Ergebnis für "Rick" in Dystopien

Die erste Welle brachte Dunkelheit. Die zweite Zerstörung. Die dritte ein tödliches Virus. Nach der vierten Welle gibt es nur noch eine Regel fürs Überleben: Traue niemandem! Das hat auch Cassie lernen müssen, denn seit der Ankunft der Anderen hat sie fast alles verloren: Ihre Freunde und ihre Familie sind tot, ihren kleinen Bruder haben sie mitgenommen. Das Wenige, was sie noch besitzt, passt in einen Rucksack. Und dann begegnet sie Evan Walker.

Dr. William Arnold (Arn) woke up with a start. The dreams had returned. They were always the same, an apocalyptic scene. He went to the bathroom and wiped the sweat from his body. Several years ago, he encountered a strange artifact that was slowly de-aging an older man. As the man faded into the relic, he told Arn they were interested in him. In the years since, the dreams would occasionally haunt him. The sight of Stella, the dog bequeathed to him.

When a massive solar flare strikes the Western Hemisphere, it leave the planet's electronic infrastructure destroyed. Jared, who has spent his entire life behind a computer screen, must navigate his way home through a quickly deteriorating society. Shortly after the solar event, Jared is taken in by a grouchy, bourbon drinking old man named Bart. The two men form a special relationship as Bart mentors Jared in a new and dangerous world. While out searching for food, Jared finds a seven-year old girl and brings her back to Bart's place.

In a dystopian future, a self-contained valley in Argentina serves as the "far arena" for those convicted of a crime. Inside the Valley: carnivorous dinosaurs generated from preserved DNA. The goal: cross the Valley to get to the Gates of Freedom. The chance of survival: no one has ever completed the journey. Convicted of crimes with little or no merit, Ben Peyton and others must battle their way across fields filled with the world’s deadliest apex predators in order to reach salvation.

Political dignitaries, including the president of the Federation, gather for a ceremony onboard Mausoleum 2069. But when a cloud of interstellar dust passes through the galaxy and eclipses Earth, the tenants within the walls of Mausoleum 2069 are reborn and the undead begin to rise. As the struggle between life and death onboard the mausoleum develops, Eriq Wyman, a one-time member of a special-ops team called the Force Elite, is given the task to lead the president to the safety of Earth. But is Earth like Mausoleum 2069 - a landscape of the living dead?

At the turn of this century, a homeless man was allowed to win the lottery. It was hoped that he would change the world for the better, forever. After 12 years, SomeplacElse, his divinely inspired utopian experiment in the sub-urban Arizona desert, has reached critical mass. As Fate would have it, over the next five days the stories of a chronically underemployed baby boomer and a soon-to-be-governor, playboy millionaire will determine the future of this earthly Eden.

A fascist administration rounds up undesirables. Terrorist groups strike governmental and religious targets. The constitution is under assault. Erec Stebbins’s China Girl is a controversial look at an America that is all too close to reality, radioactive in its timely examination of extremism in the nation.

Erin Miller was alone in the world after her Uncle Ernie died, but he left her a hunting lodge full of secrets in the Kiamichi Mountains of southeastern Oklahoma. She packed up her belongings and left Tulsa, determined to make the lodge into a home. Just as she was settling in and making friends in the nearby town of Kanichi Springs, events on the other side of the world and across America caused drastic changes in her life and the lives of all Americans.