Showing results for title "Babylon" in Science Fiction

The fight for Song Island is over. Despite suffering losses, Will and his group have claimed the island as their own and achieved the safe haven they've longed for since The Purge. Months later, Will makes contact with another group of survivors, and travels to their base in hopes of striking an alliance and gathering much-needed medical supplies. Instead, he finds himself in the middle of another bloody battle.

The first volume of Abhishek Obili’s, Babylon Wars: The Last Attorney, Jack, a brilliant law student and vampire, navigates a futuristic world blending technology and mysticism. Discovering his supernatural side, he ventures to the Andromeda Galaxy through a portal, encountering civilizations with complex legal systems.

Keo has been in tough situations before. Some have been tougher than others, but he’s always managed to come out on top thanks to an innate stubbornness, the skills he’s honed from a previous life, and a whole lot of Lady Luck. But Luck can sometimes be a fickle mistress, there are always people with more skills, and stubbornness has a tendency to bite you in the ass if you’re not careful. Since leaving Gaby at Axton, Keo finds himself being stalked by a highly-trained group of humans in the day and hordes of the undead at night. Someone, something out there wants him, and it won’t be denied.

Every journey has an ending. He's survived the Purge and battled overwhelming odds, but now Keo is back on the road and more determined than ever to fulfill a promise made nearly half a year ago. What he didn't expect - or want - was to end up in another bloody conflict. With the help of some old friends and some dangerous new ones, Keo must figure out a way to keep everyone he cares for alive.

In The Edge of Darkness, LaHaye reveals the meaning behind some of the most carefully guarded Biblical prophecies to expose a conspiracy with terrifying consequences for our modern world.

Die interstellaren Portale, gefeiert als Tore in eine neue Zukunft der Menschheit, erweisen sich als tödliche Falle. Kaum haben die Erde, der Mars und die anderen Planeten den Angriff des Alien-Protomoleküls einigermaßen überwunden, tritt es erneut in Aktion und lässt ein Schiff nach dem anderen im Inneren der Portale verschwinden. James Holden und seine Crew stehen kurz vor der Lösung des Rätsels, doch da zeigt sich die wahre Absicht des Gegners - und die Menschheit findet sich plötzlich als Spielball in einem Krieg zwischen galaktischen Mächten wieder.

Killing has never been something Keo shieded away from, but the events of the last year have made him rethink his bloody past. Now, Keo has embraced his old ways and set his sights on a new target - and there is nothing more dangerous than a man with nothing to lose. For Lara and those on the Trident, an encounter with a new group of survivors pulls them even further off course. It doesn't seem to matter how hard Lara tries to steer clear of Mercer's war on the ghouls; fate seems intent on drawing her into the conflict.

Hunted through the Louisiana woods by a mysterious paramilitary group, Keo and Norris are about to reach the end of the line. After months of running, hiding, and fighting for their lives, the ex-mercenary and the ex-cop will finally discover the identity of their pursuers - and why they will never, ever give up. The planet may have been purged, and the ghouls now hold complete dominion over the night, but in the day man still remains the deadliest species.

Le navi militari della Marina Libera hanno messo in ginocchio la Terra, dando inizio a una campagna di pirateria e violenze che coinvolge i pianeti esterni. Le navi dei coloni, dirette verso le migliaia di nuovi mondi al lato opposto dell'anello dei portali, sono facili prede e nessuna marina, da sola, è in grado di proteggerle.

"I Remember Babylon" was first published in the March 1960 issue of Playboy. Sir Arthur C. Clarke (1917-2008) is regarded as one of the most-influential science fiction writers of all time. He was named a Grand Master by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, and was inducted into the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame.

A Babylon 5 Podcast on the Geek Therapy Network

Spurn Babylon is a short story from the collection Tides from the New Worlds. Caribbean-born novelist Tobias Buckell established himself as a gifted new voice in science fiction with his stunning first novel, Crystal Rain. Now, in his first collection, Buckell demonstrates his strengths in the short form, offering listeners a collection of stories that are compelling, smart, wonderfully imagined, and entertaining.

Berlin versinkt in Düsternis: Teil 3 der faszinierenden Near-Future-Thrillerreihe. Berlin in einer nahen Zukunft: Seitdem ihr Chef, der Cop Birol, spurlos verschwunden ist, sind die Polizeischülerin Laura und die zum Strafdienst verurteilte Raven auf sich allein gestellt. Auch sie werden verfolgt, dennoch suchen sie nicht nur fieberhaft nach Birol, sondern auch nach dem verschwundenen Milliardärssohn Sky. Während im und um den riesigen Club "Utopia Gardens" immer mehr Menschen sterben, ahnen Raven und Laura nicht, wie mächtig die Leute sind, mit denen sie sich angelegt haben.

Eric grew up watching Babylon 5, Andrew has never seen it, what happens when these two perspectives collide!? We take a fun, if slightly off color look at Babylon 5 one episode at a time. Join us as we find out if Babylon 5 was really as good as Eric remembers and whether its good enough to make Andrew a super fan too! Drop us a line at thepodcastingguild@gmail.com!

Lucifer is preparing for his ultimate reign. And he has a plan literally out of this world for creating the perfect human who can influence and dominate the Earth so he can come to power and rule all. Since the time of the Tower of Babel, he has been scheming by creating a planet in a time dilation field where advances in human genetics can be faster than here on Earth. A few have arisen to stop his plan at all costs.

Auf der Erde schreibt man das Jahr 1518 Neuer Galaktischer Zeitrechnung (NGZ). Die Menschen haben mit der Liga Freier Terraner ein großes Sternenreich in der Milchstraße errichtet; sie leben in Frieden mit den meisten bekannten Zivilisationen. Doch wirklich frei ist niemand. Die Milchstraße wird vom Atopischen Tribunal kon­trolliert. Dessen Vertreter behaupten, nur seine Herrschaft verhindere den Untergang - den Weltenbrand - der gesamten Galaxis.

After surviving a hurricane, 17-year-old Nadifa Duale finds himself imprisoned and enslaved deep beneath an empty expanse of North American farm country - a place where men with ambitions of racial cleansing come to practice their nightmares unchecked on those declared missing. But when a mad scientist’s experiment to hold on to power goes terribly wrong, Nadifa and his fellow captives find themselves in a new kind of fight for survival, one where they might be thankful for the electric fence surrounding their prison. Because now, the dead do not stay dead.

Nachdem es lange Zeit Guildenstern war, der seinen Rivalen das Leben schwer machte, ist er diesmal selbst ins Fadenkreuz geraten: Ein von Romeo Silberstern ins leben gerufenes Skandalblatt enthüllt die dunklen Geheimnisse seiner Vertrauten und untergräbt so die Fundamente seines Imperiums.

Set in the Babylon 5 Universe, the Luxury liner Celestia is taking new colonists and dilettantes to the newest ISA world. Things are going fine, until a shuttle shifts out of reality for a split second and a blue brain is found in the aisle. Things get stranger from there. Join Du'li, an undercover Narn trying to find the source of the drug, Amber, and get her good name back; Ty, a Brikiri space trucker just looking for the next big score until things go horribly wrong for her and her son; and mr'gr'rat, a pak'ma'ra scientist, telepath, and explorer of all things culture, as they try to solve ...

Welcome to Grey Sector, a Babylon 5 podcast by three friends who just have a lot of feelings. We're rewatching, appreciating, and snarking about the 1990s sci-fi classic, with occasional detours into bonus content. And so it begins. . .