Ergebnis für "The Rain" in Dystopien

With only three days left until the predicted apocalypse, the small town of Franklin Springs, Georgia, has become a wasteland of abandoned cars, abandoned homes, abandoned businesses, and abandoned people. People like Rainbow Williams. Rain isn’t afraid of dying. In fact, she’s looking forward to it. If she can just outrun her pain until April 23, she’ll never have to feel it at all.

Gefühle sind in unserer Welt ein Zeichen von Schwäche. Und wer schwach ist, stirbt. New York City. Einst brachten grausame Drachenreiter Tod und Zerstörung, und ihr König tyrannisiert nun die Welt. Die letzten freien Menschen verstecken sich in den U-Bahn-Tunneln, unter ihnen auch die Diebin...

Eine verblüffende Dystopie, die unsere Realität gekonnt infrage stellt. Die Inseln von Prospera liegen in einem riesigen Ozean, in herrlicher Abgeschiedenheit vom Rest der Menschheit oder dem, was von ihr übrig ist. Die Bewohner der Hauptinsel genießen ein privilegiertes Leben, umsorgt von emsigem Hilfspersonal, das weniger luxuriös auf einer beengten Nachbarinsel lebt. Neigt sich die Lebenszeit der Prosperaner dem Ende zu, werden sie auf eine geheimnisvolle dritte Insel geschickt – eine Einrichtung namens Aufzucht –, um dort neu gebootet zu werden und ein weiteres Leben zu beginnen.

Rain has returned to the Wasteland. That alone should have been impossible. In a world stripped bare by fire, fallout, and the long collapse of the old electronic age, rain was supposed to be a rumor, a mercy, a brief mistake before the drought came back to finish the job. But this rain is wrong.

Das Jahr 2075: Die radikale Gleichheitsbewegung "Movement for Optical Justice" (MOVE) wendet sich gegen die ungleiche Verteilung von Schönheit. Attraktive Frauen genössen angeblich unverdiente Privilegien im Berufs- wie im Privatleben. Darum: "Schönheit ist ungerecht." Die Bewegung gewinnt immer mehr Einfluss. Stück für Stück verwandelt sich die Demokratie in eine Gleichheitsdiktatur. Es beginnt mit höheren Steuern und beruflichen Nachteilen für Schöne.

On the last day of normality in Mackinaw, Illinois, Oliver McCallister thinks his worst problem is figuring out how to come clean to his wife about the secret he’s been keeping from her. Zoe McCallister thinks her worst problem is squeezing in an errand at the courthouse before another long day of nursing classes—and worrying about whatever Oliver is hiding from her.

In a darkly warped near future, lucrative disease cures are brokered on Wall Street's Genetic Stock Exchange. And the hottest consumer products are artificially synthesized humans that serve as everything from domestic slaves to combatants in savage gladiatorial games. For Jack Saxton, the young heir to genetic design powerhouse Genico Inc., these Synthates are just a fact of life...until the murder of a high-profile genetic scientist leads a pair of seasoned NYPD detectives to Genico's door.

I’ve lived my life by a strict set of rules—rules that have kept me alive, rules that have kept the nightmares of my past at bay. But the moment I met her, I crossed all of them out with a giant X and scrawled the words Protect Rainbow Williams next to them in murderous block letters. That’s all I cared about. Keeping her safe. Keeping her—period.

Eine verblüffende Dystopie, die unsere Realität gekonnt infrage stellt. Die Inseln von Prospera liegen in einem riesigen Ozean, in herrlicher Abgeschiedenheit vom Rest der Menschheit oder dem, was von ihr übrig ist. Die Bewohner der Hauptinsel genießen ein privilegiertes Leben, umsorgt von emsigem Hilfspersonal, das weniger luxuriös auf einer beengten Nachbarinsel lebt. Neigt sich die Lebenszeit der Prosperaner dem Ende zu, werden sie auf eine geheimnisvolle dritte Insel geschickt – eine Einrichtung namens Aufzucht –, um dort neu gebootet zu werden und ein weiteres Leben zu beginnen.

Badly injured and on the run from CLOUD, Rainer flees to the secret Ponce de Leon island resort. Though unsettled by the island's enigmatic inhabitants, Rainer strives to heal and rebuild his life—but a string of grisly murders and the rise of a Maoist insurgency shatter the island’s fragile peace.

I swore I'd never step foot in this town again, but thirteen foster homes and a looming apocalypse later, here I am. Not because I'm having some emotional end-of-the-world crisis—like literally everybody else on this planet—but because the key to my survival is buried somewhere in these woods. I just have to find it before April 23.

Die HTO sorgt sich um die Promet. Das Schiff ist spurlos verschwunden. Auf Terra befürchtet man das Schlimmste. Im All kämpfen Peet, Arn und alle anderen ums Überleben.

A missionary begs to be moved from disease-ridden Bangkok. A musician plays a private show for ghosts. A student abandoned by his lover bleeds to death in the street. A plastic surgeon designs a girl a new face. A woman decides whether to cook a final meal for a dying murderer. Lurching through decades, from Bangkok's rich past to its imagined, uploaded future, witness the city as it changes from a booming capitalist hub to a city engulfed by water, through human tales seeping into one another, held together by delicate threads.  

Das versunkene Inselreich Atlantis - ist es mehr als ein Mythos des griechischen Philosophen Platon? Eher unfreiwillig schließt sich Georg Brand zusammen mit seinen Freunden Kim und Nolo einer Forschungsexpedition an, die der weltberühmten Legende auf den Grund gehen möchte. Was werden sie bei ihrem Tauchgang in 1500 Metern Tiefe am Meeresboden vorfinden?

When seven bodies turn up in a small town in Georgia, Detective Jack Kersey—gruff, relentless, and with little patience for nonsense—is determined to crack the case. But this is no ordinary murder investigation. Behind the killings lies the shadow of EvoSys, a mega-corporation with its hands in every facet of life.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Seven fires predicted. Five already burning. The sixth is three hours away. Wildfire investigator Dr. Mara Voss trusts the physical evidence others overlook. Fuel, wind, terrain—fire always tells the truth. So when a dying courier presses a memory...

A groundbreaking, deeply affecting work of environmental literary suspense for fans of Cloud Atlas, The Overstory, and Station Eleven. The northern mining town of River Meadows is one of three hotspots in the world producing ghost ore, a new source of energy worth twenty-eight times its weight...

All Zoe Antos wanted was to make it home from work in time for date night with her fiancé Cole Wilborn, something her research had been preventing a lot recently. After managing to get out the door on time, all hope of making it home is lost when she is kidnapped by a man trying to steal files from her lab. Zoe is thrown into a world of conspiracy theories as her kidnappers reveal that they are trying to stop The Arrow Equilibrium from going through with their plan to restore balance to the environment—and the only way would be to eliminate the human factor from the scales.

In 2537, a game of Assassination has been issued by the Union government. The Terrorites, a radical organization, has accepted to play on the condition that they get to choose the targets. Yes, a lot of people are going to die. But Assassination is the Union’s last shot at winning the war against the Terrorites, who seek to "cleanse" time.

It's not the end of the world...only humanity! All five books in the haunting Humanity Series have been brought together in one digital collection. Follow Scott Beck in his quest to keep himself, those he loves, and humanity alive. Combining dystopian, post-apocalyptic, and cyberpunk fiction, The Humanity Series depicts a future in which humanity is on the brink of annihilation. Join the adventure before it's too late!