Résultats pour "Apocalypse" dans 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.

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.

Everyone becomes prey when Earth is swallowed up and transmuted to a bestial landscape, the first stage of induction into Elysium's multiverse and a new galaxy in the making. In the blink of any eye, the bloodthirsty creatures of Riven Thane's worst nightmares are unleashed as he; his sister, Allie; and his friend Jose scramble amid the carnage to live another hour. But on this nothing of a planet, Riven is more special than he knows. He's among a select few with a singular bloodline, and the Elysium system has its eye on Riven in particular.

When the world goes dark, Emily must rescue her son and niece from chaos, flee looters, and survive a brutal new reality. Guided by her father's prepper notes, they reach a hidden bunker, only to face betrayal, loss, and a daring rescue. In the ashes of collapse, they fight to rebuild and hold on to hope.

By the time the classified report is leaked to the public, it's already too late. A horrifying pandemic has begun to spread, with ferocious speed, from Paris to the rest of Europe. The infected masses die quickly . . . but they don't remain dead for long. As military forces are overpowered by the horde of undead, civilization as we know it is pushed to the breaking point. Those who remain uninfected rush the ports, hoping to escape the bloodthirsty beasts, desperate for some safe harbor.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. The city has fallen. For Elias, the hardest fight is only starting. Nothing went the way it was supposed to. Anna, Kira, Jonas — separated, missing, maybe dead. Outside, the last remnants of order are burning down. Inside, Elias is trapped: alone...

In book three of The End Is Here, the world is heading into its final stages of destruction. Supernatural attacks are happening across the globe as the beast continues to set up his unholy empire.

Presidents, premieres, prime ministers, entire governments disappeared instantly, like a fragile house of cards in a hurricane. Some hid deep underground or holed up in fortified strongholds, but most were swallowed up by the dead, never to be heard from again.

It's the end of oil. We knew it was coming one day. But it happened so fast! Devlin Quinn turns 16 the same week that a battle in a distant war shuts off the flow of imported petroleum to the US. Gas runs low, then runs out, and soon the highways are empty. And then it gets very serious. The grocery store shelves are empty, and people become desperate for food. Dev is trained to fight-his father made sure of that-but is he trained enough? Smart enough? Tough enough? He is about to find out when people desperate for food flee the burning cities and attack....

The training continues. So do the missions, and now Jonesy and Molly and Duke need to run on a razor’s edge to save the world - preferably without killing their new recruits.

Long before nuclear war, climate catastrophe, and zombie outbreaks became staples of modern fiction, visionary writers were imagining the end of civilization in startlingly original ways. Apocalypse Then brings together six pioneering classics of apocalyptic and cosmic horror literature...

When the power dies, Holly watches the world fall out of the sky. Cars fail, phones go dark, and help never comes. Trapped between a collapsing town and a forgotten homestead, she must choose fast. Survive alone, or die waiting for a system that’s already gone.

Christ's second coming motivates several characters during the civil war battle of fredericksburg. They assure the bloodbath of December, 1862, is the biblical armageddon, and that confederate general Stonewall Jackson will be revewaled as Christ come again. The Apocalypse also figures in 2nd Century Asia Minor, where a certain Montanus believes he is the incarnation of God the Father, and that his two female disciples form a new Trinity, who will orchestrate the world's end.

They escaped the zoo. They escaped Pittsburgh. They thought the worst was behind them. Beneath the glittering stars of Pennsylvania's Dark Skies, people are few and zombies fewer. Imogen, Mike and the other survivors have found refuge in a remote lodge, but already that safety is cracking at the seams. Imogen can't shake the suspicion that a fellow survivor sabotaged their escape—costing her the lynxes she risked everything to save. Mike is barely holding it together after failing to save his family, and the group is splintering under the weight of clashing personalities.

A zoo keeps dangerous things inside. No one planned for the zombies that surround its fences. When the dead begin to rise across Pittsburgh, the city's zoo becomes a fortress—but it could just as easily become a deathtrap. The bridges are gridlocked. The rivers impassable. Neighborhoods fall block by block. Zookeeper Imogen faces an impossible choice: abandon the endangered Iberian lynxes she's devoted her career to saving, or risk everything to get them out.

They are in your house. They are in your car. They are in the skies…Now they’re coming for you. In the near future, at a moment no one will notice, all the dazzling technology that runs our world will unite and turn against us. Taking on the persona of a shy human boy, a childlike but...

The train station harbors danger. Each day, one portal opens, leading to daunting trials and battles of life and death commanded by masked facilitators. Asher is forced to rely on his instincts and his weapon. He must navigate this treacherous world, both solo and with teams, and contend with other players, each harboring their own motives and ambitions. Confronted with unimaginable challenges, every day unveils a new hurdle, and each victory is bitterly earned. In this world intent on crushing him, Asher must fight to survive.

Ein toter Planet, ein korruptes System und ein Held wider Willen: Matt Perison wird nach seinem Tod auf dem Gartenplaneten Gaia wiedergeboren. Doch statt an einem idyllischen Ort findet er sich in einer isolierten, trostlosen Einöde wieder. Trotzdem hat er sich daran gewöhnt, an einem Ort zu überleben, an dem sonst nichts lebt. Doch nun droht eine neue Gefahr: Der Mana-Mangel auf dem toten Planeten zersetzt Matts Kräfte und lässt seine mühsam aufgebauten Fähigkeiten versagen.

When every system dies midair, Daisy’s private jet crashes on a remote island cut off from the world. No power. No rescue. As panic spreads, she must lead the survivors through fear, hunger, and betrayal before paradise becomes their grave.

When the Internet suddenly stops working, society reels from the loss of flowing data and streaming entertainment. Addicts wander the streets talking to themselves in 140 characters or forcing cats to perform tricks for their amusement, while the truly desperate pin their requests for casual encounters on public bulletin boards. The economy tumbles and the government passes the draconian NET Recovery Act.