Results for "The Rain" in Dystopian

Rain has returned to the Wasteland. That alone should have been impossible. In a world stripped bare by fire, fallout, and the long collapse of the old electronic age, rain was supposed to be a rumor, a mercy, a brief mistake before the drought came back to finish the job. But this rain is wrong.

With only three days left until the predicted apocalypse, the small town of Franklin Springs, Georgia, has become a wasteland of abandoned cars, abandoned homes, abandoned businesses, and abandoned people. People like Rainbow Williams. Rain isn’t afraid of dying. In fact, she’s looking forward to it. If she can just outrun her pain until April 23, she’ll never have to feel it at all.

I’ve lived my life by a strict set of rules—rules that have kept me alive, rules that have kept the nightmares of my past at bay. But the moment I met her, I crossed all of them out with a giant X and scrawled the words Protect Rainbow Williams next to them in murderous block letters. That’s all I cared about. Keeping her safe. Keeping her—period.

An intoxicating collage of lives intersecting around a building in Bangkok. Places remember us. . . A missionary begs to be moved from disease-ridden Bangkok. A musician plays a private show for ghosts. A student abandoned by his lover bleeds to death in the street. A plastic surgeon designs a...

A groundbreaking, deeply affecting work of environmental literary suspense for fans of Cloud Atlas, The Overstory, and Station Eleven. The northern mining town of River Meadows is one of three hotspots in the world producing ghost ore, a new source of energy worth twenty-eight times its weight...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Seven fires predicted. Five already burning. The sixth is three hours away. Wildfire investigator Dr. Mara Voss trusts the physical evidence others overlook. Fuel, wind, terrain—fire always tells the truth. So when a dying courier presses a memory...

I swore I'd never step foot in this town again, but thirteen foster homes and a looming apocalypse later, here I am. Not because I'm having some emotional end-of-the-world crisis—like literally everybody else on this planet—but because the key to my survival is buried somewhere in these woods. I just have to find it before April 23.

On the last day of normality in Mackinaw, Illinois, Oliver McCallister thinks his worst problem is figuring out how to come clean to his wife about the secret he’s been keeping from her. Zoe McCallister thinks her worst problem is squeezing in an errand at the courthouse before another long day of nursing classes—and worrying about whatever Oliver is hiding from her.

Gefühle sind in unserer Welt ein Zeichen von Schwäche. Und wer schwach ist, stirbt. New York City. Einst brachten grausame Drachenreiter Tod und Zerstörung, und ihr König tyrannisiert nun die Welt. Die letzten freien Menschen verstecken sich in den U-Bahn-Tunneln, unter ihnen auch die Diebin...

When seven bodies turn up in a small town in Georgia, Detective Jack Kersey—gruff, relentless, and with little patience for nonsense—is determined to crack the case. But this is no ordinary murder investigation. Behind the killings lies the shadow of EvoSys, a mega-corporation with its hands in every facet of life.

In a darkly warped near future, lucrative disease cures are brokered on Wall Street's Genetic Stock Exchange. And the hottest consumer products are artificially synthesized humans that serve as everything from domestic slaves to combatants in savage gladiatorial games. For Jack Saxton, the young heir to genetic design powerhouse Genico Inc., these Synthates are just a fact of life...until the murder of a high-profile genetic scientist leads a pair of seasoned NYPD detectives to Genico's door.

Franc Sousa's life is virtually perfect. In a future San Francisco, where the most important determination of success is the quality of the computer chip inserted in your nervous system, Franc has the best. His chip provides him instant access to all the information and entertainment the world has ever produced, and to a virtual game environment that feels more real than his actual life. But when an accident dislodges his chip, he begins to question everything he's ever known. He can't accept the doctor's explanation that the beautiful girl he saw after his accident was only a hallucination.

All Zoe Antos wanted was to make it home from work in time for date night with her fiancé Cole Wilborn, something her research had been preventing a lot recently. After managing to get out the door on time, all hope of making it home is lost when she is kidnapped by a man trying to steal files from her lab. Zoe is thrown into a world of conspiracy theories as her kidnappers reveal that they are trying to stop The Arrow Equilibrium from going through with their plan to restore balance to the environment—and the only way would be to eliminate the human factor from the scales.

In 2537, a game of Assassination has been issued by the Union government. The Terrorites, a radical organization, has accepted to play on the condition that they get to choose the targets. Yes, a lot of people are going to die. But Assassination is the Union’s last shot at winning the war against the Terrorites, who seek to "cleanse" time.

It's not the end of the world...only humanity! All five books in the haunting Humanity Series have been brought together in one digital collection. Follow Scott Beck in his quest to keep himself, those he loves, and humanity alive. Combining dystopian, post-apocalyptic, and cyberpunk fiction, The Humanity Series depicts a future in which humanity is on the brink of annihilation. Join the adventure before it's too late!

Some call it the Rapture. Others call it global genocide. Whatever it was, only thousands of survivors remain on Earth. When Scott Beck finds himself alive, he retreats to the Lake District in the north of England. Soon after, he finds himself the reluctant guardian of a young woman, and on the run from Mathew, a religious megalomaniac, and his Watchers, who are as determined as ever to send every human soul to heaven. 

Scott Beck knows the date and month he will die. What he doesn’t know is which year. Minutes away from surviving another April 22, someone knocks at his door…in a near-dystopian future, artificial intelligence has uncovered the clockwork nature of the universe. And now, because of the intervention of a religious organization of Watchers, soon everyone on the planet will discover the date, month, and year they will die.

Eighteen years after the Rapture, there are only a few thousand survivors left on the planet, all living in Britain. Scott, along with his adopted daughter, Eve, has kept a small band of survivors safe from Mathew and a religious organization called the Watchers, intent on sending every last soul to heaven. But when Scott discovers dozens of dead bodies, recently killed by something called The Violet Dawn, he is confronted once again with the truth behind Eve’s violet eyes. In possession of an AI that could either destroy or save humanity, Scott faces an impossible decision.

Los Angeles County park ranger Jack Carter is about to discover that not all is as it seems in his tranquil life. Once responsible for patrolling the many public parks, in particular the popular Griffith Park with its famous observatory and zoo, Jack is about to discover that a whole new kind of animal roams his woods.

Los Angeles County park ranger, Jack Carter, is about to discover that not all is as it seems in his tranquil life. Once responsible for patrolling the many public parks, in particular the popular Griffith Park with its famous observatory and zoo, Jack is about to discover that a whole new kind of animal roams his woods.