Résultats pour "Apocalypse" dans Littérature, romans et fiction

Valentine disparue... Qui la cherche vraiment ? Entre satire sociale, polar contemporain et romance lesbienne, le nouveau roman de Virginie Despentes est un road-book qui promène l'auditeur entre Paris et Barcelone, sur les traces de tous ceux qui ont connu Valentine, l'adolescente égarée... Les différents personnages se croisent sans forcément se rencontrer, et finissent par composer, sur un ton tendre et puissant, le portrait d'une époque.

Et si les francs-maçons détenaient le secret de la fin des Temps ? Le Signe tant attendu est arrivé sous la forme d'une dangereuse image. Le commissaire franc-maçon Antoine Marcas a retrouvé cette ébauche du tableau des Bergers d'Arcadie dont le décryptage par un initié pourrait conduire à la fin des Temps. Manipulé par ses propres frères, poursuivi par des fondamentalistes, Marcas devra s'engager dans une lutte manichéenne et ancestrale.

La situation est inédite. Jamais, dans l'histoire de l'humanité, nous n'avons disposé d'autant d'informations et jamais nous n'avons eu autant de temps libre pour y puiser loisir et connaissance du monde. Nos prédécesseurs en avaient rêvé : la science et la technologie libéreraient l'humanité. Mais ce rêve risque désormais de tourner au cauchemar.

When you've seen one end of the world, you've seen the lot. Meet Stone Eye. Veteran of three apocalypses, wielder of a magical spade, and a man with one ambition: to be left alone with a decent pint. When a prophecy refuses to respect his retirement, Stone Eye flees to The First and Last inn — the kind of place even destiny has trouble finding. It finds him anyway. And waiting there is an old friend - Hypolaika the holy thief -who has forgotten who she is. Something that matters more than either of them knows. Because the world is forgetting itself too. Things are losing their purpose.

Compiled by intrepid journalist Neve Pride, this archive of recordings spans the months after dragons emerged on earth, chronicling the communities that sprang up amid the destruction, the scientists, military leaders, and experts searching for a defense, and those steadfastly seeking the missing. Neve and her young daughter Bex travel among the wreckage speaking to those left behind and surviving, against all odds. Neve records everything for history, and in the hopes of locating a clue as to where the dragons came from and how one might stop them.

Baxter Zevcenko's life is pretty sweet. He's making a name for himself as the kingpin of his smut-peddling high school syndicate, the other gangs are staying out of his business, and he's dating the girl of his dreams, Esme. But when Esme gets kidnapped, things start to get seriously weird, and the only man drunk enough to help is a bearded, booze-soaked, supernatural bounty hunter who goes by the name of Jackson "Jackie" Ronin.

Elijah Hart is dying. Wracked by cancer and weakened by chemotherapy, all he wants is to spend what little time he has left with his sister and her family in Washington. But fate has other plans. When the mysterious World Tree extends its branches to Earth, Elijah's Seattle-bound flight crashes into the Pacific Ocean and a game-like system takes hold—reshaping humanity's future as well as his own destiny.

Basil Bohen was asleep when the System arrived and the world changed... Dungeons suddenly popped up across the planet, summoning invaders and monsters from alternate realities. Ancient gods slumbering beneath the Earth were woken. And all humans were empowered with Levels and Classes gained by, amongst other things, killing monsters and other humans.

Area X has been cut off from the rest of the continent for decades. Nature has reclaimed the last vestiges of human civilisation. This is the twelfth expedition. Their group is made up of four women: An anthropologist; a surveyor; a psychologist, the de facto leader; and our narrator, a biologist. Their mission is to map the terrain and collect specimens; to record all their observations, scientific and otherwise, of their surroundings and of one another; and, above all, to avoid being contaminated by Area X itself.

Costume-masked killers have taken over downtown in such masses that they overwhelm the already weakened city and law enforcement. Anyone caught in their path is murdered without mercy. Caught unaware of the extreme danger, the city had their focus on the wildfires in the forest not far from them. Power is off, the banking system is shut down, and the nightmare begins. Ultimately, the violence and death lead to food shortages.

They Thought Wrong. Bob Arnold was part of testing ancient technology that does not function correctly. After a decade, it is disposed of—but the damage is already done. The device pings a new alien civilization and brings it to Earth, along with a newer version of the System and its capabilities. They are not here to negotiate or understand. They are here to divide and conquer through a false evaluation and tutorial. Except they make a blunder in their assumptions. Humanity is not separated from the Galactic System because it is weak or primitive.

The world doesn’t end with fire. It ends with a notification you can feel in your bones. Alec West was just trying to keep a remote communications relay alive when reality stutters—then rewrites itself. The sky fractures into a vast geometric lattice. The ground splits with impossible blue-white seams. And a force racing across the mountains—the First Wave—turns ordinary rules into a new kind of math.

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Lieutenant Heyd Calder is a Primaris Marine whose mastery of warfare is matched only by his diplomatic prowess. Under the orders of Roboute Guilliman, he is deployed to Almace, a minor seat of the Ecclesiarchy, to protect the world at whatever cost. Yet even as diabolical forces leer from the system's edge, Calder discovers that the capital's Cardinal-Governor, a sharp, inscrutable figure of spiritual and material authority, is hiding something. When it becomes clear that conquest is not the enemy’s sole aim, Calder resolves to uncover the secret of Almace.

Mike McKnight had it all—a blockbuster movie career, wealth, and fame. But when he's convicted of a murder he doesn't remember, he's locked away in a psychiatric facility, drugged and forgotten. Then the world ends. A lethal virus sweeps the country, reanimating the dead and turning them into relentless, flesh-eating monsters. Trapped inside a collapsing asylum filled with maniacs and the infected, Mike seizes his chance to escape. But the world outside is worse than he ever imagined. With only a handful of survivors, he must navigate a wasteland teeming with the undead...

When the grid goes dark, Navy medic Ashley Corben faces a world in freefall. Planes crash, cities burn, and silence fills the air. Stranded far from home, she must fight her way through chaos to reach her family before the truth behind the blackout destroys what’s left of America.

Thirty days to stop the apocalypse. Mirian Castrella, a senior student at magical academy, had a plan to become an artificer to support her struggling family, but when the Akana Praediar army betrays her country in a surprise attack, everything changes. Instead, Mirian unexpectedly finds herself caught in a time loop and haunted by strange dreams of the Elder Gods. Only through becoming a master arcanist who understands the true nature of the world can Mirian hope to stop the apocalypse she relives through time-and-time again.If she fails, everything she loves will be lost...

A rusted tire iron, no pants, and a crown he never asked for. The apocalypse picked the wrong redneck. Timothy Ferguson was finally having a good day until the universe decided to reboot. One minute he was "negotiating" back rent with his gorgeous neighbor; the next, a glowing blue screen informed him that his latent Longshanks bloodline had activated and now all the ladies of the Trailer Park have decided their new King looks best in his birthday suit.

I never thought I’d have a bounty on my head the size of the Milky Way. Of course, I never thought I’d be able to bend time, either. But hey, life is full of surprises. Don’t get me wrong, feeling like a goddess has its perks, but those perks come with a hefty price. My brain is tapioca. I’m stranded in the middle of dead space. Ratters are using me for target practice, and a giant, cybernetic monster named Oscar wants to use me for a chew toy. All this because I played superhero (or thief, according to some) and snatched a doomsday device from an intergalactic mobster.

Andy's trailer park has a new name now: Mesquite Mesa. It has a council, a wall going up, and more mouths to feed than he ever wanted to be responsible for. The System is pushing him forward—new levels, new powers, new enchantments he barely understands—but every step up feels like another way to fall further. And the System isn't done complicating things. There are dungeons beneath the desert, with monsters that don't care how high his level is. A storm is coming that will remake the mesa into something unrecognizable.