Ergebnis für "Apocalypse" in Naturwissenschaften

Is this a new star... or our final night? Something impossible has broken the lonely silence of the void, rushing out of the black mystery of space and straight toward our sun. At first, it is just a remote speck of light. Humanity watches in idle wonder as a magnificent new star illuminates the...

When the world ends, it doesn’t do so with one single scream. It fractures. And the dead rise faster than anyone can run. This box set collects the first four novels of Echoes of Decay, a relentless, character-driven zombie apocalypse saga set in a collapsing United Kingdom, where survival is measured not just by bullets and barricades, but by loyalty, sacrifice, and the choices that refuse to stay buried.

They are in your house. They are in your car. They are in the skies…Now they’re coming for you. In the near future, at a moment no one will notice, all the dazzling technology that runs our world will unite and turn against us. Taking on the persona of a shy human boy, a childlike but...

An ex-government assassin turned bounty hunter, Nyx is good at solving other people's problems. Her favorite problem-solving solution is punching people in the face. Then maybe chopping off some heads. She's trying to navigate an apocalyptic world full of giant bugs, contaminated deserts, scheming magicians, and a centuries-long war that's consuming her future. Managing her ragtag squad of misfits has required a lot of morally gray choices. Every new job is another day alive. Every new mission is another step toward changing a hellish future, but only if she can survive.

Soon to be an exciting series on MGM+! The award-winning Earth Abides is one of the most influential science fiction novels of all time, a mix of dystopian horror and a literary exploration of loneliness. It remains a fresh, provocative--and all too relevant--story of apocalyptic pandemic...

Leon Tsarev is a high school student set on getting into a great college program, until his uncle, a member of the Russian mob, coerces him into developing a new computer virus for the mob's botnet - the slave army of computers they used to commit digital crimes. The evolutionary virus Leon creates, based on biological principles, is successful - too successful. All the world's computers are infected.

Friday night in Shoreditch turns to police tape and panic in minutes. An attacker in a nightclub doesn’t bruise or beg —he bites. Sergeant Daniel Kerr, MO19 armed response, puts one round to the head and watches his partner rise again with blood in his eyes. The rules change on the floor of a bar.

The most original AI audiobook of our time Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Amazon & Audible bestselling author, RR Haywood. One of the most downloaded indie authors in the UK with over four million books sold and more than 35 Kindle bestsellers. For nearly two days, every human on Earth...

From New York Times bestselling author Mira Grant comes the second book in the terrifying Parasitology series. The SymboGen-designed tapeworms were created to relieve humanity of disease and sickness. But the implants in the majority of the world's population began attacking their hosts, turning...

The first novel of the Asteroid Wars about earth's near future from the "leading light of hard Science Fiction and space advocacy"* Once, Dan Randolph was one of the richest men on Earth. Now the planet is spiralling into environmental disaster, with floods and earthquakes destroying the lives...

Sue Burke, author of Semiosis and Interference, gives listeners a new near-future, hard sf novel. Immunity Index blends Orphan Black with Contagion in a terrifying outbreak scenario. In a US facing growing food shortages, stark inequality, and a growing fascist government, three perfectly normal...

Before the world fell, Silvio Cipriano was a contract-killer for the Italian Mafia. When the H7D3 virus came to Italy, Silvio worked to forget his past, to build a different future. Fighting to protect his loved ones from the zombie hordes, he organized the survivors, raised them up from the ashes, and gave them hope. Now, a new enemy has arisen. Worse than the zombies, and bent on conquering the planet one nation at a time, they’ve set their sights on Italy . . . with no idea what’s awaiting them.

High atop a dormant volcano, a team of scientists preserve the last remnants of higher technology. Off the coast of Kauai, a flotilla of survivors must decide whether to return to their island, or make their way to another location, risking pirates and nature on the gamble of safer shores. On the central plateau of the Big Island, a group of ranchers want to rebuild civilization… but to do that, they’ll need to reunite a people scattered across an ocean of stars.

From the author of the best-selling and award-winning travel memoir Falling Uphill comes a prophetic dystopian novel. What if global warming isn’t the problem, but a symptom of something much worse? Orphaned as a boy by a natural disaster that suffocated his village in Cameroon, Mykelti has dedicated his life to ensuring it never happens again. Now a renowned paleoclimatologist, he discovers the greatest mass extinctions in Earth’s history were caused by cataclysmic oxygen depletion. And it has begun again, this time due to humanity’s rampant industrialization.

The Exodus Towers features all the high-octane action and richly imagined characters of The Darwin Elevator—but the stakes have never been higher. The sudden appearance of a second space elevator in Brazil only deepens the mystery about the aliens who provided it: the Builders. Scavenger...

The 21st century will see great changes for humanity. True Artificial Intelligence comes into existence, and in its wake the world is ripped apart and reborn. In new technology ancient ways will find new expression, as the secret rulers of the world choose its future shape. It is a time of great change, of disaster and destruction matched only by the flowering of mind.

>Pursued by packs of deadly "steelies", Lieutenant MacWilliams and his Humvee crew have journeyed through an America shattered by an alien invasion. In the middle of a dangerous rescue attempt, MacWilliams learns the mind-blowing nature of the "kids" that he's set out to save. And that's not all he has to deal with. Mac, Church, and Doc now have to fight to rejoin the armored convoy sent to collect the one thing that will prove to be humanity's salvation...or its final step on the road to destruction!

In the future, earth's warriors have conquered the heavens. But on a distant world, Humanity is in chains ... Many millennia ago, the human race was enslaved by the An -- a fearsome alien people whose cruel empire once spanned the galaxies, until they were defeated and consigned to oblivion. But...

The greatest threat to humanity remains humanity. If worrying about aliens, bigfoot, reptilians, dog men, shadow people wasn't enough, we now have to go and start messing with human-made robots. It's not going to be up to us at some point on whether or not robots are going to be good or bad for humanity - after the singularity, they will decide. Once the robots have AI (artificial intelligence), self-awareness, and free will, it will be game over.

With the planet's fighting men and women deployed across the galaxy—battling in the noble cause of enslaved humanity—the insidious Xul have reached across space to devastate the unsuspecting Earth with asteroid fire. Without warning, a once majestic world is reduced to near-rubble—and the...