Mostrando resultados por narrador "Virtual Voice" en Ciencia Ficción y Fantasía

Porque a veces, la locura y el genio son indistinguibles... Agatha Witchley fue espía en la Guerra Fría, pero ahora está encerrada en la principal institución mental de máxima seguridad del Reino Unido. Cree que los fantasmas de las celebridades muertas visitan su celda acolchada y le susurran al oído los secretos del mundo. Esto supone un gran problema para el gobierno británico, porque ella es la única que puede ayudarles cuando un multimillonario americano es asesinado en Londres en uno de los asesinatos más extraños hasta la fecha. El Ministro del Interior necesita que el caso...

It should have all been so easy for Captain Lana Fiveworlds, owner of Fiveworlds Shipping and master of the free trader starship ‘Gravity Rose’. A simple supply run to a mining operation in deep space on a world called Abracadabra. Alright, so the mining operation was illegal and the world unclaimed… that’s why the job paid so damn well. But now she’s stuck on a hothouse jungle planet, sweltering under the light of a dying red sun with not only oddly missing miners, but vanished crewmen too. The exiled barbarian prince Calder Durk had disappeared, presumed dragged over the mining ...

There are stories that burrow. Inside this volume lie twenty grotesque tales of body horror, cosmic dread, and splatterpunk depravity. From hollow-eyed dolls that stitch children into the walls, to corridors that breathe and birth spider gods, to astronauts rewritten by cosmic hunger—each story drags you deeper into decay. Featured in this collection: • The Rag Girl – A malformed doll-child stalks abandoned homes, sewing her victims into wallpaper or peeling them into new playmates. • The Eighth Corridor – A hallway that stretches into unreality, where spider-human hybrids prepare...

The best week of my life started with a dead phone, a broken down car, and a pack of wild animals.Dead of night. Deserted mountain road. Oh yeah, and a 95% chance of becoming wolf chow. So much for that fresh new life. Then Rowan came. Rugged, fearless, capable. My hero, my savior—all wrapped up in one sizzling, possessive package. All those hot Greek statues were the rough drafts for whoever sculpted this tall stack of muscles and charm. Just like that, I’m safe in his cabin. Shacking up with a hot, confident mountain man. Gulp. The air’s tense around him. Deliciously tense. Mouth-...

“Where do your loyalties lie?” The captain’s question rang in Klay Johnson’s ears. The son of a diplomat and grandson and great-grandson of Naval officers, his loyalties should never had been questions. However, his mother was a Galitian and Galitia was invading, taking the Space Fleet by surprise. He would have to prove himself to the captain and to his fellow pilots, while trying to survive an attack by a superior enemy force. Already fighting one galactic race and threatened by another, an invasion had been the last thing Earth’s Space Fleet expected from a quiet quarter. ...

Miriam O'Connor is a young Victorian Irish school teacher with an avaricious love for reading and mythology. She is overjoyed when she inherits a mansion in northern England filled with a treasure trove of mythological texts. What she truly desires, however, is to find a man like those in the old stories, who will love her truly and defend her honor. One day while reading in the attic of the library, she discovers a dusty old book filled with cryptic writing. When she opens it, it whisks her off to the beautiful golden-green country of Naofatir, where the fairylike inhabitants are caught in...

For Stan Stubbins, Tuesday mornings are a symphony of meticulously planned rituals, culminating in the 08:15 train from Woking to Waterloo. But this particular Tuesday, the familiar rumble of the rails gives way to the unsettling hum of interstellar transit as his commuter train is unexpectedly integrated into the Galactic Transit Authority. Instead of Surbiton, Stan and his fellow bewildered passengers find themselves at Florg Prime Interchange, a bewilderingly vast alien spaceport where their train tickets are useless and their only hope of return lies in navigating a bureaucratic ...

Like coming out of magic but in a real world. Mia, since she was a child, has lived between reality and her ghosts. She is dragged to the Amazon jungle by her ghostly visions, immersing us, through her story, tragedies and joys, in a magical reality, in the legends of the different indigenous ethnic groups. There he discovers an unimaginable dimension of ghosts and legends and connects with them spiritually, to get to the bottom of their confrontations. The transcendental messages received through her protective ghosts, finally push her to get out of the hole.

"He was never meant to fall for her. But some laws are made to be broken."He was her guardian angel, bound by the sacred laws of Celestium to watch over her from afar. She was a reckless human, navigating a harsh world with relentless ambition and a soul unlike any other. From the moment he first glimpsed her light, he knew she was extraordinary — but as he watched her endure cruelty, loneliness, and unimaginable loss, the boundaries of his duty began to blur. When her life takes a devastating turn, he makes an impossible choice. Breaking every rule that governs his kind, he descends to ...

Stay out of trouble. Though this is Marik’s mantra, he rarely seems able to follow it. Having escaped a brutal civil war in his native South, the former soldier now roams the distant North, trying to forget his past and forge some kind of future. Marik suspects he is paying the price for the moment of weakness that caused him to flee his comrades and family and everything he knew. Because however hard he tries, intrigue and danger are never far away … After an unlikely series of events see him employed as a bodyguard, Marik survives a terrifying shipwreck and washes up on a distant ...

D.P. David’s "doors" represent crossing points from one land to the other, from one dimension to the other, from one universe to the other. Explicitly, I should say it like this: after he acquired a very good understanding of the oeuvre of Mircea Eliade and Ioan Petru Culianu, D.P. David (also a PhD in Literature and Cultural Studies) experiments with high stylistic and narrative structure confidence, literary formulas for crossing from a scholarly register to fiction, from magic to real. And the other way around. As his stories are not at all, as it might seem, some one-way mirrors. If ...

Young Léofric is troubled with strange visions of battle. He does not understand them until one day two warriors, an elf and a man, arrive to take him away to war. While being instructed in the ways of combat, he learns that he is the Sword Dreamer, whose visions of pending battles are necessary to bring an end to the civil war in Irminsul. He learns the sacred Elven language as part of his training and of the True King, the almighty King That Is. But can Léofric's visions truly aid the King's Army in defeating the vengeful and power-hungry Gollmorn and his evil army? Or will the towering...

When five couples are invited to a celebrity’s estate in the beautiful Bitterroot Valley of Montana, they revel at a festive New Year’s party. However at midnight, their lives — and maybe all humanity’s— are catastrophically upended. With their very survival in question, the group faces an ominous future unless …

A sci-fi mystery romance set in the ancient city of Prague and on the invisible spacecraft above. Isa’s best friend goes missing during their high school graduation trip to Europe, and all clues seem to indicate that she has been abducted by extraterrestrials. Isa tries to make sense of it while being guided by synchronicities and recurring dreams about an ancient society in which she’s the bride of an otherworldly man who is considered divine by her people. Things get even stranger when she meets that someone in real life—Nuua. Isa witnesses Nuua killing two men, but he claims to be ...

“Ten thousand Trillian ships streaming across the border,” echoed on every communications device throughout the empire. Admiral Merkin is called out of retirement to lead the Empire forces against the incoming armada. Depleted by the civil war, he doesn’t have enough ships or men. The Empire’s survival hangs on a thread. Surrender is not an option. The Trillians don’t take prisoners.

Available now-the entire trilogy in one volume "Lunar Contact Complete Trilogy" on Kindle for $4.99 Imagine a world where you and your five colleagues are the only humans. Imagine a world where automated factories can make anything you desire. A world filled with futuristic technology; gravity generators, androids, holographic computer displays, telepathic communication, plasma fields, nano-welding, pulse rifles, charged particle cannons, personal spaceships, warships, time crystals and faster than light travel. Now imagine a world surrounded by hostile aliens that only seek your ...

As the self-proclaimed biggest coward in the galaxy, Horatio has it easy on what passes for 40th century America. A much-favoured sycophant in the court of the King of Earth, Horatio lives in a genetically engineered paradise where there's a vat-grown slave waiting around every marble column with a bunch of grapes to drop into his oh-so-perfectly designed mouth. Unfortunately for Horatio, the artificial intelligence that rules the great mass of humanity spread across the stars has other plans for this feckless seducer. So, if you ever wonder how the galaxy's biggest coward finds himself ...

Unbridled whimsey for all ages. Part science fiction, part spaghetti Western, part speculative fiction, Path of Lilies is a short story set in the Teagan Ríordáin Geneviene’s universe, Tales of the Inyan. Vibrant illustrations begin each chapter. . This time Compass, a synth with blue skin, is flying solo. As a plague ravages distant planets, Compass finds herself on Waxčá, a cloistered world with unexpected intrigue. The Lakota-being, Wawókiya, has been sent as an ambassador. He has a quirky fondness for cowboy quotes. However, Waxčá may not be big enough for Compass and his ego.

Since 1941, the National Fantasy Fan Federation (N3F) has supported fannish activities across America and around the world. One of those activities is our annual short story contest. In honor of this, our 75th anniversary, we present the winning stories from our 2015 contest First Place Sean Gillhoolley – The Bazaar of Forbidden Dreams Second Place Jeff Spitzer – The Last Ordeal of James Willoughby Third Place Kristin Janz – Fabiana’s Fairy Grandmother Honorable Mention Deborah Rocheleau – Track Invasion plus fiction from other Neffers, including Angela Parson Myers, Kent McDaniel...

Let me guess—you’ve felt it too. That little gut-pull when the power flickers during a storm. That twitch of anxiety when the shelves at your local grocery store are weirdly empty two days in a row. Or that tiny voice in your head that goes, What would I do if this all just... stopped working? Welcome to Low-Tech Survival—where we talk about what happens when the power’s gone, the internet’s toast, and the stuff we’ve come to rely on (like food magically appearing at the store) just doesn’t show up anymore. This isn’t a “panic now” kind of book. No doomsday countdowns or...