Résultats pour "End of Men" dans Science-Fiction et fantasy

Glasgow, 2025. Dr Amanda Maclean is called to treat a young man with a mild fever. Within three hours, he dies. The mysterious illness sweeps through the hospital with deadly speed. This is how it begins. The victims are all men. Dr Maclean raises the alarm, but the sickness spreads to every corner of the globe. Threatening families. Governments. Countries. Can they find a cure before it’s too late? Will this be the story of the end of the world - or its salvation?

Wir schreiben das Jahr 2025. In einem Glasgower Krankenhaus behandelt Dr. Amanda Maclean einen jungen Mann mit leichtem Fieber. Harmlos. Denkt sie. Drei Stunden später ist ihr Patient tot. Doch Amanda hat keine Zeit, genauer darüber nachzudenken, denn innerhalb kürzester Zeit sterben drei weitere Männer an derselben mysteriösen Krankheit. Amanda schlägt Alarm, doch das Virus erreicht mit rasender Geschwindigkeit bald jeden Winkel der Erde – und tötet ausschließlich Männer.

An idealistic young student and a banished warrior become allies in a battle to save their realm in this first book of a mesmerizing epic fantasy series, filled with political intrigue, violent magic, malevolent spirits, and thrilling adventure. Everything has a spirit: the willow tree with...

Distraught that her academic career has stalled, Alba is walking through her neighbourhood when she finds herself in front of 11 Hope Street. A woman named Peggy invites her to stay, on the house's usual conditions: she has 99 nights to turn her life around. With nothing left to lose, Alba moves in. But this is no ordinary house.... Past residents have included George Eliot and Beatrix Potter, who have hung around to help newcomers - literally, in talking portraits on the wall!

Two old farts surviving a grid-down apocalypse by fate or chance, or could be rotten luck according to their bickering, find themselves bound by circumstance of survival to live out their days together. Bad luck seems to be a daily occurrence for all in this apocalypse of no food, no water, but add to it a hurricane, pandemic, and old age, and two grumpy old men, and you have a story of resilience and humor sure to entertain you in a quarantine.