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Zeke Watson has his first mission as a Watcher: a quest to find a kidnapped child who knows the location of a missing weapon. In the wrong hands, the weapon will upset the balance of good and evil across the known universe. He seeks the child. The weapon. And redemption. But can he find any of that in a flooded post-apocalyptic world filled with ruthless pirates - where his skills behind the wheel are useless and his newfound power is as unsteady as a skiff on choppy seas?

Hannah Klink, whom everyone calls Baby no matter how many times she punches them, is training her fellow survivors to defend themselves and work as a unit. The goal is to take back the refugee base at Lakeview and put the army back in charge. It's a daunting task as the group runs into hordes of the dead and encounters resistance when they attack. It's just another day in the life of Baby, MJ Security grunt and zombie apocalypse survivor...until she meets Rebel.

On a world brought to the brink of destruction, life now clings to the shattered remains of the planet's crust. These fragments are the Shells: fragile wastelands of desert and rock, protected from the cold of space by a water shield. In the struggle for survival, its people have depended on ancient technology, controlled by the omnipresent Network, to sustain the entire population. But the Network is breaking down, water is sparse, and a complete societal collapse is imminent.

In the near future, the New Las Vegas Sunfield will be one of many enormous solar farms to supply energy to the United States. At more than fifty miles long and two miles wide, the Sunfield generates an electromagnetic field so volatile that ordinary machinery and even the simplest electronic devices must be kept miles away from it. Thus, the only men who can guard the most technologically advanced power station on earth do so on horseback.They are the Outriders.

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.

Vanguard Lindsay Rooney has faced the undead hordes of Inferi Scourge and lived to tell the tale, but she has also suffered horrible losses. Like millions of other civilians, she had hoped that The Bastion would recover after a team of modified soldiers eradicated the undead hordes of Inferi Scourge that infested their valley. Yet the city still crumbles around them, along with any chance of survival.

When Victor Tookes went to work that beautiful spring day, he never expected to see a man eaten alive in the street in front of his office. After convincing himself that they really were zombies, he makes a trip from his house in Pennsylvania to his family home in Virginia, battling zombies all the way. His three and a half year old son was bitten on the leg, but doesn't turn into a zombie. Instead, he turns into something more than human.

The first collection by writer Matthew Hughes, and the perfect companion to his acclaimed novel Black Brillion, The Gist Hunter and Other Stories features nine stories taking place in the universe of The Archonate, as well as four non-series stories. The stories of Henghis Hapthorn, Old Earth's "foremost freelance discriminator", combine mystery and science fantasy while simultaneously recalling the arch irony of Gene Wolfe and the sly fancies of Jack Vance.

Phoa was terraformed by nanite swarms for Earth's colonists to create a beautiful, habitable world. But the swarms evolved, overran the planet, and two centuries later, threaten every living thing remaining on it. Reyes, a scientist from Phoa's last colonial enclave, and Thanata, a bioengineered hunter from a rival tribe, must work together to halt the Green: the massive swarm that absorbs plants, animals - even entire cities. But if the unlikely pair hopes to survive the mutated wilds and the deadly Green, they'll have to learn to understand each other.

The USA has been ravaged by civil war. It's been 30 years since the first wind-borne viruses ended the war between North and South. While the South has been devastated by disease, the North has emerged victorious but terrified of reprisals. Both territories remain at the mercy of the vicious Northern dictator, Renard. Two survivors, Dyce and Vida, journeyed deep into the Southern terrains in search of a cure for Renard's chemical warfare. Now they find themselves scouring the Northern territories on a new and far deadlier pursuit.

Zombies are on the loose in New Orleans and of all the end-of-the-world scenarios, Alexis Winter wasn't prepared for this one. But, an apocalypse is an apocalypse and she should have this covered. She has been "prepping" for the last three years. The problem is, she's stuck downtown and she has to get to her house on the outskirts of the city. Luck comes in the form of the ridiculously hot Blake Miller. The two team up in unexpected ways as they find they can't keep their hands off of each other even when the world is falling down around them.

Three hundred years has passed since the Last War. That's how the Elites called the third worldwide conflict, swearing that their rule would ensure that humanity would stay at peace forever. They lied. After the war, two thirds of women were born barren, so the fertile ones have a duty to society they must fulfill by either giving birth to a child by their 25th year, or go through the Auctions. Xander spends most of his time in his lab, but once a year, he has no choice: every unattached, childless male in the City is bidden to attend the Auctions.

Eli and Harper have fled the compound - running from people who once fought by their side. Owen has been captured, Sawyer is infected, and Celdon is facing a crisis of conscience. When Eli gets wind of an attack that puts Owen's life in jeopardy, everything changes. Eli is determined to rescue his brother, but Harper will have to make a choice: follow Eli along on a suicide mission or push forward without him to find a cure.

Only a few nuclear weapons fell. But in the chaos of famine and plague, there existed a few pockets of order. The strongest of them was the state of Deseret. The climate has changed, and the lake has filled up. There, on the fringes, brave, hardworking pioneers are making the desert bloom again.

La Terre est entrée dans l'Ère des cités-dômes. Arrivée il y a 7 ans dans l'une de ces villes pleines d'espoir, Lyra Eberly survit aujourd'hui en chassant les primes dans les profondeurs d'Antelucem, une cité-état autonome dont 80 % de la superficie est souterraine. Mais à mesure que Lyra remplit ses contrats, économisant pour ses rêves de quitter un jour la Terre, elle découvre une violence inédite, un mal mystérieux qui s'enracine dans les entrailles de la cité-dôme.

With the discovery of the so-called "living water" on Novus, three different superpowers are competing for the one small valley where the miracle elixir can be found. From the United States, Major Ethan White is heading up a company of elite Army Rangers charged with claiming the valley for America, but with Earth overrun by the Watchers, he's now looking for a way to go back and join the fight.

2099 verschwindet der Mond. Die Erde, seiner Anziehungskraft beraubt, rotiert immer schneller. Stürme fegen über die Kontinente. Die Tage schrumpfen auf acht Stunden. Jahrzehntelang herrscht Chaos, bis sich eine neue, raue Normalität einstellt. Joris wächst als ganz normaler Junge auf, bis seine totgeglaubte Mutter Celine auftaucht. Sie dient dem verbotenen Mondkult, der entgegen der Anordnung der Regierung den Mond zurückholen will. Das Leben soll wie früher werden. Doch birgt die Rettungsmission eine immense Gefahr: die endgültige Zerstörung des Planeten.

"Redenzione immorale" è uno dei libri meno noti di Philip K. Dick, eppure vi si trovano temi e idee che ricorreranno nella sua produzione successiva. Siamo nel 2114, e il mondo è profondamente segnato dalla guerra nucleare e dalle regole del regime totalitario instaurato nel 1985 dal maggiore Streiter.

Los sorprendentes resultados de un experimento sobre el principio cuántico de la incertidumbre llevan al estudiante Bill Rustad y a sus colegas a crear un portal interdimensional por accidente. Encuentran "el otro lado": una Tierra alternativa con similitudes geológicas a la nuestra en la que los humanos jamás pudieron evolucionar. El grupo de amigos se concentra en asegurarse el control del portal antes de que el Gobierno, el Ejército o cualquier lunático se lo robe.

Deux années se sont écoulées depuis l'expédition mouvementée des cols rouges pour récupérer les nouvelles combinaisons Dyneema. Deux années de tranquillité et de bonheur pour Lila et Rân dans l'intimité de la serre. Malheureusement, Lila entame sa cinquième année de contamination par SEVER, elle ne verra donc sans doute pas le prochain été. Un épilogue inacceptable pour Rân, mais que faire ? Les maîtres du jeu sont toujours aussi insaisissables et leurs intérêts mystérieux.