Résultats pour "Underground" dans Science-fiction

The bestselling book that asks the question: what would present-day America look like if the Civil War never happened? A New York Times bestseller; a Goodreads Choice finalist; named one of the Best Books of the Year by NPR, Slate, Publishers Weekly, Hudson Bookseller, St. Louis Post-Dispatch...

Boredom, drudgery, with an occasional excitement brought about by food shortages or blackouts; the illnesses of a dying society devoid of imagination, inventiveness, even competence. At the apex of its soulless construct sit the powerful, cunningly wrestling for position, seeking control over a people who no longer care who controls their lives. And there is no Atlantis, waiting in the wings to provide guidance for those who have been slowly robbed of their will to create, to invent, to prove their competence. The soul of the individual has been lost to the tyranny of the group.

Anne and Hutch have escaped the confines of the Tyson Estate with plans to live out in the harsh conditions of The Elements where it is always winter. Instead, they accidentally discover an entire society of people living underground. Dwellers, as they call themselves, enjoy a peaceful existence away from the Estates and out of The Elements in a world called Sub Terra. There are dozens of families living in homes they call Dwellings. They live in what once was the New York City subway system. They exist as people did before The Shift.

In this gripping post-apocalyptic novella, the remnants of humanity grapple with the aftermath of a solar cataclysm that decimates civilization in the late 20th century. Forced to retreat underground, they strive to create a new society grounded in love, beauty, and the pursuit of the arts and intellectualism, all while contending with the absence of all life forms except for humankind. This eerily prophetic tale resonates deeply in todays world, as the sun remains dormant, making its themes feel more relevant than ever. Written by French sociologist and criminologist Tarde, this novella ...

Join the adventurous Little Baron Trump and his loyal dog Bulger as they embark on a thrilling quest! Feeling bored at home due to the mundane familiarity of their neighbors, they discover an ancient manuscript penned by the eccentric Spaniard, Don Constantino Bartolomeo Strepholofidgeguaneriusfum. This serendipitous find propels them on an extraordinary journey to the center of the earth. Blending elements of the fantastical Münchhausen tales with modern fantasy and science fiction, this remarkable 1893 book promises an unforgettable adventure filled with wonder and excitement. - Summary by ...

The Underground City is a novel about the fortunes of a mining community at Aberfoyle, Scotland. Miner James Starr, after receiving a letter from an old friend, leaves for the Aberfoyle mine. Although believed to be mined out a decade earlier, James Starr finds a mine overman, Simon Ford, along with his family living deep inside the mine. Simon Ford has found a large vein of coal in the mine but the characters must deal with mysterious and unexplainable happenings in and around the mine.

I thought the only good alien was a dead one. Those Pig Faces and Tooth Fairies razed human civilization and forced us underground a couple hundred years ago. I'd still be there, except my mother told us we had to flee the compound for our very lives. My brothers and I figure we'll hide out or maybe find other survivors band together to kick some alien butt. Until the first thing we see are a squad of pink, fanged Tooth Fairies waiting for us with ray guns at the ready.

Join us for cryptids, aliens, ghosts, true crime, and anything else creepy! We are a group of friends who met in college (most of us studying film) and we are here to share our idiocy with the internet, so join us and have fun. New episode guaranteed every Tuesday!

Deanna, a small backwater Terran colony generally known as an idyllic tourist-magnet (if watching birds blow up if they flew too high were your kind of thing) had just hit a speed-bump on the highway of Life called the Deannan Un-civil War.

How can humans survive and prosper 1,500 feet below the earth's surface? Jules Verne successfully weaves a dark yet magnificent story into this equally dark world.

Welcome to the Underground Arcade, a place where I will explore the vast world of Indie Games and their developers. Come along and join me on the journey through the creative games made by passionate folks.

El Underground del Misterio es un podcast dedicado a explorar lo oculto, lo paranormal y las teorías de conspiración más intrigantes. Conducido por Bruno y Dante, cada episodio abre la puerta a historias de OVNIs, sucesos inexplicables, enigmas históricos y fenómenos que desafían toda explicación racional. Aquí encontrarás investigaciones, testimonios y análisis de casos que van desde encuentros cercanos y sociedades secretas, hasta misterios modernos que continúan sin resolverse. Nuestro objetivo es compartir relatos que despierten la curiosidad y expandan la mente de quienes se ...

Penn Mitchell vanishes from the NYU campus and shows up three months later on his mother's doorstep with a book screaming to get out of his head. When the FBI discovers the novel discloses top-secret information, they bring Penn in for questioning. The interrogation goes sideways and Penn escapes into a subterranean world he thought was a figment of his imagination, a world where the US government is hiding, and at war with, an ancient race that has existed since the dawn of time.

Алексей Осадчук—популярный писатель-фантаст, знакомый любителям книг в антураже ЛитРПГ. «Андердог»—серия романов, которую он начал писать под псевдонимом. Несмотря на то, что имя «нового» автора никому не известно, книги обретают широкий круг читателей. Осенью 2019 года автор раскрывает псевдоним и публикует их в издательстве Magic Dome Books под своим настоящим именем.

Through twenty years of prosperity and progress, King Everson and Queen Allegra have lovingly nurtured peace between the once mortal enemies, Indira and Mano. The war which nearly drowned both worlds in chaos is merely a memory. But peace can be fragile... Unexplained tremors beneath the ground can no longer be ignored. They grow stronger each day, impossible to miss. Some claim it's nothing. Others, that it foretells the apocalypse. This new and unforeseen threat opens old wounds and creates fresh fissures within the palace, throwing the court into a maelstrom of palace intrigue.

Beneath the streets of London lie many secrets. Subterranean rivers carve channels through darkened caverns. Hidden laboratories and government offices from WWII offer a maze of corridors and abandoned medical experiments. Lost in the depths of this underground are the contents of a looted Spanish galleon from the days of Henry VIII and a Nazi V-2 rocket that contains the most horrible secret of all.

National Peace Organization operative Paul Stepola walks a dangerous tightrope as a double agent; a new believer assigned to enforce the ban on religion. Three major cities have been attacked by terrorists and thousands have died, all in the name of God. Paul must somehow find a way to expose the source of the terrorism without endangering fellow believers. And with his unbelieving wife's powerful connections, Paul faces danger on every front.

Ingersoll Lockwood invented the fictional character Baron Trump in 1890 for a two-part sci-fi/fantasy series about a privileged boy who undertakes a sequence of fantastic voyages. The style of the Baron Trump series - a mix of fantasy and young-listener-oriented science fiction - anticipated and may have influenced L. Frank Baum's Oz series. The second in that series, Baron Trump's Marvellous Underground Journey, describes Baron's trip to the Earth's interior via an opening in the Russian Arctic.

America, 2055. Cass Armstrong fears that the same cybernetic enhancements that saved her could become her undoing. On the run with her girlfriend, the information encrypted in her implants act like a beacon for the tech-phobic terrorists hot on their trail. And her only way out is to find someone to rewrite her identity. Forced to seek aid from underworld hackers, Cass must become a criminal to survive. But if she doesn’t meet their demands, the pack hunting her will permanently erase her last hope of bringing their extremist agenda to an end.

Britain in 2075 is a dangerous place. A man known only as the Governor rules the country with an iron hand, but within the towering perimeter walls of London Greater Urban Area anarchy spreads unchecked through the streets. In the abandoned London Underground station of St. Cannerwells, a group of misfits calling themselves the Tube Riders seek to forget the chaos by playing a dangerous game with trains.