Résultats pour "death" dans Dystopique

Tonight was meant to be about kink. Our lives are a nightmare of last-minute deployments and near misses, and we needed the break. Instead, we broke. The whole world broke. But as city after city is blown apart, and with a club full of civilians to protect, we have to pull it together and get them to safety. No matter how we’re feeling. No matter how many family members are disintegrating into ash. We have a job to do, so we’ll be each other’s strength.

An award-winning literary author enters the world of magical realism with her World Fantasy Award-winning novel of a remarkable woman in post-apocalyptic Africa. Now optioned as a TV series for HBO, with executive producer George R.R. Martin! In a post-apocalyptic Africa, the world has changed...

Set in a fractured United States, in the southwestern country now known as Texoma. A world where magic is acknowledged but mistrusted, especially by a young gunslinger named Lizbeth Rose. Battered by a run across the border to Mexico Lizbeth Rose takes a job offer from a pair of Russian wizards to be their local guide and gunnie. For the wizards, Gunnie Rose has already acquired a fearsome reputation and they’re at a desperate crossroad, even if they won’t admit it. 

Es ist sieben Monate her, dass neunzig Prozent der Weltbevölkerung einer Pandemie erlagen, die "DER TOD" genannt wird. Chaos und Barbarei haben die Rechtsstaatlichkeit ersetzt und nur eine Regel gilt: Töte oder werde getötet. Devin, Tess und Brianna überlebten die Pandemie, doch können sie auch in dieser Welt überleben? Jeder neue Tag birgt Herausforderungen und Gefahren. Ihr Ziel ist es, einen sicheren Ort zu finden, und sie glauben, dass das dort ist, wo sich Tess' Verlobter befindet. Allerdings ist der Weg beschwerlich und es gibt keine Garantie.

Devin, Tess, and Brianna survived the pandemic, but can they survive the world that remains? Each new day presents challenges and threats, but they are persistent and do what needs to be done. Their goal is to find a safe place, and they believe that is where Tess' fiancé is located. However, the road to him will be treacherous, and the guarantee of success is not certain.

In a world divided between the floating city of Newfris and the untamed Earth below, Arra—a skilled archer, but no mage—fights for survival in the Muir Woods. While her sister Elanil wields the magic that Arra lacks, Arra battles the marauding Remnant, the last vestiges of a broken humanity. But when fate brings a group of rebels crashing from the sky, Arra’s life collides with a deeper mystery.

"Der Tod" wird dich finden... Devin Chase ging bloß seinem Alltag nach, als die Welt schlagartig aus den Angeln gehoben wurde. Binnen einer Woche suchte ein fatales Virus, dem man den Namen "Der Tod" gab, die Erde heim und streckte 90 Prozent aller Infizierten nieder. Nach sechs Monaten in selbst auferlegter Quarantäne tritt Devin hinaus in eine neue Welt. Unterwegs trifft er andere Menschen, die immun sind wie er, entdeckt aber auch, dass die Welt, wie er sie kannte, nicht mehr existiert.

It took just a few weeks for a plague called the Death to wipe out over 90% of the world’s population. Those who survived thought themselves lucky until the world that remained came into stark relief. Devin Chase, a writer by trade and urban dweller sits in his apartment in New York unaware that his fiancé is the first victim of a worldwide pandemic called the Death. Upon learning of his fiancé’s condition he sets out to find her.

Nova Martin is a simple smuggler trying to get away from her crime boss to make a life of her own. But after she stows away on an errant ship and kills an assassin in self defense, she's forced to take his place, finding herself embroiled in the political machinations of a galactic regime and tasked with assassinating princeling playboy Drace, heir to the Sovereignty. Nova just wants to keep her true identity secret and get out of the situation alive, but the deeper she gets, the more she learns that nothing is quite as it seems, and Drace is keeping secrets of his own.

Diejenigen, die überlebt haben, betrachten sich nicht als die Glücklichen - eher als die Verfluchten. Devin sucht verzweifelt nach Tess. Er hat sich verändert, ist unbarmherzig und wütend geworden. Wer auch immer sich ihm in den Weg stellt, wird gnadenlos vernichtet. Travis trauert um Lori, doch Cassidy schenkt ihm Hoffnung. Die beiden begeben sich auf einen beschwerlichen Weg durch die Einöde, die einst Amerika hieß, um nach Tess und Devin zu suchen. Kanzler Horton nahm auf seiner Flucht einem neuen Virus mit sich - tödlicher noch als The Death.

After her crushing defeat against the Tigress, Nephilim is at the Wasp leader’s mercy. In return for her support for Metatron’s grand plan, the Tigress wants Nephilim to complete an extremely dangerous mission: to kill her brother, the leader of TogbuaXiang. What sounds like an easy task for a professional killer cyborg soon turns into the most challenging and dangerous mission Nephilim has ever had to accomplish. But she has promised Metatron that she will bring him the alliance, so she must succeed—no matter what.

When the world burned, survival was just the beginning. Matt and his convoy of survivors escaped the cave system with their lives, but not their peace. With hostile forces closing in and the fallout still choking the land, every mile north brings new dangers. From shattered towns and ghostly farmlands to an enemy convoy led by a ruthless hunter, their journey is no longer about hiding. It’s about enduring. Alliances will be tested. Secrets will surface. Blood will be spilled. As the group pushes toward the uncertain safety in the north, hope becomes more than a dream, it’s a weapon.

In early 2102, Psi-Judge Cassandra Anderson sacrificed herself to trap the spirit of the terrible Judge Death, holding him in her mind as her fellow Judge Joe Dredd encased her in an impenetrable polymer. Her comatose body was laid in a place of honour in the Justice Department’s famed Hall of Heroes, to be remembered forever for her supreme sacrifice. For eighteen months, Anderson lay trapped, sharing her tomb with the monster she had defeated. For eighteen months, an epic battle raged silently within the Psi-Judge’s skull, between her and an ancient avatar of hate and decay.

Sara Sidorova lies dying. As she hovers between life and death, she receives a visitation from Amba, the tiger god who will devour creation if he is released from the chains that bind him. Amba gives Sara Sidorova an extraordinary gift: a glimpse into the future.

When civilization falls, some rebuild, and some choose a life of chaos. Barbarians, they were called in other times, those that left fire and destruction in their wake. After a plague and an EMP set off in a desperate war kills nine out of ten people on Earth. former Marine Sergeant Eric Marten has found a place to settle and rebuild in the post-apocalyptic world. Along with Dani, the young woman who he rescued from certain death and worse, and other survivors, they worked to rebuild some semblance of security in the wilds of Texas.

The girl was sprawled out on the floor in the living room of his apartment. So begins Joe Clifford Faust's classic science fiction mystery. The novel takes place in an alternate future where a crumbling United States is one of the few nations left to have fended off Soviet domination. It tells the story of seven days in the life of D.A. Payne, a bioengineer who finds the naked corpse of a woman in his apartment and is compelled to investigate her murder.

Would you sell your life to save another? Special forces vet, Samantha Jones, is a lowly bodyguard for Ethan Anderson, the biotech billionaire who revolutionized life extension. But at least she’s got a job, unlike most, and won’t have to sell her organs to support her family. Sure, they’re poor, but she’s got death insurance and a roof over her head. Life is livable...But then Sam’s daughter is kidnapped and sold for parts. Overnight, her life (and belief in the system) shatters.

This is an exceptional, contemporary, heartbreaking novel. Toby's life was perfectly normal--until it was unravelled by something as simple as a blood test. Taken from his family, Toby now lives in the Death House: an out-of-time existence far from the modern world, where he and the others who live there are studied by Matron and her team of nurses. They're looking for any sign of sickness. Any sign of their wards changing. Any sign that it's time to take them to the sanatorium.

Alvin had a rough week. Thrown into a digital death game, Apocalypse Gates, with only his wits and a less than helpful AI handler, Alvin's prospects for survival looked bleak. Managing not only to survive but to thrive, he helped build a settlement of survivors in Green River, Utah. Along the way he met the very sexy and broken Gothy. He's taken on the undead, mutated bugs and animals and the worst possible enemy - other people - and triumphed. Nothing looked like it would be a major problem, except for the flight of dragons.

In the Gare do Oriente, a body sits, slumped, in a stationary train. A high-profile man appears to have died by throwing himself repeatedly against the glass. But according to witnesses, he may not have done this of his own accord. Lisbon 2021. A small percentage of the population are diagnosed as Gifted. Along with the power comes stigma and suspicion. In a prejudiced city, Gifted Inspector Isabel Reis is hiding her own secrets while putting her life on the line to stop an ingenious killer.