Ergebnis für "Apex" in Literatur & Belletristik

In a forest designed to kill you, it pays to be the one designing the predators. For years, Vrax has survived the fringes of the Nightmare Wood, a mana-rich hellscape where the trees have teeth and the grass sprouts from your pooling blood. While his peers settled for Common and Rare classes, he held out for something better. He found his destiny in the bones of a long forgotten savage god of nature.

I used to think my life would be common, boring even. My online guildies and my friends sure thought so. Yet everything I knew to be true in this world all changed drastically one fateful night... or should I say, it shifted. As it turns out, my father passed on more than his name to me. Something feral and mighty awoke within me, and I knew at once, I would never be the same again. Shortly after, I received an invitation that I didn't expect, a call to attend the mysterious Apex Academy. A world of shifters, human animal hybrids, suddenly opened up before me.

Der Softwarespezialist Hanno Fuller wird brutal ermordet aufgefunden. Schnell gerät sein Mitarbeiter Douglas Hall unter Verdacht, der sich nicht erinnern kann, wo er in der Nacht von Fullers Tod war. Hall ahnt, daß die Lösung des mysteriösen Mords mit Fullers neuester Entwicklung zu tun hat: der "Site“. Dieses Computerprogramm, eine virtuelle Welt, besiedelt mit selbständig handelnden "Einheiten“, befindet sich in der 13. Etage des Konzerngebäudes. Ohne auch nur zu ahnen, was ihn erwartet, wagt Hall den Sprung von der Realität in die virtuelle Computerwelt.

The explosive conclusion to Nexus and Crux. Global unrest spreads through the US, China, and beyond. Secrets and lies set off shockwaves of anger, rippling from mind to mind. Riot police battle neutrally linked protestors. Armies are mobilized. Political orders fall. Nexus-driven revolution is in here. Against this backdrop a new breed of post-human children are growing into their powers.

Life comes at you fast, and no one knows that better than Mark Fields. In a few short months he’s gone from a lowly dishwasher to an empowered soldier, gained new powers and friends, and survived the deadly Exlian aliens in the wilderness. And now, he’s a prisoner. Framed for murder and thrown into the deadly Tomb, forgotten and alone—no master, no team, no friends save the enigmatic cat Mime—Mark can only rely on himself … and the strange voice that whispers inside him.

Dr. Corinne Dowd thought she was practicing medicine at the cutting edge. She was wrong. The Telluride Center wasn’t a hospital. It was a farm. And she was the livestock. Fused to her pelvic floor is the Bio-Weld—a synthetic, living stem-cell chimera that can stop a hemorrhage, restart a stopped heart, and knit shattered bone in seconds. The ultimate military asset. Two billion dollars of pure, engineered invincibility. There’s just one problem. It’s hungry. Deny it massive calories and it will cannibalize your organs and bone marrow to survive.

It's her looks that lure them in, predators looking for their next defenseless prey until they meet her. They had never encountered a prey like her, an Apex Prey. Everything goes well until Polly meets him, and she must make a decision. Love, or her youth?

Under the still waters of Lake Iliamna lurks a predator forgotten by time … Travel writer Geoff Connelly came to Alaska looking for a break and an easy story to send home to his editor. But when he pulls up to the Sitka Lodge on the remote shores of beautiful Lake Iliamna, he finds a community...

If one superpowered alien beauty wasn’t enough, the arrival of a second throws Earth’s fate into a tailspin. She’s gorgeous, she’s powerful, and she’s the daughter of my ultimate enemy. Nemesis is coming, grudges will be settled, and all heroes must assemble. Before I can live the dream, I must confront the nightmare. This time, saving the world might mean saving the villain…

I used to think my life would be common, boring even. My online guildies and my friends sure thought so. Yet everything I knew to be true in this world all changed drastically one fateful night... or should I say, it shifted. As it turns out, my father passed on more than his name to me. Something feral and mighty awoke within me, and I knew at once, I would never be the same again. Shortly after, I received an invitation that I didn't expect, a call to attend the mysterious Apex Academy.

Born to a man of faith who let his vision for the future twist his mind, I learned to stay in the shadows, collecting the kids that ended up in this godforsaken place with me. They're the lost ones, and I'm their Wendy. The forgotten one, the dud, the failure. My only use now is as a future breeder to the cause. But they've taken enough, and I'll be damned if I let them take more. When the chance of escape is dangled before me like a carrot on a stick, I take it. I run with my lost ones toward a new life where the kids can be kids, and I can be free.

'RaMell Ross's transcendentally moving and frightening film' (Guardian, New York Film Festival) now a major motion picture and shortlisted for a Golden Globe. WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION 2020 WINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL FICTION 2020 Winner of the Library of Congress...

The world didn’t end with fire. It ended with evolution. When scientists tried to save a dying planet, they accelerated nature itself. Stronger animals. Faster instincts. Smarter predators. They thought they could control it. They were wrong. Now, across the world, evolution is no longer a slow process. It’s a weapon. Ecosystems are transforming overnight, and humanity is no longer at the top of the food chain. Finley Henderson has spent years searching for answers after his parents vanished deep inside a growing Red Zone—regions where humans no longer survive.

This New York Times Notable Book from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Underground Railroad is a brisk, comic tour de force about identity, history, and the adhesive bandage industry. The town of Winthrop has decided it needs a new name. The resident software millionaire wants to...

Two young and determined entrepreneurs set out to create an annual convention called Prehistoric Con. What was supposed to a glorious evening in celebration of all things prehistoric - showcasing best-selling authors, movie directors, executive producers, screenwriters, and a host of others from the industry - takes a sudden turn for the worst with the reality that they have been locked inside the building with no way out. It isn’t long before the entire convention comes to the horrifying realization that they are being hunted...

Yes, I killed all the supervillians housed in the Grayville Ultramax Prison. I’m sure some, like the Shadow Knight, would consider that to be crossing a line and an unforgivable act of an unrepentant mass murderer. I consider it another high-performance day on the job. If the Shadow Knight has a problem with it, he knows where to find me. I really hope he does have a problem.

In a dazzlingly original work of non-fiction, the Pulitzer-Prize winning author of The Underground Railroad recreates the exuberance, the chaos, the promise, and the heartbreak of New York. Here is a literary love song that will entrance anyone who has lived in - or spent time - in the greatest...

Supervillains are murdering people in the streets, but yet superheroes are more concerned with gaining popularity than bringing the villains to justice. These villains think they are above the law and that nobody can stop them, but they never planned for me. I’ll murder every one of them with my powersuit, traps, and sidekicks. And if killing bad guys makes me a villain in the eyes of the heroes, well...I’ll destroy them too.

Chris, Kevin, and Kate wake up in a rugged wilderness far from their planned campsite. Their gear nowhere to be found, the three friends are left to make do with nothing but a pack of matches, water canteen, and strange devices displaying a fast approaching countdown fastened around their wrists. In their search for answers and a way home, the friends quickly discover that navigating their new surroundings is the least of their problems. Not only are the friends not alone, but they appear to be part of an elaborate hunting expedition, and they're the targets.

Marvin toiled through endless work to achieve his dream of flipping properties. A strange man stalked him at his morning diner job, becoming a regular. When he unexpectedly follows him home from night shift, Marvin knows something isn't right. The next day he is offered a magical device. The emblem confirms the paranormal are real, people can partially shift into animals, and that Marvin isn't normal: he's something to be feared. As his life enters a whirlwind adventure, Marvin has to adapt as he becomes more than an ordinary man