivre et revivre loups-garous, feux follets, diablotins et fantômes, puisant en cela dans la tradition orale du QuébecLe château des Carpathes
Par Jules Verne. 1996
L'un des plus curieux romans de l'auteur, à la fois anticipateur (la télévision) et très romantique (la femme fatale). Publié…
en 1892, il révèle un aspect caché du tempérament de l'écrivain. [SDMStranger things: Flight of icarus
Par Caitlin Schneiderhan. 2023
Two years before the events of Stranger Things: Season 4, Eddie Munson—Hellfire Club leader, metalhead, and Hawkins outcast—has one shot…
to make it big. Hawkins, Indiana: For most, it’s simply another idyllic, manicured all-American town. But for Eddie Munson, it’s like living in a perpetual Tomb of Horrors. Luckily, he has only a few more months to survive at Hawkins High. And what is senior year, really, but killing time between Dungeons & Dragons sessions with the Hellfire Club and gigs with his band, Corroded Coffin? At the worst dive bar in town, Eddie meets Paige, someone who has pulled off a freaking miracle . She escaped Hawkins and built a wickedly cool life for herself working for a record producer in Los Angeles . Not only is she the definition of a badass—with killer taste in music—but she might also be the only person who actually appreciates Eddie as the bard he is instead of as the devil incarnate. But the best thing? She’s offering him a chance to make something of himself, and all he needs to do is get her a demo tape of Corroded Coffin’s best songs. Just one problem: Recording costs money. Money Eddie doesn’t have. But he’s willing to do whatever it takes, even if that means relying on his dad. Al Munson has just stumbled back into Eddie’s life with another dubious scheme up his sleeve, and yet Eddie knows this is his only option to make enough dough in enough time. It’s a risk, but if it pays off he will finally have a one-way ticket out of Hawkins. Eddie can feel it: 1984 is going to be his yearInflux
Par Daniel Suarez. 2023
What if our civilization is more advanced than we know? The New York Times bestselling author of Daemon —"the cyberthriller…
against which all others will be measured" ( Publishers Weekly ) —imagines a world in which decades of technological advances have been suppressed in an effort to prevent disruptive change. Are smartphones really humanity’s most significant innovation since the moon landings? Or can something else explain why the bold visions of the 20th century—fusion power, genetic enhancements, artificial intelligence, cures for common diseases, extended human life, and a host of other world-changing advances—have remained beyond our grasp? Why has the high-tech future that seemed imminent in the 1960s failed to arrive? Perhaps it did arrive…but only for a select few. Particle physicist Jon Grady is ecstatic when his team achieves what they’ve been working toward for years: a device that can reflect gravity. Their research will revolutionize the field of physics—the crowning achievement of a career. Grady expects widespread acclaim for his entire team. The Nobel Prize. Instead, his lab is locked down by a shadowy organization whose mission is to prevent at all costs the social upheaval sudden technological advances bring. This Bureau of Technology Control uses the advanced technologies they have harvested over the decades to fulfill their mission. They are living in our future. Presented with the opportunity to join the BTC and improve his own technology in secret, Grady resists, and is instead thrown into a nightmarish high-tech prison built to hold rebellious geniuses like himself. With so many great intellects confined together, can Grady and his fellow prisoners conceive of a way to usher humanity out of its artificial dark age? And can they hope to defeat an enemy who wields a technological advantage half a century in the making?1637: The peacock throne (Ring of Fire #31)
Par Eric Flint. 2022
The assassinated Shah Jahan lies entombed beside his beloved wife in the Taj Mahal, while their progeny drag the Mughal…
Empire into a three-sided struggle over the succession to the Peacock Throne. The diplomatic and trade mission from the United States of Europe is openly siding with Princess Jahanara and her brother Dara Shikoh. The mission, made up largely of Americans transplanted in time by the Ring of Fire, is providing the siblings with technical assistance as they prepare to fight their rivals for the throne, Aurangzeb and Shah Shuja. Meanwhile, the Afghan adventurer Salim Gadh Yilmaz, confidant of two emperors—Shah Jahan and now his son Dara Shikoh—has been elevated to the position of general. He has great challenges to face, not the least of which is resisting the fierce and forbidden mutual attraction between himself and Princess Jahanara. As the conflict deepens, the junior members of the mission are sent east to buy opium needed by the USE's doctors. Their guide, merchant Jadu Das, has an agenda of his own, one entrusted to him by Jahanara: seek out her great uncle, Asaf Khan, and promise whatever is needed to bring his army over to Dara's side. The USE's mission was sent to India in search of goods needed in Europe. But now they find that straightforward task has become enmeshed in a great civil war—for control of the Peacock ThroneDelta-v (Delta-v #1)
Par Daniel Suarez. 2019
The bestselling author of Daemon returns with a near-future technological thriller, in which a charismatic billionaire recruits a team of…
adventurers to launch the first deep space mining operation—a mission that could alter the trajectory of human civilization. When itinerant cave diver James Tighe receives an invitation to billionaire Nathan Joyce's private island, he thinks it must be a mistake. But Tighe's unique skill set makes him a prime candidate for Joyce's high-risk venture to mine a near-earth asteroid—with the goal of kick-starting an entire off-world economy. The potential rewards and personal risks are staggering, but the competition is fierce and the stakes couldn't be higher. Isolated and pushed beyond their breaking points, Tighe and his fellow twenty-first century adventurers—ex-soldiers, former astronauts, BASE jumpers, and mountain climbers—must rely on each other to survive not only the dangers of a multi-year expedition but the harsh realities of business in space. They're determined to transform humanity from an Earth-bound species to a space-faring one—or die tryingLoki: Journey into mystery
Par Katherine Locke. 2023
When Earth is plagued by an epidemic of fear, ancient prophecy says only Thor can stop the monstrous threat of…
the Serpent, but without help from Loki, Thor is certain to fail. Aided by a handmaiden from Hel and a demon puppy, Loki must risk everything to find redemption—or doom himself for eternity. Either way, a Nightmare lies in wait hoping to rule the world, and Loki will have to risk everything on his craziest scheme of all! Meanwhile, new gods threaten to disrupt the status quo, throwing everything out of balance. Loki must act as a responsible ambassador, but will the nine worlds end in Surtur's fire? In this brand-new prose novel inspired by the epic comic series by Kieron Gillen, young Loki must cross the realms to reclaim his own story, outwit ancient enemies, struggle to do the right thing, and avoid falling in loveHow the blind detective and his seeing eye dog saved the Narwhals
Par Shawn Adair Johnston. 2021
It's 2079 and narwhals are being poached to extinction for their ivory tusks. Peter Straw, a blind detective, tries to…
stop the poachers with the assistance of three genetically and intellectually enhanced animals: his guide dog, a chimpanzee, and a porpoise. Adult. UnratedHybrids: Volume Three Of The Neanderthal Parallax (Neanderthal parallax #03)
Par Robert J Sawyer. 2003
"In |Hominids|, Nebula Award-winning author Robert J. Sawyer introduced a character readers will never forget: Ponter Boddit, a Neanderthal physicist…
from a parallel Earth who was whisked from his reality into ours by a quantum-computing experiment gone awry-making him the ultimate stranger in a strange land. In that book and in its sequel, |Humans|, Sawyer showed us the Neanderthal version of Earth in loving detail-a tour de force of world-building; a masterpiece of alternate history. Now, in |Hybrids|, Ponter Boddit and his Homo sapien lover, geneticist Mary Vaughan, are torn between two worlds, struggling to find a way to make their star-crossed relationship work. Aided by banned Neanderthal technology, they plan to conceive the first hybrid child, a symbol of hope for the joining of their two versions of reality. But after an experiment shows that Mary's religious faith-something completely absent in Neanderthals - is a quirk of the neurological wiring of Homo sapiens' brains, Ponter and Mary must decide whether their child should be predisposed to atheism or belief. Meanwhile, as Mary's Earth is dealing with a collapse of its planetary magnetic field, her boss, the enigmatic Jock Krieger, has turned envious eyes on the unspoiled Eden that is the Neanderthal world." -- Provided by publisherSkyward Flight: the collection (Skyward Flight #01, 02, 03)
Par Brandon Sanderson. 2022
"Return to the planet Detritus with FM, Alanik, and Jorgen in this must-have three-novella collection featuring exclusive character art and…
deleted scenes from Skyward with commentary from Brandon Sanderson." -- Provided by publisherTierra contrafuturo
Par Luis Carlos Barragán. 2021
"The first extraterrestrial contact occurs in the jungles of Latin America. Two Colombians with nothing to lose flee in a…
spaceship. A couple of years later, one of them returns to found an interplanetary embassy, which promises to bring alien technology and labor to Earth. Now humanity has the opportunity to become a type I society and become part of the Interstellar Directorate. But the usual economic and political powers will try to prevent this future. The diplomatic crisis with the Earth powers is serious, but now there are higher beings who will intervene for good or ill." -- Translation provided by NLSWe all looked up
Par Tommy Wallach. 2015
Seattle teens discover who they really are as an impending asteroid collision with Earth gives them just two months left…
to live. Can they leave their labels behind and make the most of the time they have left? UnratedHominids: Volume One Of The Neanderthal Parallax (Neanderthal parallax #01)
Par Robert J Sawyer. 2011
"Robert Sawyer's SF novels are perennial nominees for the Hugo Award, the Nebula Award, or both. Clearly, he must be…
doing something right since each one has been something new and different. What they do have in common is imaginative originality, great stories, and unique scientific extrapolation. His latest is no exception. |Hominids| is a strong, stand-alone SF novel, but it's also the first book of The Neanderthal Parallax, a trilogy that will examine two unique species of people. They are alien to each other, yet bound together by the never-ending quest for knowledge and, beneath their differences, a common humanity. We are one of those species, the other is the Neanderthals of a parallel world where they, not Homo sapiens, became the dominant intelligence. In that world, Neanderthal civilization has reached heights of culture and science comparable to our own, but is very different in history, society, and philosophy. During a risky experiment deep in a mine in Canada, Ponter Boddit, a Neanderthal physicist, accidentally pierces the barrier between worlds and is transferred to our universe, where in the same mine another experiment is taking place. Hurt, but alive, he is almost immediately recognized as a Neanderthal, but only much later as a scientist. He is captured and studied, alone and bewildered, a stranger in a strange land. But Ponter is also befriended-by a doctor and a physicist who share his questing intelligence and boundless enthusiasm for the world's strangeness, and especially by geneticist Mary Vaughan, a lonely woman with whom he develops a special rapport. Meanwhile, Ponter's partner, Adikor Huld, finds himself with a messy lab, a missing body, suspicious people all around, and an explosive murder trial that he can't possibly win because he has no idea what actually happened. Talk about a scientific challenge! Contact between humans and Neanderthals creates a relationship fraught with conflict, philosophical challenge, and threat to the existence of one species or the other-or both-but equally rich in boundless possibilities for cooperation and growth on many levels, from the practical to the esthetic to the scientific to the spiritual. In short, Robert J. Sawyner has done it again." -- Provided by publisherHumans: Volume Two Of The Neanderthal Parallax (Neanderthal parallax #02)
Par Robert J Sawyer. 2003
"The trilogy tells of our world and a parallel one in which it was the Homo sapiens who died out…
and the Neanderthals who became the dominant intelligent species. This powerful idea allows Sawyer to examine some of the deeply rooted assumptions of contemporary human civilization dramatically, by confronting us with another civilization, just as morally valid, that has made other choices. In Humans, Neanderthal physicist Ponter Boddit, a character you will never forget, returns to our world and to his relationship with geneticist Mary Vaughan, as cultural exchanges between the two Earths begin. As we see daily life in another present-day world, radically different from ours, in the course of Sawyer's fast-moving story, we experience the bursts of wonder and enlightenment that are the finest pleasures of science fiction." -- Provided by publisherThe door in the forest
Par Rod Townley. 2011
While trying to outwit the soldiers who are occupying their small town, fourteen-year-old Daniel, who cannot lie, and Emily, who…
discovers she has magical powers, are inexplicably drawn to a mysterious island in the heart of the forest where townsfolk have been warned never to go. For grades 4-7