Ergebnis für "The Descendant" in Dystopien

He was born in a world that forgot the stars. Now he’s fighting to survive long enough to reach them. ZostaMax is a warrior who asked too many questions. His skepticism earned him the privilege of being a scapegoat, carving out a brutal life on a scorched, high-gravity planet where ancient bones and blood-red skies tell of forgotten legacies. A victim of circumstances beyond his control, ZostaMax finds himself hunted, exiled, and alone in the killing sands. To survive, he must become more than a man.

She was given a second chance to prove that she could manifest her powers. She had no idea she’d have to hide them. Ever since Rayah could remember, she had always been different from everyone else. Not only was she the prized daughter of the greatest collectors known to history, but she was also branded a null. To the students of Monroe Academy, Rayah was a privileged failure. A lightless lighter. A worthless Lytonian. And if it weren’t for her parents, they would have been calling her a slave years ago.

Five thousand years in the future, the Earth is dead. A galactic network of terraformed planets, connected by teleportation portals, is populated by the genetically improved Descendants. The original Humans, labeled dangerous and barbaric, are kept under constant surveillance. In this seemingly peaceful society, Dora Dana Dasnan, a gifted Visionaire, serves the leading race of Descendants by reporting her Visions of the future.

There is no need to fear, if there’s but one choice to be made. In a dystopic world of genetically modified Descendants, where teleportations are controlled by sophisticated AI, Humans are detained on a prison planet for reasons more sinister than mere punishment. Dora Dana Dasnan, a gifted Visionaire, knows she is the only one who can save them: She needs to teleport them away from the Uni galaxy. The evacuation is going smoothly and Dora manages to teleport thousands of Humans to safety, when an unexpected event throws her onto a completely new path.

While plague zombies rage through the streets of London and begin their conquest beyond Britain, Jonathan, Holly, Cassie, and Garth try to stay alive. Vladimir Nesky seeks to complete his mission for Russia by apprehending Patient Zero before MI6's Director Sayers and her special forces team can steal him away to secure a cure for the virus for Britain.

England faces utter ruin when a viral pandemic erupts in Central London. Within hours of infection, citizens become ravenous creatures seeking to feed upon and infect any living thing they can find. Swiftly they break through Armed Response teams and military units, leaving an ever widening swathe of devastation and chaos in their wake. What started simply with one boy, may now scour the entire globe.

In this terrifying fable of a world without faith, first there were the changes in weather. Lack of rain was turning the plains of Iowa, Kansas, and Idaho into arid blocks of parched earth. In the North, it was already January, and no sign of snow. All over the world, the seas were shrinking, and creeks and rivers looked like dried scars. But for Pete, the terrified son of a Midwestern farming family, the first great omen came one unseasonably warm winter night when the moon simply vanished from a cloudless sky and the clocks stopped.