When Hao Ruichi, a lucky Saturnian, arrives on Earth, he crosses paths with the unfortunate Qi Miao. Together, they begin an unexpected and magical love story.
In the future, Earth's entire population is being wiped out by an unstoppable virus. Mankind's only hope for survival is to launch a spaceship stocked with clones in cryogenic freeze, which will return to a devastated planet and re-populate it. Prior to its arrival, however, its crew of 6 is awoken to face a threat to the ship. They must come to terms with the workings of the ship, the dangers faced by their ship, the realization that they are clones, and their ultimate destiny: to save their race.
The dark secrets behind Himuro Gentoku's machinations and eventual redemption...
Three years ago, Gentoku, head of the Touto Institute of Advanced Matter Physics, tries to convince his old friend and Touto Prime Minister aide Koji Hotei that Touto needs to strengthen their military in order to face the threat Hokuto and Seito represent. After Hotei dismisses him, Gentoku is made aware of a certain researcher.
Mocha and her two companions are adventurers for hire. Unfortunately, their quest for wealth is hampered by their inability to finish a job. Just as they are going broke, Mocha contracts to steal a mystic dragon's head from the secluded temple of fire. When the trio finally escapes with the head, it speaks, offering a fortune for abandoning the contract and taking it to a different temple. Mocha readily agrees. They soon find themselves fighting their employer to prevent the end of the world.
Noggin the Nog is a popular British children's character. Noggin himself is a simple, kind and unassuming King of the Northmen in a roughly Viking-age setting, with various fantastic elements such as dragons, flying machines and talking birds.
Gabriel Antinori is a young priest and university professor of theology. Beloved by his students for his unconventional intelligence, Gabriel explores the boundaries between science and faith by studying the world of so-called paranormal phenomena. Gabriel collaborates with the Congregation of Truth, an ecclesiastical institution that verifies rationally inexplicable events. Following his encounter with the captivating psychologist Claudia Munari, a surprising connection ignites, an irresistible attraction, spontaneous and passionate yet unrealizable. And their collaboration will create a special chemistry, one that can only arise from the seductive juxtaposition of rationality and faith, science and spirituality. Together, they will discover new perspectives to explain the mysteries they encounter.
Follows two boys, Jason and Lee, after they are transported to an alien world with three suns, through a vortex while on a boat trip that started in Vancouver, Canada. The boys receive help from Flees a seasoned veteran of living on Stormworld who has a special boat named Stormrider. The boys, as new arrivals or "access crashers" as the local inhabitants call them, find shelter at The Settlement.
Chen Xiaohua, a once good-for-nothing emperor, undergoes a journey of growth with help from his bionic concubine E-2099, only to discover it was all a virtual world. In reality, he's in a coma, and his girlfriend sacrificed herself to save him. Now awake, he must find a way to bring her back.
A fledgling rock band on the verge of being discovered make a discovery of their own: a magical ancient amulet that gives them the power to see ghosts – whether they want to or not. Slightly deterred from fame by their newfound responsibility of helping an endless parade of desperate, and sometimes angry, apparitions resolve their unfinished business, the band begrudgingly intertwines their desire for rock and roll success with the lifelong gig of ushering the dead to the other side.
The Magician's House is a quartet of children's fantasy books by William Corlett. Two mini-series were produced in 1999 for British television, which were directed by Paul Lynch. The series featured Jennifer Saunders and Stephen Fry voicing some of the animal characters.
The books were published in the early 1990s, and named as follows:
⁕The Steps up the Chimney
⁕The Door in the Tree
⁕The Tunnel behind the Waterfall
⁕The Bridge in the Clouds
Although in a rural setting, this series' focus on subjects such as industrial development and the combining of present-day and past settings in the plotline gives it a feeling tending more towards urban fantasy than simply contemporary fantasy.
In addition, though there is no specific mention of Welsh myths and legends, the strong part nature plays in the stories and the settings bring to mind other British children's authors. Authors like Alan Garner, who is perhaps best known for The Owl Service and Elidor, and Susan Cooper, famous for The Dark Is Rising seque
Space Academy is a live-action sci-fi children's television program produced by Filmation that originally aired Saturday mornings on the CBS television network, from September 10, 1977, to December 17, 1977. A total of fifteen half-hour episodes were made.
A journalist investigates the death of his girlfriend at a fertility clinic where she worked and uncovers a plot to create a new breed of human based on crossing the genetics of man and ape.
Followed by Ursus, small furry creature and biggest chatterbox of all time, Rahan, a young prehistoric hunter, pursues the dream that one day "those-who-walk-upright" will live in peace.
In a time when demons rule the world and mankind seeks freedom, human rebels gain control of the demon-slaying sword Tenmaken and attempt to assassinate the Demon King Janus. To preserve the sovereignty of her homeland, the half-human, half-demon Princess Hiro must overcome her deep hatred of the humans or face a war that will ravage the entire world!
Pei Qian accidentally gets an invitation from a mysterious big brother to start a company that must aim to lose money, and eventually becomes a conscientious boss in the hearts of his employees and an industry-recognized business whiz!