Ergebnis für "Rapture" in Science Fiction

It was the end of World War II. FDR's New Deal had redefined American politics. Taxes were at an all-time high. The bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki had created a fear of total annihilation. The rise of secret government agencies and sanctions on business had many watching their backs. America's sense of freedom was diminishing... and many were desperate to take that freedom back.

Alvin woke in a room that was not his, to discover that he had died and his brain had been bargained off cheaply to pay off someone else’s debt. It did not sit well with him. It didn’t surprise him that even in death, people were still using him for their own purposes. He had never exactly been a good guy, but everyone had their breaking point, and he had found his. The bastards in charge had uploaded his mind into a virtual death game. The whole world could now pay to see him play it and probably die. Regardless, he was not about to wait for death to come for him.

"Blood-soaked, heart-wrenching, grim and glorious.”—Rachel Harrison, national bestselling author of Black Sheep From CJ Leede, the author of Maeve Fly, comes a scorching new apocalyptic novel. American Gods meets The Last of Us in this epic and sweeping story about the end of the world as we...

Authors Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins are now among the greatest successes in the history of publishing. They continue their captivating story with this third prequel, which leads directly to the events of Left Behind, the novel that started the phenomenon.

Pan-Con Airlines captain Rayford Steele prepares for a flight to London with beautiful flight attendant Hattie Durham. Because of his wife's newfound faith, Rayford looks forward to time and the possibilities with Hattie. Journalist Cameron "Buck" Williams is in Israel when the Russians attack, and he experiences for himself the miraculous deliverance of the Holy Land. Buck cannot deny Chicago bureau chief Lucinda Washington's insistence that the event was prophesied in Scripture, though he dares to not consider the personal ramifications.

THE BLEED is attacking on several fronts and through different realities at once. The survivors of numerous battles are brought together through a series of ancient clockwork rooms, and their individual experiences combine to paint a picture of a multiverse on the brink of total annihilation. Gods and mortals fight alongside each other on the streets and among the stars, struggling to hold back the armies of demons doing the bidding of THE BLEED.

In the moments leading up to the Rapture, nobody knows it is coming as the clock silently ticks down. Choices are made. The stage is set as Nicolae Carpathia ruthlessly eliminates any obstacles in his rise to power.

Arthur Winter, his wife, and daughter move to Rapture with the promise of a better life, and more importantly a new start. He intends to work hard and one day be wealthy just like Ryan promises everyone who moves to Rapture. He opens a small business. For a few years things are good, almost idyllic. The good life is shattered when one day his daughter mysteriously vanishes without a trace. The police of Rapture don't seem to want to help. So Arthur sets out to find her himself.

War between the stars. It was started and fought by an AI. Few humans even knew there was a war at all. But now people are dying—and the AI wants it to stop. But a war is easier to start than to stop, and the computer can't alter its course without outside help. When the Gnostic Control System searches for co-conspirators, it chooses its friends carefully....

A truck crashes on the M40 causing one of the worst motorway pileups for years but the driver is nowhere to be found. Over the next few days more unexplained disappearances occur, leaving investigators puzzled, and the government in a panic. Amid claims of alien abductions and prophecies of a biblical nature, Josh believes there may be another explanation involving time travel. But his theories will have to wait because as the population vanishes at a frightening rate, and society begins to break down, those who remain are plunged into a desperate battle for survival.

Das phänomenale, fesselnde erste Buch aus der erfolgreichen "Finale"-Serie die sich mittlerweile zur erfolgreichsten Bestseller-Reihe aller Zeiten im Bereich christlicher Erweckungsliteratur gemausert hat. Begleiten Sie zwei Männer bei ihrem Kampf gegen das Böse. Mit ihrer "Tribulation Force" versuchen sie zu verhindern, dass der Antichrist die Herrschaft über die Welt erringt.

Rapture mira ad essere una piccola oasi per chiunque sia fortemente appassionato di videogiochi, fumetti, film e...tutto ciò che è "nerd"! Principalmente condividerò i miei pareri e le mie opinioni strettamente soggettive su giochi, fumetti, film attuali e del passato, sui generi sul mercato (nei casi in cui mi riterrò sufficientemente competente per farlo) e...altro ancora!

Six friends maneuver learning the Lancer System and a story involving mechs, clandestine intergovernmental organizations, and twisting political schemes, playing as a very dysfunctional group of Lancers. General warnings for: Violence, Death, Drug Use

Rapture 518 is a horror/psychological thriller Audiodrama produced in Canada.Dr. Sarah Penn is a resident physician, but she has not been at work for a few weeks.Part of this is because of the unpredictable outbreak that’s turned mild mannered pedestrians into flesh-eating sociopaths. People are much less predictable than the undead.Welcome to Rapture.Welcome home.

Surfing Betelgeuse made him the galaxy's ultimate badass, but when Suave Rob Suarez gets thrown in the klink for brawling with his best bro, and forced to babysit a bevy of bratty delinquents as punishment, he figures that even badasses get the bogus end of the stick sometimes. But egregious evil never sleeps, and when his wards get hijacked by the world's most heinous underwater overlord, Suave Rob pulls out all the stops to jump bail and embark on history's most epic high-dive.

Learn how rapture insurance generated millions of dollars for two struggling entrepreneurs, one a believer and the other an atheist. This is the surreal story of the rise of the company that created the post-rapture assistance industry almost overnight.

Ibiza, 1997, and thousands of young people are acting like mindless zombies. Which is to be expected. Ibiza, the island of dance music, sex, drugs and alcohol, is the ultimate hedonistic paradise. God has sent help from on high to save the sinners of Ibiza. He has sent his angels to save their souls. Which would be simple enough if these souls didn't include an alien time-traveller working in a bar, a woman who disappeared in 1987, a young man carrying a photograph of a girl he's never met and an Irish girl who doesn't even know who she is anymore.

Set in the very near future, A Time to Run opens with the strange and sudden, "in the twinkling of an eye", disappearance of millions of the Earth's citizens. Married couple, Matt and Jenny Jacobs, attempt to escape the stranglehold of a Global State ruled over by a thoroughly evil World President, Byron East. In a cashless society the currency is electronic credits. Unless fully tied into the One World System, there will be no credits, no means to buy or sell, no ability to afford travel or the fuel to travel - therefore no means of escape! But the wind is still free.