Ruud Bal Libri

Ellen Ripley è l'unica sopravvissuta a bordo della Nostromo dopo gli attacchi dell'Alien, che si era infiltrato nel corpo di un membro dell'equipaggio. Tornata sulla Terra, avverte con urgenza del pericolo che minaccia chiunque metta piede sul pianeta Acheron, ma la compagnia coloniale ignora le sue preoccupazioni. Troppi investimenti sono stati fatti per lo sviluppo di Acheron, e la direzione è ansiosa di ottenere profitti, considerando addirittura di offrire gli alieni come armi biologiche ai militari. Con grande sgomento, Ripley scopre che centinaia di coloni sono già stati inviati su quel mondo infestato. Quando il contatto con loro viene interrotto, la compagnia coloniale chiede a Ripley di accompagnare una piccola squadra militare d'élite come consulente per aiutare i coloni. All'arrivo, Ripley si rende conto che le sue peggiori paure si stanno avverando: ciò che attende lei e i suoi compagni è un orrore inimmaginabile.

Na enkele jaren van betrekkelijke rust dreigt er nieuw gevaar voor het volk. Gedreven door honger en kou en voorgegaan door hun krijgszuchtige leider Dappere Man, naderen noordelijke volkeren, de clans van het Zonnevolk, de vruchtbare gronden van het volk. Maar niet alleen dat feit veroorzaakt onrust. De Spiraal, leidraad voor de leefwijze van alles wat denkt en leeft, dreigt te worden verstoord nu de wolfsdromer Eerste Man, de ziener die de droom van de spiraal heeft gedroomd, in het geestenrijk is opgegaan. Wat nu te doen? Tot ieders verbazing is het aan een mismaakte, hij die later Stil Water zal heten, om de totstandkoming van een nieuwe droom te verwezenlijken. Die welhaast onmogelijke taak wordt hem op zijn schouders gelegd door zijn vriend Warm Vuur, die op zijn doodsbed Stil Water een belofte weet af te dwingen: zoek de Dromer, herstel de Spiraal. Hoe moeilijk die opdracht is, dat blijkt pas als de gezochte Dromer geen ander blijkt te zijn dan Witte Es, de vrouw die in haar vroege jeugd door het Zonnevolk werd weggeroofd van haar plaats bij de vuren van het volk van Stil Water...

America del Nord, anno 1300. Una terribile siccità sconvolge la terra. Ombra della Notte, temuta sacerdotessa, sa che un crimine orrendo ha incrinato l'equilibrio del mondo ed esiste una sola persona capace di percorrere il sentiero degli spiriti e riportare la pace. È Piccolo Fiore, una bambina che tutti credono figlia di un valoroso guerriero, dotata di straordinari poteri. Ma una terribile minaccia incombe su di lei e sul suo popolo...

In the bustling Constantinople of 1150 AD, Judson Daniel Elliot, a tour guide for the Time Service, abandons his group of tourists to spend a stolen hour with a dazzling, time-defying paradox of seventeen springs, named Pulcheria. This is a serious crime! Upon his return, he discovers that a cunning tourist has independently dived into time. In a panic, Jud tries to locate the man, but he keeps making one bewildering blunder after another. His friends rush to mend the frayed temporal fabric, but the relentless Time Patrol is onto them. Jud could be plucked from the time stream at any moment, which means he would simply cease to exist. This is a gripping tale from a writer who has already made a significant mark in the field and was recently honored with the Nebula Award for A Time of Changes.

Seven thousand years ago, major climactic change was ushering in a 3,500 year drought. For a small band of pioneers in what is now Wyoming and the Montana Mountains, it was a time of fire. As they struggled valiantly to keep their ancestors' dreams alive in an unforgiving, drought-stricken land, a heroic young dreamer and a fearless woman warrior united to lead their people to a magnificent destiny. A towering epic filled with tragedy and triumph, courage and conflict, People of the Fire is another compelling novel in the majestic North America's Forgotten Past series from New York Times and USA Today bestselling authors W. Michael Gear and Kathleen O'Neal Gear

Robert A. HeinleinLevenslijn (Life Line)Beproeving in de ruimte (Ordeal in Space)Wie eenmaal macht heeft (Logic of Empire)Isaac AsimovDenk! (Think!)Niemendalletje (About nothing)Het ontbrekende onderdeel (The Missing Item)Een kwestie van smaak (Good Taste)A. E. van VogtDe bekentenis (The Confession)Het groene woud (The Green Forest)Het ding uit zee (The Sea Thing)

In una parte remota del cielo c'è una stella gemella del Sole: Nemesis. È la stella che splende su Rotor, il satellite artificiale su cui vive, con altri transfughi terrestri, la giovanissima Marlene. Grazie ai suoi straordinari poteri Marlene sa che Nemesis porterà morte e distruzione alla Terra. Sulla Terra, invece, c'è solo il sospetto della futura catastrofe. Ma sufficiente per giustificare un'azzardata missione fino a Rotor...

"Welcome to Infernoland," an unearthly voice hisses. And the late, great Allen Carpentier plunges into ht efantastic abyss of an ingenious, living hell. His is a one-way journey through dim nether-regions where flame-colored demons wield diabolically sharp pitchforks . . . where tormented vixens reign forever in a pond of sheer ice. There, in this land of torment and terror, he discovers the amazing truth of the ultimate adventure that lies beyond the grave.

Driven by hunger and the relentless hostilities of the Others, the people of the hunter Rent In Light are forced to embrace a new life. During the harsh journey across the Great Ice, Rent In Light finds himself alone in his efforts to convince his people that a better future is within reach. The Wolf has shown him the path beneath the Great Ice. Wolf has revealed to Rent In Light that behind the massive ice wall lies the promised land, the dwelling place of Father Sun. And that is where he wants to go. However, there are others, such as the warlike Raven Hunter and the female shaman Heron, who pursue less noble ideals...

Enter the city of Hart's Hope, ruled by gods both powerful and indifferent, riddled with sorcery and revenge. The city was captured by a rebellious lord, Palicrovol, who overthrew the cruel king, Nasilee, hated by his people. Palicrovol, too, was cruel, as befitted a king. He took the true mantle of kinghood by forcing Asineth, now queen by her father's death, to marry him, raping her to consummate the marriage. But he was not cruel enough to rule. He let her live after her humiliation; live to bear a daughter, live to return from exile and retake the throne of Hart's Hope. But she, in turn, sent Palicrovol into exile to breed a son who would, in the name of the God, take back the kingdom from its cruel queen. From the back cover of ISBN 0765306786 / 9780765306784

Een Zuid-Afrikaanse familie komt tot grote rijkdom en macht.

GATHER, DARKNESS! is a science-fiction classic. It tells the story of Armon Jarles, a man on the edge, living amidst the disputes of two rival powers at large in the world. 360 years after a nuclear holocaust ravaged mankind, throwing society back into the dark ages, the world is fraught with chaos and superstition. The new rulers over the masses of humanity are the techno-priests of the Great God, endowed with scientific knowledge lost to the rest of humanity. Jarles, originally of peasant descent, rises to become a priest of the Great God. He knows the gospel propagated by the priests to be a fraud, based on illusion and trickery. Even more offensive to him is the paucity of true believers among the priesthood. One day he rebels against his priestly training and attempts to incite the peasants to rise up and demand freedom, but they are not ready. Jarles is not the only dissenter trying to sabotage and expose the false theocracy of the priesthood witchcraft is slowly gaining strength and support among the populace. about to throw him headlong into the middle of the greatest holy war the world has ever seen.

Een stormachtige leven van een jonge actrice in het 19e eeuwse Amerika.