Showing results for "Ghost" in Dystopian

In the post-Break world of superpowers, necromancy is the one gift nobody wants. But an invitation to the Free States' Academy of Superheroes means that same gift might be Damian Banach's ticket to a brighter future... if only he can avoid the madness ingrained in his powers. There has never been a Crow Cape, but Damian isn't the sort to give up. He'll take control of his destiny or die trying... and he just might bring the post-Break world to its knees along the way.

In the cold reaches of space, freedom is a luxury few can afford. Grimes is a restless teen imprisoned in Penal Colony 473, a place where obedience is law, and rebellion is crushed. But when a chance discovery—a tattered book about a star-sailing outlaw—sparks a fire in him, he dares to dream of a life beyond the iron bars of his prison. Together with a crew of unlikely misfits, he steals a rusted ship and escapes into the vast unknown.

Ten years ago, Hell Diver Xavier "X" Rodriguez fell to Earth. Those he left behind went on without him aboard the airship he once called home. Michael Everheart - the boy once known as Tin - has grown into a man and the commander of Hell Diver Raptor Team. While Michael dives to help keep the Hive in the air, Captain Leon Jordan rules with an iron fist at the helm of the ship. But unrest stirs under his strict leadership as a prophecy of hope sweeps the lower decks.

When the internet collapsed, it took the world with it, leaving its digital ghosts behind – and they are hungry. Former photojournalist Katerina fled the overrun cities to the relative safety of her grandmother’s village on the edge of a forest, where she lives a solitary life of herbal...

A story of two futures—one near, one distant—and a mechanical folk called anthromechs, who straddle the eras on a mission to preserve humanity’s memory. In the summer of 2061, Emily is a computer science student making ends meet by participating in an experiment to digitize the human mind...

He lied. The one alpha I trusted. The one I was going to run away with. The man I built my entire future around. Azarel is the crown prince of Surhiira, and he never told me. Now I'm hiding underground with alphas who should terrify me. Nikolai, whose silver gaze tracks me like I'm already his...

Two years ago, a super solar storm triggered a CME pulse that crippled the country and destroyed the electrical grid. What remains of the country’s leaders are hiding a secret: something that threatens not just the US but the entire world. The Gulf Coast town of Harris Springs, Mississippi has suffered from gang attacks, famine, hurricanes, and has battled a crusading army of religious zealots. Now, they face their greatest challenge: outsmarting a tyrannical president and escaping an approaching pandemic.

From the Booker Prize-winning author of The Sea comes a brilliantly haunting novel that forges an unforgettable amalgam of enchantment and menace that suggests both The Tempest and his own acclaimed The Book of Evidence. "A surreal and exquisitely lyrical new novel by one of the great stylists...

They call me perfect. Bred to be a beautiful and docile porcelain doll. And I can play that role for as long as I need. One day, I'll run away with Azarel, the only alpha I've ever trusted. The only alpha I've ever loved. But there's a problem with porcelain. It fractures. And this pack of...

The Brain Trade: Grown in crèches and programmed with a tribal warrior code, the minds of children are harvested by the black market. Sold to the highest bidder, they're installed in deadly combat machines and assassin chassis. Griffin, a junior Investigations agent for the North American Trade Union, is put on the case: Find and close the illegal crèches. Installed in a combat chassis, Abdul, a depressed 17-year-old killed during the Secession Wars in Old Montreal, is assigned as Griffin's Heavy Weapons support.

In a future where birth is rare and obedience is engineered, one girl becomes the wild card in a game no one fully controls. The year is 2084. Civilization hasn’t collapsed—but it’s quietly dying. Fertility rates have plummeted. Automation has replaced most human labor. Governments cling to order by any means necessary. When Jane Aldridge, the daughter of a powerful Air Force general, is offered a place in a secret neuroscience program, she doesn’t realize the procedure will do more than alter her memory. It changes her.

Eleven years after the Pyongyang Flu decimated North America, the world is a graveyard of old dreams and new nightmares. the high Cascades, Caleb Harrison sits in the isolation of Outpost One, a solitary sentinel guarding the only pass to his home, Hammondville. But the silence of the mountains is about to be shattered. When a desperate "Mayday" from a neighboring outpost slices through the static, Caleb realizes the Raiders aren't just coming—they’re already here. Will Caleb fall back and save himself or risk his life to stay and become a "speed bump" to buy Hammondville time?

Nash has got a pretty good thing going on. A hot girlfriend who always takes him back, money whenever he needs it, the respect—no matter how grudgingly given—of his peers, and a safe place to lay his head each night when he goes to sleep. For one of the animal people working the underground of the recently rebuilt Vegas, what more could he want?

Book 5: The Ghost Whisperer (Audiobook Edition) FROM THE CLBC AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR AND HIT NARRATOR "Fans of Robert Kirkman’s The Walking Dead will love the terrifying thrills of this series... The lack of predictability and the surprising twists make this a horror/dystopian fan's delight."...

I live in a world of waifs and shadows. "Live" might be an overstatement. I scrounge and scramble and survive in an atmosphere made thick and gray by the ashes of the Fallen. And sometimes I dream of sunlight. My parents were taken, even though they followed all the rules. Never scavenge at night. Never talk to Shadows. Don't fight the Sweepers. Run. Run. Run. And then I meet "him".

Nash and Nate have finished the task set before them by their hataali and have set their foot on the path to healing. Neither one knows what to expect, however, and Nash does have a few concerns about their future. But those will have to wait as the tribal council has more important things for them to do when they get back to Vegas: deal with a bunch of organ-jackers who have been preying on the young women of several of the local tribes. Then, of course, there's still the problem Nate's been having with the good folks of Raycon Corporation, who really want a look inside his head.

After a foiled biological attack has been pinned on the cleaner and Ellen, they make a timely escape to a mysterious safe house run by a secret organization known as "The Ghost Society", a technological resistance group. In an apocalyptic landscape, traveling by river and road, can they reach the safe house before Stella and her foot soldiers catch up with them? With danger and secrets as constant companions on their perilous journey, will they all make it there in one piece, as figures from their past reappear? Their only place of safety will be inside "The Ghost Society".

A Most Anticipated Book of 2026 from TIME, Book Riot, and Chicago Review of Books From the critically acclaimed and award-winning author of Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century comes The Valley of Vengeful Ghosts—an eerie, spellbinding novel of grief and guilt, with a razor-sharp eye for...

One day it was 2022. Then Bear and his friends blinked, and the world had skipped ahead without them. Now it's decades later, magic is real, technology is ridiculous, and the city they knew has become the Gridlands, a neon-choked sprawl of corpo power, street deals, drones, and just enough chaos to keep life interesting. The people who disappeared and came back are called the Re-Emerged. It's not meant kindly. Bear and his crew have done their best to adapt.

In the kudzu-choked ruins of Music City, the loud rule with fire and fear. The clever ones still listen. After the Quiet Fall erased memories and shattered society, warlord "The Conductor" turns the Ryman Auditorium into a fortress of spectacle, burning books and crushing anyone who remembers the old world. But one man moves like smoke through the shadows. They call him The Ghost —an ex-con who walked out of the old Tennessee State Prison when the guards forgot how to lock the gates. Using notes, dead drops, and silent diversions, he guides the thinkers and creators who refuse to forget.