Ergebnis für "The Streets" in Dystopien

Lin “The Silent One” Vu is a gangster and sometime private investigator living in Chinese-occupied Hanoi, in the steaming, paranoid alleyways of the 36 Streets. Born in Vietnam, raised in Australia, everywhere she is an outsider. Through grit and courage Lin has carved a place for herself in the Vietnamese underworld where Hanoi’s crime boss, Bao Nguyen, is training her to fight and lead. Bao drives her hard; on the streets there are no second chances. Meanwhile the people of Hanoi are succumbing to Fat Victory - a dangerously addictive immersive simulation.

Twenty-one years ago, mysterious empty doorframes appeared on every street corner across the planet. No one can explain where the Frames came from or how they work. But anyone can walk through one and step out another anywhere in the world—except for Doran Scott.

Two years ago, the Makanza virus was eradicated from the public. Now, everyone thinks they’re safe - including Davin. As the oldest among his siblings, Davin plans to leave for college after a short visit with his divorced father on the Cheyenne River Reservation. But then the Makanza sirens go off, and everything changes. The warning alarm splits the soft April skies over the vast South Dakota prairie. Against all odds, the virus has returned, and the outbreak is only a few miles from his father’s ramshackle home.

It’s almost one hundred years since The Great Turning, the catastrophic meteor strike that changed the world forever. Russell Owens is a recently discharged New North Americas Army sniper who only wants to return to his home just outside of Yellowstone to resume life with his gentle husband, Ted. Russell doesn’t want to re-up and hates that he had to kill for a living.

Rainwalkers is a story set in the not-so-distant future in a crumbling version of John Steinbeck’s Salinas Valley, after the breakup of the United States. A once rich and prosperous agricultural land is now a war-torn nation-state known only as The Valley. To combat chronic droughts, scientists seed clouds with genetically engineered bacteria that create regular rains but unintentionally make the rains lethal to humans. Anyone caught in the rain dies within seconds, yet there are rumors of people who survive...known as rainwalkers.

The air-boys are gone. At least that’s what people keep saying. Yet when Cameron Herrick discovers something that should not be there in a dead girl’s room, he begins to question many of the things he has been told. The world is at peace. Extreme poverty has been eliminated and a looming environmental collapse has been averted. The mighty Subah Corporation whose green technology inspired this new age is more trusted than governments. Its only remaining critics are those who lost fortunes and influence with the demise of the old petro-fueled order. There were others but the air-boys are gone.

In the year 2120, the human race teeters on the brink of extinction as a disease known as M6-27 sweeps mercilessly across the globe, leaving a trail of death and decay in its wake. Only a small group known as the First Liners are immune, Sandra Nkosi among them. Desperate to escape, she seizes on the chance to join the Endocarp Program. Transported to an underground bunker, she is assigned to a stasis chamber where she will spend the next 30 years. When she is brought out of hibernation, she and her fellow First Liners will shoulder the enormous weight of rebuilding society.

In 2120, a virus known only as M6-17 sweeps across the planet as humanity teeters on the brink of extinction. Killing nearly a third of the world’s population, the disease is the great equalizer. It spares no one, and quickly breaks down all social barriers.