Ergebnis für "Angela" in Dystopien

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In a world still scarred by a failed AI apocalypse, humanity doesn't get to heal yet. Fifty years ago, Chile created CONDIOS: the most powerful artificial intelligence ever built. In turn, it made Chile the most powerful country to ever be… until Condios got too smart. It took an arsenal of nukes, but the world survived.

When Rosie and Jules discover a ground-breaking clinical trial that enables two women to have a female baby, they jump at the chance to make history. Fear-mongering politicians and right-wing movements are quick to latch on to the controversies surrounding Ovum-to-Ovum (o-o) technology and stoke the fears of the public. What will happen to the numbers of little boys born? Is there a sinister conspiracy to eradicate men at play?

When she fell asleep, the world was doomed. When she awoke, it was dead. In the wake of a fever that decimated the earth's population - killing women and children and making childbirth deadly for the mother and infant - the midwife must pick her way through the bones of the world she once knew to find her place in this dangerous new one. Gone are the pillars of civilization. All that remains is power - and the strong who possess it.

Alexa and her crew made it through the Killing Fields and found the road that will take them to the first portal that they hope to close. With the help of a blessed knife and a family friend, their next adventure shouldn’t be so harsh. Except, the knife isn’t blessed and the family friend is insane. Night Must Fall, for everyone.

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Safe Haven has grown too powerful to be ignored. The remaining government wants all survivors secured for their own use or eliminated, and they couldn't have chosen a better time to reemerge from their dystopian holes. Safe Haven has a new leader and a long list of challenges to overcome in their fight for survival. Adrian's condition is critical, the camp isn't ready to accept magic, Mother Nature still has them in her crosshairs, and they are low on food, water, and fuel. The next eight weeks will be the hardest they've gone through yet. Can they bring the pieces together in time?

Sam Pruett is the roughest of her family. She wants an unused bachelor, and she loves to fight, but bringing down the Network is her real goal. When she heads to the time trials to start her turn in the games, chaos follows her every step of the way, but the only man who lingers in her mind is Baker, the leader of the rebels. As the Network’s hold finally begins to weaken over the country, Sam will face new challenges and horrors to ensure Baker’s survival.

Angelica is out of time. Terrified of snapping and killing innocent people, the furious teenager has signed up for the games. She came to New Network City to find peace, either by winning or dying. The fight for freedom that her cousin Candice started may cause a revolution, but Angelica won’t be a part of it unless she can summon the strength to conquer her fear of herself.

A future where the sins of the past hurls us into a dystopian present where a government - ruled by Shades - abandons its citizens to disease and certain death. Earth is on a suicide mission. She is not going down quietly. Using every tool at her disposal - fire, flood, storm, disease - mother earth finally abandons her children. No one is destined to survive, but one man - a man who had thought he'd lost every trait of humanity - does everything he can to defy the odds. With two traumatized children in tow, he sets out on a journey to find salvation.

Jeff is dying. Haunted by memories and grappling with the shame of his desires, he runs away to remote Scotland with a piece of experimental tech that allows him to enter the mind of someone in the past. Instructed to use it only three times, Jeff - self-indulgent, isolated and deteriorating - ignores this advice.

In a corporate-controlled future where the ruling conglomerates genetically engineer their employees, Millicent Foster is the best of the best. Physically perfect and exceptionally intelligent, Millicent is granted the uncommon privilege of breeding. But her daughter inherits more than superior genetics...little Marie has a rare ability that the world has never seen, and her conglomerate, Moxidone, will stop at nothing to have sole possession of the child.

After rescuing their daughter, Marie, from corporate-controlled Earth, Millicent and Ryker thought they were safe on their off-world paradise. They were wrong. Toton, once thought the weakest conglomerate, is now dominating ruined Earth with a sinister new technology. By harvesting minds for use in their supercomputers, they're enslaving the best and brightest humans to further their agenda. Millie and Ryker know that it's just a matter of time before Toton realizes the biggest prize - Marie's "gifted" mind - is merely a rocket ride away.

En su primer libro de cuentos, que abarca cuarenta años de su trabajo, el legendario creador de "Watchmen", "V de Vendetta", "From Hell" y otros clásicos modernos presenta nueve relatos que se adentran en el componente fantástico que subyace en la realidad. Un grupo de estudio paranormal sufre la infiltración de uno de los seres de otro mundo que pretenden investigar. En un burdel para especialistas fantásticos, dos concubinas se enamoran con consecuencias trágicas. Un anciano nostálgico decide visitar un balneario de su juventud y se topa con su pasado a la vuelta de la esquina.

Durante las vacaciones navideñas de 2028, una multitud de niños y niñas acuden a la Plaza Roja a recoger un insólito regalo: un efímero Kremlin de azúcar, soluble en el té, símbolo del nuevo Estado ruso. A lo largo de quince capítulos, estos particulares dulces pasarán de mano en mano hasta alcanzar cada estrato de la sociedad «neomedieval» rusa: un mundo en el que los hologramas y los robots conviven con un orden feudal que divide a la población entre señores y siervos, entre opríchniks y oprimidos.

In a world divided between those who are talented and those who aren't, Vici is a city governed by an egotistical Praetor driven by his hatred for the gifted individuals - the Tallents - who he considers a plague. An explosion rocks the city to its very foundation; the sole survivor a young woman with no memories of her past. Harbored by a mysterious group called Revival, she must rally against the Praetor's tyranny, racing to free the city in hopes that she isn't too late to bring peace to this world in turmoil.

When a hidden evil emerges from the depths of the ocean, the tight-knit town of Baywood is caught in a climate disaster of mysterious origins: an unusual wave of sea snails enter the estuary and transform wildlife, seascapes, and finally, people. Once infected, residents start “deading”: collapsing and dying, only to resurrect, changed in ways both physical and fundamental. After the government isolates Baywood, paranoia and surveillance run rampant. A newly formed cult called the Risers starts targeting those who are not deading.

A long-ago civil conflict has left Australia divided into two societies, the urbanized New Australian Republic to the east and the rural Outback to the west, separated by the now-electrified dog fence. Elite dark magic wielders maintain order in the Outback, while slaver gangs patrol the border, searching for trespassers to capture and add to the slave trade. Grace Walker has become one of those slaves. Captured at a young age, she has spent the past four years confined to a slave camp, but now it’s her time to become a part of the trade.

In the years following the catastrophe, the community stabilized and found ways to meet its needs - and even thrive - despite the constant challenges. However, while the radiation zones which created the Eureka Bubble protected the area from the worst ravages of the apocalypse, they also caused severe resource limitations which have become more acute over time and, eventually, the Bubble is going to burst.

If the world ended tomorrow, who would you want by your side? For 30-year-old Katherine Logan, that's an easy choice. Eli has always been there for her, and even though he is her best friend, she can't help but want the sexy-as-sin veteran. Chance has her camping at the start of the Appalachian Trail when all hell breaks loose. As if the dead walking around eating people weren't bad enough, throw in two hot hikers, and Katherine's world gets flipped upside down.