Ergebnis für "Hard Times" in Dystopien

NATIONAL BESTSELLER An audacious, darkly glittering novel set in the eerie days of civilization’s collapse—the spellbinding story of a Hollywood star, his would-be savior, and a nomadic group of actors roaming the scattered outposts of the Great Lakes region, risking everything for art...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Jason M. Hough’s pulse-pounding debut combines the drama, swagger, and vivid characters of Joss Whedon’s Firefly with the talent of sci-fi author John Scalzi. In the mid-23rd century, Darwin, Australia, stands as the last human city on Earth. The world has...

A work of literary fiction, Hard Times in Babylon tells the story of a man in his early sixties, a husband and father and filmmaker, who is already adrift in a malaise of irrelevance and invisibility when a worldwide plague jolts him with thoughts of suicide. Why bother to live, he wonders, now that the world is facing its apocalypse. As he trudges through the ensuing days and months, seeing nothing but futility all around him, he imagines all the ways he could end things.

Sometimes life deals a bad hand. But it’s all about how you play the cards. Solidarity in the face of oppression. Songs in the dark. Finding hope in spite of the odds. Thirteen stories set in the dystopian universe of the Aces High, Jokers Wild series keep fighting the good fight in the darkest of times.