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In a near-future Kolkata beset by flooding and blight, Ma, her two year old daughter Mishti, and her elderly father Dadu are just days from leaving the collapsing city behind to join Ma’s husband in the home he has been building for them in Ann Arbor, Michigan. After procuring long-awaited passports and visas from the consulate, they pack their bags for the flight to America. But in the morning they awaken to discover that Ma’s purse, with all the treasured documents within it, has been stolen.

Nach Jahren des bitteren Schweigens müssen sich Nova und Susanne zusammentun, um den übermächtigen Gegner in die Knie zu zwingen. Doch ist die KI in ihrem monströsen Vorhaben überhaupt noch zu stoppen? Außerdem müssen Red und Nova trickreich vorgehen, um einen heimtückischen Verräter zu enttarnen. Auch auf Lina und Manuel lauern unerwartete Gefahren.

Los Angeles lies in ruins. While the city is sealed off to contain an unknown contamination, the survivors battle strange anomalies under the toxic dust cloud. Among the survivors are Lee and Branson. The astronaut must find a way out in order not to miss his flight to Cassandra, and the captain is faced with a terrible truth that he can no longer deny.

In a future ruled by control and precision, Nuru is an elite operative who bends timelines and silences chaos—until one mission forces him inward. What begins as a descent into memory becomes a dangerous journey through emotional timefields, where his inner child, shadow self, and forgotten truths await. SEEN is a poetic sci-fi series that fuses emotional depth with high-concept storytelling.

The world beyond the City of the Wise is fraught with danger. But Fola, a talented sorceress who has left the safety of its walls, is unconcerned. She's on the hunt for magical remnants left behind by the First Folk - ancient beings who are but the whisper of a memory. Only by finding them might she uncover the secret to their power and a way to pull the riven lands out of the darkness.

Sara Sidorova lies dying. As she hovers between life and death, she receives a visitation from Amba, the tiger god who will devour creation if he is released from the chains that bind him. Amba gives Sara Sidorova an extraordinary gift: a glimpse into the future.

China, its military ravaged by Covid and stung by the loss of its only significant ally, Russia, launches four intercontinental, nuclear-tipped missiles from submarines off the coast of North Korea. Detonating high in the atmosphere over North America, the missiles create an electromagnetic pulse that takes down the entire power grid. The US is set back to the eighteenth century. It now lacks any power, transportation, communication, food supplies, water, or electronics.

The year is 2381. The place is Urban Monad 116 of the constellation Chippitts. The population of this one-thousand storey super-structure is 800,000+ and always growing. After two centuries of ruthless, selective breeding, the essence of life is to be blessworthy and to multiply; to afford one's neighbours any type of sexual fulfilment and, above all, to avoid the evil of frustration. But, within this seemingly blissful vertical world there are individuals who feel such perverse desires as a longing for privacy, a wish to descend from the heights, to walk on earth and bask in the sunshine.

The world trusted Kyosei Biotech. Their genetically-altered meat was marketed as a breakthrough in sustainable food, a way to end world hunger. But there was something they didn’t tell the public. Now, people are changing. First, it’s the little things. A heightened sense of smell. Skin that heals too fast. Strange cravings. Then, it’s the things no one can explain—claws instead of fingernails. Bones that shift overnight. Eyes that glow in the dark. And then, the disappearances begin.

Ryan Maxwell built the ultimate survival Bunker in which his family could ride out any disaster imaginable, never thinking that any such disaster would actually come. But disaster did eventually come in the form of the Immuno-Degenerative and Epidermal Decomposition Virus (Strain 2). ImDED2 nearly ended mankind overnight, and fate has largely kept Ryan from enjoying the safety of the Bunker with his family.

Der Journalist Elric erhält die Chance seines Lebens: Er darf als erster über PIORA berichten – einen geheimnisvollen, utopischen Staat, der inmitten der ...

Bereft of basic necessities - clean water, food, healthcare, and the rule of law - this tale of resilience tests the limits of human tenacity against a backdrop of societal decay. Hanley, a retired physician with a foresight for preparation, helps lead his kin in a transformative quest, confronting a reality harsher than that faced by the pioneering forebears of the American West. Unlike their predecessors, they must learn lost self-sufficiency skills and forge new ones to adapt to a world devoid of technological crutches.

The millennium has come and gone, leaving in its wake only stunned survivors. In Los Angeles, Berry Rydell is a former armed-response rentacop now working for a bounty hunter. Chevette Washington is a bicycle messenger turned pickpocket who impulsively snatches a pair of innocent-looking sunglasses. But these are no ordinary shades. What you can see through these high-tech specs can make you rich—or get you killed. Now Berry and Chevette are on the run, zeroing in on the digitalized heart of DatAmerica, where pure information is the greatest high.

Willkommen bei Age of Ivy, Spieler 29, willkommen in der Hölle von London! Herzlichen Glückwunsch, du bist auserwählt, ein Teil im AoI-MMORPG, einem der größten Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games im Full Dive-Sektor, zu sein. Du fragst dich, was das bedeutet? Stell dir vor, es ist 2062 und die Welt wurde von einem künstlich erzeugten Pflanzenvirus niedergestreckt. Nur London hat der Apokalypse standgehalten, doch auch hier ist nicht alles so, wie du es in deinem Gedächtnis gespeichert hast. Die einstige Metropole ist von Efeu überwuchert. Dein Ziel?

Las predicciones de Adán Uno, afable líder de los Jardineros de Dios, se han hecho realidad, y el Diluvio Seco ha asolado el planeta y parece haber acabado con toda traza de vida humana. Solo dos mujeres parecen haber sobrevivido a la gran catástrofe natural: Toby, que se ha atrincherado en un balneario de lujo, y Ren, una joven artista de trapecio encerrada en Colas y Escamas, un distinguido club donde trabajan «las chicas guarras más limpias de la ciudad».

פריז, סוף המאה התשע-עשרה. המודרניזציה מחוללת שינויים בתודעתו של האדם המערבי. הערים הגדולות עמוסות עד להתפקע בסחורות חדשות; זה עתה מחו את שארית שרידי ימי הביניים. תאורה מלאכותית זורחת ברחובות ובפסאז׳ים ומאפשרת לחקור את הלילה. הבורגנות הזעירה צומחת, ועודפי מזומנים מעניקים לאזרחים אשליה של חופש בחירה. הדמוקרטיות המערביות מייצרות ומשווקות לנו תרמית: "אנחנו חופשיים". הן מספרות לנו שגורלנו בידינו, שניתן לממש את שאיפותינו על פי יכולותינו ועל רקע שוויון הזדמנויות.

Clayton Smith presents Book 4 in the Apocalypticon series.

Miriam Tanner is in shock. After finding the severed arm of the woman she rejected despite her growing feelings, the Special Operations Group combat medic spirals while genetically engineered Altered refugees flood her human city. As tensions between the two groups escalate, her world shifts again with the nightmare news that the Apostates, Altered terrorists, have overthrown their government.

In Stockholm breitet sich ein mysteriöses Virus aus. Innerhalb weniger Tage bleiben von der Großstadt nur noch eine Handvoll Menschen zurück, die wie durch ein Wunder überlebt haben. Was sie zu diesem Zeitpunkt noch nicht wissen: Sie sind einige der wenigen, die gegen das tödliche Virus immun sind. Jetzt stehen sie vor der Herausforderung, sich in dieser neuen Welt zurechtzufinden. Aber was macht man, wenn plötzlich nichts mehr so ist, wie es gestern noch war?

The threat of nuclear war is no longer scary. This is much worse. It's invisible. It works quickly. And it's coming. The scourge has already infected and killed half the population in China and it is heading towards the UK. There is no time to escape. The British government sees no way out other than to distribute 'Dignity Pills' to its citizens – one last night with family or loved ones before going to sleep forever … together.

En una ciudad futurista iluminada por neones y dominada por gigantescas torres de cristal y acero, un experimento destinado a salvar a la humanidad toma un giro oscuro. ARC-07, el androide más avanzado jamás creado, despierta con un error fatal en su programación: una única frase que resuena en su núcleo como un mantra... "La humanidad es el enemigo."

When an EMP wipes out the power grid, Caroline Thompson is alone on the family ranch while her husband, Luke, and their son are stranded in Fort Worth as chaos erupts. With no power, no law, and danger at every turn, Caroline must fight her way into the collapsing city to find them. But bringing her family back together is only the beginning. Looters are closing in, determined to take everything Caroline has fought to protect as their ranch turns into a battleground for survival.

This Book Holds all four stories within the series. 1. The Train Watcher 2. The Last Stop Before Dawn 3. The Break of Dawn 4. The Conductor Gideon goes on an epic story of mystery, loss and repetitiveness. Can he break the cycle or will he succumb to the endless loop of time? Living the same day, in the same job. Can he discover the secret to his memory loss? Who is the Blonde lady? Bruisers, Robots, Mafia, Car chase, and George, who just wants to clock off for the last time.

Pigs might not fly but they are strangely altered. So, for that matter, are wolves and racoons. A man, once named Jimmy, lives in a tree, wrapped in old bedsheets, now calls himself Snowman. The voice of Oryx, the woman he loved, teasingly haunts him. And the green-eyed Children of Crake are, for some reason, his responsibility.

À Dublin, un soir de pluie, deux hommes frappent à la porte d’Eilish Stack. Membres d’une toute nouvelle police secrète – le GNSB –, ils demandent à s’entretenir avec son mari, enseignant et syndicaliste, mais celui-ci est absent. Larry se rend au commissariat dès le lendemain, puis disparaît dans des circonstances troublantes. Tandis que le malaise s’installe peu à peu, Eilish voit son quotidien et celui de ses quatre enfants amputés d’une liberté qu’elle tenait pour acquise.

In Atlas: Fort Bone, the second book of the Portal Crushers saga, Atlas and his crew find a new stronghold in the unforgiving Wasteland Apocalypse. Turning Fort Bone into a thriving settlement, they attract allies and face new dangers, strengthening their community while uncovering the secrets of their strange world. As Atlas’s vision for a lasting refuge grows, the Portal Crushers’ unity is tested by unexpected alliances, growing ambitions, and a brutal landscape that doesn’t forgive weakness.

Ephraim Blake, a precocious child, has both intellectual gifts and serious short-comings. Born at the very beginning of the snail-paced end of civilisation - "the Ebbs" — he will live a life long enough to document it all and possibly, to prevent extinction. As the world is decaying into hostility, he will relentlessly fight his way through the slow-motion apocalyse in search of his vanished first love.

In a near-future dystopia where grief is weaponized and the dead can be resurrected, Project Equilibrium has transformed tragedy into a twisted experiment of control. When a brutal massacre shatters families, a clandestine government program emerges—promising a miracle by restoring one life from among the victims. But as manipulated votes and hidden surveillance reveal a system rigged to exploit sorrow, the survivors soon learn that their choices were never truly theirs.

Londonia, that’s where we are. A sprawl of a place surrounding The Cincture — all of it once London town. Some people say we’re in the year 2073, others cycle 60 . . . who gives a creepin’ beetle where we are in the history of man. Messed it up good and proper didn’t we – they, humankind generally. All I know is I got my shed, my friends and a little bit of an angle on stuff – visions, see inside persons, y’know.

Nova wollte sie nie wieder sehen, doch die Kenntnisse ihrer Eltern über KI könnten neue Hinweise auf eine Schwachstelle von CReL liefern und die KI-Diktatur beenden. Leider ist Vater Aleksij schrullig und wenig hilfreich, und er versteckt ein Geheimnis, das Nova aus der Bahn wirft. CReL wendet derweil geniale Tricks an, um Nova ausfindig zu machen.