Ergebnis für "Landleben" in Science Fiction & Fantasy

With winter looming, a small northern Anishinaabe community goes dark. Cut off, people become passive and confused. Panic builds as the food supply dwindles. While the band council and a pocket of community members struggle to maintain order, an unexpected visitor arrives, escaping the crumbling society to the south. Soon after, others follow. Frustrated by the building chaos, a group of young friends and their families turn to the land and Anishinaabe tradition in hopes of helping their community thrive again.

Die Welt von Antonia in einer unsanierten Zweiraumwohnung am Stadtrand von Berlin ist klein und unbedeutend, aber immerhin sicher. Dort lebt sie mit ihrer Adoptivmutter Alva. Doch als Alva an ihrem siebzehnten Geburtstag kurz nach Mitternacht spurlos verschwindet, ist nichts mehr, wie es war. Dabei wollte sie doch nur den Müll in den Abfallraum bringen. Es ist völlig unklar, was geschehen sein könnte. Auf dem Polizeirevier lernt Antonia Tiril kennen, dessen Schwester ebenfalls verschwunden ist. Das Besondere an Tiril: Auf verblüffende Weise ähnelt er Liroy Angers, einen berühmten Singer-Songwriter, der Antonias Idol ist.

Nervenaufreibende Monate liegen hinter der ehemaligen Diebin Lydia Frost und ihrem Partner, dem Ex-Pinkerton Jackson Payne. Das Geheimnis um Frosts mechanisches Herz und ihre mysteriöse Vergangenheit ist gelüftet. Ihr Peiniger Dr. Grimm ist tot und Lord Greyson, der die Macht über London ergreifen wollte, sitzt im Gefängnis. Ruhe kehrt allerdings nicht ein. Ein neuer Hinweis auf den Verbleib von Paynes verschwundener Tochter rückt Amerika in den Fokus.

Jean, l'enfant trouvé, a été élevé par un couple de bergers analphabètes, frustes et superstitieux. Le service militaire va heureusement le sauver de cet enfer.

After two decades of keeping the peace as a city guard, Cid Dawnshield is ready for the quiet life. After trading his pension for a plot of land at Oak Tree Farm, he's ready for easy days, tending crops, and fishing out of the creek on the back of the property. But Haven isn't your typical farming village, and his rundown farm sits atop more than just fertile soil.

What happens when magic collides with reality? Donald is a young fisherman, eking out a lonely living on the west coast of Scotland. One night he witnesses something miraculous...and makes a terrible mistake. His action changes lives - not only his own but those of his family and the entire tightly knit community in which they live. Can he ever atone for the wrong he has done, and can love grow when its foundation is violence?

When Gregory Tomasov moves into an abandoned farm on the edge of McGuane, Arizona, he discovers a terrible secret buried in the walls of the old building.

It's 1997. Scarclaw Fell. The body of teenager Tom Jeffries is found at an outward bound centre. Verdict? Misadventure. But not everyone is convinced. And the truth of what happened in the beautiful but eerie fell is locked in the memories of the tight-knit group of friends who took that fateful trip and the flimsy testimony of those living nearby.

On Christmas Eve in 1988, seven-year-old Alfie Marsden vanished in the Wentshire Forest Pass when a burst tyre forced his father, Sorrel, to stop the car. Leaving the car to summon the emergency services, Sorrel returned to find his son gone. No trace of the child, nor his remains, have ever been found. Alfie Marsden was declared officially dead in 1995. Elusive online journalist Scott King, whose Six Stories podcasts have become an internet sensation, investigates the disappearance, interviewing six witnesses, to try to find out what really happened that fateful night.

Der alte Archer Airport soll endlich dichtgemacht werden, Platz für eine luxuriöse Ferienanlage schaffen. Am letzten Abend landet dort kurz vor der Schließung ein monströses, bedrohliches Flugobjekt auf dem Flugfeld, doch niemand entsteigt dem "Ufo". Stattdessen beginnen sich die Menschen im Flughafen auf beängstigende Weise zu verändern, ihre zivilisierte Fassade bröckelt und heimlich unterdrückte Wünsche, Begierden und Aggressionen treten mit aller Brutalität an die Oberfläche.

In the quiet Northwoods of Wisconsin, Dalton Grinder was looking for a fresh start. What he found was a town on the edge of collapse, with riots, lawlessness, and enemies closing in from the shadows. When violence erupts inside the small town of Birchwood, Dalton makes a choice that changes how the community sees him forever. No longer just the outsider, he becomes a protector, a man willing to stand between Birchwood and the dangers pressing in.

Little Henry Wallace was eight years old and 100 miles from home before anyone talked to him. His mother placed him on a train with a label around his neck, asking for him to be kept safe for a week, kept away from Hinton Hollow. Because something was coming.

The heartland of the country has gone dark after an EMP attack has neutralized the power grid. John Carver, a construction worker and prepper, must rescue his family from the city and seek shelter in their cabin off the grid. The only thing in the way of John’s family reunion is one hundred miles, and the entire metropolis of Cincinnati fighting to stay alive.

Ken and Bennett Johnson own Fearless Brewery, a place where you can come in for a bite to eat and sample their newest beers in a relaxing atmosphere...until the undead rose and began to destroy humanity. The big cities are falling—or have fallen—and Ken decides to spearhead an operation that will help keep not just a handful of survivors alive, but as many of the town's citizens as possible. It will be no small feat as he faces not only the walking dead, but also small town squabbles and worse...outsiders.

Deftly written and utterly addictive, this Western literary horror debut will find a home with fans of authors like Joe Hill, Cormac McCarthy, and Anne Rice. One night in 1980, a man becomes a monster. Haunted by his past, Travis Stillwell spends his nights searching out women in West Texas honky-tonks. What he does with them doesn't make him proud, just quiets the demons for a little while. But after Travis crosses paths one night with a mysterious pale-skinned girl, he wakes weak and bloodied.

En quittant son Ardèche natale, Silvius Andromas, fils de petit paysan, a fait le bon choix. Et si son amour avec Roxane, fille d'un riche soyeux lyonnais, est porteur de déception, du moins a-t-il appris à voler de ses propres ailes. Silvius conquiert une position enviable dans le cercle des négociants. Il a su tirer parti du déclin de la soie naturelle. Tandis que les affaires du clan familial de Roxane périclitent, son mari connaît des succès dans la production de la soie artificielle.

Lyon, 1894. Silvius, fils d'un éleveur de cocons de mûrier ardéchois, réussit à pénétrer dans le milieu fermé des riches soyeux de Lyon, en épousant la belle Roxane. Hélas, elle se désintéresse vite de lui.

Es una novela de cinco capítulos, escrita por H. P. Lovecraft en 1931 y publicada en abril de 1936 de forma íntegra como novela. Narra el descubrimiento de los seres híbridos mitad humanos mitad peces que lo habitan. Se ubica en el ficticio y decadente pueblo de Innsmouth, en Massachusetts.

A snappy, absurdly dark satire set in Hanmer, a small town on the outskirts of the author's hometown of Sudbury, Ontario, Canada. It's about a sport involving grocery carts, several terrible people, an alternate universe, and an annoying (yet charming) narrator.

In Wild Thyme, Pennsylvania, secrets and feuds go back generations. The lone policeman in a small township on the sparse northern border, Henry Farrell expected to spend his mornings hunting and fishing, his evenings playing old-time music. Instead, he has watched the steady encroachment of gas drilling bring new wealth and erode neighborly trust. The drug trade is pushing heroin into the territory. There are outlaws cooking meth in the woods, guys Henry grew up with. When a stranger turns up dead, Henry’s search for the killer will open old wounds.