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A month has passed since a deadly virus swept the country killing millions, and leaving chaos in its wake. Dale Hardy has managed to weather the storm by hunkering down on his homestead in Arizona. He grows his own crops, generates his own power, and draws fresh water from his own deep aquifer. But when a nearby town's water supply dwindles in the searing Arizona heat, Dale's peaceful existence is threatened.

Earth, the fantasy - the place where mankind originated, the storied vista of green, rolling hills and unblemished mountains and fields of amber grain waving in a light breeze. Earth, the reality - a junk world, a dirty, dangerous, rundown planet filled with detention camps, flop houses, taverns, human body parts factories, mobsters' palaces, and a lawless immigrant community of aliens and humans on the run.

Once, Xhea's wants were simple: enough to eat, safety in the underground, and the hit of bright payment to transform her gray-cast world into color. But in the aftermath of her rescue of the Radiant ghost Shai, she realizes the life she had known is gone forever. In the two months since her fall from the City, Xhea has hidden in skyscraper Edren, sheltered and attempting to heal. But soon even she must face the troubling truth that she might never walk again.

When a rich City man comes to her with a young woman's ghost tethered to his chest, Xhea has no idea that this ghost will change everything. The ghost, Shai, is a Radiant, a rare person who generates so much power that the Towers use it to fuel their magic, heedless of the pain such use causes. Shai's home Tower is desperate to get the ghost back and force her into a body, any body, so that it can regain its position, while the Tower's rivals seek the ghost to use her magic for their own ends.

When Dorrit Wegner turned fifty, the government transferred her to a state-of-the-art facility where she can live out her days in comfort. Her apartment is furnished to her tastes, her meals expertly served, and all at the very reasonable non-negotiable price of one cardiopulmonary system. Once an outsider without family, derided by a society bent on productivity, Dorrit finds within The Unit the company of kindred spirits and a dignity conferred by 'use' in medical tests.

Set in the post-martial-law era of late-1980s Taipei, Notes of a Crocodile is a coming-of-age story of queer misfits discovering love, friendship, and artistic affinity while hardly studying at Taiwan's most prestigious university. Told through the eyes of an anonymous lesbian narrator nicknamed Lazi, this cult classic is a postmodern pastiche of diaries, vignettes, mash notes, aphorisms, exegesis, and satire by an incisive prose stylist and major countercultural figure.

The first novel Nabokov wrote while living in America, and the most overtly political novel he ever wrote, Bend Sinister is a modern classic. While it is filled with veiled puns and characteristically delightful wordplay, it is, first and foremost, a haunting and compelling narrative about a civilized man caught in the tyranny of a police state. Professor Adam Krug, the country's foremost philosopher, offers the only hope of resistance to Paduk, dictator and leader of the Party of the Average Man.

Set in a Scottish caravan park during a freak winter - it is snowing in Jerusalem, the Thames is overflowing, and an iceberg separated from the Fjords in Norway is expected to arrive off the coast of Scotland - The Sunlight Pilgrims tells the story of a small Scottish community living through what people have begun to think is the end of times. Bodies are found frozen in the street with their eyes open; midst economic collapse, schooling and health care are run primarily on a voluntary basis.

It's Carnival time and the Caribbean-colonized planet of Toussaint is celebrating with music, dance, and pageantry. Masked "Midnight Robbers" waylay revelers with brandished weapons and spellbinding words. To young Tan-Tan, the Robber Queen is simply a favorite costume to wear at the festival - until her power-corrupted father commits an unforgiveable crime. Suddenly, both father and daughter are thrust into the brutal world of New Half-Way Tree....

The sudden rising waters of a climate apocalypse have destroyed most of the planet…yet out of these waters, Dinétah, a former Navajo reservation, has been miraculously reborn. Listen along as Tanis Parenteau's impeccable narration, capturing the rhythms of Navajo speech, fully envelopes you into the Sixth World. Trail of Lightning follows our heroine as she walks the land alongside gods, heroes of legend, and monsters alike.

In this thrilling second book of the Earthborn trilogy, Lucas and Asha have survived the decimation of Earth at the hands of the invading Xalans and seek safe haven with their enemy's true foes, the Sorans. They find a lush planet inhabited by a civilization far more advanced than their own, waging a seemingly endless war against a constantly evolving enemy. The Sorans call the pair of them the "Earthborn", and they're welcomed as heroes, almost as gods.

Die Ruul haben ihre Offensive erneut aufgenommen. Aus der Not heraus, die entstandenen Lücken schnell zu schließen, entscheidet sich das terranische Militär, auch weniger geeignete Rekruten einzuziehen und in Freiwilligenregimentern zu organisieren. Schlecht ausgerüstet und nur unzureichend ausgebildet, versehen diese Einheiten als Garnisonstruppen weit hinter den eigenen Linien ihren Dienst, um reguläre Truppen für den Einsatz an der Front freizustellen.

Der Krieg eskaliert. Die Ruul drängen an allen Fronten gegen die Verteidigungslinien der Koalition und man ist nur mit Mühe in der Lage, die Stellungen zu halten. Aufgrund der hohen Verluste an Personal und Material sind Menschen und Til-Nara gleichermaßen händeringend auf der Suche nach neuen Verbündeten. Zu diesem Zweck laden sie die Delegationen mehrerer anderer Völker zu einer Konferenz ins MacAllister-System ein, um über ein gemeinsames Vorgehen gegen die Ruul zu beraten. Doch diese wissen über die Tagung und deren Ziel längst Bescheid und schmieden ihre eigenen dunklen Pläne. Und noch während die Konferenz tagt, holen die Ruul zu einem vernichtenden Schlag aus.

Sturmwolken des Krieges ziehen erneut am Horizont auf. In dieser Zeit des Umbruchs reist Captain Jonathan Clarke vom MAD auf die Frontwelt Starlight, um den untergetauchten Verbrecher Aaron Leech ausfindig zu machen. Was zunächst wie ein einfacher Routineauftrag aussieht, entpuppt sich schnell als gefährliches Wettrennen, denn plötzlich zeigen auch die Ruul reges Interesse an dem Flüchtigen.

Lieutenant Colonel David Coltor, ehemaliger Kampfpilot und hochdekorierter Geheimdienstoffizier, wird während einer verdeckten Operation auf der strategisch wichtigen Welt Serena verhaftet. Die Anklage: Hochverrat, Kollaboration mit dem Feind und Mord. Die Beweise sind erdrückend und eine Verurteilung scheint nur noch eine reine Formalität.

It begins in Toronto, in the years after the smart drug revolution. Any high school student with a chemjet and internet connection can download recipes and print drugs, or invent them. A seventeen-year-old street girl finds God through a new brain-altering drug called Numinous, used as a sacrament by a new Church that preys on the underclass. But she is arrested and put into detention, and without the drug, commits suicide. Lyda Rose, another patient in that detention facility, has a dark secret: She was one of the original scientists who developed the drug.

Four audiobooks in one box set: Last Stand: Surviving America's Collapse, Last Stand: Patriots, Last Stand: Warlords, and Last Stand: Turning the Tide. John Mack, a prepper and former soldier, struggles to save his family and community after an EMP (electromagnetic pulse) takes out the country's electrical grid. With most electronics, communications, and transportation destroyed in a matter of seconds, the nation quickly collapses into anarchy. Threats emerge from enemies both foreign and domestic.

Ende des 21. Jahrhunderts hat die Menschheit ihre Streitigkeiten größtenteils beigelegt und sucht ihren Platz inmitten der Sterne. Das Terranische Konglomerat expandiert in alle Richtungen und gründet eine Vielzahl neuer Kolonien. 2097 kommt es zu einem folgenschweren Zwischenfall auf Ursus, der am weitesten entfernten Kolonie des von Menschen besiedelten Raumes. Das Erkundungsschiff einer bislang unbekannten Rasse trifft auf ein Patrouillenboot der Menschen.

Dark destiny. When Steadman agreed to investigate the disappearance of a young Mossad agent, he had no idea he would be drawn into a malevolent conspiracy. Neo-Nazi cultists are bent on unleashing an age-old unholy power on an unsuspecting world-power rising out of a demonic relic from man's dark primal past to threaten humanity with horror beyond any nightmare. James Herbert was one of Britain’s greatest popular novelists and our #1 best-selling writer of chiller fiction.

Ten years after the collapse, Huxley has built a good life again. He has a loving wife, a farm with fields of golden barley, and a daughter with a strange and wonderful gift. Then the slavers come. Working out in the fields during the attack, Huxley returns too late. His daughter has been taken, and his wife is bleeding out, her last whispered words about a man with a scorpion tattoo on his neck. Where do the slavers go? Huxley has no idea. He knows only that they head east, and so will he, setting out on foot across the desert of the Wastelands.