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They came hoping to find a new home after their own planet was destroyed, but Earth was dying, as well, and most humans saw their arrival as an invasion. Now, two decades later, the Veilorians have been banished to the District, a fenced-in area on the outskirts of the last known livable land on Earth. Most people do their best to pretend they don’t exist, but not everyone.

Hadrian Marlowe, privileged first son of a Duke, was destined for greatness, and he has become a legend. The Sun-Slayer. The Breaker of Sieges. The Crusher of Civilisations. His is a story which defined the course of worlds. This novel is not that story - not the only laid out in the history books, charting the 300 years of his life. Rather this is Hadrian's story, told in his own worlds.

What happens when a society decides that survival depends on narrowing the truth? In the towering prison-city of Eterra, order is maintained not through spectacle or open brutality, but through clean hands, quiet rooms, and the careful rationing of reality. Truth is never simply forbidden. It is measured, softened, corrected, and distributed only in forms the population can survive. Seran has been raised to believe in that system. A rising young doctrinal officer, Seran is disciplined, intelligent, and disturbingly good at his work.

A zoo keeps dangerous things inside. No one planned for the zombies that surround its fences. When the dead begin to rise across Pittsburgh, the city's zoo becomes a fortress—but it could just as easily become a deathtrap. The bridges are gridlocked. The rivers impassable. Neighborhoods fall block by block. Zookeeper Imogen faces an impossible choice: abandon the endangered Iberian lynxes she's devoted her career to saving, or risk everything to get them out.

In a city silenced by a totalitarian regime, the past is a crime and hope is a whisper. Amidst the decay, three lives intersect: a grieving mother who collects jars of ash as silent evidence of loss, a compromised journalist forced to burn the truth, and a musician who turns forbidden melodies into a code of remembrance. Their quiet acts of defiance are threads in a hidden tapestry of resistance known as The Undercurrent.

Order—but at what cost? The war is over. The lies are just beginning. Across the fractured remains of the Union, isolated Enclaves cling to stability, linked by fragile lines of control. Beyond them, the Outlanders press in—restless, numerous, and impossible to ignore. On the border world of Rumelia, the balance is breaking. What begins as a struggle for territory becomes something far more dangerous—a fight not just for control of a world, but for control of the people who live on it.

Long Road Home: A Post-Apocalyptic Next-World Series Volume 2 The Plan (Long Road Home A Post-Apocalyptic Next-World Series) Alex Kade and Shanan Sullivan, along with their college friends, have made it down the mountain and into the goings-on of the local Colorado mountain town. Two have split from the pack leaving the four to find temporary housing and a purpose before the final trek home to Texas. While the four remaining students hunker down, the two, who split off, become entangled with a drifter and killer of men and women alike.

'Prescient, dark, and ultimately hopeful' PIERCE BROWN 'Excellent' PETER F. HAMILTON 'A menacing experience' FONDA LEE 'Science fiction at its finest' SUNYI DEAN In this brand-new blistering science fiction epic, Sunday Times bestselling author Richard Swan presents a thrilling tale of survival...

They came hoping to find a new home after their own planet was destroyed, but Earth was dying as well, and most humans saw their arrival as an invasion. Now, two decades later, the Veilorians have been banished to the District, a fenced-in area on the outskirts of the last known livable land on Earth. Most people do their best to pretend they don’t exist, but not everyone. There are humans, like my cousin, who see them for what they are. Despite the threat of disownment, she married a Veilorian, and now she, too, lives in the District.

The EMP was the beginning. The hurricane may be the end. As Hurricane Nestor tears through Central Florida, The Villages faces its darkest hours yet. Floodwaters rise. Infrastructure collapses. And the perimeter that kept them safe begins to crack as authorities are forced to choose who gets saved—and who gets left behind. John Turner thought he understood the threat. Then his estranged son walked out of the storm. Rob O'Brien escaped Coleman Federal Prison during the hurricane evacuation. He survived by falling in with Silas Crowe—a man who isn't just surviving the collapse.

Rich Corrington has everything an Earthside man could want. He's married, a Party member, and starting his dream job. He also just received a private house as part of his work, a place to raise his family far away from the sprawling slums of Earth. But tragedy strikes, and he faces an impossible choice: his faith or his son. Left a hollow man with only the thinnest vestiges of his faith in God and State, he takes the space elevator up to the colonies.

In the quiet aftermath of bloodshed, the truth begins to stir. Winter deepens in the San Juan Mountains, but for Ben and his family, the real storm is just beginning. When a routine response to smoke in the valley reveals the charred remains of a homestead —and a message meant for Ben —uneasy questions rise to the surface. Victor Slade is still out there. And he’s not alone. As whispers of a possible alliance between two of the region’s most dangerous men reach Ben’s ears, the fragile peace at the family’s mountain refuge begins to crack.

L'arte come arma, la resistenza come scelta. Il mondo è finito anni prima che chiunque se ne rendesse conto, nel silenzio più assoluto. Non avevano saputo vedere il pericolo delle piccole cose, immagino. Avevano pensato che i bisbigli si potessero ignorare.

Meine Welt verwandelt sich mehr und mehr in einen lebendigen Albtraum. Mein bester Freund wurde ermordet und in einen Zombie verwandelt. Ich bin aus etwas geflohen, das man als das Versteck eines verrückten Wissenschaftlers bezeichnen könnte. Ich bin über die Leichen von Männern, Frauen und Kindern gestiegen, für die ich mein Leben riskiert habe. Ich habe mitangesehen, wie das winzige Quäntchen Hoffnung und Sicherheit, an das sich Tausende von Menschen wochenlang geklammert haben, in Flammen aufging – und die Hälfte von ihnen sah dabei sogar begeistert aus.

Du landest in der Wildnis - zusammen mit dem Killer, den du töten wolltest. Wie lange überlebst du? Die Zivilisation, wie wir sie kennen, existiert nicht mehr. Das Überleben in der Metropole Imagination sichern mithilfe von Gentechnik erschaffene Mischwesen aus Mensch und Tier.

Two centuries after nuclear fire consumed civilization, Jackson Chandler continues his desperate fight across the brutal wastelands of the future. Haunted by the memory of the wife he lost and driven by the hope of finding a way back home, Jackson and his companions push deeper into the deadly Winterlands: a frozen graveyard filled with radiation, collapsing cities, infected horrors, and enemies who know far more about the apocalypse than they should. But the truth behind humanity’s fall is far worse than anyone imagined.

In a near-future London gripped by heat, unrest and state control, Lois refuses to let the body be regulated. When the right to assemble is revoked and the city turns brittle with violence, she plans an illegal three-day 'long dance' inside a crumbling East End church. What begins as an act of liberation will ripple through the lives of five strangers, with consequences none of them can foresee.

Isobel “Izzy” Ker is one of the last Purist artists left. She survives in the slums outside Mahl City, secretly selling illegal paintings in a world ruled by the New Art Government. They keep their citizens in line through Trigger Art, a powerful, addictive form of creation that overwhelms the senses and rewires the mind. When her studio is raided, Izzy has nowhere to run.

Auch die aus Drachen bestehende Spezialeinheit der Polizei kommt ohne Bürokratie nicht aus. Das muss auch Kristen Hall verbittert feststellen, die endlich eine Möglichkeit gefunden hat, in ihre Drachengestalt zu wechseln und daraufhin zum Drachen-SWAT versetzt wurde. Leider verläuft ihr erster Tag an der neuen Dienststelle nicht wie erhofft. Ihre Kollegen nehmen sie nicht ernst und sehen sie eher als Kuriosität, die bei ihnen nichts zu suchen hat.

There is a huge, bold black streak in the sky. Branches appear out of nowhere over North America, Southern Europe, and Central Africa. People who live beneath The Rift can see it. But scientists worldwide are distressed - their equipment cannot pick up any type of signal from it. The rift appears to consist of nothing. Literally. Nothing. Nada. Niente. Most people are curious but not overly concerned. The phenomenon seems to pose no danger. It is just there. Then something jolts the most hardened naysayers, and surpasses the worst nightmares of the world's greatest scientists.