Ergebnis für "It's Over" in Dystopien

Traveling across the landscapes of time and of space, heading always west, and carrying a dead but laconically opinionated crow in her chest, our undead narrator encounters and loses parts of her body and her self in one terrifying, hilarious, and heartbreaking situation after another.

Theology professor Mary Cortez is saved from certain attack at the hands of two drunken frat boys by a homeless man in a fur coat. Evangelical preacher Nathaniel Brymstone snorts a line before an otherworldly meeting with the devil himself. Dwayne Akins sells his soul for a perpetual high. Rock singer Zane Enzo has an important show coming up, but the blood-filled dreams are keeping him distracted and distant. And Lucifer...he just wants to break the world.

Doremus Jessup, a newspaper editor, is dismayed to find that many of the people he knows support presidential candidate Berzelius Windrip. The suspiciously fascist Windrip is offering to save the nation from sex, crime, welfare cheats, and a liberal press. But after Windrip wins the election, dissent soon becomes dangerous for Jessup. Windrip forcibly gains control of Congress and the Supreme Court and, with the aid of his personal paramilitary storm troopers, turns the United States into a totalitarian state.

In the wake of absolute destruction, a new religion has taken hold - the religion of TeeVee. Nathaniel Brymstone is the president of a ruined nation, ruling with an iron grip and a hired gun. But there are forces at work to take down Brymstone and his army, including the masked figure that calls itself Zenith.