Resultados para "Frank" en Aventura

Esta cuarta entrega de la saga «Dune» centra su trama en la figura mesiánica de Leto Atreides II (hijo de Paul Atreides, héroe cuya estirpe hunde sus raíces en la legendaria casa griega de los Atridas) y nos lleva, a través de diversos dilemas éticos, a comprender los mitos que necesita la humanidad y a los héroes que los encarnan. El futuro, en el mundo de Dune, pertenece solo a los que son capaces de pensar por sí mismos.

Las Honorables Madres se enfrentan, con sus terribles poderes, a la secular Bene Gesserit. Las revenidas Madres, ocultas y fortificadas en su planeta Casa Capitular, intentan revivir el viejo orden que les dio su antiguo poder en todo el universo. Un ghola de Miles Teg está siendo adiestrado para superar incluso a su poderoso antecesor.

On the edge of a war-weary and devastated galaxy, charismatic Lewis Orne has landed on Hamal. His assignment: To detect any signs of latent aggression in this planet's population. To his astonishment, he finds that his own latent extrasensory powers have suddenly blossomed, and he is invited to join the company of "gods" on this planet - and the people here place certain expectations on their gods.

The last survivors of humanity have just been deposited on Pandora, a horrific, poisonous planet rife with deadly nerve-runners, hooded dashers, airborne jellyfish, and intelligent kelp. The determined colonists attempt to establish a bridgehead on the deadly, inhospitable planet, but more trouble arises. Their sentient ship - backed up by an impressive array of armaments - has decided it is God and is insisting the colonists find appropriate ways to worship it.

Mención de Honor en "International Latino Book Awards", en la categoría The Rudolfo Anaya Best Latino Focused Fiction Book Award. Björn, Kim, Joshua, Paul y Roxanne han sido elegidos para convertirse en equilibristas de realidades. Los arcontes los someterán a duras pruebas físicas y psicológicas para que aprendan a sanar y equilibrar las simulaciones, las realidades alternativas, y conseguir su mejor versión. En su viaje tendrán que enfrentarse a cruentas guerras, a mundos carcomidos por el abuso de poder y a devastadores escenarios.

Dio creò i grandi mostri marini e tutti gli esseri viventi che guizzano e brulicano nelle acque, secondo la loro specie... Dio li benedisse: "Siate fecondi e moltiplicatevi e riempite le acque dei mari"... E fu sera e fu mattina: quinto giorno. GENESI 1, 21-23. 14 gennaio. Huanchaco, costa del Perú. Il povero pescatore Juan Narciso Ucañan non crede ai suoi occhi: dopo lunghe settimane di magra, davanti a lui si stende un enorme banco di pesci.

EMASI! Each Man a Separate Individual! That is the rallying cry of the Seps, the resistance force engaged in a class war against the upper tiers of a society driven entirely by opinion polls. Those who score high, the High-Opps, are given plush apartments, comfortable jobs, every possible convenience. But those who happen to be low-opped live crowded in warrens, facing harsh lives and brutal conditions.

The starship Earthling, filled with thousands of hibernating colonists en route to a new world at Tau Ceti, is stranded beyond the solar system when the ship's three organic mental cores - disembodied human brains that control the vessel's functions - go insane. The emergency skeleton crew sees only one chance for survival: build an artificial consciousness in the Earthling's primary computer that can guide them to their destination - and hope it doesn't destroy the human race.

Earth has become a library planet over the last several thousand years, a bastion of both useful and useless knowledge - esoterica of all types: History, science, politics - gathered by teams of "pack rats" who scour the galaxy for any scrap of information. Knowledge is power, knowledge is wealth, and knowledge can be a weapon. As powerful dictators come and go over the course of history, the cadre of dedicated librarians is sworn to obey the lawful government - and use their wits to protect the treasure trove of knowledge they have collected over the millennia.

La sed de venganza de Joshua contra Kim y Björn, y su ambición por convertirse en una luz divina podría desencadenar un desastre de proporciones astronómicas. Es el inevitable momento de conformar alianzas para sobrevivir. Los equilibristas de realidades han regresado para su última aventura y esta vez no existen las fronteras: un castillo en lo alto de un acantilado que funciona como hospital psiquiátrico; el planeta Piersus con su atmósfera rojiza y su núcleo de almas ancestrales, o una base militar subterránea en territorio estadounidense...

In The Jesus Incident, Frank Herbert and Bill Ransom introduced Ship, an artificial intelligence that believed it was God, abandoning its unworthy human cargo on the all-sea world of Pandora. Now centuries have passed. The descendants of humanity, split into Mermen and Islanders, must reunite--because Pandora's original owner is returning to life.

Pandora's humans have been recovering land from its raging seas at an accelerated pace since The Lazarus Effect. The great kelp of the seas, sentient but electronically manipulated by humans, buffers Pandora's wild currents to restore land and facilitate the booming sea trade. New settlements rise overnight, but children starve in their shadows. An orbiting assembly station is near completion of Project Voidship, which is the hope of many for finding a better world.

Winning the New Hampshire state lottery was just the beginning. Some more surprises await the Brooks and the people they love. With their bodyguard Nelson on high alert, Margret Brooks is doing her best to look after the twins and her husband Brent to protect a secret locked away from the public eyes.