Résultats pour "James" dans Dystopique

Les portes se sont ouvertes et les humains se ruent pour coloniser un millier de planètes. La première d'entre elles, Ilus, est baptisée dans le sang et la destruction. Des colons indépendants venus chercher une nouvelle vie se dressent avec leurs faibles moyens contre la puissance écrasante d'un vaisseau appartenant à une compagnie gigantesque ; celle-ci est bien décidée à exploiter les riches gisements de minerais, et des scientifiques innocents périssent alors qu'ils tentaient simplement d'étudier et de comprendre ce monde nouveau.

L'humanité a colonisé le système solaire (Mars, la Lune rebaptisée Luna, la Ceinture d'astéroïdes et au-delà), mais les étoiles restent toujours hors de sa portée. Jim Holden est second sur un transport de glace qui effectue la navette entre les anneaux de Saturne et les stations installées dans la Ceinture. Quand son équipage et lui croisent la route du Scopuli, un appareil à l'abandon, ils se retrouvent en possession d'un secret qu'ils auraient souhaité ne jamais connaître.

La révolution qui sévit depuis des générations a commencé dans le feu. Elle finira dans le sang. La Flotte libre - un groupe de Ceinturiens versé dans le trafic de vaisseaux militaires - a fait subir d'innombrables revers à la Terre et mène désormais une violente campagne de piraterie au sein des planètes extérieures contre les vaisseaux colons. James Holden et son équipage connaissent mieux que personne les forces et les faiblesses de cet ennemi intraitable.

Sur Ganymède, un sergent des Marines de Mars assiste au massacre de sa section d'élite par un supersoldat monstrueux. Sur Terre, une personnalité politique de haut rang s'évertue à éviter un conflit interplanétaire. Sur Vénus, la protomolécule extraterrestre a investi la planète entière, générant des bouleversements mystérieux qui menacent tout le système solaire.

Depuis qu'elle a découvert des milliers de nouvelles planètes, l'humanité s'est lancée dans la plus grande ruée vers les terres de son histoire. Des vaisseaux colons disparaissent mystérieusement sans laisser la moindre trace. Des armées privées se forment en secret. Le dernier échantillon existant de la protomolécule est volé. Des attaques terroristes inimaginables auparavant mettent à genoux les planètes intérieures.

What if everything became free—except the time you already lost?Daniel Bennett spends his life working two jobs to keep his family afloat. Then one night, every price disappears, money stops mattering, and tireless robots arrive promising to make life easier.By morning, the machines have...

The instant Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller "You are someone who will look the impossible in the face and tell it to sit down and shut up. The world needs that. The world needs you.” A thousand strangers receive the invitation. One hundred make the cut. An unprecedented competition...

For a decade, Darrow led a revolution against the corrupt color-coded Society. Now, outlawed by the very Republic he founded, he wages a rogue war on Mercury in hopes that he can still salvage the dream of Eo. Lysander au Lune, the heir in exile, has returned to the Core. Determined to bring peace back to mankind at the edge of his sword, he must overcome or unite the treacherous Gold families of the Core and face down Darrow over the skies of war-torn Mercury. But theirs are not the only fates hanging in the balance.

A sixteen year old boy awakens in a dark forest with no memory of how he got there. When he finally begins to come to terms that he is no longer at home, he begins to realize that he is not only in a different environment, but he's in a different time period! To make matters more trivial, all the townspeople, also known as "Locksmiths," have these "Keys" that allows them to emit different colored energies or, "HUEs," at will. It just so happens the dark HUE that emits from him is the most powerful in this futuristic world of "Aether." Is it a simulation? Is it a dream?

The lights went out. The desert didn't care. Lizzy built a farm that pulls water from thin air. When a solar flare kills every circuit on earth, it becomes the last green place in Nevada, and every armed survivor wants it. Her sister Poppy knows how to fight. Lizzy has to learn...

'Engrossing ... it will make you forget all about your favourite streaming service for a few nights...' Stephen King 'Featuring an explosive twist-in-the-tail climax, this terrifying hybrid of Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four and Zamyatin's We is a triumph' Guardian In a world ravaged by bankruptcy...

America is falling, one bite at a time. When a devastating bioterror attack unleashes a zombie-like plague, the nation descends into chaos. Cities crumble, the government seizes power, and survivors face a nightmarish new reality. Stranded in the neon jungle of Las Vegas, an unlikely group of...

A dystopian adventure set in a sealed dome city whose residents believe they are the last of humanity until a strange signal suggests otherwise. Suspenseful and thought provoking, with a closed world mystery, official lies, a lethal ruling regime, and a bid to escape. The residents of a dome...

Influenza swept the planet. In months, two billion were dead. In the decimated United States, President Andrew Thomas signed an Executive Order to spray the national food and water supply with a flu vaccine. It spread and mutated up the food chain. The infected craved the flesh of the living and the undead walked the earth. Overnight, Emily Gray's privileged world was ripped away.

Twenty-one years after his parents won the presidency, a Culling is called. James has waited his entire life for this moment, a chance to carry on his parents' legacy. Meanwhile, whispers in Denver of an "Heir's Curse" make a Reed winning the presidency seem impossible. A presidential heir has never won a Culling before, but there has also never been a Culling where three heirs could qualify. James and his siblings are determined to break the so-called curse and prove them all wrong.

»Du bist jemand, der dem Unschaffbaren ins Gesicht sieht und ihm sagt: ›Setz dich und halt den Mund‹? Die Welt braucht das. Die Welt braucht dich.« Tausend Unbekannte erhalten diese Einladung. Hundert von ihnen schaffen es in die Endauswahl zu einem beispiellosen Wettbewerb. Ihr Einsatz...

In the twilight of a collapsing Earth and under the sinister hand of a galactic force known as the Gray Purpose, humanity has traded freedom for order. But not all will bow. When a dying soldier of the Purpose washes ashore on a forgotten beach, he brings with him the first cracks in a carefully maintained reality. He is found by a ragtag band of wanderers a traveling musician with fire in her hair, an aging comedian, a boy genius.

From the bestselling author of Sanctuary comes a gripping Orwellian vision of Britain, with a rebellious Hunger Games heart. Bright Ruin is the third and final title in Vic James’s electrifying Dark Gifts Trilogy, following Tarnished City. A shattered country A world-changing magic Magically...

MAGIC COMPELS. WE BLEED. The captivating dystopian trilogy that began with Gilded Cage continues. In a modern Britain where magic users control wealth, politics—and you—an uprising has been crushed. In its aftermath, two families will determine the country’s fate. The ruthless Jardines...

In the “thrilling conclusion”* to the dystopian trilogy that began with Gilded Cage and Tarnished City, the people of Britain rise up against their magically gifted masters. They must break the system—or be broken. MAGIC RUINS. WE RISE. The rules are simple, the system cruel: the lower...