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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.

Halley is on the run from an interplanetary political scandal that has put a huge target on her back. She heads for what seems like the perfect place to lay low: Elysian Fields, a gigantic space barge storing the cryogenically frozen bodies of Earth’s most fortunate citizens from more than a century ago… The cryo program, created by trillionaire tech genius Zale Winfeld, is long defunct, and the AI hologram 'hosts', ghoulishly created in the likeness of Winfeld’s three adult children, are glitchy.

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.

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.

When an EMP brings the United States to its knees on Halloween, Lance Cooper must rescue his family and fight to survive amid the terror descending upon the city.

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?

Die 22-jährige Jenna hat alles hinter sich gelassen, um in England ihr Studium abzuschließen, und in der Küstenstadt Brighton einen Neuanfang zu wagen. Doch auch hier werfen die Erinnerungen an den Verlust ihrer Mutter lange Schatten. Während die Welt um sie herum von Naturkatastrophen und einem sich zuspitzenden politischen Klima geprägt ist, kämpft die Journalismus-Studentin darum, die Wahrheit ihrer verborgenen Familiengeschichte ans Licht zu bringen. Inmitten dieses Chaos trifft sie auf Matt.

A decade ago Darrow led a revolution, and laid the foundations for a new world. Now he’s an outlaw. Cast out of the very Republic he founded, with half his fleet destroyed, he wages a rogue war on Mercury. Outnumbered and outgunned, is he still the hero who broke the chains? Or will he become the very evil he fought to destroy? In his darkening shadow, a new hero rises. Lysander au Lune, the displaced heir to the old empire, has returned to bridge the divide between the Golds of the Rim and Core. If united, their combined might may prove fatal to the fledgling Republic.

Lies, deceit, and destruction divided the nation for decades. Back in 2080, the citizens had enough. A war to restore the country's honor took place. The new regime led by Chancellor Prumpt made any form of lying illegal. Now if anyone is caught lying, they are called in for questioning and killed on the spot if found guilty. Any citizen can report someone if they suspect them of lying. Present day: 2129. Roger Aimes is a 28-year old mine worker living through the brutal system. All he can hope to do is live another day.

Dieses Buch ist perfekt als Geschenk geeignet, egal ob als eBook oder Hörbuch! Überrasche deine Liebsten oder Freunde damit! Zeitreisen für Anfänger "Theorien, Paradoxa und literarische Klassiker" Was wäre, wenn Zeit nicht einfach vergeht, sondern sich formen lässt? Dieses Buch ist kein gewöhnlicher Streifzug durch die Theorie der Zeit. Es ist ein literarisches Gedankenexperiment, ein wissenschaftlicher Spaziergang, ein philosophischer Perspektivwechsel und ein erzählerisches Abenteuer zugleich.

Noah desperately needs a new job that involves less blood and piss than his current one. So, when he spots an ad for a newspaper with ‘No experience preferred,’ he puts on his good shirt and marches down to their average-looking office to unknowingly sign his life away. Malachia is the only human left in the City of Silence and she spends her time wandering its empty, bone-filled streets. Until one day she finds a lone figure hunched over a typewriter, his fingers enmeshed with the keys. Could he be the answer to finding her missing girlfriend?

In early 2102, Psi-Judge Cassandra Anderson sacrificed herself to trap the spirit of the terrible Judge Death, holding him in her mind as her fellow Judge Joe Dredd encased her in an impenetrable polymer. Her comatose body was laid in a place of honour in the Justice Department’s famed Hall of Heroes, to be remembered forever for her supreme sacrifice. For eighteen months, Anderson lay trapped, sharing her tomb with the monster she had defeated. For eighteen months, an epic battle raged silently within the Psi-Judge’s skull, between her and an ancient avatar of hate and decay.

In the wake of a brutal alien invasion, two worlds must unite to survive. On the distant planet of Felidia, Corey Rhude mourns the loss of his family, consumed by a desire for vengeance against the merciless Terrapians. His path to redemption begins when he joins a mission to Earth, where the invaders continue their ruthless campaign of destruction. Meanwhile, on a devastated Earth, Ember Blaze struggles to protect a newborn she has sworn to save.

When seven bodies turn up in a small town in Georgia, Detective Jack Kersey—gruff, relentless, and with little patience for nonsense—is determined to crack the case. But this is no ordinary murder investigation. Behind the killings lies the shadow of EvoSys, a mega-corporation with its hands in every facet of life.

When life is gray and sober, and the time keeps on ticking, what remains is just repetition.

Chemical Affair is a near-future sci-fi novella that takes place in a world grappling with the ethics of biotechnology. The story follows Cassia Vincent, a grieving, middle-aged bio-lab technician working in the isolated depths of Primia, a research facility that engineers Homo delineae, a newly fabricated, “delineated” species of human. Primia’s work is too classified, deline research too controversial, and Cassia’s heart too conflicted for what happens next.