Résultats pour "Reset" dans Littérature, romans et fiction

Oren was a dominant force in the bustling digital realm of NEO, commanding wealth, prestige, and high levels. But when fate deals him a cruel blow, trapping him in the body of a lowly goblin and depriving him of his ability to log out, Oren is forced to fight for survival. Stripped of his immense powers and cast into a hostile, monster-ridden wilderness, with the constant risk of the game frying his nervous system, his only way out of the virtual purgatory is to win.

When a catastrophic electromagnetic pulse (EMP) strikes Earth, modern life ends in an instant. Power grids fail. Communication collapses. Transportation halts. Within hours, the world descends into chaos—and the fragile threads of civilization begin to snap. What follows is a rapid descent into apocalyptic turmoil as society unravels and survival becomes a daily battle. When the world falls apart, it's not the heroes who rise—it's the unexpected.

Take the most sophisticated AI-designed mind that has ever existed, encase it in over 50 million cubic kilometres of diamond nano-rods and send it off on a 20-thousand-year odyssey towards the centre of the galaxy. Then screw it all up by allowing 32 million humans to go along for the ride.

Misterna intryga zapoczatkowana w powiesci Waga zatacza coraz szersze kregi. Po oddaniu sie w rece policji do aresztu na Montelupich w Krakowie trafia Tomasz Ryglewicz. To posuniecie stanowi czesc nakreslonego z Antonem Danielewiczem planu, wynik transakcji wymiennej, gdzie stawka jest ludzkie zycie oraz wolnosc.

Dealing with monsters is old news. Now comes the thing even monsters fears. After defeating the hobgoblin threat, Oren is now faced with an even more tenacious enemy: the players themselves. His old guild have discovered his village's location and a deadly strike force is closing in. With time running out, Oren must build up his clan and recruit an army of monsters if he's to have any hope of withstanding the coming attack.

Deep in the Afghan mountains, Sergeant Michael Pitcher discovers an object with powers that defy explanation. After interacting with it, he suffers a traumatic seizure and is flown home for evaluation. Cleared by the doctors, Michael goes home to his relieved wife, Josie. But he’s a changed man. The once-loving husband is now coldly withdrawn. When a team of scientists connected to Sergeant Pitcher vanishes without a trace, CIA agent Dean Ninemeyer comes to him for insight - only to find that the recovering soldier has also disappeared.

After the Last War destroyed most of the world, survivors form a new society in four self-sustaining cities in the Mojave Desert. Everything is carefully planned and controlled: the seasons, the weather - and the residents. To prevent mankind from destroying each other again, its citizens undergo a memory wipe every four years in a process called tabula rasa, a blank slate, to remove learned prejudices. With each new cycle, they begin again with new names, jobs, homes, and lives. No memories. No attachments. No wars.

Wird ein System-Reset für soziale Gerechtigkeit in Neopolis sorgen oder die Macht der Eliten festigen? In "Reset", der dritten Staffel des Sci-Fi-Thrillers von Karl Olsberg, steuert der Konflikt auf einen dramatischen Showdown zu. Neopolis ist eine Glitzerwelt voller Widersprüche – mit einer skrupellosen Elite und einer bitterarmen Unterschicht. Es scheint, als könne nur ein System-Reset Gerechtigkeit schaffen. Doch kann man der KI Pandora trauen, die sich für die Unterdrückten einsetzt? An Nick nagen Zweifel.

A journey far from home. Becoming enslaved. Giving in to your inner monster. Having survived the first wave of invading players, Oren now seeks to strengthen his clan. With the Breeder’s Den destroyed and most of Goblin's Gorge's resources devoted to rebuilding, his best hope lies in creating an army of golems. But for that, he needs Viridium, a rare metal that can only be obtained from hobgoblin towns, where Oren and his clan of goblins are viewed as nothing more than potential slaves. To make his way in the game, and to defeat his former guild, Oren’s ingenuity alone will not be enough.

In an attempt to control and decrease population, a mutated form of the measles is released. As a precaution, an assurance plan is placed in motion. A sampling of mankind is hidden away in a protective bunker, placed in stasis where they will sleep through the entire event. They are set to awaken one year later to a perfectly balanced world. Nora Lane and Jason Rudolph are two of those who survive. When they wake, like the other survivors, neither of them remember how they got there and why.

It started in London and spread across Great Britain within days. Nobody knew where it had come from—or did they? The country is divided, and mankind is turning on itself in a time when pulling together may be the only way they can salvage the lives they’re fighting so fiercely to protect. Two friends escaping confinement take to the road in a tense and dangerous adventure where they must evade detection at any cost.

What if politicians cared about the country? What if people stopped being insane? What if the government earned its money instead of stealing it? The state-laid plans gang aft agley, and only ending taxes, setting term limits, the line-item veto, sunset legislation, and honest elections can amend 'em. What we need now is a good laugh, quotable economists, and missionaries for reality. Who's in?

A shadow of chaos lurks in the Library's foundational pillars, and treachery sneaks in through unseen cracks. Quinn's grief threatens to capsize her, but as she places each action of her team's escape from the dragon siblings under the microscope, it reveals that every fateful step they took to reach the battle resulted from manipulation. Pieces slot together, offering a vaster web of machinations. With a stronger connection to the Library, Quinn's new perceptions uncover a wealth of new information that only serves to compound her urgency...and makes her question who she truly trusts.

Unforeseen and catastrophic, the Reset unleashed a series of events that destroyed the Earth in unimaginable ways. Amidst the ruins, the resilient few must wage a desperate battle for survival, while others hunger for dominion over the remnants. In a relentless race against time, who will emerge triumphant in the ultimate struggle for survival?

Vulnerable after escaping a violent marriage, Sarah is wracked with fear, anger, and guilt. She finds solace in the spirits of the universe. Under deep meditation, Sarah battles a mysterious living storm and her own past demons. With the help of her guru’s spirits, Sarah escapes the storm, but it leaves behind a new world, seizing everything man-made from the planet, releasing nature to transform the earth and bestowing Sarah with unique but dangerous strengths. As all others panic, Sarah, a lifelong survivalist, knows what to do.

A mundane morning turns surreal when Kimani Williams wakes up to inexplicable changes to her body. What’s more, her boyfriend seems surprised to see her. Something happened the night before that lurks at the periphery of her mind, and the town that she knows and loves is different, the streets empty and devoid of life.

Contains books five and six of Reset, a thrilling natural-disaster survival series. Torrent: No end in sight. With the survivors settled into their shelters, they quickly learn that nowhere is safe. When their loyalty is tested, they question the price they have to pay for food and shelter. Striking, book six: Time is up. The end of the road was near. With little more than the clothes on their backs, the survivors are hungry and exhausted. When danger closes in and their lives are threatened, they must find a way to fight for what remains. Their survival depends on it.

Contains books one and two of Reset, a thrilling natural disaster survival series.

Days before her marriage to the king of the neighboring Sunruta Kingdom, Princess Annabel of Najir is abruptly betrayed by her fiancé and thrown into prison with her magic knight under suspicion of being a spy. After being held captive for months and informed her kingdom is no more, Annabel passes out in a burst of destructive magic, only to awaken as her 12-year-old self, six years before her political marriage. Armed with knowledge of the dark future to come, she now has another chance to bring about a new fate.

Grail Academy's final year is about to begin when Annabel receives an invitation to attend the crown confirmation ceremony of Prince Daniel, the man she was engaged to and who'd destroyed her kingdom during her past life. Also invited is Princess Karina of Nigren, the cause of Annabel's imprisonment and Ed's death. But the Karina Annabel meets this time around couldn't be more different—she's bubbly and sweet!