Showing results for "Lightyear" in Science Fiction & Fantasy

James Tiptree Jr., the pen name of Alice Bradley Sheldon, is widely considered to be one of the most influential American genre writers ever, and a pioneer of feminist science fiction. 10,000 Light Years from Home, her brilliant debut collection, displays all her trademark humour, intensity and originality, with dark dystopian thrills, fast-paced intergalactic satire and hardboiled tales of alien invasion.

Evie Shao and her sister, Kass, aren’t on speaking terms. Fifteen years ago on a family camping trip, their father and brother vanished. Their dad turned up days later, dehydrated and confused—and convinced he'd been abducted by aliens. Their brother, Jakob, remained missing. The women dealt with it very differently. Kass, suspecting her college-dropout twin simply ran off, became the rock of the family. Evie traded academics to pursue alien conspiracy theories, always looking for Jakob.

Before Hisako Saski is even born, her parents make a deal on her behalf. In exchange for a first-class education and a boost out of poverty, Hisako will marry Adem Sadiq, a maintenance engineer and self-styled musician who works the trade lanes aboard his family's sub-light starship, the Hajj. Hisako is not happy when she finds out about the plan. She has little interest in the broken branch of physics the deal requires her to study and is not keen on the idea of giving up her home and everything she knows to marry a stranger.

The Lead Trifect of planet Yanda gives Invasion Officer Morg a choice: deliver Joseph Conway safely to Earth, or lose everything. Botching this assignment would be catastrophic, and Conway has no intention of making the journey easy on Morg. After things go awry, they are forced to land on the ultimate vice planet in the universe. Trying to avoid arrest, conspiracies, deadly secrets, and biological threats, the unlikely duo battles to find their way to the ancient home of humanity.

Willkommen zu 37 Lightyears, dem Podcast, in dem wir, Stefan und Marco, uns auf eine Reise durch die kleinen und großen Augenblicke begeben, die unser Leben geprägt und bereichert haben. In jeder Folge stellen wir uns gegenseitig Aufgaben, sei es einen Film anzuschauen, ein Lied zu hören oder etwas völlig anderes, das uns in einem bestimmten Moment bewegt hat. Begleitet uns, während wir diese Geschichten teilen, lachen, nachdenken und gemeinsam wachsen. Lasst uns zusammen in Erinnerungen schwelgen, neue Erlebnisse entdecken und unsere Begeisterung für die Dinge, die uns am Herzen liegen,...

Strange messages pop up worldwide on computers, cell phones, and other devices. A team of scientists is assigned to solve the mystery, but after weeks of trying, none of them have a clue. They reach out to Dr. Airina Feivel, a 28-year-old renowned Astrobiologist and Theoretical Physicist, famous not only for her world-acclaimed book, “A Dissertation About Quantum Life Forms,” but also for her awkward behavior. Airina takes charge of the situation and soon begins to solve the puzzle in the midst of suffering multiple homicide attempts for reasons unrelated to her investigation.