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Una historia de épocas, donde el amor transciende la lógica y hasta el tiempo.
"Es duro ser mujer. Y mucho más si no has nacido de alta alcurnia, destinada para un noble propósito. No obstante, el destino nunca fue algo que me importara especialmente".
Eugenia Cobalto es una mujer inteligente y prometedora, tanto como para comprender que nacer en la Málaga de mediados del siglo XIX concede tan pocas libertades como oportunidades, lo que condena...
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Lo más maravilloso e inquietante de la vida es que puede cambiar en tan solo un instante.
Blanca, una joven de Gijón sin familia y con una vida absolutamente convencional, sale a dar un paseo y sufre un extraño desvanecimiento. Lo que en principio parece algo inocente va a ser el punto de partida de un viaje extraordinario que la trasladará al siglo XIV. Allí tendrá que sobrevivir o, mejor dicho, empezar a vivir mientras conoce a personajes...
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Este libro es un homenaje a los grandes títulos de un género –el de los viajes en el tiem-po– que bajo el amparo de la ciencia ficción ha conmovido generaciones de espectado-res, ya sea en las salas de cine o ante la pantalla de un televisor.
Escrito de una manera cautivadora y amena, Doc Pastor nos recuerda, a través de es-tas páginas, que la cultura popular también está hecha con los mejores mimbres del buen entretenimiento.
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Imagine being born the son of a slave with the mind of a genius. That was Simmie Johnson in the years following the Civil War. After a perilous escape from lynch mobs in Mississippi, he manages to earn a PhD in physics at Tuskegee, and in his research discovers the secret of time travel. He develops a design for a time machine called a Chronocar, but the technology required to make it work does not yet exist.Fast forward 125 years. A young African...
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Seit Jahren umkreist ein unbekannter Koloss die Erde, bis schließlich ein Team zusammengestellt wird, das die Technologie dieses vermeintlichen Raumschiffs bergen soll. Doch niemand reißt sich um diese Aufgabe, so findet sich eine Crew, die nicht wirklich etwas Besseres zu tun hat. Zu ihr gehören die drogensüchtige Journalistin Dysti und der ausgemusterte Cyborg Xell.
Als der Trupp dem Geheimnis des Kolosses auf die Spur kommt, können sich Dysti...
6) Metanoia
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Dentro de unos años, en una lúgubre cárcel subterránea, el funcionario de prisiones Asur conocerá a la interna Domnita, una mujer excepcional envuelta en el misterio. A través de ella, conocerá el devenir de los tiempos y se verá envuelto en una vorágine en la que deberá luchar para salvar su vida.
En un mundo en el que la civilización se desmorona y la era glacial avanza por culpa de quienes manipulan el tiempo, solo el amor les permitirá...
7) Typhoon Time
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"If Tom Clancy wrote science fiction, this is the novel he'd have written. If Larry Niven wrote military fiction, he's be proud to call this book his." -Robert J. Sawyer, Hugo Award–winning author of Quantum Night
The Hunt for Red October meets Timeline!
Martin Richter, a pacifist history professor specializing in pre-WWII Germany, has two passions in his life-history . . . and opposing nuclear weapons.
Eric Sobol, a terminally ill...
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From the bestselling author of A Time to Change, comes the beautiful, moving and gripping next instalment in the beloved Mandeville Mysteries series.
The past is like a shadow, sometimes invisible but always there…
England, 1924. Nell Potter pens successful romantic mysteries as the enigmatic Margot Evangeline, but off the page, things aren't quite so wonderful. Nell, tormented by a terrible ordeal in her past, can't settle, and her writing...
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In "Part 1: Ancient Astronauts - A New Moon," delve into the enigmatic realm where science fiction and ancient alien theory collide, as acclaimed author Jonathan David weaves a mesmerizing tale that challenges our understanding of the universe and the origins of life.
Unravel the secrets hidden in the celestial tapestry and embark on a thrilling journey across time and space. As humanity grapples with age-old questions about its place in the cosmos,...
10) The Guardian
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A stone that grants eternal life. It's her job to keep it safe. It's his job to protect her at all costs.Jack Justice didn't believe in love or the power of the human spirit and was fresh out of faith. But that all changed when he saved Lady Nora from bandits and discovered she was the Guardian of a Philosopher's Stone. He had never met her before, but she haunted his dreams for as long as he could remember.With the gift of eternal life, Nora has...
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Gideon Pierce returned to Liberty to stop Lloyd Mitchell reaching the apparition in the sky, but in a town controlled by Lloyd and his seemingly invincible guards his chances appear remote. His best hope is to free Lloyd's prisoner, a woman who is defying Lloyd and who might know of a way to defeat him, but when Gideon's rescue attempt goes awry, his hopes are dashed. He needs a new plan, and he reckons the answer might just lie with the mysterious...
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Cuando tu héroe tiene más de doscientos años... y ni siquiera es tu héroe.
Didier es un soldado de Napoleón: fiable, serio y convencido de que España es un país de salvajes. Mari es una mujer del siglo XXI: idealista, entusiasta, y un poquito desastre. Interesada por otras épocas, siempre ha querido conocer al "gran Laínez", ilustre antepasado y antiguo guerrillero.
Pero, cuando en plena recreación histórica aparece un chiflado repartiendo...
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"When The Sleeper Awakes" is a dystopian science fiction novel about a man who sleeps for two hundred and three years, waking up in a completely transformed London, where, because of compound interest on his bank accounts, he has become the richest man in the world. The main character awakes to see his dreams realized, and the future revealed to him in all its horrors and malformities. "Time Machine" is a dystopian story of time traveller who witnesses...
14) Time Is Lost
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Time Is Lost - The Guild of Travelers is off again on their adventures through time. Don sets up a visit to The Lighthouse of Alexandria, Mars and the beginning of Humans are revisited.Lon decides to introduce his friend to the Time Machine. When they get lost and cant be located it's all hands on deck and boots on the ground to try and retrieve them. New trips and revisiting old friends make for plenty of adventures. Danger is just around the corner...
15) New Amazonia
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In June 1889, Mrs Humphry Ward's open letter "An Appeal Against Female Suffrage" was published with over a hundred other female signatories against the extension of Parliamentary suffrage to women. Inflamed by this "most despicable piece of treachery ever perpetrated towards women by women", Corbett wrote and published New Amazonia.In her novel, Corbett envisions a successful suffragette movement eventually giving rise to a breed of highly evolved...
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Musaicum Books presents to you a carefully created collection of Edward Bellamy's dystopian novels and other Sci-Fi stories.
Content:
Novels:
Looking Backward: 2000—1887
Equality
Dr. Heidenhoff's Process
Miss Ludington's Sister
The Duke of Stockbridge
Short Stories:
The Blindman's World
An Echo of Antietam
The Old Folks' Party
The Cold Snap
Two Days' Solitary Imprisonment
A Summer Evening's Dream
Potts's Painless Cure
A Love Story Reversed
Deserted
Hooking...
17) Das blutige Buch
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Luther ist auf der Straße aufgewachsen. Da lernt man selbst mitten im 21. Jahrhundert schnell, sich seiner Haut zu wehren und nicht wählerisch in der Wahl seiner Mittel zu sein. Er hat nur eine Schwäche: Das Sammeln alter Bücher.
Beim Stöbern in einer fast vergessenen Buchhandlung stößt er auf ein kleines, unscheinbares Buch, das sofort sein Interesse weckt, denn auf dem Buchdeckel sind Spuren von frischem Blut.
In dem Buch wird die Geschichte...
18) Twilight Sojourn
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An intrepid warrior on a mission for the king. A beautiful woman lost in time.
Will he try to keep her at his side, or help her return to her own world?
A fast-paced time travel adventure throws two unlikely people together in a passionate romance. A woman, running from an unhappy life, slips into the turbulent time of 1081 where she meets the seasoned commander of a Welsh war band in the aftermath of a battle that has tipped the balance of power...
19) Witch Angel
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Modern-Day Woman Meets Southern Gentleman-130 Years in the Past in Witch Angel, an Enchanting Time Travel Romance from Trana Mae Simmons
Louisiana, 1875
Alaynia Marabeau leaves her Boston home in 2005, planning to restore the historical Louisiana plantation she inherited. Only when she arrives, Chenaie Plantation is in full glory in 1875 and owned by Shain St. Clair.
The Plantation is also home to several ghosts, including Francesca, the golden-haired...
20) Roog
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Scientist Leigh Readon and her colleagues have done the unimaginable. They've invented a machine that can transport matter to other platforms of the same machine. When the US government gets wind, they want it shut down immediately, or so they say. In an effort to save the technology from falling into the wrong hands, the group deletes all of the schematics and research information, and Leigh takes the risk of transporting herself to France where...
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