Ergebnis für "das ende" in Alternative Geschichte

THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The alternate history first contact adventure Axiom's End is an extraordinary debut from Hugo finalist and video essayist Lindsay Ellis. Truth is a human right. It’s fall 2007. A well-timed leak has revealed that the US government might have engaged in...

After the End of the World by Jonathan L. Howard brings the H.P. Lovecraft mythos into the twenty-first century. The Unfolded World is a bitter and unfriendly place for Daniel Carter and Emily Lovecraft. In this world, the Cold War never happened because the Soviet Union ceased to exist in 1941...

A wickedly satirical and outrageous thriller about globalization and marketing hype, Jennifer Government is the best novel in the world ever. "Funny and clever.... A kind of ad-world version of Dr. Strangelove.... [Barry] unleashes enough wit and surprise to make his story a total blast."...

Six weeks ago, Imperial Japanese military forces conquered and occupied the Hawaiian Islands. A puppet king sits on Hawaii's throne, his strings controlled by the general of the invasion force. American POWs, malnourished and weak, are enslaved as hard laborers until death takes them. Civilians fare little better, struggling to survive on dwindling resources. And families of Japanese origin find their loyalties divided.

As Eli comes to terms with his true identity, he, Isaiah, and Malachi must flee from France as Morbius closes the net around them. Yet, saying goodbye to his home and the love that he must leave there forever, proves to be more difficult than Eli could ever imagine. Now, Eli has to face the tumultuous events that transpired in Victorian England, and Malachi must face a return trip to the place of his birth and his death.

Home. Kaishi can see Earth, but between her and her family stand a hostile fleet and Kaishi only has one ship that she doesn’t even know how to fly. Her sole chance at survival depends on a risky attempt to reach Earth’s far side, where nobody Kaishi knows has ever been. Landing there means a long journey home, but it’s better than dying in space. Except the Earth Kaishi finds when they reach the surface is far different than the one she knows, and learning why the ground is covered in ash will mean questioning everything she thought she knew about her tribe, and her species.

The battered GammaLAW mission to Aquamarine had barely succeeded in ending the war with the world-destroying aliens, the Roke. The key to victory lay deep within Aquamarine's terrifying sentient ocean, and Commissioner Dextra Haven was determined to reveal those secrets at all costs. But she and the Exts were running out of time - the Aquamarine natives were dead-set on destroying the Oceanic, which controlled their lives with its awesome powers. And the Roke, hidden behind one of Aquamarine's moons, were preparing to strike.

At 12 years old, Patrick Stoodle already feels like a stranger in his own world. But when a birthday surprise upends everything he thought he knew, he’s forced to question not just his family, but time, truth, and reality itself. Thrust into a future he might not survive in a time machine he doesn’t understand, Patrick finds himself caught between conflicting stories, identities, and belief systems. With society crumbling around him and the adults in his life fractured by secrets, he begins to ask: Who can I trust? And how do you grow up when the Earth is dying?

Deutschland in zehn Jahren. Mit absoluter Mehrheit regiert die Kanzlerin in der dritten Legislaturperiode und hat mit harter Hand die globalen Verhältnisse auf den Kopf gestellt. Während die einstigen Großmächte China, Russland und die USA deutlich unter Auflösungserscheinungen leiden, ist es der charismatischen Machtpolitikerin gelungen, sich und die von ihr angeführte Kern-EU zur Weltspitze zu führen.

From the author of the best-selling Contagion comes a new novel in the Living Dead series. When deadly earthquakes devastate the Caribbean, an ancient disease of almost unimaginable destructive force engulfs the globe. As the earth continues to convulse and the seas encroach, the dead rise with an appetite for human flesh. Survivors must learn to navigate a world in which they are now the hunted.

Society has collapsed. The world burns. Yet, somehow, humanity survives... In The Storm and A Brave New World, author Christine Shuck showed us the collapse of society through the eyes of bold, brave survivor Jess. Now, in the third book in this intense and evocative post-apocalyptic saga, we witness the end of the world through the experiences of other familiar faces.

The end of civilization is fast approaching, and the family in the remote cottage in the woods is ready. They are prepared for anything that may happen--except for the one thing that nobody predicted. Against the background of the Coronavirus pandemic another, more sinister threat is slowly gripping the world. Will the people find out before it's too late?

Nachdem Adam Riese und die Kanzlerin geheiratet haben, fährt diese ein sensationelles Wahlergebnis ein, was sie in eine international glorreiche Position befördert. Zugleich beginnt der sie bisher fördernde Konzern GREENCORPS einen Krieg gegen sie, den die Regierungschefin mit einer neuen Form des politischen wie totalitären Widerstands beantwortet. Während sich auf der Welt die Streitmächte neu aufstellen und organisieren, bündelt die hohe universelle Gewalt ihre Kräfte, die Erde auszulöschen.

Young Alvin was born the seventh son of a seventh son. By his birthright, he possesses magical powers and is destined to become something great, perhaps even a Maker. Indeed, Alvin is special. But the boy remains vulnerable to dark forces who reach out to destroy him and are willing to do anything to keep him from growing up. Carefully weaving the lore and the folk-magic of the men and women who settled a continent—as well as the beliefs of the tribes who were there before them—Orson Scott Card has created a fascinating alternate frontier America.

Julian Dawson wakes up in a strange world, one slightly different than his own, with a family he doesn't recognize. When he meets a traveler who leads him to the megalomaniacal Game Master, Julian is thrust into a multiverse of tasks, each more dangerous and destructive than the last.

Jennifer Government is Here to Help! In Max Barry’s twisted, hilarious vision of the near future, the world is run by giant American corporations (except for a few deluded holdouts like the French); taxes are illegal; employees take the last names of the companies they work for; The Police and...

For Generations to Come, Book 9, The Chunky Story Part 2, was the hardest to write because of the subject matter, life as a slave. The author downloaded the recording and text from the Library of Congress of interviews with X-Slaves before they died. Every line spoken by the fictitious character, Jonah Godfreed, is a direct quote from those interviews. Therefore, when you read and/or listen to this chapter, the real authors of Jonah Godfreed’s statements, the collection of thoughts and experiences of people who have long ago left us, will live again in your mind.