Ergebnis für "Virus" in Anthologien & Kurzgeschichten

One of the dark, eerie tales that can only come from Stephen King, orginally a part of the #1 New York Times bestseller Everything's Eventual, "The Road Virus Heads North" tracks an author who buys a creepy paiting at a yard sale which was painted by a metal-head neighbor just before he...

A message is sent from the future - a warning of current events caused by a future blunder. There isn't much time. The message is clear: The warning must be heeded before there is no end to the virus. Can you stop it before it finds you?

From New York Times bestseller Mira Grant comes Countdown, a novella prequel set in the thrilling and treacherous world of Feed. The year is 2014, the year everything changed. We cured cancer. We cured the common cold. We died. This is the story of how we rose. When will you rise? More from Mira...

"101 voci. Sentimenti e parole", il sottotitolo di questa edizione, ci racconta che questa volta, a prestare la propria firma, sono veramente in tanti: giornalisti, scrittori, militari, medici, politici, religiosi, economisti, storici, sociologi che, in assoluta libertà, si sono cimentati in un’opera collettiva unica nel suo genere. Questo audiolibro è un viaggio, a tratti fiabesco, a tratti amaro, nelle sensazioni, negli stati d'animo, nelle angosce e nelle speranze che hanno accompagnato la nostra cattività.

Abbey Mei Otis's short stories are contemporary fiction at its strongest: taking apart the supposed equality that is clearly just not there, putting humans under an alien microscope, putting humans under government control, and more. Otis has long been fascinated in using strange situations to explore dynamics of power, oppression, and grief, and the 12 stories collected here are at once a striking indictment of the present and a powerful warning about the future.

Emma keeps having those recurring dreams of her parents holding her since she was two years old. Just like in the previous dreams, she sees a zombie, and it seems as if her parents are trying to help it by coming up with a vaccine. Flashback to the past when her parents died in a car accident, the FBI is hard at work in trying to piece their own puzzle to find the lab which Emma’s parents ran. Reaching the venue, they discover another zombie. The new situation creates a panic and fear that grips everyone as they scramble to figure out what’s going on.

Emma Johnson is 12 years old. She lives with her aunt and her two cousins, as her parents died when she was two years old. At home, she is treated more like a servant than a member of the family. She often thinks about her parents, who were both virologists and worked on secret government projects. She wonders what really happened to them. A few theories exist as to the real cause of their disappearance and if they really are dead.