Showing results for "Hard Times" in Science Fiction & Fantasy

Team Weird are back causing havoc in the Time Police in this irresistible spin-off series by international bestseller Jodi Taylor, author of The Chronicles of St Mary's. If you love Doctor Who, Ben Aaronovitch and Jasper Fforde, you'll love the Time Police. The Time Police do not have problems...

The mage Frank "Half Dead" Johnson is a marked man. Literally. A drunken decision fueled by tragedy has left him with half a soul, sorcerous powers, and two centuries to work off his debt to Scratch (a.k.a. the Devil) himself.   

In this, Dickens' most openly political novel, we discover the terrible human consequences of a ruthlessly materialistic philosophy in the lives of Thomas Gradgrind's family, brought up to believe that only "Facts! Facts! Facts!" have any meaning. Set in Coketown, a typical Lancashire milltown, the novel graphically exposes the truth about Victorian "progress".

From Emmy Award-winning, Grammy-nominated performer Wayne Brady and acclaimed Afrofuturist Maurice Broaddus, a time-bending, near-future, sci-fi thriller about a father fighting to free his son trapped in a prison beyond time—and the brutal legacy it represents—for readers of Chain Gang...

Lee Cargill is the head of Q5, a secret organization that can send objects a split second back into the past. And while this seems utterly useless, it turns out to be the most powerful capability the world has ever known. Those who control it can transform civilization - or destroy it entirely. When Cargill sends Aaron Blake, his most formidable operative, on an unauthorized mission to destroy Kim Jong-un, all hell breaks loose. As Blake battles for his life, his chances of thwarting the North Korean tyrant plummet. But they're about to get far worse.

Six weeks since discovering the truth behind his family legacy, Sam Harlan has worked with Sister Callie Calahane to learn how to kill vampires, desperate to make them pay. The woman's voice on the answering machine was intriguing. “Jack, it's Mary Kate. I've got your newest order and.... I need to talk.” Jack Harlan, the legendary vampire killer, was Sam's distant relative, but Jack Harlan was dead. Sam had seen to it himself.

A story of love, loss, betrayal, and forgiveness about a boy named Frog and a girl named Scorpion - for anyone who has ever had broken heart.

The Complete Hard Time Series: A speculative fiction serial of adventure novellas. This omnibus contains all six books that complete the saga: Metal, Longhorn, Cult, Trune, Synth, and Deity.

Where survival is the meaning of life. A speculative fiction serial of adventure novellas set in a strange and punishing world. In Book 3, Cult, missionaries arrive on a holy quest to fulfill their scriptures. But the desert has other plans. Will they escape with their faith, or even their lives, intact? 

Fifteen years after a dark matter reactor accident plunged Earth into a nuclear winter, Harry reactivates in a garbage dump. He's an android with amnesia in old New York, presently known as Empire City. He now works for what's left of the federal union as a bounty hunter, trying to raise the money he needs to replace his AI implant before it kills him.

A speculative fiction serial of adventure novellas set in a strange and punishing world. In book 5, Synth, an ancient guardian faces a foe that could destroy them all. Can the last remnants of humanity escape the terrible wrath pursuing them from the past?

A speculative fiction serial of adventure novellas set in a strange and punishing world. In Book 4, Trune, a long-awaited arrival bursts into the world, slaughtering all that stand in her way. As characters from previous novels reappear and unify, will they survive to understand their greater destiny?

Where survival is the meaning of life. A speculative fiction serial of adventure novellas set in a strange and punishing world. In book two, Longhorn, a man finds himself in a terrifying landscape without shelter, explanation, or memory. Join him as he searches for answers and struggles to survive. Find out if life and knowledge of his past are truly worth the price.

Where survival is the meaning of life. A speculative fiction serial of adventure novellas set in a strange and punishing world. In book one, Metal, a woman finds herself in two different worlds, as two different people. In one she is a criminal, sentenced to a new and terrible punishment. In the other, she is a stranger and then a prophet, granted the visions of God.

A work of literary fiction, Hard Times in Babylon tells the story of a man in his early sixties, a husband and father and filmmaker, who is already adrift in a malaise of irrelevance and invisibility when a worldwide plague jolts him with thoughts of suicide. Why bother to live, he wonders, now that the world is facing its apocalypse. As he trudges through the ensuing days and months, seeing nothing but futility all around him, he imagines all the ways he could end things.

Name’s Jess. The superhero version is called Just Jess, but I feel like Desperate Jess is a better moniker. My to-do list grew exponentially. (Translation: In addition to my normal duties of reviewing superpowers, I have to find a cure for my sister, solve two power puzzles, and work with Mayor Shady Pants’s misfit crew of Supers.) Saving my sister may involve defying the government overlords and that’s not healthy for other people in my life. If I don’t pull off several miracles, my sister may only be the first of many casualties.

This apocalyptic tale is torn straight from current headlines. The US stock markets have a terrible day, the economy is a mess right now, and it only takes a small nudge to fall apart. Wayne Cook and His wife have been preparing for years in the event that the world is turned upside down, and with the nudge of the markets, that event looks to be landing on their New Mexico town. Could the Stock market really crash? The markets have safeguards to prevent a complete crash from happening, but nothing if full proof and Wayne is going to find out if all the planning is truly going to be enough.

H.G. Wells (1866 -1946)—the master of the genre—created his "scientific romances" and set the standard for futuristic literature that teemed with both social commentary and a prescient view of the world to come. Here, we present The Time Machine and The War of the Worlds, two of the most popular and thrilling science-fiction novels ever created...together in one volume.

The young man in question, Ross Murdock, is about to embark upon the adventure of his life. In order to avoid prosecution, he reluctantly joins Operation Retrograde, whose members are exploring various time periods. Their goal? To find out where – and when – the ‘Reds’ are obtaining certain scientific breakthroughs, in order to maintain the balance of global power. An outsider in his own time, Ross becomes an outsider in other times as well, and faces one challenge after another.