Résultats pour "Eric Brown" dans Littérature, romans et fiction

Five hundred years from its launch, the colony vessel Lovelock is deep into its sub lightspeed journey, carrying four thousand humans in search of a habitable planet. When a series of explosions tear the ship apart, it is forced to land on the nearest possible location: a polar section of the Helix—a vast, spiral construct of worlds, wound about a G-type sun.

Geoff Ringer was a police detective, who never wanted to be more than that. Although he knew he had a telekinetic talent, it wasn’t something he wanted anyone to know about. Even though his reticence made him a loner, he hid his power from his friends and colleagues. Using it also reminded him of that night, which he never wanted to think about again.

Clyde was a picturesque, quiet, little town until the night of the accident. A virus, unleashed into the air, would soon fill the streets with blood as man's best friend turned on him. Adorable pets and loving companions would become snarling, bloodthirsty beasts hungry for human flesh. Will anyone survive this brutal betrayal?

CASPers - Combat Assault Systems, Personal - are the lords of the future battlefield. The massive mechs were created to give humanity an edge against the rest of the mercenary forces in the Galactic Union. Just like today's tanks, though, massive amounts of armor and weaponry just make the CASPers "hard to kill", not "invulnerable". There are things in the galaxy even stronger than the CASPer, and when humans run up against them, it's up to the human inside to figure out a way to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat.

Manford Page is not a typical serial killer. He dresses like a Sasquatch when committing his crimes and has left a trail of blood and viscera across the country. Narrowly escaping capture in the small town of Hillston, Manford has fled into the woods surrounding it. Federal Agent Burke and the local sheriff, Clark, must put aside their differences and work together to locate Manford before he strikes again. But not everything about the latest killings Manford is suspected of add up. He just might not be the only monster lurking in the woods.

A man of great power and wealth, Robert Jensen wasn't content with the ordinary. His drive to conquer the world led him to its darkest corners. There, he began to assemble a collection of monsters beyond belief - Sasquatch, Thunderbirds, Skunk Apes, and more.

Robbie has been having nightmares. . . terrible, bloody dreams of a monster in the woods. That monster kills every night. Its bloodthirst never satiated. As bodies began to turn up in the real world, Robbie realizes his nightmares are more than they seem. Can Robbie and the local sheriff find and stop the monster or will the killings continue to grow in scope and number?

Embark on an electrifying adventure as a daring expedition plunges deep into the untamed heart of the Amazon rainforest, in search of the legendary lost city of Nakaq. But the thrill of discovery quickly transforms into a fight for survival, as the fearless explorers uncover a terrifying secret: a barbaric tribe of flesh-eating savages.

Giant crocodiles exist—the man-eating Kaiju of the real world. Dr. Jennings plans on capturing one alive. Accompanied by a squad of hired mercs and an anti-poaching unit on loan from the local government, she sets out to locate and trap Tuwile, rumored to be the largest giant croc alive. Of course, things never go as planned....

All David Conway wants after the death of his daughter and the break-up of his marriage is a quiet life away from Earth, and when he comes to Chalcedony, he thinks he's found that. What he does find is a group of people whose friendship will change his life forever, as well as a haunted starship, extraterrestrials with an uncanny ability to read future events, and a conflict between alien races that has lasted for millennia - and is about to begin all over again.

Billionaire Ben Myer, sick of the limelight, wants to leave the world of paparazzi and parties behind him. Buying a large piece of land in Alaska, he sets his sights on building an epic, compound like mansion there. Unfortunately for Ben, the land is inhabited by a creature of dark legends...and it isn't about to share.

Marshal Lucas and his partner Marshal Stephen are assigned the challenging task of apprehending the dangerous criminal. However, they soon realize that they are not the only ones dwelling in the mountains. A monstrous creature straight out of legend awaits them, and they will discover the hard way that Sasquatch is very, very real...and not at all peaceful.

Dr. Jason Phisher has been haunted by nightmares his entire life. They show him glimpses of the future and of dark things yet to come. Now Phisher finds himself kidnapped by ruthless mercenaries who demand his help in locating the pieces of a lost, ancient artifact that holds immense power. Phisher is about to find out that monsters of his nightmares are very real as he encounters Yeti, Sasquatch, and more on a globe-trotting adventure to find The Lost Relic.

They are known as the "Family", and they kill folks for a living. They are the very best at dealing death and defeating it. Their legendary saga spans from the American Old West to the very near future. Battling both hell-birthed demons and aliens from other planets, sentient werewolves were never more dynamic or terrifying.

Lowah, Alaska was a quiet, little town in the middle of nowhere—until workers sent by an American corporation arrived to reopen its long closed mine. Protests erupted, but they were nothing to what was coming next. No one knew the Sasquatch tribes in the woods surrounding the town had claimed the mine as their own until it was too late.

Danny's family were brutally slaughtered by a Sasquatch before his eyes when he was a small child. No one believed him. Now, grown up and a professional soldier, Danny has returned home to make the beast pay. Unfortunately for him, not everything is as it seems, and there just may be more lurking in the woods than he's prepared to deal with.

The rains came, flooding the sleepy little town of Sylva. Sheriff Hanson never thought that he would be fighting a battle to survive against real life monsters, but with the waters came hungry, flesh-eating creatures that swept through Sylva's streets like locusts, devouring everyone in their path.

Adam's father has had a heart transplant. Now he goes missing at night, coming back dirty, with torn clothes and wounds, not remembering what he was doing. And in the meantime there are more and more young women missing in the area...

Strange things are happening in the small town of Canton, North Carolina. Megan and her friends should be enjoying summer vacation and the end of the school year, but instead find themselves caught up in a nightmare.

A small band of survivors is on the run during the zombie apocalypse. Led by a mysterious man with an arsenal of deadly military weapons, they must work together to stay alive. In a desperate attempt to locate other survivors, they find sanctuary in a lone farmhouse, only to discover the surrounding woods hold more dangers than just bloodthirsty undead. Featuring Sasquatch, roving rotters, and even more surprises, Last Stand in a Dead Land is an explosion of cross-genre action.