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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.

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.

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.

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.

Clayton Smith presents Book 4 in the Apocalypticon series.

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.