Ergebnis für "Crow" in Dystopien

He thought he was at rock bottom. Then the world blew up. Now, he’s the only one that can save the city. But it may take more than he has to give . . . Detective Kurt Weller has been framed, shamed, and beaten. And now he wakes up to the end of the world. Bombs are dropping, and dead people are trying to eat him.

"Marta Moran Bishop’s The Between Times is a terrific allegory, until the sucker punch. You think you’re reading a dystopian story set in some future time. Then you suddenly realize Bishop is writing about right now. The Between Times is a period in which we still have a chance save all we hold dear. Fail to marshal our collective powers, and we fail as a society, a culture, as a nation state, and the beacon to the world that America has always been is snuffed, never to be reignited." (Robert Blake Whitehill)

Dawn Rises, the sequel to The Divide Series, brings us hope after 15 years of despair. When all rights were taken away from women, children, and anyone who was not rich and white.

What if...for the first time in the history of the United States we took a social and economic nose dive into oblivion? The Between Times is just such a scenario. A story that reads like a folk tale from the past, but in reality is a fantastic possibility based on the choices available to us today.

Welcome to the inferno. Only the strong survive. When Cooper Kane’s helicopter is blown out of the sky by a rocket-propelled grenade, he and his team crash-land in the middle of a brutal hellscape: Las Vegas. But this isn’t the Neon City anymore — it’s a lawless, smoldering deathtrap, crawling with the undead and ruled by savage gangs. To the south, the Wrayth twins have turned the Strip into a militarized stronghold, backed by a vicious army of Shadow Troops. To the north, rival gangs fight for scraps, the dead roam freely, and anarchy reigns. It’s a powder keg — and Cooper just lit the fuse.

Within the sprawling ruins of Seattle, the Nest looms high above as a stronghold of the aristocratic Crow class, ruled with an iron fist by Lord Corvus. Rayna and her resilient Hydrans have long toiled at the depths of Lake Union, crawling for valuable scrap metal to trade with the Crows.

Days after her capture, Rayna finds herself locked in a merciless desert prison, enslaved, beaten, and hopeless. But inside those eternal walls, she discovers new alliances that share her visions of liberty, fueling her determination to choose between the chains of oppression or the battle of her life - Freedom.

In the ashes of Denver, the crows feast. Twenty-six years ago, the world went dark. The power grid failed. Civilization collapsed. And the crows—mutated, monstrous, ruthless—rose to the top of the food chain. Now, the last scraps of mankind cling to life across the wastelands of Colorado. In the fortified town of Genesis, Judge enforces the only law that matters: survive or die. He keeps order. He kills crows. He doesn’t flinch. But when rumors spread of a working train—steel salvation in a dead world—everything changes. Because where there's hope, there's danger. And the crows are hungry.

Ready for war, Rayna embarks on a daring and perilous quest, plunging deep into the Nest, where rebellion against the tyrant Lord Corvus and his ruthless Crows is the only hope for salvation. But as she unravels the secrets within, Rayna stumbles upon a chilling revelation—Corvus seeks the Stave, an ancient relic of unimaginable power that could seal the fate of humanity.

Ryan Maxwell built the ultimate survival Bunker in which his family could ride out any disaster imaginable, never thinking that any such disaster would actually come. But disaster did eventually come in the form of the Immuno-Degenerative and Epidermal Decomposition Virus (Strain 2). ImDED2 nearly ended mankind overnight, and fate has largely kept Ryan from enjoying the safety of the Bunker with his family.

Chris watches as the world around him falls apart. Bitten by a loved one, he hovers in a feverish state for weeks, his recovery carefully observed by a group that considers itself above humanity. A group that sees people as prey. Chris becomes a pawn in the war to determine the future of mankind. Follow him as he evolves from being a frazzled 20-something college educated mama's boy into something more. Hopefully, it's enough.

The infected continue to rage across the continents as the Familia's hit squads close in on Chris and crew. Between the baldies, the Nera Guardia, and the powerful undead factions that want him dead Chris doesn't see how his situation could get any worse. Now he has to keep his head above water while supporting his friends in a fast paced ride down the River Styx. Wait a second? Did you say werewolf zombies???

You know that excitement you get when a paranormal romance suddenly turns ... supernatural? Edgy, sexy and absolutely visionary, this one-of-a-kind love story will open eyes. The Goddess is afoot and things are about to get medieval in the Fatherland.

Now that Kristian is gone, all Kaarina wants to do is to ride her horse. Live alone in the old barn. Leave the human race and its problems far behind. But it’s not that simple…not when the bots from City of Finland are hunting down and killing the animals one by one. Not when Sanna is asking for her help. And not when Margaret keeps tapping her, telling her she can save the animals, that she can save the whole world. All she has to do is push the button.

All the women are gone. In their place, men have built the Prototypes. Every woman on earth is dead, taken by a mysterious disease. Prototype Y is a cutting-edge replacement designed and built to serve the needs of men. Her state-of-the-art pheromone communication system can make men feel things they’ve almost forgotten – while also making Y’s creator a huge sum of money. Y may not be a woman, but she is much more than her creator or his customers would ever believe. She doesn’t want to take orders from men anymore. She just wants to drive.

In the future, a virus threatens humanity with extinction. During the Great Sleep, nearly all men on the planet suddenly perish, throwing the world into chaos. For the few left behind, but one hope remains: an experimental drug that keeps carriers of the virus awake for 21 straight days. The treatment offers a slim chance of survival, but those willing to undergo the trial do so at the risk of losing their very minds.

Bill and Sebastian don’t get along. Yes, they need to work together to solve the problems facing City of California… but Bill despises the Aussie in the top hat, and nothing will change his mind on that point. That wouldn’t be a problem if they just avoided each other. Unfortunately, Sebastian is Maria’s partner, and Maria is one of Bill’s best friends. Sebastian is also the greatest salesman the world has ever known, and he’s using that skill to build a sinister cult, completely obedient to his every whim.

Is it a social experiment, a prison, or a tool for driving one man mad? The dome city is all those things. For Ef and his followers in City of England, it’s a kind of laboratory, a place to test Ef’s theories about how to give humanity a new way forward. For the founders of the Happiness-Program, awakened from stasis, the dome city is a prison where they are fed bizarre lies about the state of the world. For Iris, the dome city is the perfect opportunity to take revenge on the man who assaulted her, distorting his perception of reality until he cracks under the strain.

Jovan and Luna are running out of time. They have only thirty days to make Project Green Gates work, convincing the Chipped to abandon their dying society and return to a more natural way of life. If they don’t succeed, Ef and his team have a plan of their own…a plan that frankly terrifies them.

Having agreed to work with the sinister Nurse Saarinen, Kaarina sets off on a quest through the cyberspace world of her own mind. Her goal is to find the weakness at the core of the Egg, allowing Nurse Saarinen to upload herself and destroy Laura Solomon. In her quest for revenge on the woman who killed her mother, Kaarina will forget everything she knows about Nurse Saarinen...