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In the twenty-second century, the City of Angels is a tragic shell of its former self, having long ago been ruined and reshaped by nuclear disaster. Before he was in a band in Ellay, Gregorio Rivas was a redeemer, rescuing lost souls trapped in the Jaybirds cult of the powerful maniac Norton Jaybush. Rivas had hoped those days were behind him, but a desperate entreaty from a powerful official is pulling him back into the game. The rewards will be plentiful if he can wrest Urania, the official's daughter and Gregorio's first love, from Jaybush's sinister clutches.

When an EMP wipes out the power grid, the world goes dark and law and order vanish overnight. With no food, no water, and no government response, Emily Fairfield must fight to protect her children. Her daughter is trapped in a crumbling city, her son caught in the chaos, and danger is closing in from all sides. Alongside a wounded paramedic and the daughter of a mob boss, Emily risks everything to reunite her family. In a world without rules, survival will come at a cost.

Wie komme ich hier heraus? Tris, eine abtrünnige Cyborg-Kämpferin, wurde von ihren eigenen Leuten gefangen genommen und denkt an Flucht. Die Zeit drängt, denn in einigen Tagen wird man sie erneut zu einer Gehirnoperation zwingen, die die übrig gebliebenen Erinnerungen an ihre Vergangenheit vollständig löscht. Ein langer, gefährlicher Weg liegt vor ihr – verfolgt von ihren Feinden durch das menschleere, von Wasser überschwemmte Gebiet der früheren Großstadt Sydney. Ihr Vorhaben ist zum Scheitern verurteilt. Aber für Tris ist Scheitern keine Option.

In a world where technology is dead and chaos reigns, Georgia must outwit a ruthless sheriff to keep her family alive in the endless blackout. When a meteor shower knocks out power across the country, Georgia thinks it’s just a freak disaster – until she learns the truth: it was an EMP attack. Struggling to protect her niece and nephew, Georgia must defend their isolated homestead from violent bandits and a ruthless sheriff who’s taken control of the nearby town. Outgunned but determined, Georgia devises a daring plan to stand her ground and protect her family.

Prometheus was more than an asteroid. It was a cosmological time capsule eons in the making, revealing that space is an even bigger mystery than could be fathomed. As a paleoarchaeologist, Dallas was no stranger to ancient mysteries. But after witnessing the destruction of millions of lives, she’ll need more than determination to stop it from becoming billions. Broken, alone, and with nowhere else to turn, she teams up with an unlikely group destined to save mankind.

As a child growing up on her grandparents' ranch, Brinlee never imagined running it by herself, much less converting it into a refuge for innocent children fleeing a brutal war. And she never would have believed how much one toddler's sunny little presence could brighten her lonely road. With all the suffering and pain surrounding them, will Joy's influence reach farther than she knows?

GO HOME, ALINA - When Alina K’vich lost her parents, her grandfather Dimas gave her a home and a purpose. At The School, he trained her to become an Aelfraver—a hunter of arcane beasts, demons, and other anti-human entities. For ten years, they built a life together. Then, one night, in the middle of preparing dinner, Dimas vanished. Now seventeen, and stuck with her grandfather’s debts, Alina resorts to illegal Raves in her rundown hometown. But these small-time contracts simply aren’t enough: The School lies in disrepair, the power’s shut off, and the bills remain insurmountable.

Spanning multiple locations and times, and rendered in fine detail and vivid color, this transportive, expansive collection shows what it means to live as human inhabitants on our one miraculous planet. Lyrical, at times hilarious, and always heartfelt, each of these ten stories is a reflection of individual choice in the face of man-made apocalypse: in a near-future Seoul, where air pollution has become so fatal that the city has been encased in a translucent biodome, a civil engineer charged with its upkeep contemplates an arranged marriage.

I can see the dead. They tell me their secrets. But this time, their secrets might get me killed. My name is Kat Sinclair, and the Volkov family owns me. People like me, born with special abilities, are called Avids. But my gift doesn’t spare me from the demands of Marco Volkov, the ruthless family patriarch who keeps me in line with the ever-present threat of violence. When a grisly double murder involving a family nephew and a cook shakes the household, I’m forced to uncover the truth.

Z-Day begins as a personal journey of survival and love amidst a collapsing world, but evolves into a gripping tale of resistance against a sinister organization. Driven by a desperate need to save Kylie, the protagonist uncovers the horrifying truth: the outbreak isn’t natural—it’s a weaponized apocalypse created by the Coordinators, a shadowy group conducting experiments on survivors.

With the plan of mass murder foiled, Rivera and his team face the challenges of cleaning up the mess. They soon come to realize that Zion can't operate in a vacuum, and the key to their future relies on uniting the wasteland. Going back out, the fight to rid their world of the most dangerous elements comes at a great cost...Can they handle it?

Philosopher, pacifist, psychonaut and prophet Aldous Huxley was one of the 20th century’s pre-eminent intellectuals and writers. The author of over 50 books, he was nominated for the Nobel Prize nine times, and elected Companion of Literature by the Royal Society of Literature in 1962, a year before his death. Known for his mordant satire and visionary ideas, Huxley spanned the period from post-First World War disillusionment to mid-century mysticism, and the works in this collection reflect his literary evolution.

One snowy night in Toronto famous actor Arthur Leander dies on stage whilst performing the role of a lifetime. That same evening a deadly virus touches down in North America. The world will never be the same again. Twenty years later Kirsten, an actress in the Travelling Symphony, performs Shakespeare in the settlements that have grown up since the collapse. But then her newly hopeful world is threatened . . . If civilization was lost, what would you preserve? And how far would you go to protect it?

Anbruch einer neuen Zeit oder Ende der Vernunft? Isabelle und Annika haben verlernt, miteinander zu sprechen. Nun, am Sterbebett ihrer Mutter, müssen sie es tun. Auch ihre Tante Dagmar ist da. Drei Frauen, drei Einzelkämpferinnen. Und noch während sie sich an das Gefühl herantasten, als Familie zusammenzugehören, launcht ein internationaler Tech-Milliardär seine Idee einer revolutionär neuen Gemeinschaft. Er will der Gesellschaft ein Update verpassen. Per App. Und alle können sich dabei einbringen. Der Start für das Projekt soll ausgerechnet hier bei ihnen sein: in Weimar.

Erlebe über 20 Stunden atemberaubender Hörunterhallung, in der sich die strenge Logik der Urb mit den leidenschaftlichen Utopien der Klave verhakt. View, die perfektionistische Scout, beginnt erstmals zu träumen und hinterfragt die sichere Gleichschaltung aller Lebensbereiche. Brachvogel, der rebellische Zeugungsträger, sucht den Horizont jenseits rigider Matriarchats-Regeln. Wenn Diver, der cerebrale Cyborg, in ihren Geist eindringt und die Liebe zwischen View und Brachvogel entbrennt, steht alles auf dem Spiel – Komfort, Sicherheit und Mittelmaß müssen einer neuen Freiheit weichen.

World Peace turns into global civil war. In the future, the leaders of Hive nations—nations without fixed location—clandestinely committed nefarious deeds in order to maintain an outward semblance of utopian stability. But the facade could only last so long. The comforts of effortless global travel and worldwide abundance may have tempered humanity's darkest inclinations, but conflict remains deeply rooted in the human psyche. All it needed was a catalyst, in form of special little boy to ignite half a millennium of repressed chaos.

In the aftermath of an EMP that plunges the world into darkness, Susan will do anything to protect her younger brother, Ronnie. Battling through plane wreckage and chaos, their only hope lies in reaching a remote family cabin, but danger lurks at every turn. When they join forces with a former soldier on his own desperate search, the stakes rise as ruthless militias and a mysterious “safe haven” threaten everything. As trust fades and a dark truth comes to light, Susan must fight not just to survive, but to lead.

Dystopian masterminds James Hunt, author of Static, and Roger Hayden, author of Grid Down, which have collectively accumulated 200+ five-star reviews come together in this SUPER BOX SET for the first time!

By the close of the twenty-first century, almost half a million souls have already abandoned Earth to live in satellites orbiting the strife-ridden planet. Each of these forty-one Worlds is an independent entity boasting its own government and culture, yet each remains bound to the troubled home World by economic pressure.

When a catastrophic solar flare wipes out all technology, the world is plunged into darkness. For Joshua and Lara Ryan, simple life in their quiet New England town seemed secure—until a relentless storm floods roads, wipes out crops, and leaves their community on the brink of starvation. As desperation grows, a ruthless local family takes what they want by force, triggering the worst tragedy.