John Peel Knihy

In this accessible exploration of metaphysics, John Heil examines our everyday beliefs about time, reality, and causation. Using examples from art and science, he discusses key topics like free will and consciousness, revealing how metaphysical questions shape human experience and understanding of the universe.

A beautiful dream of a better future? Or Brandon's worst nightmare...?Twelve-year-old Brandon Mooney gets the scare of his life when he looks into a mirror...and sees a grizzled old man staring back at him! But things get really weird when the old man steps out of the mirror and introduces himself as Brandon Mooney...age 92!No way! The old Brandon has traveled back in time 80 years. Why? It turns out the future isn't as great as it was cracked up to be. In fact, it's the pits. So the old man has decided to step back into the present in order to change the future --and he needs Brandon's help.As Brandon will discover, however, tampering with time can have some unexpected--and very dangerous--consequences.

John Peel was one of the most influential figures in modern popular music, and it was thanks to his Radio One show that bands such as T-Rex, The Smiths, Radiohead and The White Stripes first came to prominence. This is his story, which he began to write just before his untimely death in 2004.

The planet Gallifrey: cradle of the most ancient civilisation in our galaxy, source of the technology that mastered both space and time, home of the people who call themselves the Time Lords — and the origin of the mysterious, quirky, itinerant time-traveller known as the Doctor. When the British Broadcasting Corporation transmitted the first episode of Doctor Who in 1963, no one could have predicted that the programme's popularity would ensure its survival for twenty-eight record-breaking years.In that first story we learnt only that the Doctor and his granddaughter Susan had left their home planet, under something of a cloud, in a remarkable time-travelling craft called the TARDIS that looked — at least on the outside — like a police telephone box.The Doctor and the TARDIS have remained the constant elements in a television saga that has seen many changes over the decades. As the years passed we learnt more and more about the Doctor's background, about other Time Lords, and about Gallifrey.John Peel has researched every Doctor Who story ever shown on television to bring together all the facts about Gallifrey and the Time Lords. The result — illustrated throughout with photographs from the BBC archives — is a comprehensive guide to the foundations of the entire Doctor Who universe, and a fascinating insight into the most comprehensive science fiction mythos that television has ever produced.

Dangerous assignments come in pairs when Captain Picard and his crew are confronted with two desperate missions on two different worlds. On the planet Buran, newly linked to the Federation, a mysterious disease devastates the population-and turns them against the visitors from the U.S.S. Enterprise. Meanwhile, on nearby lomides, a renegade Federation observer has disappeared, intent on violating the Prime Directive by preventing a tragic political assassination.While Dr. Crusher struggles to find a cure for the plague ravaging Buran, Commander Will Riker leads an Away Team to lomides. Their forces divided, Picard and his crew find themselves the only hope of two worlds.

The Hive came from another galaxy: billions of alien beings living inside a vast, biological starship. They've already destroyed one planet, using it as raw material and fuel for their endless voyage through the cosmos, and now the Hive is heading for Bajor. To the Bajorans they've sent a warning, to evacuate the planet or die along with it. Determined to fight, the Bajorans assemble a battle fleet, but it's hopeless against the overwhelming power of the Hive, and only by penetrating the Hive's defenses to learn its guarded secret does Captain Sisko stand a chance of saving Bajor.

When captain Jean-Luc Picard and the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise receive news of a human planet hidden in the center of an immense stellar cloud, they immediately investigate. Penetrating the cloud, the Starship crew is shocked to discover a world of knights and serfs lifted right out of Earth's Middle Ages. Ruthlessly exploiting the planet is a ring of interstellar trophy hunters preying on the immense, native dragon-lizards twenty-feet tall and armored like tanks.Beaming down, an away team soon becomes embroiled in a web of intrigue and murder. Taken prisoner, Picard, Riker, Data and Ro must somehow escape and stop the hunters or face destruction from the hunters' weapon, based on an advanced technology capable of utterly annihilating the "Starship Enterprise(TM) .

"The Doctor is repairing the TARDIS systems once again when it is swept up by a garbage ship roving through space, the Quetzal. When another ship approaches and takes the Quetzal by force, the Doctor discovers that he and Sam are not the only unwitting travelers on board -- there is a strangely familiar survival pod in the hold. Delani, the captain of the second ship, orders the pod to be opened. The Doctor is powerless to intervene as Davros is awakened once again. But this is no out-and-out rescue of Davros. Delani and his crew are Thals, the sworn enemies of the Daleks. They intend to use Davros as a means to wipe out the Daleks, finally ridding the universe of the most aggressive, deadly race ever to exist. But the Doctor is still worried. For there is a signal beacon inside the pod, and even now a Dalek ship is closing in."--Page 4 of cover.

"Sydney," John Peel writes, "is a something of an old tart: alluring, certainly, but sometimes best viewed at a bit of a distance."In this collection of often surprising photographs and commentary, John reveals his personal view of more familiar scenes as well as celebrating a different side of the city he has grown to love over almost 50 years

Zwei Thriller-Geschichten basierend auf einem Mystery-Klassiker entführen in die Welt des Übersinnlichen.

"Die Ausgestoßenen von Zanti" schildert die traumatischen Stunden einer Unheimlichen Begegnung mit einer fremden Zivilisation. Die Ankunft der Außerirdischen vom Planeten Zanti sorgt für Panik: niemand kennt die Pläne dieser grauenerregenden Kreaturen. Wird die Konfrontation zweier intelligenter Lebensformen und zweier Zivilisationen einen interplanetarischen Krieg entfesseln - oder lauert das Ende der Erde in den Nachtseiten der menschlichen Psyche? Vielleicht leben unter uns schon Menschen, die anders sind. Ihre übersinnliche Begabung macht sie zu Außenseitern in der Gesellschaft - aber sie sind die Zukunft unserer Spezies. Eine Zukunft, durch die sich all diejenigen bedroht fühlen, die den Aufbruch zu neuen Intelligenzformen nicht mitvollziehen können. Ein erbitterter Kampf entbrennt, und das an mehreren Fronten: Die Auserwählten müssen lernen, mit der unbekannten Kraft in ihnen umzugehen, und ihre Gegenspieler setzen alles daran, das genetische Ende der bisherigen Menschen abzuwenden.

Übersetzung aus dem Amerikanischen von Uwe Anton. Teil der Reihe "Starfleet Kadetten", umfasst 119 illustrierte Seiten.

Chiedete pure in giro: tutti vi diranno che Eerie, nell'Indiana, è la città più normale del mondo. Tutti tranne Marshall e Simon: loro sanno che, dietro le apparenze, si celano mille misteri. Da quando in classe è arrivato Jazen, un ragazzino schivo e riservato, Marshall è stato vittima di una serie di inspiegabili furti. E quando scompare qualcosa, il misterioso compagno di scuola è sempre nei paraggi. I sospetti non mancano ma, per trovare le prove, Marshall e Simon dichiarano ufficialmente aperta la caccia la ladro.

Jake Sisko muss DS9 retten. Ein neuer Student taucht auf Deep Space Nine auf: Der Bajoraner Riv Jakar, dessen Eltern von den Cardassianern getötet wurden. Riv hält das Studium jedoch für Zeitverschwendung und möchte sich schnellstmöglich den bajoranischen Freiheitskämpfern anschließen. Als Jake Sisko und sein Freund Nog mysteriöse Vorkommnisse auf der Station untersuchen, entdecken sie einen blinden Passagier: Ein cardassianisches Mädchen. Sie ist die Tochter eines hohen Würdenträgers, der Deep Space Nine mit seinen Schiffen bedroht und die Herausgabe seiner Tochter fordert. Doch Riv hat andere Pläne mit der Cardassianerin, und das könnte die Vernichtung der Station bedeuten.